US Attorney Preet Bharara has warned Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “independent’’ investigator not to interfere with the federal corruption probe involving the Buffalo Billion project, related state contracts and two longtime friends of the governor.
New York – With a widening probe of New York state government, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara appears to be taking aim at the nebulous relationship between money and politics itself — a long and murky association in Albany and in capitals across the nation.
A young Air Force lieutenant from Miami died Monday in the United Arab Emirates, an Arabian Peninsula nation.
HONG KONG – The U.S. has moved to seize nearly $2 million from a Chinese company that it says laundered money for North Korea.
Uruguay – Police in Uruguay named an Israeli embassy security worker as the main suspect in planting a fake bomb on June 17 outside the Montevideo World Trade Center building which houses the Israeli Embassy.
United Airlines chief executive officer Jeff Smisek stepped down “effective immediately” on Tuesday with the airline citing an ongoing federal corruption investigation into the company.
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DetailsUkrainian police raided an oligarch, tax authorities and officials on Wednesday, amid a harmful corruption scandal during the bloody war with Russia. David Arakhamia, the leader of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s party, announced on Telegram that officers had targetted billionaire Igor Kolomoiski, ex-Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and the tax authorities, while the Customs Directorate was sacked. Senior…
DetailsCryptocurrency fraud in the U.K. rose by 32% to 226 million pound ($273 million) in one year, according to data from the U.K. police unit Action Fraud, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The U.K. is in a recession and the cost of living has increased, making some people vulnerable to fraudsters. “Whenever times are…
DetailsUber CEO Travis Kalanick on Sunday said the company will open an “urgent investigation” after a former engineer wrote a lengthy blog post describing systemic sexual harassment at the San Francisco ride-hailing service, which she called “an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos.”
