Canada’s Security Intelligence Service announced on Saturday in a statement it is investigating reports of people living in the country who have received “credible” death threats from Iran. The statement said the threats were “aimed at silencing” those who are outspoken critics of Iran. The statement said the Canadian Security Intelligence Service collects information from…
Isabel dos Santos has yet to be notified of an international arrest warrant reportedly issued by global police agency Interpol, an official source representing the billionaire daughter of Angola’s former president said on Saturday. In a statement sent to Reuters, dos Santos’ official source said her lawyers had “consulted the Interpol database and, so far,…
An Ohio man who was previously known to the federal government for allegedly defrauding investors, was charged by the Justice Department with defrauding investors of another $10 million dollars. Rathnakishore Giri, a 27-year-old from New Albany, Ohio, has a history of investment fraud, the Justice Department alleged, and this scheme they say was no different.…
The director of the FBI has said the Jewish community in the United States is “getting hit from all sides” and “desperately” needs further support from the agency amid an apparent uptick in antisemitic attacks. In response to a question by US Congressman Josh Gottheimer on a recently thwarted attack on synagogues in New Jersey,…
A young Israeli woman came forward in a television interview on Friday as the latest victim of Israeli fraudster Shimon Hayut, known as the “The Tinder Swindler,” despite a popular Netflix true-crime documentary this year by the same name that documented his alleged systematic defrauding of romantic partners. Iren Tranov, 25, from the southern city…
In the latest wave of antisemitism to hit the US-based diaspora, Jewish schools and community centers around the United States have received bomb threats, forcing closures throughout the country. At Jewish day schools in Texas and Pennsylvania, bomb threats were made to these institutions, forcing them to evacuate for student safety. This follows a consistent…
An unhinged 22-year-old man has been arrested for making threats to Big Apple synagogues, sources said. The suspect, Christopher Brown, was collared at the Long Island Rail Road platform at Penn Station late Friday night, carrying weapons and a Nazi armband recovered in his bag, the sources added. The twisted suspect was wearing a T-shirt that said,…
Cryptocurrency maverick Sam Bankman-Fried, who famously became a billionaire under 30, is immersed in a reversal of fortune so vast and abrupt it has hit record proportions. Once considered a financial wunderkind, Bankman-Fried now faces legal battles, possible extradition and bankruptcy in a sudden shift from his previous high-profile status as a mythic entrepreneur, political…
The Department of Justice has launched an antitrust investigation into the owner of Ticketmaster after its sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets devolved into utter chaos this week. The investigation will focus on whether Live Nation Entertainment abused its dominance over the multibillion dollar live music industry. The investigation predates even the botched launch of…
BERLIN — German police staged a major deployment at a synagogue in the western city of Essen on Friday after several bullet holes were found in the rabbi’s residence. Police said “four shots were fired from a loaded weapon” into the exterior of the home next to the city’s Old Synagogue but that no one…