Business owner sentenced for bribing city of Atlanta official to win contract at Atlanta’s airport

ATLANTA – Hayat Choudhary, CEO of Atlanta Airport Shuttle Services, Inc., d/b/a Meskerem Restaurant, has been sentenced to federal prison for paying $20,000 in cash to a City of Atlanta Department of…

Georgia News·Police Blotter

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Agrees To Pay $920 Million in Connection with Schemes to Defraud Precious Metals and U.S. Treasuries Markets

NEW YORK, NY – JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan), a New York, New York-based global banking and financial services firm, has entered into a resolution with the Department of Justice to resolve…

New Jersey News

Garner, North Carolina Man Charged with Fraudulently Seeking Over $6 Million in COVID Relief Funds

GARNER, NC – A North Carolina man was charged with fraudulently seeking over $6 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt of the Justice…

North Carolina News·Police Blotter

Wall Street Trader Sentenced To More Than 5 Years In Prison For Running A Ponzi Scheme

NEW YORK, NY – Audrey Strauss, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PAUL A. RINFRET was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 63 months…

New York News

Chinese National Sentenced for Laundering Millions for Mexican Drug Cartels

A Chinese national was sentenced today to five years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $4.2 million for laundering drug proceeds generated by large-scale cocaine trafficking in the United States.…

Police Blotter·US and World News

Hartford Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Prescribing Oxycodone, Failing to Pay Employee Taxes

EAST HARTFORD, CT- John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that Dr. SHEIKH AHMED, 57, of Orange, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A.…

In the News

Mexican National with Numerous DUI Convictions Pleads Guilty

RICHMOND, Va. – A Mexican national recently convicted of his third Driving Under the Influence charge within the previous two years pleaded guilty today to illegally reentering the United States. According to…

Police Blotter·Virginia News

New York Man Sentenced for Fraud Conspiracy and ID Theft

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A New York man was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for his role in acquiring and using thousands of stolen payment card numbers, as well as other…

New York News·Police Blotter·Virginia News

Former Registered Broker Pleads Guilty to Participating in a Multi-Million Dollar Securities Fraud Scheme

BROOKLYN, NY – Defendant Engaged in Unauthorized Trading in Customers’ Account and Generated Over $2 Million in Commissions and Fees for Brokerage Firm Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Joshua Turney,…

New York News·Police Blotter

Alexandria Ghost Gun and Machine Gun Conversion Device Dealer Pleads Guilty

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A Fairfax man pleaded guilty today to dealing in firearms without a license. According to court documents, Davud Sungur, 20, has never had a federal firearms license. Beginning around…

Police Blotter·Virginia News

New Jersey Business Administrator Charged for Corruption and Fraud

ORANGE, NJ – The former acting business administrator for the Township of Orange, New Jersey, who had previously been indicted for multiple acts of corruption and fraud, was indicted today on additional…

Government News·New Jersey News

Mission Man Sentenced for Involuntary Manslaughter

MISSION, SD – United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on September 28, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S.…

US and World News

Bridging The Disability Service Gap In NJ

2020 has been a tumultuous year for medical services, and disability services have, in particular, suffered as a result. Research reported by New Jersey 101.5 found that service shortages had particularly impacted children…

Community News

100,000 Brooklyn Voters Received Mail-In Ballots with Wrong Names

The mail-in ballot woes continue, this time in Brooklyn where the New York City elections board confirmed today that a printing error led to 100,000 voters receiving the wrong ballot return envelopes…

New York News

Sixteen men charged federally as part of Cincinnati gun violence initiative

CINCINNATI – A federal grand jury has charged 15 Cincinnati men and one Chicago man with crimes related to Cincinnati gun violence in separate indictments unsealed here today. Six defendants were arrested…

US and World News

Murphy Keeps Reopening Funding Formula a Secret, Even to State Legislators

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey trails far behind the rest of America when it comes to reopening businesses, including restaurants, movie theaters, gyms, barbers, nail salons and hair salons, but it leads…

New Jersey News

Optimum is not Optimal!

[Howell, NJ]… “F r sc e an n ars a ath rou f h, u n his ont , a na on, c ed in l r , and dedicated p os …

Government News·Monmouth County News

Man Sentenced for Stabbing Boat Captain

PENSACOLA, FLORIDA – Robert Lester Odom, 47, of Pensacola, Florida, was sentenced on Friday, September 25, to 40 months in federal prison after having pled guilty to the charge of assault with a…

Florida News

Real Life Willy Wonka Has Golden Tickets to Give Away His Candy Factory

In the 1971 timeless classic, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (not to be confuse with the terrible remake, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), the owner of the Willy Wonka chocolate factory,…

Business News·New Jersey News

Vinyl Record Collectors Rejoice as eBay Announces Start of “Vinyl Week”

eBay, one of the world’s largest and most dynamic marketplaces, kicks off its week-long “vinyl obsession” event with an amazing breadth of rare and trending vinyl curated directly from Record Store Day-pledged stores,…

Entertainment News·New Jersey News

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