Preet Bharara

Preet Bharara

• Texan gets 25 years in prison for Saudi envoy plot

  A U.S. citizen-turned-covert Iranian operative was sentenced to 25 years in prison Thursday for plotting to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the ... 

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  Feds in NY: Costa Rica money biz a hub for crooks

  When an undercover agent posing as a new client sought to register at the currency transfer firm Liberty Reserve as "Joe Bogus" from "123 Fake Main ... 

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  7 charged in $6B online money laundering case

  Calling it perhaps the biggest money laundering scheme in U.S. history, federal prosecutors charged seven people Tuesday with running what amounted ... 

• NY officials vow attack on predatory debt-fixing

  Federal authorities announced a crackdown Tuesday on predatory businesses that cheat "desperate and vulnerable" people harmed by the 2008 financial ... 

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  NY suspects asked for hard drives to hold evidence

  The government's evidence in a political corruption case — audio and video recordings, text messages, emails and more — is so voluminous that each of ... 

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  Lawmaker accused of bribes in NYC mayor race plot

  For the politically ambitious, running as a Republican is sometimes the best way a Democrat can increase his electoral odds in New York City's crowded ... 

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  NY state sen. arrested in alleged mayor race plot

  A Democratic state lawmaker was arrested along with five other politicians Tuesday in an alleged plot to pay tens of thousands of dollars in bribes ... 

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  Portfolio manager accused in insider trading case

  A senior portfolio manager for one of the nation's largest hedge funds was arrested Friday, accused of joining an insider trading conspiracy that the ... 

• Brother of hedge fund founder indicted in NYC

  The brother of a jailed one-time billionaire hedge fund boss has been charged with conspiring with his brother to cheat on Wall Street and earn nearly ... 

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  New York cop convicted in cannibalism plot

  Defense lawyers say all Internet users should worry that their online words can end up in federal court after a jury concluded that a New York police ... 

• Authorities: NY judge opens door to Swiss records

  A federal judge on Monday authorized the Internal Revenue Service to require UBS AG to produce records about U.S. taxpayers who may hold bank accounts ... 

• Feds: 3 nabbed for widespread Gozi computer virus

  A computer virus that spread to more than a million computers worldwide, including some at NASA, and produced at least $50 million in illegal profits ... 

• US: Arms dealer's associate arrested in Australia

  An associate of a notorious Russian arms dealer was arrested in Australia and charged with conspiring to buy planes so that weapons could be ... 

• NJ man arrested in NY police cannibalism case

  A lawyer claims that the arrest of a man accused of trying to pay a police officer to kidnap a Manhattan woman was done to prevent him from testifying ... 

• Swiss bank to pay $57.8M in US tax evasion plea

  Switzerland's oldest bank became the first foreign bank to plead guilty in the United States to tax charges when it admitted Thursday that it helped ... 

• Fla. man pleads guilty in NY in dinosaur dispute

  A Florida fossils dealer pleaded guilty to smuggling charges Thursday and agreed to give up a celebrated $1 million dinosaur skeleton seized by the U.