A synagogue rabbi from Deal Yeshiva, New Jersey starts cursing and shrieking when approached by reporters who were inquiring about the recent arrests of rabbis for money laundering and selling organs on the black market.  Read More »

Thousands of Russian girls living abroad are being forced to work as sex slaves. The United States says Russia is one of the world’s main sources of trafficked women. Tough new laws are in place to tackle the problem, but for many the living hell of sex slavery goes on.  Read More »

An American-Israeli crime ring conspired to defraud United States tax authorities of tens of millions of dollars for at least five years, according to Israeli and American court documents filed Monday. The suspects filed thousands of fraudulent requests for tax refunds in the names of prisoners in federal penitentiaries, without the prisoners’ knowledge, according to an indictment filed in Chicago.... 

A Chasidic rabbi pleaded guilty in an $8.5 million tax evasion scam. Rabbi Naftali Tzi Weisz offered the plea Tuesday at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, according to news reports. The 61-year-old, Brooklyn-based Spinka rabbi admitted using a charity to avoid paying federal taxes. Four other Spinka community members also pleaded guilty on charges of fraud related to the charity. Judge... 

Barbara Kenley of South Carolina with her horse Sugar, the animal Rodell Vereen had sex with. Vereen was sentenced to three years in jail for abusing the horse. A South Carolina man was charged with having sex with a horse after the animal’s owner caught the act on videotape, then staked out the stable and caught him at shotgun point, authorities said Wednesday. But this wasn’t the first... 

One of the Queen’s guards at Windsor Castle has been arrested for being an illegal immigrant. The soldier concerned had even taken part in the Trooping of the Colour in front of the Royal family last month before his true identity emerged by chance, following a car crash. Originally from an African country belonging to the Commonwealth, he is believed to have joined the Army using a false... 

Some still try to get through by clinging to the undercarriage of lorries. Others have been found hidden in ‘coffins’ – plastic containers with tiny air vents – close to death. Either way, you can be certain of one thing: that when a truck stops on the now notorious Rue des Garennes on the outskirts of Calais, someone will emerge and attempt to get on board. Day or night. So... 

The Brooklyn man arrested Thursday for dealing in black-market kidneys was identified to the FBI seven years ago as a major figure in a global human organ ring. Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum’s name, address and even phone number were passed to an FBI agent in a meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan by a prominent anthropologist who has been studying and documenting organ trafficking for more than... 

Somali Mustaf Jama was jailed for life today for his part in a robbery during which police officer Sharon Beshenivsky was shot dead. A gangster who fled to his native Somalia after taking part in a robbery in which police officer Sharon Beshenivsky was shot dead was jailed for life today. Mustaf Jama, 29, was told he would serve at least 35 years for the murder of the mother-of-three. Jama was part... 

An HIV-positive man was sentenced on Wednesday to eight years in prison after having unprotected sex with three women, including a 13-year-old girl. The 41-year-old, identified as Kennedy O., was found guilty of eight counts of attempted assault and the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old-girl after he slept with her and two girlfriends – a housewife and a hairdresser – without disclosing he had the... 

Romania has detained two Israelis and a Romanian on suspicion of trafficking in human eggs in their Bucharest-based fertility clinic, organised crime prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutors said 22 other people, members of the same organisation, were also under investigation. “The group was focussing on identifying foreign couples eager to resort to reproduction tecRhniques and on grabbing Romanian... 

Caged: Mauro Lopes has been jailed for nine years thanks to his victim's quick thinking A rapist who posed as a policeman to get into his 89-year-old victim’s home was snared because she copied a scene from CSI and scratched his face for DNA. Bouncer Mauro Lopes, 31, who weighs 20 stone, raped the frail seven-stone widow twice after tricking his way into her home in Leeds, West Yorkshire. In... 

A pregnant mother stabbed her two eldest children to death and tried to murder her six-month old baby while suffering from severe post-natal depression, a court heard yesterday. Sasikala Navaneethan, 37, told police she tried to kill all her children and herself because she was stuck in a loveless marriage and was often beaten by her husband Navarajah, it was said. The Sri Lankan-born housewife –... 

Crystal Johnson was shot during a home invasion. She was seven month pregnant. A Bradenton man recovering from a gunshot wound now faces two counts of murder for the shooting deaths of a pregnant woman and her baby. Everrick J. Houston, 28, was arrested late Friday at Manatee Memorial Hospital in connection with the fatal shooting of Crystal Johnson, 19. Johnson was seven months pregnant; her unborn... 

Drama mirrors life? Scene from the TV series Bad Girls, which depicts a lesbian fling in prison A drug dealer is appealing against her deportation on the grounds it will violate her human rights as a lesbian. The Jamaican argues she will be persecuted for her homosexuality if she is returned to her home country at the end of her sentence. She had a boyfriend before her conviction for supplying class-A...