Posts Tagged ‘Feds’

Three Credit Suisse execs cooked books: feds

Looking to fatten their year-end bonuses, a trio of Credit Suisse execs cooked the books as part of a “colossal fraud” tied to the subprime mortgage crisis, authorities said Wednesday.

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25-year-old man arrested by feds in Fla. bomb plot (AP)

AP – A 25-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia was charged with an alleged plot to attack crowded locations in the Tampa area, including night clubs, with a car bomb, assault rifle and other explosives, federal authorities said Monday.

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Staten Island priest helps feds in mob case

A PRIEST took the witness stand Wednesday to bolster the feds’ extortion case against a mob associate charged with threatening a competitor bidding for a Staten Island high school catering contract.

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Feds issue warning to unconventional sperm donor (AP)

AP – A man from the San Francisco Bay area has fathered 14 children in the last five years through free sperm donations to women he meets through his website — and is now in trouble with the federal government.

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Feds issue scathing report against AZ sheriff (AP)

AP – A scathing U.S. Justice Department report released Thursday found that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office carried out a blatant pattern of discrimination against Latinos and held a “systematic disregard” for the Constitution amid a series of immigration crackdowns that have turned the lawman into a prominent national political figure.

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Feds urge states to ban texting, talking on roads (AP)

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2011 file photo, a phone is held in a car in Brunswick, Maine. Texting, emailing or chatting on a cellphone while driving is simply too dangerous to be allowed, federal safety investigators declared Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011, urging all states to impose total bans except for emergencies. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach, File)AP – Ren Bishop is one of many American drivers who texts, tweets and talks on her cellphone while she’s behind the wheel — and thinks it should be up to drivers to use their discretion when it comes to safety.


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Feds: Couple claimed welfare, lived in $1.2M home (AP)

In this undated photo provided by the King County Dept. of Assessments, the $1.2 million waterfront home  where prosecutors say a Seattle chiropractor and his wife lived while claiming welfare assistance is seen. The U.S. attorney's office filed a civil lawsuit Friday, Dec. 2, 2011, accusing David Silverstein and Lyudmila Shimonova of filing false claims. Prosecutors are demanding they pay back more than $135,000 in federal housing assistance since 2003 and are seeking tens of thousands of dollars in fines. (AP Photo/King County Dept. of Assessments)AP – A Seattle chiropractor and his wife live in a $1.2 million waterfront home and have spent the past eight years flying to Moscow, Paris, Israel, Turkey, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.


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