The Spanish Prosecutor’s Office will file a corruption complaint against FC Barcelona, according to … [+] a report. Getty Images Spain’s Prosecutor’s Office will file a corrupt...
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UAW leadership upheaval peaks ahead of automaker negotiations
United Auto Workers members on strike picket outside General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant on Sept. 25, 2019 in Detroit. Michael Wayland / CNBC DETROIT – As the United Auto Workers pr...
Alex Gladstein Fights Government Corruption
Alex Gladstein, an advocate for Bitcoin as well as the chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, is of the opinion that the cryptocurrency helps mend democracies that are broken and comba...
Bitcoin ‘fixes democracy’ and fights corruption: Human Rights Foundation
Bitcoin fixes broken democracies and fights government corruption by limiting its power to control its people, argues Bitcoin advocate and chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, Alex G...
Make Makes Economies Strong?
‘We Can Do It!’, a poster by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse Electric, aimed at boosting morale … [+] among the company’s workers in the war effort. The poster was displayed at Wes...
Sri Lanka Dismisses Tim Draper’s Idea to Combat Corruption With Bitcoin
Nandalal Weerasinghe – Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka – rejected Tim Draper’s idea to eliminate corruption in the country by embracing bitcoin. The banker argued that adopting the primary c...
Sri Lanka rejects billionaire Tim Draper’s Bitcoin pitch to tackle corruption
Tim Draper, a prominent cryptocurrency advocate, and billionaire investor faced unexpected resistance during his recent visit to Sri Lanka. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur was in the country to film a...
Corruption Is Fueling Violence Across The Middle East, Says Transparency International
Corruption Perceptions Index 2022 (source: Transparency International) Transparency International Anti-corruption organisation Transparency International has warned that the costs of graft around the ...
Senior Ukrainian Officials Fired Over Corruption Allegations Amid EU Membership Push
Topline Several senior Ukrainian officials were dismissed or resigned in recent days after being accused of corruption, according to multiple reports, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vows to...
Philip Esformes, whose prison sentence Trump commuted, loses appeal
Philanthropist Philip Esformes attends the 15th annual Harold & Carole Pump Foundation gala at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on August 7, 2015 in Century City, California. Tiffany Rose | Getty I...
Alec Baldwin to be charged in fatal ‘Rust’ shooting
Alec Baldwin will be criminally charged by New Mexico prosecutors for the 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film “Rust,” authorities said Thursday. B...
Fake billionaire Justin Costello could plead guilty in fraud case
A former fugitive accused of falsely telling investors he was a billionaire, a Harvard MBA, and a special forces veteran appears set to plead guilty on Wednesday in connection with an alleged $35 mill...
Sam Bankman-Fried denies stealing FTX user crypto in new Substack post
Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried (C) arrives to enter a plea before US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Manhattan federal court, New York, January 3, 2023. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty...
Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty as FTX task force created
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office said Tuesday it had created an FTX Task Force to trace and recover assets of victims of the cryptocurrency exchange firm’s collapse and to handle inves...
Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to fraud charges in New York
Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried (C) arrives to enter a plea before US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Manhattan federal court, New York, January 3, 2023. Ed Jones | AFP | Getty Images...
Judge pauses SEC case in favor of criminal probe
Your Hometown Deli in Paulsboro, N.J. Google Earth A federal judge granted the Justice Department’s request to pause the Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil case regarding alleged f...
JFK taxi dispatch system hacked, New York men arrested for conspiracy
Arriving passengers line up to get taxi outside of Terminal 4 at the JFK airport in New York. Jewel Samad | AFP | Getty Images Two New York men were arrested for conspiring with Russian nationals to h...
United Kingdom Takes A Stance Against Corruption And Other Crimes
On December 9, 2022, U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announced sanctions against several individuals and entities involved in corruption, conflict-related sexual violence and human rights abuses...
Pro-Crypto EU Lawmaker Eva Kaili Set to Lose Vice-Presidency Amid Corruption Probe
“I have stripped the Vice-President mentioned of any tasks and responsibilities related to their role as Vice-President,” Metsola told lawmakers Monday, without mentioning Kaili by name. A meeting of ...
Pro Crypto Member of European Parliament Arrested in Belgium on Corruption Allegations: Report
A pro crypto member of the European Parliament has reportedly been arrested in Belgium after being accused of corruption. According to a new report by local Belgian publication Le Soir, Greek Social D...
Cardano Creator Denies Ethereum-SEC Corruption Conspiracy in Ripple Case
Gamza Khanzadaev Charles Hoskinson once again denies corruption conspiracies in Ripple case The founder of the Cardano blockchain ecosystem, Charles Hoskinson, has once again spoken out on the subject...
XRP Lawyer Calls SEC “Innovation Killing Cesspool Of Corruption”
The lawsuit between the US SEC and Ripple is approaching its summary judgment. However, people linked with the case have been facing different kinds of allegations. XRP holders’ lawyer has come out to...
The European Parliament’s crypto ally arrested following corruption allegations
Eva Kaili, a vice president of the European Parliament and a crypto enthusiast, was arrested by Belgian police in connection with a suspected corruption scheme involving Qatar, AFP reported. The...
Trump Organization, owned by Donald Trump, convicted in tax fraud case
Two subsidiaries of the Trump Organization were convicted Tuesday by a jury in New York City of multiple crimes, including tax fraud, falsifying business records and conspiracy. The guilty verdicts on...
Washington’s Oil Price Cap Won’t Work-And Putin Knows It
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Lukoil stationary oil platform in the Caspian Sea AFP via Getty Images For the past several months the U.S. has been shopping around other advanced democra...
Here’s What Lies Ahead For Ukraine’s “Teenage Democracy”
KYIV, UKRAINE – 2022/11/11: People hold a banner that says “Kherson is Ukraine” celebrating the … [+] liberation of Kherson from Russian occupiers in central Kyiv. Ukrainian ar...
FTX autopsy triggers Hoskinson-Schwartz feud over allegations of SEC corruption
A Twitter spat erupted as Input Output CEO Charles Hoskinson commented over alleged SEC corruption, deriding the claim that the securities regulator singled out Ripple and the XRP token. John E. Deato...
AI Ethics And AI Law Deeply Disturbed By AI Used To Fraudulently Influence Or Corrupt Elections
AI has a dual-use possibility of further enabling free and fair elections, or gloomily producing … [+] elections with AI-powered corruption and fraud. getty Elections are vital to democracy. Rec...
Fake billionaire Justin Costello co-defendant settles SEC complaint
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards FBI Poster for Justin Costello FBI The Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit against a man accused of five separate penny stock p...
Sen. Bob Menendez Under Federal Investigation—Again
Topline Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is under federal investigation, his advisor confirmed Wednesday, seven years after the senator was previously indicted for alleged bribery and corruption—which prose...
New Russian Soldiers Issued Fake Body Armor
If you are a Russian soldier, you cannot rely on body armor to protect you. Because there is a good chance that it is either inadequate, missing or even, due to chronic corruption, a replica made for ...