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US Returns Over 1,400 Looted Artefacts Worth $10 Million To India
As part of an ongoing initiative to repatriate stolen art from countries across South and Southeast Asia, the United States on Wednesday announced that it has returned more than 1,400 looted artefacts worth $10 million to India.
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Harvey Weinstein Hit With New Criminal Charges In New York
Harvey Weinstein has been hit with new criminal charges in New York, a prosecutor said in court on Thursday, as the Manhattan district attorney's office prepares to retry the former movie mogul following the reversal of his rape conviction.
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Celsius Founder, Former CEO Arrested Over Fraud Charges as SEC Sues Crypto Firm
Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, was arrested and charged with fraud, a US prosecutor in New York said Thursday morning, as three federal regulatory agencies sued him and his company. Mashinsky, 57, was charged with seven criminal counts while Celsius' former chief revenue officer, Roni C...
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Former OpenSea Employee Made 'Free Money' Off NFTs, Says US Prosecutor
A former employee of OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), used inside knowledge of which assets would be featured on its homepage to make "free money," a prosecutor said on Monday as an insider trading trial wound to a close. The charges against Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea product manager, were the first...
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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Used VPN to Access Internet Recently, Could Be Hiding Online Activity: US Prosecutors
US prosecutors said that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried used a virtual private network to access the internet on two recent occasions, raising concerns that he could be hiding his online activities. In a letter to the Manhattan judge handling Bankman-Fried’s criminal fraud case late Monday, a prosecutor in the office of the Manhattan US attorne...
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Nirav Modi's Brother Charged In US With Stealing $1 Million In Diamonds
Nehal Modi, a brother of PNB fraud-accused jeweller Nirav Modi, has been charged by the Manhattan District Attorney with defrauding a company of over $1 million worth in diamonds. He allegedly made "false representations" to obtain more than $2.6 million worth of the gems from LLD Diamonds USA on favorable credit terms and consignment, and then liq...
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Fired By Trump, Ex-US Attorney Preet Bharara Launches Podcast To Hit Back
Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who became a scourge of Wall Street wrongdoers before President Donald Trump fired him in March, will soon have a new outlet to voice his criticism of the White House: a podcast
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Judge warns Osama bin Laden's son-in-law on lawyer choices
The son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and former spokesman for Al Qaeda, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to kill Americans, was warned on Tuesday that his three chosen lawyers may not get clearance to review classified evidence in the case.
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US Returns Over 1,400 Looted Artefacts Worth $10 Million To India
As part of an ongoing initiative to repatriate stolen art from countries across South and Southeast Asia, the United States on Wednesday announced that it has returned more than 1,400 looted artefacts worth $10 million to India.
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Harvey Weinstein Hit With New Criminal Charges In New York
Harvey Weinstein has been hit with new criminal charges in New York, a prosecutor said in court on Thursday, as the Manhattan district attorney's office prepares to retry the former movie mogul following the reversal of his rape conviction.
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Celsius Founder, Former CEO Arrested Over Fraud Charges as SEC Sues Crypto Firm
Alex Mashinsky, the founder and former CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, was arrested and charged with fraud, a US prosecutor in New York said Thursday morning, as three federal regulatory agencies sued him and his company. Mashinsky, 57, was charged with seven criminal counts while Celsius' former chief revenue officer, Roni C...
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Former OpenSea Employee Made 'Free Money' Off NFTs, Says US Prosecutor
A former employee of OpenSea, the world's largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), used inside knowledge of which assets would be featured on its homepage to make "free money," a prosecutor said on Monday as an insider trading trial wound to a close. The charges against Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea product manager, were the first...
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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Used VPN to Access Internet Recently, Could Be Hiding Online Activity: US Prosecutors
US prosecutors said that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried used a virtual private network to access the internet on two recent occasions, raising concerns that he could be hiding his online activities. In a letter to the Manhattan judge handling Bankman-Fried’s criminal fraud case late Monday, a prosecutor in the office of the Manhattan US attorne...
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Nirav Modi's Brother Charged In US With Stealing $1 Million In Diamonds
Nehal Modi, a brother of PNB fraud-accused jeweller Nirav Modi, has been charged by the Manhattan District Attorney with defrauding a company of over $1 million worth in diamonds. He allegedly made "false representations" to obtain more than $2.6 million worth of the gems from LLD Diamonds USA on favorable credit terms and consignment, and then liq...
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Fired By Trump, Ex-US Attorney Preet Bharara Launches Podcast To Hit Back
Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who became a scourge of Wall Street wrongdoers before President Donald Trump fired him in March, will soon have a new outlet to voice his criticism of the White House: a podcast
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Judge warns Osama bin Laden's son-in-law on lawyer choices
The son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and former spokesman for Al Qaeda, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to kill Americans, was warned on Tuesday that his three chosen lawyers may not get clearance to review classified evidence in the case.
