Sex offender financier Jeffrey Epstein is being sued by a former business partner who accuses him in a $1bn lawsuit of ripping off up to 200,000 investors, according to papers filed in a United States federal court.
Washington – The U.S. Secret Service has agreed to pay $24 million to settle a 17-year-old federal lawsuit filed by a group of black agents who accused the agency of racial discrimination in its employment practices.
Seattle – A federal appeals court says an anti-Muslim group can’t post ads on Washington state buses showing photos of terrorists and saying the FBI offers a $25 million reward for their capture.
A Williamsburg charity is suing the city for not getting a tax break in what insiders say is mayoral payback for its rabbi’s role in the circumcision controversy.
A Queens man is suing the NYPD in hopes of paving the way for New Yorkers to record police activity without being harassed.
The family of a Jewish-American man who disappeared from Iran in 2007 while working on behalf of the CIA is suing the Iranian government in the United States.
A real estate company run by accused murderer Robert Durst’s second wife complains in a $10 million lawsuit that several anonymous websites linked to buildings the firm owns wrongly claim she’s “the most ruthless New York City real estate mogul of her generation.”
A robbery suspect claims a Pennsylvania police officer kicked him in the head, gave him a broken jaw, and left him requiring three days worth of hospital treatment.
Anne Pollard, the first wife of Jonathan Pollard, who was freed on Friday after serving thirty years in a US prison for spying for Israel, is suing the Israeli government for millions of dollars, Channel 10 reported Sunday. The report did not mention the specific amount being claimed.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Feldman is suing the publisher of the Australian Jewish News for defamation, over three articles printed during a Royal Commission investigation of “Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse,” The Sydney Morning Herald reported Friday.
