Father charged along with son (14) in US school shooting

WINDER - A 14-year-old boy was charged with shooting four people dead at a US high school, while his father was charged with manslaughter, authorities said Thursday, after the country's latest outburst of gun violence.The teen faces four felony murder counts after allegedly killing two fellow pupils, also aged 14, as well as two teachers at Apalachee High School in the southern state of Georgia on Wednesday.Nine people -- most of them children -- were wounded in the attack. Authorities have said they are recovering.The suspect's father, 54-year-old Colin Gray, was in custody and faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children, making him the latest American parent to face criminal charges after a child was involved in a mass shooting.The charges come after Gray "knowingly" allowed his son to possess a weapon, Georgia Bureau of Investigation director Chris Hosey told a press conference.Citing unnamed sources, CNN reported that the gun used in the shooting -- which it described as an AR 15-style assault rifle --...

Read More........ → September 06, 2024

FCC fines major US operators for illegal data sharing

The fines were first proposed in February 2020This week, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has fined major US wireless carriers, including AT&T, Sprint (since acquired by T-Mobile), T-Mobile, and Verizon nearly $200 million for illegally sharing customer location information to third parties without their consent.According to the FCC, the carriers sold access to their customers’ location information to ‘aggregators’, who then resold the access to this information to third-party location-based service providers.This allowed “highly sensitive data to wind up in the hands of bail-bond companies, bounty hunters, and other shady actors,” said FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel in a statement.Under the Communications Act of 1934, carriers are required to take “reasonable measures” to protect certain customer information, which includes location information.“Our communications providers have access to some of the most sensitive information about us. These carriers failed to protect the information entrusted to them. Here, we are talking about some of the most sensitive data...

Read More........ → May 01, 2024

'Rust' armourer found guilty over deadly on-set shooting

NEW MEXICO - The armourer who loaded the gun that killed a cinematographer on the set of the Alec Baldwin movie "Rust" was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. A jury in New Mexico took just over two hours to find Hannah Gutierrez guilty for the death of Halyna Hutchins in October 2021 during filming of the budget Western. A 10-day trial heard how Gutierrez had been ultimately responsible for the use of live rounds on set -- a red line across the industry. The court had also heard how she had repeatedly failed to adhere to basic safety rules, leaving guns unattended, and allowing actors -- including Baldwin -- to wave weapons around. "This is not a case where Hannah Gutierrez made one mistake and that one mistake was accidentally putting a live round into that gun," prosecutor Kari Morrissey told the jury in her closing argument Wednesday. "This case is about constant, never-ending safety failures that resulted in the death of a human being and nearly killed another." Hutchins was hit by a live round fired from the Colt .45 that Baldwin was holding for a scene inside a wooden church...

Read More........ → March 07, 2024

Two Indian nationals charged in elder fraud gold bar courier scam

Cleveland – Anil Mangukia, 39, of Edison, New Jersey, and Yash Navadia, 25 of Secaucus, New Jersey, who were Indian Nationals, were both indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with money laundering conspiracy for their roles in an elder fraud gold bar courier scam (“Courier Scam”) targeting older Americans. They allegedly stole more than $127,000 and attempted to steal an additional $650,000 from a victim in Warrren, Ohio.According to court documents, coconspirators posed as a customer service employee at a company or bank. They contacted a victim—typically an elder person—and falsely claimed that the victim’s account was at risk or had been compromised by a hacking event or similar computer intrusion. The purported customer service employee then referred the victim to another perpetrator who posed as a government agent, claiming that the fake government agent would assist the victim in avoiding or mitigating the effects of the account compromise. The fake government agent would discuss the incident with the victim, validate the false story told by the purported customer service...

Read More........ → February 29, 2024

Manager admits to key role in Indian Call Center scam

A 28-year-old Indian citizen recently entered a guilty plea in a years-long international conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud between 2017 and 2020. Zaheen Malvi, who was living illegally in Heber Springs, Arkansas, assisted Indian call centers in a telemarketing scheme that extorted millions of dollars from hundreds of victims in the United States, announced U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Alamdar S. Hamdani, in a May 15, 2023, press release. U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen accepted the plea and set sentencing for Aug. 14. At that time, Malvi faces up to 20 years in prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine. He will remain in custody pending that hearing. As part of his plea agreement, Malvi will pay restitution to the scheme’s identified victims. Malvi first acted as a runner in the scheme, going to different Target stores in the Chicago area and depleting funds from gift cards that victims had transferred to the call centers. In later years, Malvi managed other runners as they traveled around the country, picking up packages filled with cash that call...

Read More........ → November 06, 2023

Convicted lab owner Minal Patel, ordered to forfeit over $187 million in health care fraud proceeds

Exhibit from court record. Provided by Justice Department. PHOTO Justice.govMIAMI – On Sept. 22, U.S. District Court Judge Rodolfo A. Ruiz, in Miami, ordered the defendant, Minal Patel, to forfeit over $187 million in health care fraud proceeds including over $30 million seized from personal and corporate bank accounts, a 2018 Red Ferrari Spider, a 2019 Land Rover Range Rover, and real property. Minal Patel, 44, of Atlanta, owned LabSolutions LLC (LabSolutions), a lab enrolled with Medicare that performed sophisticated genetic tests. Patel, who has already been convicted, is accused of having conspired with patient brokers, telemedicine companies, and call centers to target Medicare beneficiaries with telemarketing calls falsely stating that Medicare covered expensive cancer genetic tests, the Justice Department press release of October 3, 2023, said. After the Medicare beneficiaries agreed to take a test, Patel paid kickbacks and bribes to patient brokers to obtain signed doctors’ orders authorizing the tests from telemedicine companies. To conceal the kickbacks and bribes, Patel required...

Read More........ → October 05, 2023

Mexico`s ex-governor shot dead in restaurant’s toilet

Aristoteles Sandoval, the former governor of Mexico’s troubled western state of Jalisco was shot dead in a restaurant bathroom in the popular beach resort of Puerto Vallarta on Friday.State attorney general Gerardo Octavio Solis said that Sandoval was dining with four others when at around 1:40 am he got up from the table and went to the toilet, where the killer shot him in the back. Although only one gunman fired at Sandoval, he may have been accompanied by as many as nine accomplices who waited outside the restaurant, Solis said. Meanwhile, The Guardian reported that Sandoval did not die immediately, but when his bodyguards tried to evacuate him from the restaurant, their escape was blocked by more gunmen in the street outside, who opened fire, seriously injuring one of the bodyguards. The former governor died soon afterwards at a local hospital. According to officials, Sandoval had 15 police bodyguards assigned to him as well as bulletproof vehicles. Two of the bodyguards were present but were outside the restaurant when the attack took place. Solis said that...

Read More........ → December 20, 2020

Gunmen attack in Naigeria school, hundreds missing

Hundreds of students feared missing after unidentified gunmen attacked a secondary school in north-western Nigeria on Friday evening.No student was injured in the attack, said authority.Witnesses said that the attackers targeted the Government Science Secondary School - where more than 800 students are said to reside - in Katsina state on Friday evening.On Saturday, the military said it had located the gunmen's hideout in a forest and exchanged gunfire with them.The outcome was unclear but officials said there were no reports of students being injured. However, witnesses said they saw a number of students being taken away by the gunmen.In a statement on Saturday, police said that during an exchange of fire, some of the gunmen were forced to retreat. Students were able to scale the fence of the school and run to safety, they said.About 200 students who had fled - and were initially deemed missing - later returned. One police officer was taken to hospital after being shot and wounded, police said. Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.co...

Read More........ → December 15, 2020

Chatroom sex abuse ringleader jailed for 40yrs

A South Korean court has sentenced the mastermind of one of the country’s biggest online sex abuse rings to 40 years in jail. Cho Ju-bin was found guilty of running a group that blackmailed girls into sharing sexual videos that were then posted in pay-to-view chatrooms.Citing a district court in Seoul on Thursday, CNN reported that the accused had distributed a wide range of sexually explicit content. Cho Ju-bin created these offensive contents by tempting and blackmailing many victims.CNN also reported that people used to be members of the chatrooms of the Telegram app in exchange for money. At least 10,000 people used the chatrooms, with some paying up to $1,200 (Tk 101,390) for access. Some 74 people, including 16 underage girls, were exploited.Meanwhile, Cho violated the law to protect children from sexual abuse. He used to earn money by selling these exploiting videos.Online sexual harassment has caused quite a stir in South Korea. The name of the accused was not disclosed at the beginning. However, Cho’s name was revealed in the petition signed by 5 million people of the...

Read More........ → December 13, 2020

800-page report shows how Tarrant eluded detection

New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Tuesday submitted a comprehensive report into last year’s Christchurch mosque shootings in which 51 Muslim worshippers were killed.The nearly 800-page Royal Commission of Inquiry report shows that the attacker, Brenton Tarrant, kept a low profile and told nobody of his plans.It concludes that despite the shortcomings of various agencies, there were no clear signs the attack was imminent aside from the manifesto Tarrant sent out just eight minutes before he began shooting, which came too late for agencies to respond.But the report does detail failings in the police system for vetting gun licenses and says that New Zealand’s intelligence agencies were too alert on the threat posed by Islamic extremism at the expense of other threats.Among 44 recommendations, the report says the government should establish a new national intelligence agency.In 2019, 51 Muslims were killed in a terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch by a man named Brenton Tarrant.In August, the 30-year-old Tarrant was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole...

Read More........ → December 08, 2020

आदर्श क्रेडिट कोआपरेटिव की 1500 करोड़ की संपत्ति जब्त, जनता का पैसा रिश्तेदारों को डायवर्ट

आदर्श समूह मुकेश मोदी वीरेंद्र मोदी व उनके परिवार तथा महेंद्र टांक व सौरभ टांक के रिद्धि सिद्धी समूह व अन्य आरोपितों का है। नई दिल्ली, प्रेट्र। प्रवर्तन निदेशालय (ईडी) ने आदर्श क्रेडिट कोआपरेटिव सोसायटी लि. (Adarsh Credit Cooperative Society Limited) की 1489 करोड़ रुपये की संपत्ति सोमवार को जब्त कर ली। इसमें 1464.76 करोड़ की अचल संपत्तियां व बैंक में जमा 24.44 करोड़ रुपये शामिल हैं। जनता के जमा धन के गबन के आरोप में ईडी ने यह कदम उठाया है। मोदी व टांक का है ग्रुप आदर्श समूह मुकेश मोदी, वीरेंद्र मोदी व उनके परिवार तथा महेंद्र टांक व सौरभ टांक के रिद्धि सिद्धी समूह व अन्य आरोपितों का है। ईडी द्वारा जब्त की गई संपत्तियां राजस्थान, हरियाणा, नई दिल्ली, गुजरात, महाराष्ट्र व उप्र में हैं। मनी लांड्रिंग के अपराध से संबंधित होने के कारण मनी लांड्रिंग रोकथाम अधिनियम (पीएमएलए) 2002 के तहत इन्हें फिलहाल अस्थाई रूप से जब्त किया गया है। भारी मात्रा में फंड डायवर्ट किया गया निवेशकों का आरोप था कि आदर्श क्रेडिट कोऑपरेटिव सोसाइटी लिमिटेड में समय पूरा होने के बाद भी पैसे वापस नहीं लौटाया गया। ईडी की जांच में सामने आया कि मुकेश के परिवार और रिश्तेदारों की कंपनियों में वेतन, प्रोत्साहन और कमीशन के माध्यम...

Read More........ → December 08, 2020

‘Killing of Irani scientist is insane, provocative and illegal’

Top US senator Bernie Sanders has strongly condemned the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a prominent Iranian physicist, saying that the murder is illegal and “an attempt to thwart the possibility of Iran’s negotiation with the new US administration.”In a Twitter message on Saturday, Sanders said the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was insane, provocative and illegal. “A new US administration is set to take power, and the assassination makes it clear that it is a move to thwart a possible diplomatic process between Iran and the United States,” he said. However, we should not allow such incidents to happen at all. Not murder but the diplomatic way is the best way forward, Bernie Sanders added.Meanwhile, John Bolton, a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and national security adviser to US President Donald Trump, has backed the assassination of Iranian scientist Fakhrizadeh. He asserted that the killings are justified in order to thwart the possibility of Iran building an atomic bomb. Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.co...

Read More........ → December 01, 2020

Pakistan fails to nab 19 most wanted LeT terrorists even 12 years after 26/11 attack

NOV 26, 2020 LAHORE: Twelve years after the 26/11 attack, Pakistan has placed 19 members of the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) in a list of the "Most Wanted Terrorists" for their role in the heinous assault, but it has not initiated any serious efforts to nab them and also punish seven others who are facing trial here. The security agencies here are clueless about the whereabouts of these 19 most wanted terrorists. Some of them have been hiding in Pakistan and others are believed to have fled the country. These terrorists were either crew members of the boats used by the attackers or financiers of the 26/11 attack. The move to place 19 LeT terrorists in the list apparently came following the Paris-based global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog's recent decision to retain Pakistan on its grey list till February 2021. The Financial Action Task Force made the decision after Islamabad failed to fulfill its six key obligations, including failure to take action against two of India's most wanted terrorists - Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed and Jaish-e-Mohammed head Masood...

Read More........ → November 26, 2020

Trump’s campaign website defaced by hackers

The campaign website of United States President Donald Trump was hacked on Tuesday — just a week earlier before the upcoming US presidential election on November 3. However, the US officials said the hack was a very short period of time.A message has been posted after hacking the website called donaldjtrump.com. “This site has been seized,” said the message on the website. It was also written that President Donald Trump has spread a lot of fake news in the world.In a statement on Tuesday, Trump’s campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh told the media that President Trump’s campaign website had been hacked and distorted this evening. “The website was recovered very quickly. They could not get any important information from there ‍as no sensitive information has been stored on the site,” he said.“We’re working with people from law enforcement to find out who hacked the website,” he said, adding that they are looking into the matter.The DonaldJetramp.com website requests information and funding for Trump's election campaign.The website was “seized” in the style of the FBI, the US Department...

Read More........ → October 31, 2020

Maldives ex-vice president sentenced to 20 years for graft

Maldives former Vice President Ahmed AdeebMaldives former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption charges related to leasing tropical islands for hotel development. The Maldives Criminal Court also fined the 38-year-old, who pleaded guilty last month under a plea bargain, $129,892 on Monday. Adeeb was charged with embezzlement, money laundering and misuse of government authority among other offences, according to an order of Judge Hassan Saeed. According to an asset recovery commission, the islands in the popular holiday destination were sold below-market prices. As a result, the government lost nearly $259m. In his statement to the court, Adeeb said he was ready to cooperate to recover the missing money. Last year, Maldivian police arrested Adeeb after he fled the Indian Ocean archipelago and sought asylum in India.Adeeb, who became the Maldives’ youngest vice president in July 2015 at the age of 33, suffered a spectacular fall from grace just months later following a mysterious blast on then-President Abdulla Yameen’s...

Read More........ → October 06, 2020

Huge weapons recovered from Pakistani drone; claims India (video)

Security forces have recovered a large number of arms and ammunition dumped in Jammu and Kashmir by drone through the Pakistan border.The arms and ammunition were recovered from the Naiwala Khal area in the Akhnoor sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday; report PTI, India Today.Among the weapons recovered were two AK-47 rifles, three magazines, 90 rounds of ammunition, and a pistol. The Jammu and Kashmir administration claimed that the weapons were sent to the Indian border from Pakistan.According to intelligence sources, the operation was carried out in the border area and illegal weapons were recovered from within 12 km of the Pak-India border.The local police also claimed that heavy weapons were sent for the rebels in Jammu and Kashmir.Authorities say drone strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) have increased in Jammu and Kashmir. A senior official also claimed that the Pakistan-based terrorist group Jaish-e-Muhammad was behind it.Click here to watch the video  Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.co...

Read More........ → October 04, 2020

After Hathras, another woman raped, killed in Uttar Pradesh

Even as the embers of the Hathras incident continue to smoulder, yet another incident of a Dalit woman being gangraped and killed in Balrampur district has taken place. According to reports, a 22-year-old Dalit college student was raped and brutalized in the Gaisari village of Balrampur on Tuesday.Two persons have been arrested in connection with the crime.The woman, a second-year B. Com student, had gone to a college in a nearby town to pay her fees on Tuesday. According to the family, she also worked in a private firm.The girl did not return home till late in the evening and the family made several attempts to contact her on her phone.Later in the night, the woman reportedly came home in a rickshaw in a semi-conscious state. She had a cannula injected in her forehand which indicated that she had undergone treatment.Family members said that the woman looked dazed and in a serious condition. The family rushed her to a nearby hospital, but she died on the way.The family has also alleged that the woman was lethally injected before she was raped.Balrampur Superintendent of Police, Dev...

Read More........ → October 03, 2020

Twitter account of PM Modi's personal website hacked

Twitter said it has fixed the account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website that was briefly hacked in the wee hours and tweets asking people to donate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were posted on it. Twitter said it has secured the compromised account known as @narendramodi_in. The affected account is linked to PM Modi's personal website and has more than 2.5 million followers. "We are actively investigating the situation. At this time, we are not aware of additional accounts being impacted," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement. According to Twitter, this breach was not due to a compromise of its systems or service. "There is no indication or evidence of any correlation between this account compromise and the incident that took place in July," the company said in a statement shared with IANS. Twitter faced a mega crypto hack in July that spread a Bitcoin scam by hijacking accounts of high-profile celebrities, politicians and businesses as a result of a phone spear-phishing attack. "I appeal to you all to donate generously to PM National...

Read More........ → September 03, 2020

Interpol issues global arrest warrant against Nirav Modi's wife in PNB fraud case

AUG 25, 2020 NEW DELHI: An Interpol global arrest warrant has been issued against Ami Modi, wife of prime accused in the over USD 2 billion PNB bank fraud case Nirav Modi, on charges of money laundering, officials said on Tuesday. They said the ''red notice'' has been issued by the global police body on the request of the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Once such a notice issued against a fugitive, the Interpol asks its 192-member countries to arrest or detain the person if spotted in their countries after which extradition or deportation proceedings can begin. Ami Modi is stated to have left country soon after the alleged bank fraud case came into light in 2018. The ED has charged Ami Modi for conspiring and money laundering with her husband and jeweller Nirav Modi apart from his uncle Mehul Choksi and others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Nirav Modi (49), is currently lodged in a UK jail after being arrested in London in March, 2019 and is currently fighting extradition to India. He has been declared a fugitive economic offender by a Mumbai court early this...

Read More........ → August 25, 2020

Pakistan confirms putting Dawood Ibrahim's name in new terror sanctions list

AUG 23, 2020 ISLAMABAD: Days after including India's most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim on its new sanctions list, Pakistan on Sunday tried to wriggle out of its admission on his presence in the country by claiming that its notifications about the 88 banned terror groups and their leaders were based on the details provided by the UN. Seeking to escape from getting blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, Pakistan on Friday imposed tough financial sanctions on 88 banned terror groups and their leaders, including Ibrahim, 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar. The Pakistan government ordered the seizure of all movable and immovable properties of these outfits and individuals, and freezing of their bank accounts. Underworld don Ibrahim, who heads a vast and multifaceted illegal business, has emerged as India''s most wanted terrorist after the 1993 Mumbai bombings. In 2003, the US declared Ibrahim as a Specially Designated Global...

Read More........ → August 21, 2020