A messy divorce and a religious battle

Buckle up: The second season of the Netflix reality series My Unorthodox Life is a bumpy ride. Since the show premiered on the streaming platform last year, a great deal has changed in the Haart family. When season one wrapped, family matriarch Julia Haart was happily married to her second husband, Silvio Scaglia, and was CEO and…

US, Bahamas in tug-of-war over FTX’s $256M real estate portfolio after Bankman-Fried arrest

The Bahamas wants the US government to give back 35 different properties that are valued at more than $256 million that were purchased by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month. Attorneys representing the Bahamian government told a federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware that Bankman-Fried and Ryan…

Iran funds Hezbollah with smuggled gold

Iran is smuggling gold from Venezuela to finance Lebanon’s Shiite Islamist Hezbollah movement, bypassing U.S. sanctions, according to a report by British-based opposition media that cited a confidential document. According to Iran International, Lloyds Marine insurance company sent a warning to its clients that revealed the Islamic Republic’s illegal schemes through Venezuela, to fund its…