Inside latest crypto firm paying billions to end legal troubles

Inside latest crypto firm paying billions to end legal troubles

South Korean authorities are seeking the arrest of Do Kwon, co-founder and chief executive officer of Terraform Labs. His company is behind the now-collapsed terraUSD and luna cryptocurrencies. South Korean prosecutors are now seeking to freeze bitcoin linked to Kwon. Woohae Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Months before Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX fraud … Read more

Judge bars Martin Shkreli from streaming Wu-Tang Clan album

Judge bars Martin Shkreli from streaming Wu-Tang Clan album

Former drug company executive Martin Shkreli and his lead attorney Benjamin Brafman arrive at U.S. District Court for the fourth day of jury deliberations in his securities fraud trial in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., August 3, 2017.  Amr Alfiky | Reuters A federal judge temporarily barred notorious “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli … Read more

Hunter Biden guilty in criminal gun trial

Hunter Biden guilty in criminal gun trial

A jury convicted Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, of all three counts at his criminal gun trial in Delaware federal court on Tuesday morning. Hunter Biden, 54, was found guilty of making a false statement in connection with the sale of a firearm, a false statement in a firearms transaction, and possessing a … Read more

Hunter Biden gun trial jury deliberates

Hunter Biden gun trial jury deliberates

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden walk outside the federal court as his trial on criminal gun charges continues, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 11, 2024.  Hannah Beier | Reuters (This story is developing and will be updated throughout the day.) Jurors in the criminal gun trial … Read more

Hunter Biden gun trial live updates

Hunter Biden gun trial live updates

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, and his wife Melissa Cohen Biden arrive at the federal court for his trial on criminal gun charges, in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., June 10, 2024.  Hannah Beier | Reuters This is developing news and will be updated throughout the day. The criminal gun trial of Hunter Biden … Read more

IRS employee charged in Exxon Mobil tax credit theft bid

IRS employee charged in Exxon Mobil tax credit theft bid

Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images News | Getty Images A former IRS employee was charged in Utah federal court for allegedly trying to steal $2.1 million in tax credits owed to Exxon Mobil by diverting the funds using a taxpayer database he had access to. Prosecutors said Wednesday that former IRS account management worker Rodney … Read more

Credit Suisse bondholders sue Switzerland over $17 billion AT1 wipeout

Credit Suisse bondholders sue Switzerland over  billion AT1 wipeout

The Credit Suisse Group AG headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A group of Credit Suisse bondholders filed a lawsuit against the Swiss government, seeking full compensation over the contentious decision to write down the failed bank’s Additional Tier 1 (AT1) debt. As part of Credit … Read more

Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon ordered to jail by July 1

Ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon ordered to jail by July 1

Steve Bannon, former advisor to President Donald Trump, arrives at the federal courthouse to find out if or when a judge will order him to jail on June 6, 2024 in Washington, DC.  Andrew Harnik | Getty Images A federal judge in Washington, D.C., at a hearing Thursday ordered former Trump White House aide Steve … Read more

Psychiatrist Henry Jarecki claims consensual relationship with victim

Psychiatrist Henry Jarecki claims consensual relationship with victim

Henry Jarecki attends The Accompanied Literary Society’s Summer Benefit at The Hudson Sky Terrace at The Hudson Hotel in New York City, June 11, 2007. David X Prutting | Patrick McMullan | Getty Images Famed psychiatrist and former commodities trader Henry Jarecki on Wednesday said he had a “consensual, non-secretive and mutually respectful relationship” with … Read more

Trump Georgia election case halted for challenge to DA

Trump Georgia election case halted for challenge to DA

Source: Fulton County Jail A Georgia appeals court on Wednesday halted the criminal election interference case against Donald Trump in the state pending the outcome of his bid to disqualify the district attorney prosecuting the former president. The order by the Georgia Court of Appeals all but guarantees that Trump and eight co-defendants in the … Read more