There was a certain ironic justice in FBI Director James Comey’s sensational testimony March 20 before the House Intelligence Committee. Comey testified that the bureau is investigating “whether there was any coordination” between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and “the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in last year’s election.” In other words, the FBI believes it…
The FBI is singling out a thriving business in Israel — two firms alone do $8 billion in business annually— that’s also ripe for fraud. Headlining the bureau’s website this week is an advisory against binary options trading, in which customers buy and sell shares of stocks — but many of the 100 companies operating…
In the past year, American Jews have experienced an escalating surge of anti-Semitism, from online harassment of journalists to bomb threats at schools and community centers to desecration of cemeteries. This, sadly, fits into a broader picture of increasing reports of hate crimes against Muslims, immigrants and other minorities. With all the attention paid to…
(JTA) — The FBI and Department of Homeland Security will be assisting local Jewish community centers in bolstering security after 16 JCCs received bomb threats on the same day. On Wednesday, officials from the FBI and Homeland Security will conduct a conference call with U.S. Jewish communal leaders to discuss Monday’s incidents, what they stem…
A lawyer who sued to unseal the bombshell search warrant used by the FBI to search Anthony Weiner’s laptop for emails tied to Hillary Clinton says he’s “appalled” at the lack of evidence in the document that was released Tuesday. After reading the court documents, E. Randol Schoenberg, the Los Angeles-based lawyer better known for…
The lawyer battling to unseal the search warrant used by the FBI to search Anthony Weiner’s laptop for potentially incriminating emails from former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won a major victory today. In response to the motion filed by E. Randol Schoenberg, Judge Kevin Castel of the Southern District of New York ordered the court…
Two weeks ago, it seemed like the Satmar Hasidim had won the fight for Bloomingburg. The tiny village 80 miles north of New York City had been the site of a raging battle between an Orthodox developer named Shalom Lamm and a group of stubborn locals for four years over Lamm’s plans to build homes…
Los Angeles-based lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg is best known for his work on the restitution of art stolen during the Holocaust; his quest to assist the late Maria Altmann regain Gustav Klimt paintings belonging to her family from the Austrian government was dramatized in the 2015 film “The Woman in Gold,” in which he was…
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