Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received $40,000 in 2001 from Arnaut Mimran, a French tycoon on trial for fraud, a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday said.
In the hours after 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky disappeared in Borough Park, Brooklyn, a key figure in the heavily Jewish neighborhood’s security patrol coordinated the effort to find him.
An Israeli man who killed his two children while they were visiting Israel from the United States was sentenced to two life terms in prison on Sunday.
The Justice Ministry confirmed on Sunday night that Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit has ordered a review of possibly non-reported millions in funds transferred from French billionaire Arno Mimran to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of the 2009 elections.
An NYPD boss in charge of a unit that probes excessive force by cops was stripped of his gun and badge on Thursday after refusing to answer questions in the wide-ranging federal probe into gifts for favors, a union official said.
Real estate developer Harry Macklowe is leaving his wife Linda for a new girlfriend, according to a report.
NYPD deputy chiefs Eric Rodriguez and Andrew Capul have filed for retirement, joining the exodus of officials heading for the exits amid a massive corruption probe.
It may yet become a TV movie, involving detectives, hideouts, false disguises, a dramatic arrest, and then the happy ending. So far, however, it is merely a true story that ended this morning – providing relief for a woman who was held “anchored” for ten years.
Another top NYPD commander caught up in the gifts for favors corruption scandal has filed for retirement, police sources said Friday.
A Jordanian doctor who helped deliver a baby at a Saudi hospital was shot by the woman’s husband who was angry that a male obstetrician tended to his wife, according to a report in the London-based Al-Araby newspaper.
