DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An oil tanker associated with an Israeli billionaire has been struck by a bomb-carrying drone off the coast of Oman amid heightened tensions with Iran, officials said Wednesday. The attack on the Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon happened Tuesday night off the coast of Oman, a Middle East-based defense official…
There are several barometers indicating just how much trouble FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is facing after incinerating billions of dollars of client money — his company’s balance sheet from hell, the deeply sketchy-sounding back channel for moving his customers’ funds around, the reported SEC and Bahamian probes. But the best measurement might just be his…
A special investigative team has been established to probe sexual abuse allegations against Rabbi Zvi Tau, the Israel Police said Sunday. Multiple women have accused Tau of sexual abuse and rape dating back decades, with two going public so far. One woman, Nechama Te’ena, went public in August, but her allegations were largely ignored at…
Charges against Halpern were dropped after a nine-month investigation back in 2013 that saw his supporters arrested on charges of perverting the course of justice. Halpern, of the Divrei Chaim synagogue had earlier resigned his position of dayan with the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations but always maintained his innocence in the face of sexual…
A federal grand jury in Chicago has charged 23 people with participating in an insurance fraud scheme that allegedly bilked 10 life insurance carriers out of at least $26 million in benefits. The defendants allegedly submitted fraudulent applications in order to obtain life insurance policies in the names of various individuals, according to the Department…
An Astoria woman was discovered dead in Queens Village last month and her family is seeking information about a man who was allegedly seen wheeling her lifeless body on a dolly and then dumping her on the side of the road hours earlier – with a $35,000 reward being offered for the information. Claire McKenna,…
Kevin Spacey is being charged with another seven sex offenses in the UK, where he is already fighting a slew of similar allegations, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Rosemary Ainslie, head of the Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS) Special Crime Division, said her department agreed to the added charges “for a number of sexual assaults against one man…
Hezbollah has been exploiting a diplomatic loophole to freely funnel money from around the world into its coffers in Lebanon, a joint report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and ProPublica found. The investigation, published on Monday, found 500 cases of individuals “accused of crimes or embroiled in controversy” who currently or were previously…
In one week alone, Israelis were faced with news about allegations of sexual offenses committed by Rabbi Tau and the light sentence handed down to a Bedouin who invaded a home in southern Israel and assaulted a young girl in her own bedroom. Rarely a month goes by without reports of a new offense or…
A Jewish cemetery in a Chicago suburb was vandalized with antisemitic graffiti, local media reported on Monday. At least 16 headstones were painted with Swastikas and another 23 were defaced at the Am Echod cemetery in Waukegan, Illinois. The message “Kanye Was Rite” was spray-painted on one headstone that marked the grave of a husband…