PITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh man is awaiting a preliminary hearing next month after he was accused of stealing from the Jewish Association on Aging in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The Jewish Association on Aging is a care and living facility for Jewish senior citizens. Marc Peagler, 31, is the former facilities manager at the facility…
One of the most high-profile NBA trainers was reportedly arrested and charged with rape and drugging for intercourse on Friday. Rob McClanaghan who has trained LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose and Carmelo Anthony, among other NBA stars, per his website is accused of drugging and raping a woman, according to a statement…
Kanye West appears to have returned to Twitter. “Testing Testing Seeing if my Twitter is unblocked,” the rapper wrote on Sunday. It marks the latest development in the tumultuous relationship between the social media site and West, who was banned for posting antisemitic comments last month. West’s latest tweet drew mixed reactions from fellow users,…
The Public Defender’s Office issued its annual report on Sunday slamming the state for abuse of power in hacking suspect’s cell phones and a variety of other areas. At the same time, Public Defender Anat Meyassed Cnaan complimented the state for some level of improvement in reducing the volume of detainees per year in comparison…
Over 10,000 religious Jews from Israel and around the world expected to arrive in Doha Qatar will not allow any cooked kosher food and public Jewish prayers during the FIFA World Cup which kicked off on Sunday in Doha, forcing religious fans to cancel their trips. Sources within Jewish organizations told Hebrew media that the…
José Irizarry was cursed with a drug lord’s tastes and a civil servant’s salary. An agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Irizarry liked yacht parties with sex workers, jewelry from Tiffany, Louis Vuitton luggage and luxury cars. To finance his lifestyle – which came to include a BMW, two Land Rovers and three…
The top “regulatory officer” at fallen crypto exchange FTX was embroiled in a notorious online poker cheating scandal more than a decade ago — and was caught on tape allegedly aiding the perpetrators of the fraud, according to reports. Dan Friedberg — a lawyer who was FTX’s chief regulatory officer in the months leading up…
Abdullah Qureshi, 30, was convicted last week in a British court of one count of racially or religiously aggravated grievous bodily harm and two counts of racially or religiously aggravated common assault for committing multiple assaults motivated by antisemitism, the Metropolitan Police Service said. Qureshi was a suspect in the investigation of three antisemitic attacks…
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder who was once compared to Steve Jobs before she was convicted of defrauding investors who backed the now-defunct blood-testing company, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on Friday. The pregnant Holmes, dressed in a dark blouse and black skirt, was given 135 months behind bars by…
