Two Queens men have been arrested and are facing up to 10 years in prison on charges that they conspired with Russian hackers to tamper with JFK airport’s taxi queuing software, allegedly allowing drivers to cut the line for a fee. According to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday, Daniel Abayev and Peter Leyman, both 48,…
DetailsEli Okkon, an Israeli attorney representing some high-profile clients, including the infamous Tinder Swindler Simon Leviev, claimed he had been robbed in Budapest by a woman he met through the popular dating app. Okkon claims to have also been physically assaulted and that the crimes against him were of antisemitic nature, as he says his…
DetailsThe ex-girlfriend of disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried and a co-founder of FTX pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange and are both cooperating with federal prosecutors, officials announced Wednesday night. Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Bankman-Fried’s crypto hedge fund company Alameda Research, and Gary Wang, a co-founder of…
DetailsSam Bankman-Fried, former boss of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has arrived by plane in New York from the Bahamas to face fraud charges. The 30-year-old was extradited on suspicion of committing “one of the biggest financial frauds in US history”, US authorities have said. Mr Bankman-Fried, who denies the allegations, may appear in court later…
DetailsCommander Robert “Bobby” Ramirez III, a highly-decorated naval officer, was found dead at his home in San Diego County Monday. At the time of his death, Ramirez was serving as commanding officer of SEAL Team 1, part of Naval Special Warfare Group One based on Naval Base Coronado. Naval Special Warfare Command officials wrote in…
DetailsIvanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner might not be seeing eye to eye right now as they navigate their post-political life. Their marriage is reportedly very rocky right now. It’s all falling apart,” a source told RadarOnline. “They’re always fighting and can barely contain their growing animosity for each other even when they appear in…
DetailsA former U.S. law firm partner who was convicted in a fraud scheme with pharmaceuticals industry executive Martin Shkreli has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to limit prosecutors from tapping his retirement accounts to enforce a $10.4 million restitution order. Lawyers for Evan Greebel on Wednesday filed a petition at the high court that challenges…
DetailsThe Brooklyn District Attorney’s office admits it made a serious mistake in an a case of alleged sex abuse case and the result: an accused pedophile can’t be prosecuted. The error was exposed after a woman, now in her 20s, spoke exclusively with the News 4 I-Team. “I feel victimized twice,” she said. The alleged…
DetailsMichelle Williams is one of the only non-Jewish actors with a starring role in “The Fabelmans,” director Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical film based on his Jewish family. But it turns out that Williams, who plays the Spielberg character’s mother, has a Jewish family of her own. She told the Wall Street Journal that she and her…
DetailsThe rabbi at the centre of a police investigation into an alleged historic sexual assault was accused of having “no boundaries” when “vulnerable people” were sent to him for advice, according to evidence given to an official government inquiry. A witness statement to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said Rabbi Chaim Halpern, 64,…
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