NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is hurtling toward a critical deadline in his most costly legal battle to date. If the former president doesn’t come up with a financial guarantee by Monday, New York’s attorney general can start the process of collecting on the more than $454 million Trump owes the state in a … Read more
Former President Donald Trump has been unable to obtain an appeal bond to secure a $454 million civil judgment against him in a New York business fraud case, his attorneys said in a court filing Monday. Lawyers for Trump and his co-defendants said it has been “impossible” for them to secure a complete appeal bond, … Read more
Prosecutors in New York asked a court on Friday to sentence crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried to between 40 and 50 years in prison for defrauding crypto investors and extracting billions of dollars from his companies FTX and Alameda Research. FTX imploded in 2022, turning a high-flying company once valued at $32 billion into a worthless … Read more
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The camps of the two Indonesian presidential candidates who appear to have lost in an election last month said Thursday they plan to challenge the official results in the Constitutional Court with allegations of widespread fraud. Indonesians voted on Feb. 14 for a successor to popular President Joko Widodo, who is serving … Read more
FILE – Bishop Lamor Miller-Whitehead speaks with the media, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in New York. Miller-Whitehead, a Brooklyn preacher known for his flashy lifestyle and who boasted of his friendship with New York City’s mayor, was found guilty in federal court Monday, March 11, 2024, of wire fraud, attempted extortion and lying to the … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — A union representing New York City firefighters is raising concerns about possible disciplinary action against its members after state Attorney General Letitia James was booed and a pro-Donald Trump chant broke out during a fire department ceremony last week. The Democrat, whose office won a $355 million penalty against the Republican … Read more
A new book sheds light on the lengths Trump’s campaign went to find fraud in the 2020 election. Ken Block, a software engineer, revealed he was paid about $750,000 to help conduct the search. Despite the massive payday, Block told BI he disproved many of the fraud claims in minutes. A big business cropped up … Read more
LONDON — Nearly three dozen bodies were removed from a funeral home in northern England, and a man and woman were arrested Sunday on suspicion of fraud and preventing a lawful burial, police said. Humberside Police announced the developments after five days of investigation at three branches of Legacy Funeral Directors in Hull and East … Read more
PODGORICA, Montenegro — An appeals court in Montenegro has overturned a recent ruling that a cryptocurrency mogul, Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon, should be extradited to the United States to face fraud charges rather than to his native South Korea, the court said Tuesday. Kwon, 32, was arrested nearly a year ago in Montenegro on … Read more
BELGRADE, Serbia — A key vote for control of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade — a focal point of widespread fraud reports after last December elections — is to be rerun later this year, officials said Sunday. The announcement follows months of soaring political tensions over claims that the ruling populists of President Aleksandar Vucic orchestrated a … Read more