New York

• New Scotland Yard and the Greater Manchester Police Department Visit FBI New York Office
  FBI Special Agents have welcomed their counterparts from Manchester, England and New Scotland Yard in London to New York for briefings and discussions concerning counter-terrorism activity. Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Gregory Fowler of New York’s Counterterrorism Division, Acting Special Agent in Charge (A/SAC) Lauren Anderson, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) Bill Priestap, Supervisory Intelligence [...]
• Online detectives send out clear message to pedophiles
  Posing as a fifteen year old girl, undercover detectives for Westchester County PD trapped a predatory pedophile using AOL’s messenger service to entice young girls into participating in sexual activity with him. In early January 2009, Luis Antonio Rebutti, using instant messaging, contacted an America Online profile maintained by an undercover detective with the Westchester County Police Department. In the [...]
• Former State majority leader Joseph Bruno convicted of mail fraud
  Joseph L. Bruno, the Former Majority Leader of the New York State Senate was charged with carrying out a scheme to defraud the State of New York and its citizens of the right to his honest services by soliciting private business from, and entering into direct and indirect financial relationships with, persons or entities who [...]
• New York FBI Hosts Art Crime Team Training Conference
  The New York Office hosted the annual training conference for the FBI’s Art Crime Team. Established in 2004, the team is composed of 13 special agents, each responsible for addressing art and cultural property crime cases in an assigned geographic region. The Art Crime Team is coordinated through the FBI’s Art Theft Program in the [...]
• Former Art Collector?s Employee ?Tried To Sell? Stolen Warhol Artwork
  The former employee of a art collector has surrendered and been charged with mail and wire fraud in Manhattan federal court, in connection with a joint investigation conducted by the FBI and the Westchester County Police Department into James Biear’s possession of numerous pieces of notable artwork believed to have been stolen from his former [...]
• FBI arrest 37 in Westchester County cocaine ring raids
  After a coordinated strike beginning last night involving more than 200 federal and local law enforcement officers, 37 defendants are in custody. Six defendants are still being sought. The defendants taken into custody today are expected to be presented in White Plains federal court later this afternoon. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern [...]
• FBI seek help from public to solve Cold Cases
  After two-and-a-half years of exhaustive investigation into more than 100 civil rights-era cold cases, the FBI has announced the next phase of their Cold Case Initiative: looking for the next-of-kin in 33 cases to let families know what happened to their loved ones and to possibly obtain additional investigative information. If you’re a family member of [...]
• Madoff Computer Programmers charged with fraud
  A pair of computer experts helped conceal Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion ripoff – and took the Ponzi schemer for hush money two years before his arrest, court records revealed Friday. PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office [...]
• Gillibrand introduces legislation to improve nutrition for children
  U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has introduced new legislation that would improve nutrition for more than 3 million young children nationwide. Good nutrition is vital for all children, particularly infants and young children at a critical point in their development: Gillibrand The Access To Nutritious Meals For Young Children Act would improve the quality of federally funded meals [...]
• Senator Gillibrand fights for veterans jobs
  With unemployment among young veterans in New York topping 14.6 percent, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is making a personal pitch to New York business to hire veterans and receive a tax break from the federal government in return. The Work Opportunity Tax Credit, which was expanded earlier this as part of the Economy Recovery Plan, can [...]

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