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• Feds: Bath salt shipping hub operated from Nyack hotel; Strak Babikyan, Haider Rabeh Al-Khafaji arrested

  a Nyack hotel room as a shipping hub to forward so-called "bath salts" from senders in China to addresses in California, federal authorities said in a criminal complaint.Police and the FBI got wind of the operation after a U.S. Postal Service employee reported   Read more »

• Ramapo corruption investigation: FBI questioned Boulders' ballpark developer

  and computer hard drives that FBI agents hauled out of Town Hall during their seven-hour raid Wednesday."This is a federal investigation. This did not emanate out of the Rockland DA's office, no," Zugibe said. "This is something they developed on their own.   Read more »

• NY corruption: A day after FBI raid, business as usual in Ramapo

  raid has not been released."One law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation said some of the records sought by federal agents include documents related to Provident Bank Park and the local development corporation that runs the controversial,   Read more »

• Isaac Jara, of Ossining, faces 20 years if convicted in kid porn case

  analysis of his computer equipment, according to the complaint.Still, Jara continued to trade child pornography while the federal investigation was ongoing, officials said.In December 2012, Jara made two child pornography files available to an undercover New   Read more »

• Banks in Oak Rock case agree to new director

  Monday to allow the current company manager to run operations -- but report to a new independent director -- as a criminal investigation by the FBI and Eastern District federal prosecutors continues.Originally, the consortium of five banks that loaned the   Read more »

• For some, NY corruption cases no stunner

  Preet Bharara and others are commanding attention somewhat like the high-profile affairs of the 1980s for which New York federal prosecutors Edward McDonald and Rudy Giuliani became known.Some seasoned operatives play it as less than stunning, that the feds   Read more »

• NY corruption case: Feds cast a wide net

  FBI agent posing as a real estate developer, according to court documents and sources with direct knowledge of the case.Federal records, however, reveal that the investigation had a broader base.FBI agents tapped at least six phones for a combined 720 days   Read more »

• Ariel Castro DNA shows he fathered Amanda Berry's daughter

  Castro is the father of a 6-year-old girl who escaped from the house along with the women, a prosecutor said Friday.As the investigation into the women's ordeal continued, the FBI also said no human remains were among more than 200 pieces of evidence collected   Read more »

• Shirley Huntley sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison

  was supposed to help families navigate the New York City public school system.She faced a maximum of 20 years in prison. Federal sentencing guidelines called for 18 to 24 months.The sentence came just days after federal prosecutors revealed she has been helping   Read more »

• Memo shows Shirley Huntley taped six fellow state senators

  attorneys and FBI agents to invite certain individuals into her home and record conversations on behest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ." Huntley pleaded guilty to embezzling money from a non-profit in January, after her cooperation. She will be sentenced   Read more »

• Three cold-case rookies, and a dead victim's words, solve a trio of murders

  2001, Schelhorn, who had worked on Russian spy cases in New York City, had been newly assigned to criminal investigation in the bureau's Long Island office.Zacarese was a seasoned detective but new to the county homicide squad. Miskiewicz hadn't touched a   Read more »

• Feds: At least 6 elected officials recorded by Shirley Huntley under investigation

  prosecutors in Brooklyn said Tuesday that eight individuals secretly tape-recorded by former state Sen. Shirley Huntley , including at least six elected officials, are the subjects of ongoing law enforcement investigations.The disclosure came as U.S. District   Read more »

• Judge denies bid to appoint trustee to head Oak Rock

  the United States attorney's office." But Scaring declined to comment further on the case.The FBI and Eastern District federal prosecutors are investigating whether crimes occurred at Oak Rock, according to sources. Monday, the FBI was at the Oak Rock offices   Read more »

• FBI: Raid of Minn. home disrupted 'terror attack'

  doesn't offer further details about the extent or manner of the alleged plot."Cooperation between the FBI and its federal, state, and local partners enabled law enforcement to prevent a potential tragedy in Montevideo," Christopher Warrener, the special agent   Read more »

• Sources: Feds probe possible $90 million fraud tied to Bohemia firm

  law enforcement officials are investigating whether nearly $90 million in bank loans to a Bohemia finance company were the object of a "massive fraud," according to court records and sources familiar with the case.The investigation involves Oak Rock Financial   Read more »

• In Menendez's troubles, echoes of past scandals

  Washington dance.From the "Keating Five" scandal, one of the more celebrated congressional ethics cases, to more recent investigations, members of Congress have regularly run into trouble over the question of when helping a supporter crosses a line into impropriety."Most   Read more »

• Schumer: Move FBI office to Newburgh

  the transfer.A message was left Friday evening with Schumer's office.In 2010, when FBI brass were considering relocating the bureau's regional office from Goshen to Newburgh, Schumer latched on to the idea, sending a letter to then-FBI Director Robert S. Muller."Newburgh   Read more »

• Defense: Aides to John Liu innocent victims of prosecutors

  the lawyer for Jia "Jenny" Hou, said his client was an inexperienced young aide caught in the crosshairs of a 2-year-old investigation of Liu when she returned from a trip to China in 2011 and began working for his campaign. "This investigation starts in 2008,"   Read more »

• Official: Arrested student entered US without visa

  to obstruct justice. Robel Phillipos, 19, was also arrested and charged with willfully making materially false statements to federal law enforcement officials during a terrorism investigation.Questions about Tazhayakov's immigration status came up Wednesday   Read more »

• Lawmaker: FBI probing if suspects had training

  is no evidence of a wider plot, including training, direction or funding for the attacks.A criminal complaint outlining federal charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev described him as holding a cellphone in his hand minutes before the first explosion.The brothers   Read more »

• Rusia grabo llamada telefonica de sospechoso

  (AP) -- Las autoridades rusas grabaron en secreto una conversacion telefonica del 2011 en la cual el principal sospechoso de las explosiones de Boston hablaba vagamente sobre la yihad con su madre Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, revelaron el sabado las autoridades, di   Read more »

• Investigators push ahead in Boston bombing probe

  investigators were looking for or whether they recovered anything from the landfill before the search ended Friday.A federal law enforcement official not authorized to speak on the record about the investigation told The Associated Press on the condition of   Read more »

• Editorial: Can Albany ever stop the corruption?

  to run what was a clearly losing campaign for mayor was likely easy access to all those matching dollars. Meanwhile, the federal criminal trial of the campaign treasurer for city Comptroller John Liu brings new allegations daily of how illegal payments were   Read more »

• Ray Kelly: Concerned about 'significant' lag in information from FBI on Tsarnaevs

  Square to detonate more explosives.Kelly answered with a terse "yes" when asked if he had voiced his concern to the federal law enforcement agency. He told reporters there was a lag of at least 48 hours between the time the FBI interrogators learned from bombing   Read more »

• Gomez: The FBI did not bungle the Tsarnaev case

  a federal crime had been committed or that a national security threat existed.These guidelines worked fairly well until the investigation into Zacarias Moussaoui , believed to have been the 9/11 plot's 20th hijacker. Initially arrested for immigration violations   Read more »