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Shervin Neman, the alleged affinity fraudster sued by the SEC last year in a Ponzi scheme targeted at the Persian-Jewish community, now has been arrested by the FBI in Los Angeles. Neman, 31, also is known as Shervin Davatgarzadeh, the FBI said. The Century City resident was arrested today on a three-count indictment charging him […]

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 4:08 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says a terrorist plot against a VIA passenger train in the Toronto area was thwarted and that two suspects were arrested today after a probe that began last year. Arrested were Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, and Raed Jaser, 35. RCMP said they lived in the […]

URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: A suspect (Dzhokar Tsarnaev)  is “in custody” in the Boston Marathon bombing, the Boston Police Department announced on Twitter minutes ago . . . Boston PD on Twitter. UPDATE 9:07 P.M. EDT: As shown on U.S. television networks, residents of Watertown are applauding and cheering for police as they pass […]

UPDATED 1:15 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Suspect 1 in the Boston Marathon bombings is reported dead after an overnight battle with police; Suspect 2 is reportedly still on the loose. There are concerns he may be armed with explosives. The FBI this morning identified Suspect 2 as Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19. (See newly released photo at left.) […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: These photos and the video link were released by the FBI late this afternoon. Suspect 1 is in the black cap; Suspect 2 is in the white cap. FBI contact information is at the bottom of this post  . . . Link to FBI YouTube video: The suspects are considered armed and extremely dangerous, […]

UPDATED 1:43 P.M. EDT U.S.A. (APRIL 25) The charges against Paul Kevin Curtis have been dropped and he has been released from custody. See this April 25 story by the AP via Yahoo News. Here, below, our earlier story . . . The FBI has arrested Paul Kevin Curtis in the ricin letters probe, the […]

A 64-year-old Alabama man who tried to pay off his mortgage by mailing a bogus “bonded promissory note” for $10 million to a mortgage-servicing company has been convicted of fraud, the office of U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance of the Northern District of Alabama said. Donald Joe Barber of Pinson faces up to 25 years […]

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 2:06 P.M. EDT) The FBI and the U.S. Secret Service are investigating a letter sent to President Obama that “preliminarily tested positive for ricin,” the FBI says. Ricin is a deadly poison. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., also reportedly was sent a letter that preliminarily tested positive for ricin. The President has been briefed […]

BULLETIN: (UPDATED 4:44 P.M. EDT U.S.A.) The SEC has gone to federal court in the Central District of California, accusing a former KPMG “lead partner” and auditor of KPMG’s Herbalife account of insider trading by providing nonpublic information on Herbalife and other companies to a golfing buddy. Scott London, 50, of Agoura Hills, Calif., was fired […]

BULLETIN: A man in the Far Rockaway section of the New York City Borough of Queens was running a $50 million real-estate Ponzi swindle that duped investors into believing they were investing in a “risk-free” flipping scheme involving large properties in New York and New Jersey, federal prosecutors said. Gershon Barkany, 29, was arrested today […]

Ronald Wesley Groves and Donald Charles Mann swindled $4.8 million from 642 investors in a bizarre “international bank trades” caper that promised a payout of 4,000 percent. Now, they’ve been sentenced to an extra year in federal prison for filing false liens against a federal prosecutor and two FBI agents involved in the fraud probe, […]