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UK Auditor Agrees Fine And Ban In New York
A division of one of the UK's biggest auditors, Deloitte, has been fined $10m (6.4m) by New York state for its actions in advising Standard Chartered Bank over money laundering. In addition to the fine, Deloitte's Financial Advisory Services arm was also banned for one year from taking new work in the state after officials ruled it did not carry out its duties independently. The ...
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Most of NY canal system reopening as water levels ease
Provided photo. ALBANY, N.Y. -- Most of New York state's canal system shut down by high water from recent heavy rains will soon be open. The state Canal Corp. says all of the Erie Canal will be open as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, except for the stretch from Lock E-8 in Scotia to Lock E-15 in Fort Plain. Parts of the Oswego and Cayuga-Seneca canals that remained closed Tuesday will reopen around ...
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Brazil braces for more anti-government protests
Brazil braced for a new round of anti-government protests Wednesday after a violent night of looting and vandalism in Sao Paulo that led to at least 30 arrests. An estimated 50,000 people flooded the city's central Cathedral Square for the second night running, marching through streets and waving banners carrying slogans such as, "The people have awakened." One group tried to ...
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Arrest in cab umbrella slay
The man who police say fatally stabbed a livery cab driver in the eye with an umbrella was busted in Brooklyn yesterday.Shamel Allen, 28, was nabbed at 11:30 a.m. and charged with manslaughter in last Thursday’s slaying, police said.Orji-Ama Uro was driving Allen in the vicinity of Lott Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street in Brownsville when Allen plunged the tip of the umbrella into ...
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Feds Surveillance foiled NYSE attack
Secret US surveillance foiled an al Qaeda plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange, the FBI revealed to Congress yesterday.A Brooklyn accountant "cased" the stock exchange in 2008 under orders from a mysterious al Qaeda leader in Yemen known as "the Doctor," according to federal authorities.But the accountant and two other suspected terrorists were arrested before the plot ...
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Condo couple $5M hit
"If they can’t pay back the money, they could get from one to four years in prison."From 2008 to 2012, the couple raked in millions marketing and selling units to more than 27 buyers at the Broadway Towers Condominiums in Elmhurst, according to a felony complaint. The units started at about $300,000 and one sold for $938,000 in 2012, property records show.Tommy, 59, and Alice, ...
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Bust in Marine slaying
Cops arrested the man who fatally stabbed an aspiring Marine just hours before his 20th birthday, police said.Wilson Rivera, 19, stabbed D’Anthony McDonald in the chest at about 9 p.m. on June 14 in South Ozone Park, cops said.Rivera was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.It’s unclear what sparked the violence between the two young men, who lived just ...
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Weiner’s meager sext therapy
Anthony Weiner yesterday admitted that he’s still in therapy for his crotch-tweeting compulsion - but sex-addiction experts say he needs more than just a shrink.Asked if he’s going to counseling, the married former US congressman told The Post, "I am, yes" - then declined to comment further.But psychologists say deeply rooted problems such as the mayoral candidate’s ...
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Mystery death in W’burg luxe loft
An accountant was found dead under mysterious circumstances in his luxury Williamsburg loft yesterday morning, authorities said.The body of Mark Garza, 46, was found on his bed in his pad at 184 Kent Ave. in at 8:40 a.m., sources said. His body was found by his brother, who hadn’t heard from him in a few days, law-enforcement sources said.There were no signs of forced entry, and the ...
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Chris-Drake brawl club’s booze ban KO’d
Drink up, A-listers!An appeals court yesterday overturned a Manhattan judge’s decision to revoke the liquor license at the Soho club that played host to the infamous brawl between Chris Brown and Drake over Rihanna last summer. The Appellate Division found that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Wright’s termination of a booze permit for W.i.P. in November 2012 because of ...
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Gov Senate in abortion-bill deal
ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo and state Senate leadership reached a late-night agreement yesterday to introduce a controversial pro-abortion bill, a senior administration official told The Post. But it’s still unclear if the measure - which Cuomo has pushed - will actually be put to a vote on the Senate floor, sources said. The deal breaks Cuomo’s Women’s Equality Act into 10 separate ...
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New York City aims to require apartment dwellers to compost food scraps
NEW YORK -- Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked -- and may eventually be forced -- to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest bid to make the city ...
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Youll never guess whos buying Congressman Dan Maffeis house
Onondaga County Republican Committee Chair Tom Dadey, accompanied by a person in a chicken suit at Onondaga GOP headquarters, called 24th Congressional candidate Dan Maffei a chicken for skipping a YNN debate in this 2011 file ...
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Cool in Syracuse today a lot of change for the end of the week
Cool air is overtaking the northeastern United States but not for long. By mid week, as Central New York is warming through the 70s, to our west, 80 and 90 degree weather will be spreading east out of the Plains through the Mississippi Valley. The heat won't be far from us by Saturday morning when our winds turn into the south. There still seems to be some question as to how much we will ...
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Family friends and community members will gather tonight to honor Lori Bresnahan
Liverpool, NY -- A public candlelight vigil will be held tonight at the Griffin Visitor Center at Onondaga Lake Park for Lori Bresnahan. Police said Bresnahan, 47, was leaving a gymnastics class at Great Northern Mall in Clay on March 14, when David J. Renz, 29, of Cicero, attacked her in the parking lot. Renz drove her to nearby Verplank Road where she was fatally ...
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Obama to call for U.S.-Russia nuclear arms cuts
Barack Obama 's foreign-policy speech in Berlin Wednesday will call for additional U.S.-Russia nuclear-arms cuts, administration officials said. He is expected to say Washington and Moscow can shrink their nuclear arsenals by up to one-third beyond cuts mandated under the 2010 New Start, or Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, without hurting deterrence or capabilities, the officials told The ...
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Syria peace talks delayed after Putin unyielding
Syrian peace talks will be delayed after Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to boycott talks that assume President Bashar Assad will resign, officials said. The international peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland, proposed by Washington and Moscow six weeks ago to be held as soon as May is now likely to be delayed until September, a Western official told several news organizations after ...
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Suit over Soho Citi Bike site
Opponents of a Citi Bike station that was dumped in a popular Soho park will file a lawsuit today asking a judge to remove it."Why did it have to come to this?" asked Sean Sweeney, of the Soho Alliance. "It’s the intransigence of an arrogant DOT commissioner who has put her and Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy over the interests of parks and art and the common good." ...
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Brawl-bar booze ban reversed
Drink up, A-listers!An appeals court yesterday overturned a Manhattan judge’s decision to revoke the liquor license at the Soho club that played host to the infamous brawl between Chris Brown and Drake over Rihanna last summer. The Appellate Division found that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Wright’s termination of a booze permit for W.i.P. in November 2012 because of ...
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I killed for love of the family
BOSTON - A former cohort of James "Whitey" Bulger who admitted killing 20 people is insisting he’s not a hit man or a serial killer.John Martorano says he is a "nice guy" who was only trying to help his family and friends when he pumped bullets into victims while working with Bulger and his gang.Martorano made the statements yesterday while being cross-examined by one ...
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NFL’er quizzed in death
Authorities searched the $1.3 million home of Hernandez, who was initially uncooperative, ABC said. The body was found at 5:30 p.m. Monday in an industrial park. It could have been there as long as a day, according to the Sun Chronicle of Attleboro.Authorities focused on Hernandez when they found a rented Chevrolet Suburban with Rhode Island plates - and which was tied to his name - near the ...
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Lohan accuser pill bust
Physician, heal thyself! A Gramercy Park psychiatrist who went on TV and accused Lindsay Lohan’s doctor of turning her into a pill-popping drug addict was busted yesterday for allegedly selling oxycodone prescriptions for cash. William Belfar, who was nabbed in an undercover FBI sting, discussed the perils of overusing prescription drugs while appearing as a talking head in a May segment ...
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Slay thug targeted gay cops
An accused killer told cops he shot a man dead in the West Village because the victim was gay, authorities said yesterday. "Guy thought he was tough in front of his bitch so I shot him. Diagnosis is dead, doctor," Elliot Morales heartlessly told cops after the May 18 shooting of Mark Carson, 32, according to court papers released at the accused killer’s arraignment yesterday. ...
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Jailbound Pedro kid blames pop
He says his daddy made him do it. The son of disgraced ex-state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. blamed his father for pressuring him into participating in the looting of their Soundview Healthcare nonprofit as a judge yesterday sentenced him to prison time."Over the past year, we have been at odds, as he wanted to fight this," Pedro Gautier Espada, 39, whined as he was ...
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Thompson fits Bill for teachers union
Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson is about to get the biggest boost of his campaign - he’ll be endorsed by the teachers union today.The Untied Federation of Teachers, one of the city’s largest and most politically powerful labor organizations, will hold its endorsement meeting this afternoon.Most insiders expect the union to endorse Thompson, particularly since its former president, ...
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Buffalo Zoo goes ape for the gorillas
The Buffalo Zoo is a historic landmark in Buffalo city. It is the third oldest zoo in the United States and has an amazing array of over 1000 species of animal. The zoo is also a tourist attraction, bringing in 400 000 visitors each year.
Zoos are an important educational facility for children, a means by which younger generations can see wild and endangered animals in real life, in an environment as close as is reasonably possible to what their natural surroundings would be, and by seeing a real-life image, rather than a picture in a text book, children develop a more intimate understanding of the challenges facing these rare and beautiful creatures. Read more
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