Cab driver Stanley Orenstein, 52, and wife, Danielle Orenstein, 49, who managed the business, stole £138,000 in Tax Credits, Income Tax and National Insurance and were ordered to pay back the money within six months at Isleworth Crown Court yesterday (Thursday).
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has been sentenced to eight months in prison for unlawfully accepting money from a US supporter, capping the dramatic downfall of a man who only years earlier led the country and hoped to bring about a historic peace agreement with the Palestinians.
A French conman currently living in Israel has been sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison and fined €1 million ($1.11 million) for fraud by a Paris court, The Telegraph website reported.
The Jewish community in Moldova has expressed heightened fear of resurgent antisemitism over the suspected involvement of Moldovan Jewish businessman Ilan Shor in a scheme that cost three of the Eastern European nation’s banks $1 billion.
On December 11, 2003, three people were killed and another 19 were wounded in an explosion in the heart of Tel Aviv.
Plans to indict former Ashdod Port union chief Alon Hassan for fraud and other charges have been delayed in the wake of the arrest of Hassan’s former lawyer, Ronel Fisher.
DEDHAM — A Sharon rabbi begged, borrowed, and stole nearly $500,000 from his temple and its congregants to buy the silence of a man now charged with blackmailing the spiritual leader, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.
A court has found that Andrey Adamovsky, vice president of the World Jewish Congress, defrauded former business partners to the tune of $34.7 million (£22.3m).
The former police superintendent under suspicion in the bribery affair centering around attorney Ronel Fisher said on Monday he would not turn state’s witness in the case.
Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, who was convicted on charges of bribery, attempted bribery and obstruction of justice in a plea bargain, was sentenced on Tuesday to one year in prison and ordered to pay a fine of 1 million shekels ($260,000).