A Turkish-Iranian gold trader pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges that he and others conspired to conduct hundreds of millions of dollars in financial transactions to help the Iranian government or other entities evade U.S. sanctions. Reza Zarrab, a dual citizen of Turkey and his native Iran, entered the plea at a hearing before Judge Richard Berman in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. He was arrested last month in Miami.

The 2,000 full-time employees of Chobani were handed an ownership stake in the yogurt company that could make some of them millionaires, as reported by New York Times on April 26. Hamdi Ulukaya, the Turkish immigrant who founded Chobani in 2005 in the United States, told workers at the company’s plant in upstate New York that he would be giving them shares worth up to 10 percent of the company when it goes public or is sold, according to the report. The goal, he said, is to pass along the wealth they have helped build in the decade since the company started. Chobani is now widely considered to be worth several billion dollars.

TCA provided a $5,000 grant to the Advisory Council for Bosnia and Herzegovina (ACBH) to support an ACBH delegation visit from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to the United States. The delegation, which visited Washington, DC April 18-24, 2016, was comprised of Munira Subasic, President of the Mother's Action of the Srebrenica and Zepa Enclaves; Murat Tahirovic, President of the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide; and Elmina Kulasic, Senior Advisor at the Association of Victims and Witnesses of Genocide.

NEW YORK — “I saw my husband die before my eyes.” Those are the words a grieving wife told the New York Times after she turned on the TV one night and saw a program airing footage of her husband’s final moments, footage to which she had never given her consent. That television program has resulted in a $2.2 million settlement with the federal government over the “egregious disclosure” of patients’ health information, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Thursday. New York Presbyterian Hospital gave the ABC reality TV show “NY Med,” starring Dr. Mehmet Oz, what the HHS called “unfettered access to its healthcare facility.”