The state’s newly minted Assembly speaker, Carl Heastie, accepted cash from a mobster convicted of racketeering and steered thousands more to a man who did time for manslaughter, records show.
A federal appeals court has overturned the corruption conviction of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
NEW YORK — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was found guilty on all counts Monday afternoon in his federal trial on charges of bribery, extortion and money laundering.
American Jewish billionaire and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is giving Thursday testimony against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a case in which Netanyahu is suspected of trying to negotate favorable coverage with an arch-foe, the owner of one of Israel’s largest-selling newspapers.
Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson made a secret offer to U.S. President Barack Obama in 2013 to contribute a billion dollars out of his own pocket to produce an Iron Dome battery for Israel, Politico reported on Thursday.
Jewish-American billionaire Sheldon Adelson may be questioned in connection with a corruption investigation of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Alleged ties to Chinese organized crime may mean serious legal problems for American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the Guardian website reported on Sunday.
Shelby, NC – The police chief in Charleston says the white man suspected of killing nine people inside a historic black church has been captured in North Carolina.
The bitter divorce battle of an American socialite has come to London, as a businesswoman asks a British judge to force her husband to pay her divorce settlement out of his city assets.
Michal Halimi, 29, lived in a Binyamin-region town Adam when a young Arab man from Shechem (Nablus) murdered her in May.
