Nate Raymond
By Nate Raymond
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Fast Forward Tech Titan Who Fled To Africa Faces Sentencing For Fraud
The former chief executive officer of Comverse Technology Inc, who returned to the United States last year after spending a decade in the southern African nation of Namibia to avoid prosecution, is scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday for engaging in securities fraud. Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, the Woodbury, New York-based software developer’s founder, is expected…
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Fast Forward Anthony Weiner Faces Criminal Probes Over Sexts to 15-Year-Old
Federal prosecutors and New York police are investigating former U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner following a media report that he engaged in sexually-explicit cellphone and online messages with a 15-year-old girl, officials said on Thursday. The probes came after DailyMail.com, the online version of a British newspaper, on Wednesday published an interview with the unnamed girl,…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Donor Pleads Not Guilty in Sprawling New York Corruption Case
A prominent Orthodox political donor and the former union leader for New York City’s prison guards pleaded not guilty on Friday to engaging in a bribery scheme in a case linked to a widening federal municipal-corruption investigation. inancier Murray Huberfeld, a longtime associate of hedge fund manager Platinum Partners, and Norman Seabrook, the Correction Officers’…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver Faces Up to 14 Years for Corruption as Sentencing Looms
Former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who spent decades as one of the state’s most powerful politicians before being convicted of corruption, is set to be sentenced on Tuesday for collecting millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks. Prosecutors have asked U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan to send the 72-year-old Silver to…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver Had 2 Affairs, Including With Lobbyist: Prosecutors
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sheldon Silver, one of New York state’s most powerful politicians before his December conviction in a bribery case, had two extramarital affairs while in office, with a lobbyist and with a woman whom he helped get a state job, according to documents unsealed on Friday. Silver, an Orthodox Jew who served…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver’s Rabbi Son-In-Law Sentenced to 2 Years for Fraud
The Orthodox rabbi son-in-law of indicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday for running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of nearly $6 million. Marcello Trebitsch, 38, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick in Manhattan to forfeit $5.9 million, Manhattan U.S….
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Fast Forward Jailed Chinese Mogul Tied to Sheldon Adelson Faces More Legal Woes
A billionaire Macau developer arrested for lying to U.S. customs officials about why he brought $4.5 million in cash into the United States was subpoenaed in 2014 as part of a separate foreign bribery investigation, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday. Ng Lap Seng, who was previously tied to a Clinton-era campaign…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Silver’s Son-in-Law Admits $6M Ponzi Scam
A son-in-law of indicted former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver pleaded guilty on Monday to operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of nearly $6 million over seven years. Marcello Trebitsch, 37, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to securities fraud, three months after authorities first accused him of using investment funds to…
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