In one of the biggest schemes ever encountered by the United States Government relating to credit card fraud, with definitive losses to financial institutions and independent businesses of more than $200 million in phony charges, two men have pleaded guilty before two separate U.S. Magistrate Judges within a period of…
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Three Sentenced in 2011 New Year’s Eve Hate Crime under the Shepard Act
The Matthew Shepard Act, in full named the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is an action of Congress that was passed in Oct. 2009 by a bipartisan Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama. The law boosts the 1969 federal hate-crime law concerning…
Nyack Man charged with vehicular manslaughter in Hudson River Boating Accident
The nuptials were set for this coming Saturday in Pearl River in the same Church where their wedding service was to be held. But instead of exchanging vows, Brian Bond observed as Lindsey Stewart’s dark colored casket was taken off the altar and placed into a waiting hearse after the…
Yonkers, NY Gang Leader Found Guilty of Murder
The leader of the notorious Yonkers Elm Street Wolves street gang was found guilty yesterday in White Plains Federal Court of the murder of a rival gang member as well as numerous federal crimes specifically racketeering, firearms offenses, and drug charges. The gang operated in the Nodine Hill section of…
Bronx Detective Arrested on Computer Hacking Charges
“Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.” – Arthur Conan Doyle Prosecutors didn’t suggest a motive for a New York City Detective being charged with Cyber-crimes but Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and various other police sources said that it was done in order for him to grasp who was communicating…
NYC Woman Pleads Guilty to Fraudulent Newtown Bloodbath Fundraising Scheme
A New York City woman pleaded guilty last week to fraud in a fundraising scheme, claiming to be the aunt of one of the children killed in the Newtown, Conn. Massacre last December. At the time of her arrest she was also charged with lying to FBI agents and potentially…