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A former “Jersey Shore” star and his brother are facing new charges in a federal tax evasion case.

A rabbi and associate principal at a prominent New York City private school faces child pornography charges for allegedly tricking a teen boy into sending him nude photos, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

A rabbi and associate principal at a prominent New York City private school allegedly tricked a teen boy into sending him nude photos, and told the FBI he had sought nudes from dozens of other minors, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Erica Byfield reports.

Probation officials said there was “no victim” or any “actual or intended loss” in Felicity Huffman’s role in the college admissions scandal, court documents revealed Wednesday. While the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services System’s report does not explicitly recommend a sentence for Huffman, the report clearly came down on the side of the Oscar-nominated actress and her bid to avoid...

Sealed court records contain the names of hundreds of third parties who were mentioned in a civil case involving sexual abuse allegations against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge said Wednesday.

Following multiple reports of a rice cooker left on a street in Manhattan after midnight Friday, police say the kitchen device was deemed harmless.

Three people face federal charges in California for allegedly defrauding foreign investors in a jobs program overseen by U.S. immigration officials, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.

The father of a West Virginia man sought for questioning in connection to placing rice cookers in Manhattan that sparked a rush-hour scare Friday morning has identified him as Larry Griffin. A senior law enforcement official also confirms to NBC 4 New York the identity of the person of interest.

Bail has been set at $200,000 for a homeless man from West Virginia who was charged with placing two devices that looked like pressure cookers in a New York City subway station.

The man who allegedly placed rice cookers in a Manhattan subway station, sparking a rush-hour scare Friday morning, has been arrested, the NYPD said Saturday.

Authorities are questioning a man believed to be the person who left two rice cookers at a Manhattan subway station Friday. George Spencer reports.

The federal judge is asking the warden at the MCC why Epstein was taken off suicide watch after the first reported suicide attempt, in an effort to learn more about what led up to the night when the accused pedophile hanged himself. NBC 4 New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

The father of a West Virginia man sought for questioning in connection to placing rice cookers in Manhattan that sparked a rush-hour scare Friday morning has identified him as Larry Griffin. Adam Kuperstein reports.

A 38-year-old man and his girlfriend have been sentenced to federal prison for making child pornography using a 1-year-old baby girl.

Investigators are looking into whether two guards tasked with checking on Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center the night of his death may have been sleeping when the accused sex trafficker apparently hanged himself in his cell, two officials familiar with the investigation tell NBC New York.

The warden at the MCC has been moved as the investigation continues. Meanwhile, the FBI raided Epstein’s private villa in the Caribbean, and President Trump had some curious words regarding the investigation. NBC 4 New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports

A spokesperson for the FDNY tells NBC News it has completed its review of a 4chan message board posting regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s death and determined it did not come from within the department.

Amid revelations about the circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein’s death, federal authorities have intensified parallel inquiries into what went wrong at the Manhattan jail where he was behind bars and who now may face charges for assisting or enabling him in what authorities say was his rampant sexual abuse of underage girls.

FBI agents in the Virgin Islands are searching Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion there for evidence related to Epstein’s past sex-trafficking crimes as investigation into his death continues. Jonathan Dienst reports.

The day before accused pedophile and wealthy Manhattan financier Jeffrey Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, he was handed a lawsuit from a woman who says he raped her when she was just 15 years old, court documents obtained Monday showed.