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NJ Dock Workers Charged With Conspiring to Traffic 2 Tons of Cocaine

Two New Jersey dock workers have been arrested for allegedly plotting to traffic more than 2 tons of cocaine into the United States. Dominic Guido, a longshoreman, and Robert Roselli, a dock worker at a private company, have been charged with conspiracy for allegedly planning to smuggle large shipments of cocaine into the...

Three Online Poker Houses Face Fraud Charges in NYC

NEW YORK -- The multibillion-dollar business of the three biggest Internet poker companies became a target of federal authorities before an indictment was unsealed Friday, charging 11 people with bank fraud and illegal gambling. Prosecutors in Manhattan said they've issued restraining orders against more than 75 bank...

Seven Men Accused of Conspiring to Aid Taliban

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged seven people, including two U.S. citizens, with conspiring to support Taliban militants in Afghanistan, officials said. The two Americans have been identified as Alwar Pouryan and Oded Orbach. The others are identified in court documents as Maroun Saade, Walid Nasr, Corneille...

Big New York Insider Trading Probe Spawns Another

NEW YORK (Nov.26) -- An insider trading case last year that federal authorities said was the biggest ever is providing a recipe for another case that may be even bigger. The current case is largely an extension of work that led to the arrest of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam in October 2009. The Galleon...

17 Charged With Defrauding Holocaust Fund of $42 Million

(Nov. 9) -- 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. Tina...

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05/23/12 10 tossed from LIRR âgravy train' Source: New York City News - New York NY PENSION EXPLOSION Ten more Long Island Rail Road retirees accused of participating in a massive, $1 billion disability-pension fraud were busted yesterday by federal authorities.
05/22/12 Gambling den gets shuttered Source: New York Daily News - New York NY A Chinatown building that housed an illegal gambling den just went bust.
05/21/12 NY to boot crooked docs from no-fault insurance Source: Long Island Business News - Ronkonkoma NY Insurance regulators plan to start kicking crooked doctors out of New York's no-fault program next month, calling them linchpins in fake-accident scams that cost insurers and ultimately policyholders hundreds of millions of dollars.
05/19/12 Nonviolent pot ring gets mild sentences Source: LoHud.com - White Plains NY Some of the investigations pursued by the enforcement agencies feeding cases to the White Plains courthouse would not have been pursued with the same intensity by downstate agencies, said Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University.
05/15/12 A.G., U.S. Attorney Headline White Collar Crime... Source: Texas Lawyer (ALM) The crucial role private attorneys can play in preventing white-collar crime and ensuring corporate integrity was emphasized yesterday in speeches by Southern District U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.