Reported by ASSOCIATED PRESS A former shoemaker pleaded guilty Tuesday to allegations that he ran an illegal gambling operation for the Mafia out of his shop in Brooklyn. Salvatore Rubino, also known as “Sal the Shoemaker,” admitted in court to running card games and operating illegal gambling machines inside his former shoe repair business and […]
Reported by William Bredderman The six-figure gig Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife landed with an Egypt-linked COVID-19 lab, and the millions of dollars of testing business it did in their home state of New Jersey, were “a direct outgrowth” of the sprawling international bribery scheme engulfing the pair, according to court filings by the Department of Justice—filings that […]
Reported by Alistair Gray and Richard Milne Denmark’s tax authority accused trader Sanjay Shah’s hedge fund of masterminding a “meticulously pre-planned” tax fraud on Monday, at the opening of a trial described by an English judge as one of the most complex to hit London’s courts. Lawyers acting for the Danish Customs and Tax Administration (Skat) told […]
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