Bob Menendez Faces New Charges Over Alleged Backroom Qatar Deal
Prosecutors allege the New Jersey senator was asked to pick out watches that cost as much as $24,000 in exchange for positive comments about Qatar.
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Prosecutors allege the New Jersey senator was asked to pick out watches that cost as much as $24,000 in exchange for positive comments about Qatar.
Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Steven Whittick, the former treasurer of the Law Enforcement Employees Benevolent Association ("LEEBA") and an officer with the New York City (the "City") Department of Environmental Protection ("DEP"), pled guilty today before United States District Judge P. Kevin Castel, to charges of conspiring to evade more than $250,000 in federal taxes, including payroll taxes owed by LEEBA and its employees, and his own personal income taxes. Whittick also pled guilty to lying to federal officers during the cou...
Audrey Strauss, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jonathan D. Larsen, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation ("IRS-CI"), and Margaret Garnett, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation ("DOI"), announced that Chaim Deutsch, a New York City council member, was charged and pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to filing a false tax return in connection with outside income he received from his real estate management corporation. Deutsch pled guilty before United States...