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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Extradition of Four Israeli Defendants Charged in Multi-Million-Dollar Phony “Lottery Prize” Schemes
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that four defendants have been extradited from Israel on charges relating to their participation in multiple lottery telemarketing fraud schemes. The schemes targeted elderly victims in the United States and netted the defendants millions of dollars in profits.
Sacramento FBI Announces 2011 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award Recipient: WEAVE, Inc.
The Sacramento Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is pleased to announce that WEAVE, Inc. is the recipient of the 2011 Director’s Community Leadership Award . The annual award recognizes the achievement of an individual or organization for commitment to violence education and prevention. “It is an honor to be able to present WEAVE, Inc.
IHDA Celebrates Start of Construction on Housing for Domestic Violence Victims
A Safe Place to create secure, affordable apartments ZION — Twenty units of permanent supportive housing in Lake County for victims of domestic abuse will be built as a result…
Police look for missing Lane Tech student
Police asked for the public’s help this evening in finding a 16-year-old boy missing from the South Side for a week. Jaron Ziegler, a student at Lane Tech High School on the North Side , was reported missing from the area of 55th Street and South Dorchester Avenue on the South Side on July 28, police said in a missing persons alert.
52 Shot, 8 Dead and Mayor Daley Still Resists Self-Defense
BELLEVUE, Wash., June 21 /CHICAGOPRESSRELEASE.COM/ — Fifty-two people shot, eight of them fatally in a single Chicago weekend, yet Mayor Richard Daley appears poised to go down screaming in his opposition to the Second Amendment Foundation’s lawsuit to overturn his city’s handgun ban. The U.S.
Film, TV industry pushing NJ to keep tax credit (AP)
SECAUCUS, N.J. – With a television series’ dismantled set as a backdrop, a procession of actors, producers and directors made their case Wednesday for New Jersey to extend its tax credit for production companies, an incentive that could be cut from the state budget by the end of the month.
Police: More info on man suspected in 2 rapes SKETCH
CHICAGO (WBBM/CBS) ―Police are offering more information today about the suspected rapist they’re looking for on the Southwest Side. A bulletin broadcast on police radio called for officers to watch…
Alert issued after two teens are raped SKETCH
He’s out there — a man police say is driving around in a green van, looking for his next victim. He committed three attacks in four days, preying on teenage…
Career criminal charged with attacking two women
CHICAGO (STMW) — A man with a record of more than 100 arrests has been arrested once again, this time for allegedly battering two women in separate incidents on Saturday, including slapping a 20-year-old woman in the face in front of her wheelchair-bound mother as they left a department store in the Near West Side Wicker Park neighborhood. John Poiner, 47, of the 600 block of West Deming Place, is charged with one count each of aggravated battery on the public way, attempted robbery, battery-making physical contact and simple assault, according to a police News Affairs release.
No is no: More men file sexual harassment claims
WASHINGTON — Jonathan Pilkington’s boss wouldn’t take no for an answer. During more than two years as a food runner at an upscale steakhouse in Scottsdale, Arizona, Pilkington says his male supervisor groped, fondled and otherwise sexually harassed him more than a dozen times.
