Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel has resigned amid an investigation by the state Judicial Qualifications Commission, which examines allegations of misconduct by state jurists.
Zabel leaves office months after Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Public Corruption Task Force charged her husband Myron Rosner with four felonies, but declined to prosecute her over a land deal that cost an investor $150,000, according to a close-out memo issued by prosecutors
In the five months since Alan Koslow was charged with money-laundering conspiracy, he has lost almost everything: his marriage, his law license and his reputation as one of the most effective attorneys and lobbyists in Florida.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing Robert Shapiro, the former head of embattled Woodbridge Group of Companies, for allegedly running a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.
No one denied that Sholom Rubashkin’s crimes were serious. The former chief executive of what was once the country’s largest kosher meatpacking plant was convicted of more than 80 counts of financial fraud in 2009, following a massive immigration raid on the family-owned facility in northeastern Iowa. Prosecutors said he had profited off the labor of hundreds of undocumented immigrants, some of them children, and had bilked lenders out of more than $26 million.
But on Wednesday, President Trump commuted Rubashkin’s sentence.
The U.S. Marshals Service tightened its dragnet Friday for Darren Berg, a con man dubbed “Seattle’s mini Madoff” after the 55-year-old escaped a federal prison where he was serving an 18-year sentence.
A Mayor de Blasio donor-turned-felon testified in extraordinary detail Thursday that he and his businessman pals wrote the book on city corruption — buying off the Mayor’s Office and the Police Department using brazen pay-to-play tactics.
“We’re going to become significant contributors, but we want access,” Jona Rechnitz, 34, testified telling de Blasio fund-raiser Ross Offinger after Hizzoner clinched the Democratic nod for mayor in 2013.
Samuel Hiller, a Far Rockaway Orthodox Rabbi has pled guilty to stealing $5 million in city and state funding that was intended for special needs students between the ages of three and five.
Jordan Belfort, who was born in 1962 in the bronx borough of New York City to a Jewish family, whose parents Leah and Max Belfort are both accountants, and who was immortalized in the blockbuster movie, The Wolf of Wall Street, claims he’s a changed man and nothing like the greedy, corrupt character played by Leonardo DiCaprio.
An Inside Edition investigation found “The Wolf” living a life of luxury while still owing his victims millions.