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The US government is investigating JPMorgan Chase over an alleged “debanking” scandal after President Trump claimed the nation’s biggest bank was rejecting customers with conservative political ties. In a quarterly filing on Wednesday, JPMorgan Chase revealed it is “responding to requests from government authorities and other external parties regarding, among other things, the firm’s policies […]
Federal prosecutors have shared new details about what they say was a nationwide gambling ring involving NBA figures Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, and Damon Jones. In a detention letter filed in federal court, they describe advanced cheating technology, the use of former NBA pro athletes to draw in victims, real time coaching during games, and […]
Among the few certainties in life aside from death and taxes is the inevitability that when there’s gambling there will always be the Mob. Don’t take my word for it: Just ask NBA commissioner Adam Silver, (and maybe soon NFL chief Roger Goodell) who might have a starring role in the next Scorsese Mafia epic […]
A group of alleged mobsters are at the heart of a rigged table game scheme that defrauded millions from poker players, according to an indictment unsealed in New York. The key figures in the racket to rig card games are making the rounds on global news outlets like the script of a Hollywood mafia saga […]
The Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), Adam Silver, has been asked by the US Congress to provide a briefing concerning the recent gambling scandal that has rocked the sporting world. In a letter directed to the current commissioner and seen by ReadWrite, the request was made for his response no later than October […]
Fed Governor Lisa Cook is standing up to Donald Trump, suing to keep her job because she says the president is trumping up a scandal and she’s fighting for Fed independence. Trump has called for Cook’s head for allegedly committing mortgage fraud by signing documents that she had two primary residences. We should let the […]
The Astronomer HR exec allegedly caught canoodling with CEO Andy Byron at a Coldplay concert last week appears to still have her job — even after Byron was forced to swiftly resign over the scandal. Chief People Officer Kristin Cabot is on leave, but hasn’t been publicly given the boot over liability concerns, legal experts […]
Virginia Giuffre, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Britain, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41. Ms. Giuffre (pronounced JIFF-ree) died by suicide, according to a […]
