On the last day of Ramadan, which ended Friday, Khalid (Ken) Quran was headed to work.
The owner of a convenience store in Greenville, N.C., Quran works seven days a week with little opportunity for vacation, and has been since he first arrived in the United States in 1997. The ending of the month of fasting was supposed to be a day of celebration for Quran, who worked as a fireman in a town north of Jerusalem before immigrating, but instead it’s just like any other day.
The White House laid out the president’s 2015 National Security Strategy earlier this year and that strategy does not include turning away foreign students who desire to study engineering and science curriculum in American educational institutions. But a July 19 Fox & Friends broadcast suggests that in order to fight domestic terrorism it may become necessary to reduce the number of visas being approved en mass (or scrutinize them more carefully), since as many as 100,000 student Muslim visas are being approved every year for college-studying purposes–and many of the terrorists being fought on American soil hail from that type of background, like the 9/11 extremists.
MISSOULA, Montana — A federal judge sentenced a Montana man Friday to two years in prison after prosecutors said he tricked people into paying as much as $70 million in unauthorized charges that were placed on phone bills nationwide.
Steven Sann also was ordered to forfeit $500,000 during the sentencing by U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Missoula. Prosecutors said he had transferred that amount to his personal investment accounts.
McALLEN, Texas (AP) – FBI agents have arrested a South Texas police officer on allegations he was involved in drug trafficking.
The Monitor newspaper reports (http://bit.ly/1Dnbdw0 ) that Mission officer Hector Mendez is a 17-year veteran of the police department who was assigned to a drug enforcement task force.
On July 6, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in connection with a $68 million affinity fraud scheme allegedly orchestrated by Bingqing Yang, through her wholly owned management companies, Luca International Group, LLC, Luca Resources Group, LLC and Luca Energy Fund, LLC (collectively, Luca Managers), with the help of Ms. Yang’s chief fundraiser, Lei Lei.
Former U.S. Representative Michael Grimm (R-NY) got something of a break earlier today when he was sentenced to just eight months in prison on tax related charges. He had faced up to three years in prison after pleading guilty to one felony count of tax fraud.
ALEXANDRIA, VA—In an 18-count indictment unsealed today, six men were charged by a federal grand jury with aggravated identity theft, fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy.
The men charged in the indictment are: Ray Ekobena, 27, of Alexandria; Stefan Ekobena, 24, and Gani Cole, 27, both of Atlanta, Georgia; Rodney Hardy, 25, of Hyattsville, Maryland; Deallto Davis, 20, and Jerome Robinson, 32, both of Washington, D.C.
PENDLETON — An Anderson resident working at the Correctional Industrial Facility in Pendleton was arrested Thursday for allegedly trafficking in drugs with at least one inmate.
Indiana State Police arrested Latasha Perry, of Anderson, in Pendleton on one count of Class A misdemeanor trafficking with an inmate; five counts of Level 5 felony trafficking with an inmate a controlled substance; and one count of Level 5 felony possession of a controlled substance.
Nearly three-dozen people, most of them from San Jose, have been charged in an alleged car crash ring that collected a half million dollars in insurance, a Santa Clara County deputy district attorney said Thursday.
Nineteen cops at a South Bronx police precinct fudged NYPD crime reports to make statistics look better, downgrading offenses such as theft and assault, Commissioner William Bratton said Friday in announcing disciplinary charges.