By Allan Lengel For AOL News Authorities say a Holocaust fund that helped victims was victimized itself. Seventeen people were charged in federal court in Manhattan with a long-running scam that defrauded Holocaust funds for survivors out of $42 million, authorities announced today. Some of the fraudulent claims date back to 1993. Authorities said employees…
By Allan Lengel AOL News More than than 60 people were indicted today on charges of stealing millions of dollars from U.S. bank accounts through mischievous computer attacks. In announcing the local and federal indictments, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of New York said that modern high-tech bank heists no longer require “a gun, a mask,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Now of days, you can see almost any movie — be it new or old — without going out to the the theater or renting a video– and all for free. Unfortunately, the whole set up is illegal. On Wednesday, federal authorities clamped down and disabled nine websites that allowed people…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The federal prosecutors aren’t done trying to recover more of the poisonous fruits from Bernie Madoff and his people. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of Manhattan announced Tuesday that his office filed civil complaints against former Madoff employees Annette Bongiorno and Joann Crupi to recoup $5 million in assets they had. Both…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com After decades of seeing pirates portrayed in Hollywood as sword waving, one eye-patched, mythical figures, America has gotten a real life glimpse of the 21st Century Pirate. And he’s not nearly as suave. Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse, a Somali pirate, pleaded guilty Tuesday in a Manhattan federal court to leading the attack…
NY FBI Agents Involved in the Mob Arrests/photo by Richard Kolko By Allan Lengel For AOL News The New York feds came crashing down on the Gambino crime family Tuesday, indicting 14 members and associates — including one of the top bosses — on charges ranging from murder, extortion and narcotics trafficking to tampering with…
It’s good that the long arm of the U.S. can stretch far beyond its borders when pursuing crime in this global world of ours. On the downside, at least in some cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office could probably put resources to better use and let the country of origin charge and prosecute the cases. For…
Update Tues: 4:10 p.m.: The U.S Attorney’s Office announced that President Alfonso Portillo, who had been on the run, was arrested this afternoon in the Guatemalan state of Izabal. By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com New York U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said former Guatemala President Alfonso Portillo — who is on the run — had converted the…
