Jared Kushner’s latest filing of a routine financial disclosure form contained mistakes — despite the fact that it’s been updated 40 times since March 2017, ProPublica reported. The form, an ethics form meant to disclose the finances of White House staff members, contained false information about two loans Kushner Companies made to downtown Brooklyn properties….
On Thursday, NBC reported that federal investigators “tapped” phones belonging to Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer. The report, which cited two anonymous sources, said that the wiretapping had been in place in the weeks before an FBI raid on Michael Cohen’s office and living space. But almost immediately after the report was published, it…
Missouri lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to begin a special session for considering the impeachment of the state’s scandal-mired governor, Eric Greitens, POLITICO reported. The vote comes a day after a report released by state lawmakers accused Greitens, who is Jewish, of violating federal campaign finance laws. Lawmakers voted for the special session to address the report,…
(JTA) — The rappers who brought down a prestigious German music prize over songs containing anti-Semitic lyrics will visit Auschwitz. Kollegah and Farid Bang accepted an invitation from the International Auschwitz Committee to visit the former Nazi death camp next month, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported. On April 12, they won an Echo Award in the…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A fire burned for hours in a southern Israel forest after a kite carrying a firebomb crossed the border from Gaza. Ten teams of firefighters were called to the Be’eri Forest near Kibbutz Be’eri on Wednesday afternoon to bring the fire sparked by the incendiary kite under control. The fire burned dozens…
(JTA) — Swarthmore College will not discontinue the sale of Sabra hummus on campus, its president announced. Instead, campus dining halls and convenience stores will provide an “alternate hummus brand” on campus. The Swarthmore Students for Justice in Palestine had presented College President Valerie Smith with a petition signed by hundreds of students requesting that…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Parliament passed a law that would allow the country’s prime minister and defense minister to declare war. The law passed Monday evening, an amendment to the country’s Basic Law, transfers authority from the government to the smaller Security Cabinet to launch military operations and declare war. It passed by a vote…
Hasidic Jews celebrating a Jewish holiday triggered a massive explosion in London’s Stamford Hill neighborhood after putting cell phones into a bonfire pyre, the Jewish Chronicle reported. The bonfire had been kindled for Lag B’Omer, a holiday that falls halfway between Passover and Shavuot. It is traditional in Israel and among religious Jews to create…
Eric Greitens, the Missouri governor accused of blackmailing a former sexual partner with nude images, is now accused of lying to a state ethics committee about whether he used a private charity’s donor list for his own campaign fundraising, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Missouri launched a special investigation into Greitens’ campaign funding tactics in…
Rudy Giuliani is claiming that President Trump repaid his Michael Cohen for a $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels — an admission that directly contradicting the president’s past statements. During an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel show Wednesday, Trump’s newly minted lawyer asserted that the money had been “funneled ……
Kim Kardashian West has spoken several times over the past few months with White House senior advisor/son-in-law Jared Kushner about a possible presidential pardon for a great-grandmother serving a life sentence for money laundering and drug conspiracy, Mic reported Wednesday. Alice Marie Johnson, a black woman from Mississippi who was sentenced in 1996 to life…
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