Rabbi Avrum Friesel An admittedly un-kosher rabbi was sentenced this morning to 27 months in the slammer for an unholy fraud for which four fellow crooks walked free after getting their sentences commuted by then-Preisdent Clinton. Rabbi Avrum Friesel — who spent more than 11 years on the lam in Israel and Great Britain — said he was “deeply ashamed” for breaking American civil... 

When the 20 agents arrived bearing a search warrant at her Ventura County farmhouse door at 7 a.m. on a Wednesday a couple weeks back, Sharon Palmer didn’t know what to say. This was the third time she was being raided in 18 months, and she had thought she was on her way to resolving the problem over labeling of her goat cheese that prompted the other two raids. (In addition to producing goat’s... 

Map locates Sange, Dem. Rep. Congo where a tanker carrying oil exploded. A tanker truck hauling fuel on a rural eastern Congo highway overturned, gushing oil and exploding in a massive fireball that killed about 220 bystanders, including many who had been watching the World Cup in flimsy roadside shacks, officials and witnesses said Saturday. The Red Cross said at least 61 children and 36 women were... 

One of the ships impounded by Israel when it raided the flotilla of aid vessels off Gaza. Boarding party troops in deadly flotilla raid confiscated cards and spent on them, claim campaigners who were on board. Israeli troops have been accused of stealing from activists arrested in the assault on the Gaza flotilla after confiscated debit cards belonging to activists were subsequently used. In their... 

An 18-year-old man is accused of a robbing a woman at gunpoint Wednesday morning before counting the stolen money outside a Chicago police station on the West Side. Jermaine Howard, of the 4800 block of West Adams Street, was charged with armed robbery with a firearm, a felony, police said this morning. The man allegedly robbed the woman at the Kedzie Avenue CTA Pink Line station near 19th Street... 

High visibility policing is part of World Cup security plans Three foreign journalists covering the World Cup in South Africa have been robbed at gunpoint, police say. One of them saw two robbers as they broke into their lodgings near Johannesburg in the early morning. “One of the suspects pointed a gun at the journalist and told him to lie down,” police spokesman Hangwani Mulaudzi said. The... 

Obama administration takes unprecedented action to protect an American sports team. The Colombian football team had $2,500 looted from their hotel rooms by hotel staff in South Africa. The same thing happened to the Egyptian team during preliminaries. Now the Obama administration has ordered federal agents to South Africa to protect the American team. A large force will protect American football players... 

More Taxes The following report is excerpted from Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert, the premium online newsletter published by the current No. 1 best-selling author, WND staff writer and columnist. Red Alert subscriptions are $99 a year or $9.95 per month for credit card users. Annual subscribers will receive a free autographed copy of “The Late Great USA,” a book about the careful deceptions... 

A Jewish tax evader was sentenced Friday to 10 months in federal prison after claiming his Jewish parents’ experience fleeing the Nazi Holocaust drove him to compulsively hide more than $10 million in secret accounts at Swiss bank UBS AG and other offshore tax havens. U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan imposed the longest sentence to date for a UBS client against 65-year-old Jack Barouh, even... 

Lloyd Blankfein As the U.S. housing turned downward in January 2007, a Goldman Sachs trader wrote in e-mails to a woman he apparently was courting that investments he had sold were “like Frankenstein turning against his own inventor.” “I’m trading a product which a month ago was worth $100 and today is only worth $93,” wrote Fabrice Tourre, who was charged along with the... 

A Florida businessman with a penchant for luxury cars, philanthropy and socializing with professional basketball players was charged in federal court today with orchestrating an $880 million Ponzi scheme authorities say bilked at least $80 million from investors in New Jersey and elsewhere. Nevin K. Shapiro which is Jewish of Ashkenazic origin, 41, surrendered to agents from the FBI and the Internal... 

Goldman Sachs Group was charged with fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its marketing of a subprime mortgage product, igniting a battle between Wall Street’s most powerful bank and the nation’s top securities regulator. The civil lawsuit is the biggest crisis in years for a company that faced criticism over its pay and business practices after emerging from the global... 

Three Labour MPs at the centre of the expenses scandal tried to wriggle out of a criminal trial yesterday. Although charged at Westminster magistrates’ court with claiming a combined total of almost £60,000 in fraudulent expenses, they insisted the courts had no jurisdiction over them. Elliot Morley, David Chaytor and Jim Devine argued that, under the 321-year-old Bill of Rights, they could... 

Rabbi Milton Balkany Milton Balkany tried to extort $4 million from a Connecticut hedge fund by threatening to expose purported insider trading by the fund, federal authorities say. Reporting from New York — New York’s insular ultra-Orthodox Jewish community collided with the area’s secretive and ultra-wealthy hedge fund industry, leading to the arrest of a politically well-connected... 

Nearly half of western Europeans believe jews exploit their ‘past persecution’ in order to extort money, a new Israeli report says. The report, which the Jewish Agency conducted jointly with Israel’s Information and Diaspora Ministry, found that 42 percent of those polled by the University of Bielefeld in Germany agreed that “jews exploit the past to extort money,” Haaretz...