Mark Bloom pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to investment fraud charges and to obstructing the administration of the Internal Revenue Laws in connection with fraudulent tax shelters he helped market while a partner at BDO Seidman, LLP, a major international accounting firm.
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Read about our Top Ten news stories of the week, including charges against seven individuals in North Carolina on terrorism violations; the indictment of James Von Brunn in connection with the attack on the Holocaust Memorial Museum; and the arrest of 22 people in New York in connection with an illegal narcotics trafficking organization.
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A sushi delivery man was critically injured Thursday night in Brooklyn when he got caught in a shootout between a group of drug dealers, police and witnesses said.
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An accused rogue lawyer hellbent on defending a major cocaine trafficker, lied his way into a Queens jail to confront the main witness against his client.
In simultaneous, unrelated rampages of unspeakable savagery, they murdered 21 people. Yet they never met – at least not until they were in prison, awaiting trial for their killing sprees.
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William Everett Nichols, of Alexandria, Louisiana, the president and sole shareholder of First Fidelity Mortgage, Inc. was indicted and arrested on federal bank fraud charges in connection with allegedly preparing fraudulent notes by forging the signatures of buyers.
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Nicholas Manocchio, the director of the New England Regional Organizing Fund of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), pled guilty to conspiring to receive money and other things of value from building contractors whose employees LIUNA represented. Gerald Diodati, a construction contractor, also pled guilty today to conspiring to make unlawful payments to LUNA officials, including Manocchio.
A naked, drug-addled man was shot and killed after harassing his cousin’s girlfriend in Queens early Thursday, cops and witnesses said.
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A 32-year-old man with a checkered past was shot and killed in front of his Bronx early Friday, police and relatives said.
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Two personal injury lawyers pleaded guilty on Thursday to not paying taxes on a dirty deal they made with a disbarred lawyer.
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