Federal authorities investigating whether President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen committed tax fraud are focusing on more than $20 million in loans collected by taxi businesses that he and his family own, the New York Times reported. The bank loans came from Sterling National Bank and the Melrose Credit Union, two New York financial…
The Justice Department is suing a friend and former business partner of Ivanka Trump for his alleged role in defrauding the federal government out of millions of dollars in tax liabilities on his father’s estate, Politico reported Friday. The suit follows a Politico investigation of New York businessman Moshe Lax’s alleged financial crimes, and the…
(JTA) — The caller at a suburban New York synagogue’s bingo game has been charged with fraud for fixing the games. Neil Simon Gross, 71, turned himself into police last week after being charged with gaming fraud, according to Lohud.com, a local news site. Gross, who calls out the numbers at the Yorktown Jewish Center in…
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, is reportedly under investigation for possible tax fraud, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Federal authorities are looking into whether Cohen’s income from his taxi-medallion business was underreported in tax returns, a person familiar with the investigation said. That income allegedly amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars…
A Brooklyn rabbi will be sent to prison for stealing nearly $5 million in funds earmarked for children in special education programs, the AP reported. Samuel Hiller was one of four defendants indicted in 2014 for funneling $12.4 million away from a child development center into home improvement projects and other ultra-Orthodox institutions around the…
A former Cleveland Clinic executive pleaded guilty this week to helping defraud the hospital out of $2.7 million, the Cleveland Jewish News reported. Gary Fingerhut was dismissed from his position as director of innovations in 2015 after the FBI alerted the hospital to his role in a massive fraud scheme. Authorities say that Fingerhut paid…
A program that will allow residents of New Jersey’s Ocean County who fraudulantly obtained state Medicaid benefits to avoid criminal prosecution begins Tuesday, NJ.com reported. The program, offered by the NJ State Comptroller, comes after 26 people were arrested in FBI raids in June for underreporting their incomes to get more than $2 million in…
Residents of Lakewood, New Jersey, knew the hammer was about to fall. According to news reports, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato informed the community two years ago that community residents were involved in abuse of welfare programs, and warned that authorities would be taking action. On Monday, that warning came to pass. In what was…
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