NY Prosecutor Preet Bharara Credited With Bringing Down Hedge Fund Giant Has Had Successful Run

By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer The Justice Department official credited with bringing down hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam is a wisecracking, self-effacing, Bruce Springsteen-loving prosecutor who is deadly serious about what he views as rampant insider trading on Wall Street. Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, has been hailed by some in…

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Mobster for Genovese Crime Family Gets 10 Years For “Murder Conspiracy” Involving a Hitman for the Russian Mob

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mobster Anthony “Tony D” Palumbo of the Genovese crime family was sentenced Thursday in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison for “murder conspiracy”  that included a plot to bump off a hitman for the Russian mob. Palumbo, a soldier and an “acting capo” in the Genovese family, pleaded guilty…

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U.S. Embassy Bomber Gets Life

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Convicted terrorist Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which claimed the lives of 224 people and wounded thousands. Ghailani, 36, is the first ex-Gitmo detainee to be…

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One of “World’s Most Significant Drug Kingpins” Gets 30 Years in NY

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Colombian drug lord Francisco Gonzalez Uribe, designated by the Justice Department as one of “the world’s most significant drug kingpins”, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York to 30 years in prison, authorities announced. Gonzalez Uribe, 44, was arrested in 2009 in the Dominican Republic and pleaded guilty…

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