NEW YORK – A Borough Park Shomrim member who pleaded guilty to bribing New York City police officers to get gun permits has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison.
A member of a Hasidic neighborhood watch group who viciously beat a gay black man in Brooklyn in 2013 will spend four years behind bars for the attack.
The lawyer for a black Brooklyn man who was beaten in a racially-charged attack is accusing prosecutors of refusing to indict one of the assailants because of his family’s political ties.
Eliezer Vigdarovich, a well-connected and well-known figure in the Gur Hasidic community, is facing an array of serious criminal charges in an affair that some in the district attorney’s office describe as “straight out of a Hollywood script.”
Federal prosecutors want a Brooklyn businessman to serve four to six years behind bars for bribing a cop in exchange for expedited gun permits, according to court documents.
Members of the Eida Haharedit extremist haredi group, which does not recognize the Zionist state, hanged dummies dressed as haredi soldiers in Jerusalem during the Purim holiday on Monday.
The Supreme Court on Sunday rejected the appeals of six former rabbinate officials who were convicted of aggravated fraud, use of forged documents, money laundering and bribery in 2014.
An Israeli was reportedly set to be extradited to the United States over his alleged involvement in a multi-million dollar international fraud case.
A 34-year-old ultra-Orthodox man was arrested Sunday for throwing a porcelain mug at an 11-year-old girl in the central, largely ultra-Orthodox town of Bnei Brak the previous day after yelling at her for not being dressed modestly enough.
Former Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, who admitted to taking bribes in millions of shekels as well as tax offenses, submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court about the four-and-a-half year prison sentence imposed on him by the District Court.