NEW YORK – The City of New York will pay about $98 million to settle an employment discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of blacks and Hispanics who applied for jobs at the city’s…
Two Guilty of Bank Robbery by Staging a Kidnapping and Using a Fake Bomb
LOS ANGELES – Two California residents were found guilty today in U.S. District Court of plotting a bank heist and kidnapping and stealing more than $500,000 from the Bank of America, according…
Man Hacked Facebook Accounts of Young Females to Extort Them for Nude Photos
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA – A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Temecula College student to a year and six months in prison for hacking as many as 150 online accounts to extort…
The Feds Have Shutdown Hundreds of Fraudulent Tax Preparation Services – List Available Online
The feds have been busy shutting down many tax preparers throughout the nation who are concocting bogus losses and deductions including medical expenses, education credits, charitable contributions and other unauthorized expenses. One…
Animal Facts: An Elephant Can Eat 600 Pounds of Food a Day
African elephants are the largest and heaviest mammals on land. They weigh up to 14,000 pounds, and can eat as much as 600 pounds of food a day. Here are more facts…
Owner of Medical Clinic Gets Nine Years for Medicare Fraud Totaling $20 Million
FLORIDA – The owner and operator of a Miami medical clinic, Merfi Corp., was sentenced this week to nine years in prison for Medicare fraud. U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro also ordered that…
Ukraine Billionaire Arrested on International Conspiracy Charge
“[box type=”info” bg=”FFFFFF” font=”georgia” fontsize=”18″]…“an absolutely seismic development on so many different levels,” a Standard Bank analyst told the Financial Times[/box] CHICAGO – One of Ukrainian’s richest businessmen was arrested Wednesday by…
Justice Department Gives Its Progress Report on Civil Rights in Geneva, Switzerland
[box type=”info” bg=”#FFFFFF” font=”times” fontsize=”20″ float=”right”]”These lawsuits evidence the department’s continuing commitment to ensuring that Americans across the country can cast a ballot free from discrimination,” said Ron Austin. [/box] This week,…
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” – The Great Depression
During the Great Depression, which peaked between 1932 and 1933, some 6,000 street vendors walked the streets of New York City in 1930 trying to sell apples for 5 cents each. Here are…
NY Businessman Who Tried to Hide Income from IRS Convicted of Filing False Tax Returns
WASHINGTON — A New York businessman who tried to hide income from his construction company was convicted in U.S. District Court of filing false tax returns for his corporation and is now facing…
Feds Want to Stop Ohio Youth Services from Putting Mentally Ill Boys in Juvenile Correction Facilities
OHIO — The U.S. Department of Justice today sought a temporarily restraining order against the Department of Youth Services from putting boys with mental health needs in its juvenile correction facilities, according…
The Irishman, Twitter and the Kumbala Murders
By Raul Hernandez The Irishman still has a sense of humor but doesn’t go out much, anymore. Ken Flynn is 80, lives in Dallas and was a newspaper reporter for more than…