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…
Lawyer E. Randol Schoenberg is well-known for his work pursuing restitution of art stolen in the Holocaust; this week, he’s made headlines for filing a lawsuit against the FBI. The lawsuit demands the agency honor Schoenberg’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the search warrant they obtained to investigate Anthony Weiner’s laptop as…
(JTA) — The United States asked Israel to take and prosecute a Kenyan imprisoned at Guantánamo implicated in the 2002 attack on Israelis in Mombasa, Kenya, but the proposed transfer has hit a snag over reported FBI foot dragging. A report on the existence of talks to deliver Mohammed Abdul Malik Bajabu, 43, for trial…
The FBI has abruptly released records on the 15-year-old investigation into President Bill Clinton’s controversial pardon of fugitive Jewish financier Marc Rich — just days after an unusual decision to inform Congress of possible new emails from Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton. The FBI posted the 129 pages of records in its online Freedom of…
Is a Russian Jewish oligarch with Israeli citizenship and close ties to both Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu running a secret cyber-communications channel between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russian authorities? That question, about billionaire Mikhail Fridman, is at the heart of a new and detailed investigative report by Franklin Foer, the former editor of…
In Boro Park, Brooklyn, there are two police forces. One drives cars with flashing lights, is dispatched over walkie-talkies, and has a blue-and-black shield for a logo. The other is the New York City Police Department. The Shomrim security patrol, as the local civilian force is known, is in part a pastime for traditionally observant…
On the Jewish holiday of Purim, ultra-Orthodox big shots in Brooklyn invite police officials over for holiday meals. Then, they share the pictures on social media in an implicit contest over who drew the highest-ranking officer. Now, those cozy relationships are drawing scrutiny amid a reported federal corruption investigation involving Orthodox businessmen and a raft…
An Israeli tech company named “Cellebrite” is reportedly helping the FBI hack into the iPhone of San Bernadino mass killer Syed Rizwan Farook. Apple has refused to help the feds unlock an iPhone 5c belonging to Farook, who killed 14 people. IPhone data gets wiped after multiple failed logins. Apple contends that writing the program…
