Former prosecutor and defense lawyer Paul Bergrin was sentenced on Monday to life in prison for facilitating murder, running drugs and operating a criminal syndicate out of his Newark law firm
This year's Jewish holiday of Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles is meant to bring joy to all those who celebrate, but this year also brought travel guidelines Israeli passengers visiting New York. The Jewish holiday, which in English translates to 'booths,' began last Wednesday, five days after Yom Kippur, or Day of Atonement ended, and concludes on Thursday.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who in May acknowledged that the agency wrongly targeted tea party groups that were applying for a tax exemption status, retired from the agency effective Monday, Politico reported. When the IRS scandal hit, Lerner was placed on administrative leave.
Prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York leveled three defendants with terrorism related charges. The prosecutors described Ali Yasin Ahmed, Madhi Hashi and Mohamed Yusuf as "dangerous and influential" members of al-Shabaab, the same Islamic terrorist organization that has claimed responsibility for the attack at Westgate Mall, in Nairobi Kenya this past weekend
