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Former Facebook and Nike diversity manager gets 5 years in prison for $5 million fraud

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Barbara Furlow-Smiles attends the 2020 Sisters’ Awards at Skirball Cultural Center on March 08, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Robin L. Marshall | Getty Images A former diversity manager at Facebook and Nike was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for stealing more than $5 million from those companies that had been […]

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DOJ charges brothers with $25 million Ethereum heist that took 12 seconds

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Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images The Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of two brothers for allegedly stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency within roughly 12 seconds. DOJ called it a “first-of-its kind” fraud, detailing the seconds-long scheme where the brothers allegedly manipulated the Ethereum blockchain to redirect pending transactions and steal

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Sen. Robert Menendez bribery trial: Opening statements expected in corruption case

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U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), arrives at Federal Court, for his bribery trial in connection with an alleged corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen, in New York City, U.S., May 14, 2024.  Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Prosecutors and defense attorneys are poised Wednesday to select a full jury and deliver opening statements in the

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Sen. Menendez bribery trial starts with judge scolding lawyers on 'gamesmanship'

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Sen. Robert Menendez arrives at the federal courthouse in Manhattan, New York City, May 13, 2024. Fatih Aktas | Anadolu | Getty Images A judge on Monday admonished attorneys about playing legal games shortly after they convened for the start of the federal bribery trial of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. “There’s been too much gamesmanship

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Leader of world's 'most prolific ransomware group' charged in Lockbit case — $10 million reward for his arrest

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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, Dmitry 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

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Guo Wengui chief of staff Yvette Wang pleads guilty to $1 billion fraud conspiracy in New York

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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

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Supreme Court hears Trump immunity arguments in election interference case

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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an update on the so-called Operation Warp Speed program, the joint Defense Department and HHS initiative that has struck deals with several drugmakers in an effort to help speed up the search for effective treatments for the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in an address from the Rose Garden at

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New York jury convicts man in first-ever cryptocurrency market manipulation case

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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

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Trump criminal hush money trial starts Monday in New York with jury selection

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends a campaign event on April 02, 2024, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Spencer Platt| Getty Images The hush money trial of Donald Trump is set to kick off Monday in New York with jury selection, the first time a former U.S. president has ever faced a criminal trial. Trump’s lawyers

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