Britain has imposed sanctions on the Iranian prosecutor general after the country’s execution of the British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari, while Iran has summoned the UK ambassador. Akbar was executed on Saturday after Iranian authorities claimed he was an MI6 spy, charges his family and the Foreign Office deny. Britain had already summoned the most…
DetailsA female NYPD officer alleges that her female superior officer yanked her ponytail inside of their Queens precinct, causing injury, in a bid to warn her, in the latest scandal to rock New York’s finest. Officer Christine Meisner says that Sgt. Nakia Middleton-House told her: ‘You put your hair in a bun or a perp…
DetailsTerese White, 41, was meant to fly to Boston. Instead, she landed in police custody. Last October, White was a Mesa Airlines flight attendant traveling from Dallas to San Diego. Between flights, she exited the SoCal airport and returned later that day to go from San Diego to Boston. As is the habit of flight…
DetailsA 35-year-old man who allegedly bilked Orthodox Jewish investors in Los Angeles and New Jersey out of $47 million and then fled to Israel has been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with using the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle. The SEC alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday, Jan. 12, in U.S.…
DetailsAuthorities have dismantled a crypto fraud operation operating out of Bulgaria, Cyprus and Serbia which defrauded victims of “at least tens of millions of euros,” Eurojust, the European Union’s cross-border agency for fighting organized crime, have said. The bust saw four call centers and 18 other places searched, with 14 people arrested in Serbia and…
DetailsA senior member of a prominent crime organization was shot dead on Friday in Ramle, a city in central Israel with significant Jewish and Arab populations. Early on Friday, 50-year-old Ali Jarushi was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition after being shot multiple times near a mosque. Jarushi is a central figure in…
DetailsAmerican Airlines announced on Wednesday it will discontinue its route between Tel Aviv and Miami, Florida. “As part of the continuous evaluation of our network, American Airlines has made the difficult decision to discontinue its Miami (MIA) – Tel Aviv (TLV) service effective March 24, 2023,” a spokesperson for the company stated, without providing any…
DetailsA federal judge in Florida has ruled that a sex trafficking and forced labor lawsuit against Jacksonville-based Crowley can proceed. The judge also granted Crowley’s motion to dismiss five of seven counts against Crowley alleged in an amended complaint. The lawsuit was filed last year by plaintiff Vanessa Treminio, who worked for Crowley in the…
DetailsSam Bankman-Fried accused Binance boss Changpeng “CZ” Zhao of waging a lengthy campaign to destroy his crypto empire on Thursday while making yet another attempt to explain what led to FTX’s catastrophic bankruptcy. In a lengthy Substack post, the disgraced former FTX CEO alleged that Zhao’s “fateful tweet” on Nov. 6 capped an “extremely effective…
DetailsIn a shocking development, the embattled founder of Germany’s non-Orthodox rabbinical schools has relinquished his ownership stake in them to the Jewish Community of Berlin. The 25,000 euro transaction means that Rabbi Walter Homolka is no longer in control of the Reform Abraham Geiger College and the Conservative Zacharias Frankel College at the University of…
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