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A Lebanese and Belgian citizen considered a key financier of the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah was arrested Friday in Bucharest, Romania’s capital, federal authorities said. Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi, 58, who was labeled a “global terrorist” by the United States in 2018 when $10 million was offered for information about his whereabouts,…

Genaro García Luna goes on trial on charges of helping the Sinaloa Cartel traffic drugs and protect them from capture while he was serving as Mexico’s top security official

Genaro García Luna, accused of accepting millions in bribes from cartels, in trial that could implicate officials on both sides of border

NEW YORK — A group of gun traffickers sold more than 50 firearms to an undercover cop in Brooklyn, making the sales in a crowded waterfront park and on a playground, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

U.S. authorities say they have charged more than 100 people with federal gun and drug crimes in separate blitzes in three states

U.S. prosecutors charged a French national with defrauding buyers of his “Mutant Ape Planet” non-fungible tokens, alleging he duped investors out of more than $2.9 million in cryptocurrency before his arrest Wednesday at a New York airport.

A major international cement company will has pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to giving financial support to ISIS, will forfeit $687 million and pay the U.S. government nearly $91 million in fines, prosecutors said.

NEW YORK — Queens drug kingpin Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols’ bid for early release from prison due to stress headaches was blasted Friday by federal prosecutors, who said the convict’s migraine problem “is not an extraordinary and compelling reason” to be given a get-out-of-jail-free card.

A week ago Donnell Russell was convicted of making a phone threat that gunfire was about to occur in a Manhattan theater ahead of a showing of a documentary on Kelly.

A self-described manager and adviser to singer R. Kelly has pleaded guilty to an interstate stalking charge

Colombia has extradited a former commander of the leftist FARC paramilitary group to the United States to face drug trafficking charges, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said on Friday.