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* Cricket lived longer than Kristi Noem's veep hopes. * After exchanging taunts online, Joe Biden and Donald Trump agreed to debate in June. Until there is official agreement on [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team A special central bureau of investigation (CBI) court has sentenced five individuals, including a former divisional manager (DM) of United India Insurance Company Ltd (UIICL) and [...]

Byline: Moneylife Digital Team In a significant ruling, Parrag Jaiin Nainutia, the adjudicating officer (AO) and principal secretary of Maharashtra's department of information technology has directed Yes Bank to reimburse [...]

Pollster J. Ann Selzer filed a motion on Friday asking a federal judge to dismiss President Donald Trump's lawsuit against her, the Des Moines Register and its parent company Gannett [...]

Charlie Javice is on trial over fraud claims after selling the student-aid startup Frank to JPMorgan. BI saw an email from Javice's legal team asking colleagues not to discuss the [...]

Byline: Eric Freedman A dealership group that acquired 10 franchised stores in western New York in 2022 for $120 million is accusing the sellers of fraud, lack of good faith [...]

Incarcerated movie producer and convicted rapist (https://www.thewrap.com/harvey-weinstein-indictment-2006-manhattan-sexual-assault/) Harvey Weinstein is suing his brother and fellow (https://www.thewrap.com/weinstein-co-lantern-entertainment/) Weinstein Company co-founder Bob Weinstein for fraud. Weinstein filed a suit his against his [...]

Byline: Bethy Squires (https://www.vulture.com/article/diddy-weinstein-court-appearance-metoo.html) Harvey Weinstein is entering (https://www.vulture.com/2021/01/weinstein-sexual-misconduct-settlement-approved-for-usd17-mil.html) yet another lawsuit, but this time he's the one initiating it. Weinstein is suing his brother Bob Weinstein, as well Weinstein [...]

Byline: Kevin Oklobzija At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Timothy A. Taylor told federal loan assistance administrators that he needed $1.5 million in funding from the Paycheck Protection Program [...]

Byline: Eddie Small A landlord is abusing the state's polarizing 421-a affordable housing tax break at its recently completed residential project in Jamaica, a new lawsuit claims. Midtown-based developer Shorewood [...]

The purchasers of a used 2021 Tesla Model S have sued the automaker and a California dealership over alleged consumer law violations, fraud and misrepresentation. John Porter and Isaiah Graham [...]

Byline: Hans Greimel More than six years after being tricked into coming to Japan so he could be arrested and thrown in jail, former Nissan executive Greg Kelly may win [...]

It was the voicemails at a Lincoln, Neb., dealership that made Courtney Galloway suspicious. While working as the used-car manager at Husker High Line, a dueled Mercedes-Benz and BMW store, [...]

Byline: John Huetter The Federal Trade Commission and the Maryland attorney general's office have sued Lindsay Automotive Group and some of its leaders individually, accusing the Washington, D.C.-area group of [...]

TLDR: Berman Jerry Nowlin, 21, died by suicide on Dec. 21, 2024, while awaiting sentencing in a cryptocurrency fraud case Nowlin was convicted of wire fraud and money laundering in [...]

If you don't know Delray Beach attorney Anthony Russo by name, you perhaps know his firm's work. He sued Wendy's, McDonald's, Arby's and Taco Bell for alleged consumer fraud for [...]

A son of the former prime minister of the Republic of Guinea lost another bid to avoid deportation for his role in fraudulent schemes to buy at least 14 vehicles [...]

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F246abd9e-3930-4c8e-b783-67ce673a2651_1598x1200.heic) An 'antimonument' set up opposite the city hall ('Palais municipal') of Aguascalientes, Mexico for the International Trans Day of Visibility 2024. The sign reads 'Yes, I am a woman.' [...]

Byline: Emma Roth The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) (https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-jpmorgan-chase-bank-of-america-and-wells-fargo-for-allowing-fraud-to-fester-on-zelle/) has filed a lawsuit against Zelle and three banks that own it - Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JPMorgan [...]

Byline: Steve Schuster, sschuster@wislawjournal.com David Braeger, 57, of Fox Point, was sentenced Monday to 24 months of incarceration for committing an investment fraud scheme that resulted in a loss of [...]

Byline: Aaron Elstein When the bachelor on 'The Bachelor' got down on one knee in 2012 to propose to the season's villain, Courtney Robertson, she was wearing a black dress [...]

Ozy Media founder Carlos Watson on Monday was sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison for attempting to defraud investors by lying about the financial health of his now-defunct company. [...]

Byline: Wes Davis The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) (https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-orders-federal-supervision-of-google-following-contested-designation/) announced on Friday it had placed Google Payment Corp. under federal supervision, (https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-regulator-places-google-payment-corp-under-supervision-2024-12-06/) reports Reuters. Google reportedly filed a lawsuit [...]

Byline: Adina Genn An East End entrepreneur who stole more than $385,000 from clients over a three-year period was sentenced to prison, officials said Tuesday. Mark Ripolone, formerly of Montauk, [...]

TLDR Table of Contents (https://blockonomi.com/59-year-old-alex-mashinsky-faces-30-years-after-guilty-plea-in-celsius-case/#) Alex Mashinsky pleads guilty to two counts of fraud related to Celsius Network collapse He admitted to commodities fraud and manipulating CEL token prices Mashinsky [...]

Byline: Bar & Bench Employees of Adani Group and other companies have been indicted over a conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud to obtain funds from US investors and [...]

A Kansas county has sued a group of companies, alleging 'false representations' about plastic recyclability. Energy giants ExxonMobil and Chevron are among the defendants named in the lawsuit. The lawsuit [...]

Byline: Fiona Holland A lawsuit accusing Danone of hoodwinking consumers in the US by labelling its Evian spring waters as “natural” has been dismissed by a court in Chicago. The [...]

TLDR Gary Wang, FTX co-founder, requests no prison time ahead of November 20 sentencing Wang provided early cooperation with prosecutors and testified against Sam Bankman-Fried His lawyer argues his involvement [...]

While Tuesday was overall a good day for Elon Musk as his fellow celebrity Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election, it wasn't without its complications for the world's richest [...]

A federal judge in Pennsylvania has rejected a bid by Kia Motors America to toss out part of a lawsuit that seeks to hold the automaker liable for a defunct [...]

TLDR Aleksei Andriunin, 26-year-old founder of Gotbit, indicted for wire fraud and market manipulation Scheme involved wash trading to artificially inflate crypto trading volumes from 2018-2024 Company used sophisticated algorithms [...]

TLDR Liu Zhou, MyTrade's founder, pleaded guilty to crypto market manipulation Used wash trading bots to artificially inflate trading volumes Faces maximum 5-year prison sentence, with 2025 sentencing date MyTrade's [...]

The final defendant in the significant Polar Air Cargo fraud case, Skye Xu, has pleaded guilty just days before his scheduled jury trial. This marks a pivotal moment in the [...]

Byline: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 16, 2024, a federal grand jury indicted Lakia Jackson, [...]

Byline: Eric Freedman A former finance manager took hefty kickbacks from a vendor of extended warranty contracts, according to lawsuit filed by a New York City dealership alleging fraud and [...]

Byline: Rochester Business Journal Staff Six Rochester residents have been arrested in connection with a retail theft ring. The U.S. Attorney's Office has announced that the group has been charged [...]

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a [...]

TLDR Federal prosecutors recommend 18-month jail sentence for Heather Morgan (Razzlekhan) for her role in laundering stolen Bitfinex Bitcoin Morgan provided substantial assistance to the government, leading to a plea [...]

Fourteen states filed separate lawsuits Tuesday alleging TikTok harms children's mental health. NY AG Letitia James helms the effort and has tapped senior counsel Kevin Wallace as lead litigator. Wallace [...]