Controversial Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead was holed up in a gaudy New Jersey McMansion Tuesday, one day after getting slammed with federal charges for allegedly scamming a member of his congregation. Whitehead, 44, briefly emerged from the sprawling brick two-story house to tell a Post reporter to scram — and yelled out “not guilty!” when…
Turkish 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…
Sam Bankman-Fried remained in a Bahamian jail Monday despite reports he would allow his extradition to the US — following what a local judge called a “wasted day” in court. The 30-year-old alleged crypto grifter had been widely expected to give up his extradition fight Monday following his arrest in the Bahamas last week on US charges he’d defrauded…
The infamous stepdad of slain rapper Tupac Shakur has been released from prison after serving nearly 40 years in the 1981 Brinks armored-truck heist that left two Nyack cops and a security guard dead. Mutulu Shakur, a 72-year-old former Black Liberation Army member who is terminally ill, was granted release by the US Parole Commission…
Prosecutors investigating accused crypto grifter Sam Bankman-Fried have demanded information from high-level Democrats — including the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and New York Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the incoming House minority leader — to help prove their sprawling case, according to a report. Top Dem lawyer Marc E. Elias, who represents a…
Disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried has decided not to contest extradition from the Bahamas to the US where he is facing fraud charges. The fallen 30-year-old FTX mogul was arrested Monday night after the Bahamian government received formal notification from the Justice Department that Bankman-Fried was charged with defrauding investors out of $1.8 billion. He…
EVANSTON, IL — Federal prosecutors this week unsealed more than a dozen fraud charges against a North Shore businessman who ran a defunct subprime auto loan company. Already awaiting trial on charges he misappropriated more than $5 million, federal prosecutors alleged the wound up defrauding a bank out of more than $50 million. Jim Collins,…
One day after her conviction, US Judiciary authorities Friday released details of the modus operandi whereby a former Hugo Chávez aide and her husband collected over US$ 100 million in bribes Chávez’s former aide Claudia Díaz was found guilty Thursday by a US court of money laundering in connection with the payment of bribes from…
The European Parliament removed Greek MEP Eva Kaili as a vice president of the assembly on Tuesday after she was accused of accepting bribes from Qatar in one of the biggest corruption scandals to hit Brussels. Kaili has denied any wrongdoing, but European lawmakers have acted rapidly to isolate her, worrying that the Belgian investigation…
The Bahamas wants the US government to give back 35 different properties that are valued at more than $256 million that were purchased by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month. Attorneys representing the Bahamian government told a federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware that Bankman-Fried and Ryan…