New York, July 23 (IANS) While New York faces several burning issues, Mayor Zohran Mamdani raked up his campaign promise to arrest Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits the city, only to backtrack and admit he could not do that. He issued a vituperative video message with fake bravado calling Netanyahu a “war criminal” but confessing he did not have the authority to carry out the threat that he had used to rile up his base of Muslims and the leftist Democratic Socialists base d…
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New York, June 19 (IANS) A prominent Pakistani-American community leader has been arrested in connection with a $38 million fraud involving daycare centres for adults, according to media reports.He was arrested on Monday along with seven alleged co-conspirators, the New York Post reported on Thursday.Pervez Siddiqui, who is a member of a community board in New York City’s Brooklyn Borough, is accused by federal prosecutors of defrauding the government health insurance programme, Medicaid, with…