Santul Nerkar

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar

Prosecutors say OneTaste extracted labor from its members. Former employees testified that they worked for the company because they feared spiritual harm. The women arrived with dreams of rebirth, community and climax.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar |Jonah Bromwich

Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia graduate, was targeted for deportation because the Trump administration said he impeded its foreign policy. He will still be held in Louisiana. Two weeks after Mahmoud Khalil, a legal permanent resident and pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia University, was detained and set for deportation, the government quietly added new allegations to its case.

2 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Santul Nerkar

A Georgian man known as “Commander Butcher” helped lead the Maniac Murder Cult, a neo-Nazi group that has inspired killings around the world, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, where he appeared in court on May 23 after his extradition. Among the crimes that the man, Michail Chkhikvishvili, inspired were a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, a mass stabbing outside a mosque in Turkey and the brutal murder of an older woman in Romania, prosecutors say.

2 weeks ago | sun-sentinel.com | Santul Nerkar

An American citizen was charged with trying to firebomb a U.S. Embassy office in Tel Aviv, Israel, after he approached the building with Molotov cocktails and had threatened to kill President Donald Trump in a series of social media posts, federal prosecutors said Sunday. The man, Joseph Neumeyer, 28, of Colorado, was deported to the United States on Saturday and appeared Sunday in U.S. District Court in New York City’s Brooklyn borough before Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Santul Nerkar

Joseph Neumeyer, 28, is also accused of threatening President Trump. He appeared in federal court in Brooklyn on Sunday. An American citizen was charged with trying to firebomb a U.S. Embassy office in Tel Aviv, after he approached the building with Molotov cocktails and had threatened to kill President Trump in a series of social media posts, federal prosecutors said on Sunday.