A lawyer defending Platinum Partners founder Mark Nordlicht against fraud charges said on Monday an FBI agent who admitted to leaking to the press on an insider trading probe of sports gambler William “Billy” Walters may also have leaked about Platinum.
The mystery of who made the threats against Jewish institutions and schools around the world was solved thanks to close cooperation between the FBI and its cyber attaché in Israel and the Israel Police—from the initial intelligence information to the global investigation and the arrest of an Israeli suspect.
Police are nearing the end of their investigation into a pair of Israeli hackers who allegedly caused damage estimated at 6 million shekels ($1.6 million), and predict that indictments will be filed against them soon.
The Israeli-American teenager suspected of being behind the recent bomb threats to JCCs and other American Jewish institutions reportedly made more than 1,000 threatening phone calls over the past two years.
Iraeli police only managed to zero in on the Jewish Israeli-American teen Michael Kaydar suspected of calling in the JCC bomb threats after US President Donald Trump sent over a team of 12 FBI agents to Israel in recent weeks.
Two rival heads of Israel’s most powerful crime families were brought face-to-face with one another at the Tel Aviv District Court on Sunday morning in what was supposed to be witness testimony.
The Israeli-American suspected of perpetrating more than 100 bomb threats against Jewish institutions used technologies including Google Voice, a call forwarding service, and Bitcoin, a digital currency, to make the threats.
A conversation with the American Delta Air Lines reveals that the Israeli arrested on suspicion of making hundreds of bomb threats to Jewish community centers around the world, is also suspected of causing a forced emergency landing in JFK airport in New York in early 2015.
A teenager with dual US-Israeli citizenship who allegedly made hundreds of false bomb threats over the years to Jewish community centers around the world may have been paid for foreign entities to do so, Channel 2 reported Thursday night.
WASHINGTON – US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday the arrest in Israel of a suspect in bomb threats made to American Jewish centers reflected the government’s determination not to tolerate hate crimes.
