Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme, the once powerful New England Mafia boss who was serving a life sentence behind bars for the 1993 killing of a Boston nightclub owner, has died at the age of 89, according to the Bureau of Prisons. Salemme died on Tuesday, according to Bureau of Prisons’ online records. Bureau officials did…
DetailsUOP LLC, doing business as Honeywell UOP, a U.S.-based subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., has agreed to pay more than $160 million to resolve parallel bribery investigations by criminal and civil authorities in the United States and Brazil stemming from bribe payments offered to a high-ranking official at Brazil’s state-owned oil company. The U.S. Department…
DetailsTurkish police investigating the murder of Northern Cypriot casino owner and crime boss Halil Falyalı have uncovered 15 Malta-based betting sites linked to the deceased’s criminal network. The websites illegally offered betting to Turkish citizens and laundered money through a Malta-based crypto exchange, authorities said. Some 11 companies were involved in transferring the proceeds of…
DetailsThe FBI reimbursed Twitter to the tune of more than $3 million as it pushed the social media company to ban accounts and target so-called “foreign influence” operations, the latest installment of the “Twitter Files” revealed on Monday. In an email dated Feb. 10, 2021, an unidentified Twitter employee told then-deputy general counsel Jim Baker…
DetailsA jury found Harvey Weinstein guilty of one count of rape and two counts of sexual assault, both relating to the same person, at his trial in Los Angeles. The guilty charges were for forcible rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by foreign object of Jane Doe 1, an Italian model, at the Mr.…
DetailsThrough weekly protests outside Israel’s parliament, Nehama Teena has demanded an investigation into a prominent rabbi she accuses of rape and sought to break the code of silence surrounding sexual assault in the Orthodox world. “I’m not asking that they take my word for it, only that they listen to me and stop preventing victims…
DetailsWhen Brian Locke went into business with a clique of Australia’s richest businessmen, the plucky gold hunter believed a lifelong dream was finally within reach. For more than a decade, he had been searching for the super giant: a legendary deposit of gold and precious minerals – worth billions – believed to be entombed beneath…
DetailsMason Disick, eldest son of American media personalities Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick, celebrated his bar mitzvah on Saturday alongside his family. Guests at Disick’s party included grandmother Kris Jenner, aunts Kim and Khloé Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, and Kylie Jenner, alongside several of his cousins. Noticeably absent were Travis Barker, Kourtney Kardashian’s partner, and Kim’s…
DetailsFinancial police in Kazakhstan have arrested a well-known investigative journalist over his alleged ties to organized crime groups. Supporters of Mikhail Kozachkov say the detention is a reprisal for his work. Alibek Abdilov, a spokesman for the Financial Monitoring Agency, claimed in a statement on December 18 that Kozachkov was enlisted by the head of…
DetailsInvestigators probing the gruesome murders of four Idaho students have received 10,000 tips and leads connected to the mysterious case as Moscow’s police chief vowed the investigation would not slow down over the holidays. Moscow police announced the astonishing 10,000 tip mark in a Monday update as the suspect or suspects in the slayings of…
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