Polar Air Cargo LLC has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $17.4 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the cargo rates charged to certain customers for international air cargo shipments between the United States and Australia.
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Khalil Robinson was inside his Blake Ave. apartment near Linton Park in East New York when gunfire outside sent two slugs through the window about 9:20 p.m., cops and family said.
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Dorothy Ellis, of Texas City, Texas, a former senior employee of a U.S. military contractor, pled guilty to conspiracy to pay $360,000 in bribes to U.S. Army contracting officials stationed at a U.S. military base in Kuwait.
Dozens of mourners gathered at the St. Lucia house in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, Wednesday to raise money so the family of a soccer star shot execution-style can bury him in his homeland.
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Charles K. Schwartz, the founder and president of Allied Health Care Services Inc., an Orange, New Jersey durable medical equipment corporation, was charged with fraudulently obtaining more than $87 million from banks based on phony lease agreements.
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His life was spared by less than an inch.
Anthony Brashears, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged with attempting to rob a Citizens Bank branch in Philadelphia.
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Derek A. Lewis, the mayor of Port Allen, Louisiana, and Frederick W. Smith, the chief of police for Port Allen, were indicted on charges of allegedly obtaining cash and other things of value worth approximately $20,000 from business people in exchange for using their official positions with the city of Port Allen for the benefit of the business people in connection with transactions represented to be worth over $5,000,000.
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Renato Bernal, 41, had 1-1/2 times the legal alcohol limit when he almost hit a man on the pedestrian-only beach strip, then zoomed off Tuesday.
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Corey N. Johnston, of Lakeville, Minnesota, pled guilty to operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least 17 lenders in Minnesota and several other states. According to the government’s investigation, the lenders suffered losses in excess of $79 million.
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