Over 10,000 religious Jews from Israel and around the world expected to arrive in Doha Qatar will not allow any cooked kosher food and public Jewish prayers during the FIFA World Cup which kicked off on Sunday in Doha, forcing religious fans to cancel their trips. Sources within Jewish organizations told Hebrew media that the…
José Irizarry was cursed with a drug lord’s tastes and a civil servant’s salary. An agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Irizarry liked yacht parties with sex workers, jewelry from Tiffany, Louis Vuitton luggage and luxury cars. To finance his lifestyle – which came to include a BMW, two Land Rovers and three…
The top “regulatory officer” at fallen crypto exchange FTX was embroiled in a notorious online poker cheating scandal more than a decade ago — and was caught on tape allegedly aiding the perpetrators of the fraud, according to reports. Dan Friedberg — a lawyer who was FTX’s chief regulatory officer in the months leading up…
Abdullah Qureshi, 30, was convicted last week in a British court of one count of racially or religiously aggravated grievous bodily harm and two counts of racially or religiously aggravated common assault for committing multiple assaults motivated by antisemitism, the Metropolitan Police Service said. Qureshi was a suspect in the investigation of three antisemitic attacks…
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos founder who was once compared to Steve Jobs before she was convicted of defrauding investors who backed the now-defunct blood-testing company, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on Friday. The pregnant Holmes, dressed in a dark blouse and black skirt, was given 135 months behind bars by…
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,…
