WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP) – Two Connecticut men have pleaded guilty in White Plains federal court to bribery and fraud charges in a case in which a former FBI agent is also charged. Johannes Thaler and Rizve Ahmed, originally from Bangladesh, entered pleas Friday. They were charged in the bribery plot along with Robert Lustyik, a former FBI agent in White Plains. He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he and Thaler solicited bribes in 2011 and 2012 from Ahmed for Lustyik to provide confidential documents. A November trial is scheduled. The 51-year-old Thaler lives in New Fairfield, Connecticut, while the 35-year-old Ahmed lives in Danbury, Connecticut. Both pleaded guilty to bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services and wire fraud. They each face up to 35 years in prison at Jan. 23 sentencing. You Might Also Be Interested In: Catholic Bishops Scrap Welcome To Gays In Sign Of
The best part of the best quarterbacks is on display when the cast around them is depleted. That’s when they find a way to move their offense anyway.
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Vacchiano: Hold that line! Giving Eli Manning more time is Giants priority
KINGSTON, Jamaica—A farmer is to be tried in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court on November 4 on a charge of praedial larceny.
MONTGOMERY, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – It was quite an emotional night Friday at a high school football game in Orange County. A player for Valley Central who has down syndrome got to do something he always dreamed of. Tyler Muise, who had never played a down before, ran 15 yards for the TD before the actual game began. Muise, in his No. 43 jersey, has been a fixture on Valley Central’s sidelines since 2012. When the coach recruited him after his mom died of cancer. The team instantly embraced Muise and Friday night he was carried off the field after his touchdown. You Might Also Be Interested In: Search Is On For Man Who Tried To Rape Woman In Stuyvesant Town
Nina Pham arrived at National Institutes of Health Clinical Center near Washington just before midnight
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NIH: Nurse with Ebola "very fatigued" but "in good spirits"
LONDON, England (CMC) — Conservative backbenchers in the British Parliament have called for cash to be allocated to build prisons in developing countries, including Jamaica, to enable to deportation of “foreign criminals”.
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Arthur Embiid, the younger brother of Philadelphia 76ers rookie center Joel Embiid, died Thursday in Africa.
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76ers rookie Embiid’s younger brother dies
Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell, who appeared in court on Wednesday morning stemming from an August arrest for marijuana possession and driving under the influence, vowed to stay out of trouble moving forward.
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“All the families are pissed,” John Zimmerlee, executive director of the Korean War POW/MIA Network, told CBS News
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Changes to POW/MIA system leave families frustrated
The judge in the Adrian Peterson felony child abuse case on Monday rejected prosecutors’ request to step aside because of what they termed bias and various recent legal disagreements.
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Peterson judge declines to recuse himself
R&B singer Chris Brown has been ridiculed for a bizarre outburst on Twitter in which he claimed the killer Ebola virus is a 'form of population control'.
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Chris Brown ridiculed for suggesting Ebola is population control
R&B singer Chris Brown has been ridiculed for a bizarre outburst on Twitter in which he claimed the killer Ebola virus is a 'form of population control'.
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Chris Brown ridiculed for suggesting Ebola is population control
AS the month-end deadline approaches for occupants of the informal Forum Fishing Village to relocate, many are still in a quandary as they have since used up the $45,000 relocation grant, which they claim was never enough to begin with.
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Relocation from Forum beach by month-end
ROSE HALL, St James- Seasoned American artiste Johnny Gill delivered an energetic performance on Night One of the inaugural staging of Soul in the Sun early this morning here at the Aqueduct, Rose Hall, St James.
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SOUL IN THE SUN – Johnny Gill energies audience
APPROXIMATELY two hundred pensioners from Washington Gardens and adjoining communities, along with the staff of the Western District Post Office on Molynes Road in Kingston 20 were feted during a pensioners’ health fair on Thursday, World Postal Day.
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World Postal Day Treat for pensioners, post office staff
