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Mount Pleasant, NY
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New Court-Ordered Inquiry Into Hillary Clinton Email Setup Halted By Federal Shutdown
The longest-on-record government shutdown may have had some unexpected consequences, as investigators were forced to delay the inquiry into whether Westchester resident Hillary Clinton attempted to evade public record laws with her use of a private email account. Earlier this month, a District Court judge agreed to Judicial Watch’s request to depose several individuals regarding the State Department’s response to the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya. The watchdog group is attempting to determine whether the former Secretary of State sought to evade the Freedom of Information Act by util…
Teaneck, NJ
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Teaneck Immigrant Admits Bribing Federal Employee For Special Visa
A Teaneck man admitted Friday that he tried bribing a State Department to take care of a non-immigrant visa that allows Dominican nationals to enter the U.S. Luis Santos, 27, told a federal judge in Trenton that he paid the U.S. consular adjudicator $2,381 for a favorable outcome. A nonimmigrant visa (NIV) is issued to a person with permanent residence outside the U.S. who seeks admission here temporarily for tourism, medical treatment, business or temporary work or study. U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito credited special agents of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service with inves…
Fairfield, CT
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Stew Leonard's Wants To Send Thousands Of Burgers To North Korea Summit
When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made a comment about opening a hamburger joint in Pyongyang, and with President Donald Trump headed that way, Stew Leonard's came up with just the right idea -- a burger summit. To help it happen, Stew Leonard, Jr., the CEO of Stew Leonard’s farm fresh food stores, came up with what he hopes is a way to make peace a little closer by offering to donate 10,000 burgers to the Trump-Kim peace summit. Stew Leonard’s, which sells over 30 million pounds of beef a year throughout the tri-State area, has offered to donate burgers with “USA” stamped in the middle …
Teaneck, NJ
Breaking News
Feds: Teaneck Man Tried Bribing Employee For Special Visa
TEANECK, N.J. -- A Teaneck man was arrested Wednesday after he tried bribing a federal employee to take care of a non-immigrant visa that allows Dominican nationals to enter the U.S., authorities said. Luis Santos, 27, offered the State Department employee -- a U.S. consular adjudicator -- $2,500 for a favorable outcome, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito, announced. A nonimmigrant visa (NIV) is issued to a person with permanent residence outside the U.S. who seeks admission here temporarily for tourism, medical treatment, business or temporary work or study. Santos was scheduled for a Wednesda…
Scarsdale, NY
Obituaries
Community Mourns Loss Of Prominent Scarsdale Family In Costa Rica Crash
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - The Scarsdale community is mourning the loss of the Steinberg family, who were among a dozen Americans killed in a New Year’s Eve plane crash in Costa Rica. A single-engine Cessna plane crashed into a mountain in the province of Guanacaste while en route to Punita Islita, a beach resort on the Pacific coast, claiming the lives of the 10 passengers and two pilots, according to officials. Among those passengers were 50-year-old Bruce Steinberg, 51-year-old Irene Steinberg and their teenage sons, Matthew, William and Zachary of Scarsdale. Bruce Steinberg and his wife…
Armonk, NY
Breaking News
Second US Family ID'd In Crash That Killed Five From Westchester
Click here for an updated story: 10th US Victim ID'd In Crash That Killed Five Members Of Westchester Family A second United States family has been identified as victims of a charter plane crash that claimed the lives of 12, including all five members of a Westchester family, on Sunday afternoon in northwestern Costa Rica. The five victims from the Scarsdale family were 50-year-old Bruce Steinberg, 51-year-old Irene Steinberg and their sons: Matthew, 13, William, 18, and Zachary, 19. William was a student at the University of Pennsylvania and Zachary was a student at Johns Hopkins Universit…
Armonk, NY
Breaking News
New Info, ID Of Pilot Released After Crash That Killed Westchester Family
Click here for an updated story: Second US Family ID'd In Crash That Killed Five From Westchester New information, including the identity of the pilot, has emerged after a charter plane crash that claimed the lives of 12, including all five members of a Westchester family, on Sunday afternoon in northwestern Costa Rica. The five victims from the Scarsdale family were 50-year-old Bruce Steinberg, 51-year-old Irene Steinberg and their teenage sons, Matthew, William and Zachary. The five other passengers killed were also American citizens. Their names have not yet been released by the State…
