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NYC Businessman Indicted For Evading Taxes From $4.1M NJ Company Buyout
A shareholder with a New Jersey-based home warranty company ducked more than $250,000 in taxes from the sale of his stock, federal authorities charged.
In exchange for his shares, the Edison company agreed to pay David Seruya, 42, of Brooklyn more than $4.1 million, the Justice Department said.
The deal included a lump sum payment and installment payments spread out over 24 months, federal authorities said.
On three straight tax returns, from 2014 through 2016, Seruya gave his return preparer “false and incomplete income information,” underreporting the income he received from the sale, a…
FBI: Tipster Dimes Out Tambourine-Shaking Former Nypd Spokeswoman In Capitol Riot
A tambourine-shaking, arms-raising, former NYPD spokeswoman became the latest person charged criminally in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, thanks to yet another anonymous tipster, according to the FBI.
Sara Carpenter, 51, who left the force in 2004, surrendered to the FBI in Queens early Tuesday, federal authorities said.
“Any involvement in the Jan. 6 [riot] is serious conduct,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Hafetz told a judge in Brooklyn during a video-conferenced detention hearing that afternoon.
According to an anonymous tipster, Carpenter told a relative that she’d been tear-gass…
Times Square Bombing Plot: Suspect Seized By Joint Terrorism Task Force
A joint terrorism task force seized a Queens man whom they accused of planning to bomb Times Square.
Investigators arranged a sting after discovering that Ashiqul Alam, 22, was looking to buy guns, grenades and ammo to kill police and civilians, authorities said.
Alam, who lives with his parents in Jackson Heights, apparently was acting alone, they said.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes federal agents and members of the NYPD, among others, took Alam him into custody after he arranged to buy weapons, authorities said Friday.
They said they currently had no evidence to support…
