Residents of a luxury Brooklyn apartment, who pay up to $5,000 a month to live there, have been forced to use borrowed hot plates to cook their meals after being left with no gas or heat for months. The residents of Eleven33 – located at 1133 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint – have said they feel…
It’s one thing to get a bad review … it’s another to be cast in the same light as Kanye West and Donald Trump, but that’s exactly what one reviewer did. Politico writer Joanna Weiss posted a story called, “2022 Is the Year We All Finally Got Tired of the Narcissists,” and she had plenty…
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said he and former executive Gary Wang borrowed more than $546 million from Alameda Research to buy a nearly 8% stake in Robinhood Markets Inc, according to court papers. The pair borrowed the funds earlier this year. The transactions were documented in a series of promissory notes, detailed in an affidavit…
U.S. prosecutors have filed criminal charges of commodities fraud and manipulation against a man accused of trying to steal about $110 million in October by rigging the Mango Markets cryptocurrency exchange. According to a complaint made public on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, Avraham Eisenberg’s trades in futures related to Mango’s crypto token MNGO enabled…
Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The legal dispute sprang up in response to revelations that the social media giant allowed third-party apps such as those used by Cambridge Analytica to access users’ personal information without…
The FBI has reportedly captured one of its most-wanted fugitives in Mexico after discovering he had been working as a yoga instructor for 12 years under a number of false identities. Students of yoga instructor Leon Ferrara in Guadalajara reported him missing the week before Christmas when he disappeared while walking his two dogs. His…
Federal prosecutors are investigating an alleged cybercrime that drained more than $370 million out of FTX just hours after the cryptocurrency exchange filed for bankruptcy last month. The Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the stolen assets that is separate from the fraud case against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, according to a…
The suspected fraudster allegedly scammed 960 investors out of NIS 550 million through a pyramid scheme. Mike Ben-Ari who was last week extradited from Bosnia to Israel was today indicted of defrauding NIS 550 million from 960 investors. Ben-Ari was charged with aggravated fraud, forging documents, and money laundering offenses. Together with the indictment, the…
A longtime children’s theater director in Kansas City was found dead on Christmas Eve — days after he resigned amid allegations of sexual abuse. Jeff Church, 63, who had led the Coterie Theatre for over 30 years, was found dead at his home on Saturday afternoon, the Kansas City Star reported. The cause of death…
The top result for the word ‘Jew’ in the Google search engine is a use of the word as a verb in an antisemitic trope, the StopAntisemitism reported Tuesday. Above all links related to the word ‘Jew’ is a definition which reads: “bargain with someone in a miserly or petty way.” A Google search of…