Math doesn’t seem to be the MIT graduate’s strength. Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried — an alum of the vaunted university — gave a bizarre explanation for an $8 billion budget shortfall that helped force the doomed cryptocurrency platform into bankruptcy last month — claiming he had simply “misaccounted” the cash. Bankman-Fried scrambled to explain…
Gang boss Christy Kinahan snr faces having to return to Spain for a passport fraud trial after being indicted by prosecutors and warned that he could be sentenced to up to four years if convicted. Kinahan (65) was previously told he would not have to leave his home in Dubai to attend the court in…
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday asked a judge to dismiss bank fraud and other charges against Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies whose 2018 arrest strained relations between the U.S. and China. Meng struck a deal with the prosecutors last year for the charges against her to be dismissed on Dec. 1,…
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has dismissed charges of criminal fraud and wage theft against 48 California Highway Patrol officers who were charged with an overtime fraud scheme at East Station LA, the state attorney general’s office announced Thursday. The judge’s actions end the vast majority of the 54 California Atty cases. General…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Wednesday that personal information of more than 6,000 people in its custody was inadvertently posted to its website for about five hours. The information included names, nationalities, detention centers where the people were held and unique numbers used to identify them in government records, according to Human Rights First,…
The Secret Service has located hundreds of pages of records tied to the investigation of a gun belonging to Hunter Biden – despite having denied they existed, a government watchdog group said Thursday. Judicial Watch is investigating whether the Secret Service intervened on behalf of President Biden’s son after the incident, and it has sued…
Jennifer Siebel Newsom lied about being raped by Harvey Weinstein because she can’t “square away” the fact she had “transactional” sex with the former movie mogul, his lawyers charged Thursday. The wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom — referred to throughout Weinstein’s current sexual assault trial as Jane Doe 4 — gave an “overly dramatized”…