Resorts World Las Vegas President Scott Sibella speaks during the opening of Resorts World Las Vegas on June 24, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ethan Miller | Getty Images The former president of the MGM Grand casino in Las Vegas is set to be sentenced Wednesday afternoon on a federal criminal charge related to his … Read more
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, Russian national and a leader of LockBit. Courtesy: U.S. Department of the Treasury Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced criminal charges against a Russian national, Dimitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, for allegedly creating, developing, and administrating the LockBit ransomware-as-service group. The U.S. State Department at the same time offered a … Read more
Fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui hold a news conference on November 20, 2018 in New York, on the death of of tycoon Wang Jian in France on July 3, 2018. Don Emmert | AFP | Getty Images The chief of staff to controversial exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui pleaded guilty in New York on Friday … Read more
Roger Ver, a bitcoin millionaire and evangelist, is one of the first early adopters of the so-called crypto-currency. (Photo by Danny Lee/South China Morning Post via Getty Images) South China Morning Post | South China Morning Post | Getty Images The Justice Department unveiled criminal tax fraud charges this week against a prolific bitcoin investor … Read more
Deutsche Bank on Thursday reported a 10% rise in first-quarter profit, beating expectations amid an ongoing recovery in its investment banking unit. Net profit attributable to shareholders was 1.275 billion euros ($1.365 billion) for the period, ahead of an aggregate analyst forecast of 1.23 billion euros for the period, according to LSEG data. Deutsche Bank … Read more
Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears ahead of the start of jury selection at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 15, 2024 in New York City. Jeenah Moon | Getty Images This is developing news. Check back for updates. The New York criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump is poised to get its final five … Read more
Las Vegas Review-journal | Tribune News Service | Getty Images A New York federal jury on Thursday convicted a Puerto Rico man of a $110 million scheme that was the Department of Justice’s first-ever cryptocurrency open-market manipulation case, prosecutors said. The man, 28-year-old Avraham Eisenberg of San Juan, faces a maximum possible sentence of 20 … Read more
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrives at court as lawyers push to persuade the judge overseeing his fraud case not to jail him ahead of trial, at a courthouse in New York, August 11, 2023. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters A lawyer for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday filed a notice … Read more
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks from the hallway outside a courtroom where he is attending a hearing in his criminal case on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, in New York City on March 25, 2024. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Donald Trump has used every legal tool at his disposal … Read more
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani departs the U.S. District Courthouse after he was ordered to pay $148 million in his defamation case in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2023. Bonnie Cash | Reuters One of the largest donations to Rudy Giuliani’s legal defense fund is at the center of a new lawsuit that argues the … Read more
