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By Nikunj Ohri and Dharamraj Dhutia NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian billionaire Gautam Adani has been indicted by U.S. prosecutors for his alleged role in a $265 million scheme to bribe Indian officials, plunging his conglomerate deep into crisis for the second time in two years. Multiple counts of fraud -…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors unveiled criminal charges on Wednesday against five alleged members of Scattered Spider, a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into dozens of U.S. companies to steal confidential information and cryptocurrency. Martin Estrada, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, said the defendants conducted phishing attacks…
By Mike Scarcella and Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) – “Fortnite” video game maker Epic Games on Monday accused Alphabet (NASDAQ:)’s Google and Samsung (KS:), the world’s largest Android phone manufacturer, of conspiring to protect Google’s Play store from competition. Epic filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court in California alleging that…
Caroline Ellison, the ex-executive who pleaded guilty to conspiring with disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in an $11 billion fraud scheme.US District Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down the sentence in a Manhattan federal courtroom shortly after Ellison delivered a…
By Selena Li and Xie Yu HONG KONG (Reuters) – China and Hong Kong are set to expand a pilot wealth scheme that allows residents to invest cross-border by adding the first batch of 10 securities firms, including the countries’ largest brokerages, two people with direct knowledge told Reuters. The…
Law enforcement arrested a Missouri woman prosecutors say schemed to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by stealing their interest in Graceland and trying to extort them for millions of dollars.Lisa Jeanine Findley, 53, was arrested Friday and faces charges of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, federal prosecutors in Missouri said.…
