A former Mexican governor accused of mishandling millions of dollars from programs for the poor was arrested Saturday in Guatemala, according to the Mexican attorney general’s office.
Italian authorities on Sunday captured a fugitive Mexican former governor charged with drug smuggling, bank fraud, racketeering and money laundering, are expected to extradite him to Mexico over the next few days.
A fugitive Kentucky lawyer at the center of a nearly $600 million Social Security fraud case has fled the country using a fake passport and has gotten help from someone overseas with a job to help support himself.
Vincenzo Macri was arrested at Brazil’s Sao Paulo airport while using fake identity documents, authorities said Saturday, ending a two year search for one of Italy’s most notorious crime bosses.
The top “regulatory officer” at fallen crypto exchange FTX was embroiled in a notorious online poker cheating scandal more than a decade ago — and was caught on tape allegedly aiding the perpetrators of the fraud, according to reports. Dan Friedberg — a lawyer who was FTX’s chief regulatory officer in the months leading up…
DetailsThe cryptocurrency exchange FTX owes creditors $3.1 billion, according to court documents filed late Saturday night. The Bahamas-based platform filed for bankruptcy earlier this month after the company, run by 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried, collapsed. The company saw its value soar to a peak of $32 billion in January. Creditors’ names were not listed on the…
DetailsSam Bankman-Fried, former boss of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has arrived by plane in New York from the Bahamas to face fraud charges. The 30-year-old was extradited on suspicion of committing “one of the biggest financial frauds in US history”, US authorities have said. Mr Bankman-Fried, who denies the allegations, may appear in court later…
DetailsTUNIS, Tunisia — On July 15, after Hosni Hachemi Ben Hassen had spent more than three years in an Italian prison on accusations of leading a terrorist cell, a guard handed him a single piece of paper that suggested freedom was at hand. Italy’s Supreme Court had overturned his conviction, clearing him of all terrorism-related…
DetailsIn early 2013, a young Israeli businessman registered a web domain in London for a company called NRGbinary.com.
Friendship, NY – Investigators tracking two murder convicts who escaped from a northern New York prison scoured a rural area near the Pennsylvania border Sunday, saying an unconfirmed but credible report of a sighting had shifted the search across the state.
