Federal Judge Richard Berman ruled on the side of leniency, sending the 31-year-old to just five years behind bars rather than the minimum of 10 under federal sentencing guidelines.
Michael Enright, 21, was charged with second-degree attempted murder as a hate crime, second-degree assault as a hate crime, criminal possession of a weapon as a hate crime and aggravated harassment.
Devi, 33, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges and had asked Justice Lewis Bart Stone to release her in her husbands care until she faced trial. Initially, the woman claimed that she acted to get back at her husband but now the accused insists that she was hearing voices, which the prosecutors insist is a fabricated story.
Bahel was suspended by the world body in August on charges that he bent rules to help Telecommunications Consultations of India get contracts worth millions of dollars.
Rajat Gupta was freed from Federal Medical Centre Devens, a federal correctional facility in Ayer, Massachusetts, on January 5.
US federal authorities were in the process of seizing four mosques and a 36-storey skyscraper in Manhattan that are owned by a nonprofit Muslim organisation long suspected of having ties to the Iranian government.
The case has been filed electronically in Manhattan's State Supreme Court and the timing is expected to cause a delay in the sale of The Weinstein Company (TWC), which is facing bankruptcy, the New York Times reported.
A New York appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a $650 million lawsuit against Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, saying he cannot be sued in the state's courts over the sale of a major stake in the motor racing business.
'Only my friends know how I live here in Manhattan, saving every penny... Life in New York has not been not easy for me,' Devyani Khobragade told friends and colleagues.
The US Supreme Court legalised gay marriage on Friday in a 5-4 decision, and within hours couples across the country were being issued marriage licenses.
A 50-year-old Indian, who was residing illegally in the United States, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court for conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Creditors for Enron Corp. have asked a court to order the company's former chairman Kenneth Lay and his wife to hand over more than $70 million in loans they received from the bankrupt energy trader.
Nishan Kohli pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to one count of bribery of an official of an organisation receiving more than $10,000 in federal funds.
A US court has sentenced a Pakistani immigrant to 30 years in prison for plotting to blow up a subway station in Manhattan in 2004 to avenge abuse of Iraqis at the hands of Americans soldiers.
Former WorldCom chief executive Bernard Ebbers has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating a record $11 billion fraud that toppled the telecommunications company he founded.
Roger Federer Rafael Nadal had a easy day out at the NYC Street Slam on Lexington Avenue and 54th Street on Friday.
The defendants charged with paying the bribes and kickbacks are Sarvesh Dharayan, Sanjay Gupta, Venkata Atluri, Rangarajan Kumar, Vadan Kumar Kopalle and Daren Siriani.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
A United States judge has reserved ruling on a lawsuit filed in New York by a Sikh rights group against the Congress party in the anti-Sikh riots after hearing arguments by it that the case should be dismissed since the incidents of 1984 are India's internal matters.
A "shocking" fraud involving 106 people, including former New York city cops and firefighters, who allegedly used the 9/11 terror attack disability benefits worth hundreds of millions of dollars to fund their lavish lifestyles, has been cracked by authorities in New York.
In its complaint filed in 2011, the SEC alleged that Gupta disclosed confidential information about Berkshire Hathaway Inc's $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last month.
States across America are beginning the process of digging their way out of record-breaking snowfall on Monday after Winter Storm Jonas battered the nation's East Coast, wreaking havoc on millions and turning major cities into ghost towns.
Gupta, 65, reported to the minimum security satellite camp at FMC Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts on June 17.
Rajat Gupta, 70, the first Indian managing director of McKinsey and who of 17 months in US prison for insider trading, gets ready to tell his side of the story. And he is less than complimentary about Preet Bharara, then the famous crusading US attorney for the Southern District of New York. "The jury, the press and the public saw only... a 'cropped picture', he says. For someone whose life story was a model of the Great American Dream - an Indian of modest means who rose to the highest circles of politics and business, mingling with the White House and Davos crowd - his indictment in 2012 marked a stunning fall from grace. Many ascribed it to the hubris of the rich and powerful, says Kanika Datta.
He is expected to be assigned to a medium-security prison in Otisville, New York, about 70 miles from New York City.
Devyani Khobragade, deputy consul general at the Indian consulate in New York, was arrested on charges that she allegedly presented fraudulent documents to the United States State Department in support of a visa application for an Indian national employed as a babysitter and housekeeper at her home in Manhattan.
The United States o Friday said senior Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, who returned to New Delhi, no longer enjoys immunity and she and Indian government were told that an arrest warrant might be issued against her.
Martoma, 40, was sentenced in federal court last month by US District Judge Paul Gardephe for his role as the "central figure" in the most lucrative insider trading scheme ever charged involving $275 million in illegal profits and avoided losses.
Reacting strongly to the second indictment against its diplomat Devyani Khobragade in the United States, India on Saturday said it was an "unnecessary" step and any measure consequent to the decision will "unfortunately" impact efforts on both sides to build a strategic partnership between India and the US.
World soccer's governing body FIFA has hired a former New York prosecutor to represent it as senior officials face bribery and corruption charges in a US court, a person familiar with the matter said.
A close lieutenant of slain Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to life in prison for multiple terrorism offences relating to his participation in the terror group's conspiracy to kill Americans overseas.
Three Indians have pleaded guilty to criminal charges of conspiring to commit student visa and financial aid fraud through a for-profit school they ran and agreed to forfeit over USD eight million to federal authorities.
The appeals court granted Martoma's request to extend his November 10 surrender date until an appellate panel hears and decides on his motion for bail pending appeal.
Akayed Ullah has been charged on five counts, including providing material support and resources to terrorist organisations, use of weapons of mass destruction, bombing a place of public law, destruction of property by means of explosive and use of destructive device.
The Gupta case is SEC v. Gupta, US District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-07566.
Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, whose arrest soured India-US relations, was on Friday re-indicted on visa fraud charges, a couple of days after a US court dismissed an earlier indictment.
Sikhs For Justice's petition demands cancellation of Prime Minister Modi's visit.
