• Men accused in Carlos Ghosn escape plot face skeptical US judge

    Men accused in Carlos Ghosn escape plot face skeptical US judge

    A federal judge in Boston said on Thursday she would likely reject a last-ditch effort by two men to avoid being extradited to Japan to face charges that they helped former Nissan Chairman Carlos
  • Apollo’s Leon Black says giving Epstein a second chance was ‘a terrible mistake’

    Apollo’s Leon Black says giving Epstein a second chance was ‘a terrible mistake’

    Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black said Thursday that giving Jeffrey Epstein a second chance following the late financier’s imprisonment in 2008 for soliciting an underage prostitute in
  • US judge delays extradition to Carlos Ghosn accomplices to Japan

    US judge delays extradition to Carlos Ghosn accomplices to Japan

    A judge on Thursday ordered the feds to wait to extradite the American father-son duo accused of helping ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn flee Japan last year.US District Judge Indira Talwani approved a
  • The biggest Hollywood scandals of the eighties

    The biggest Hollywood scandals of the eighties

    Where there is fame and fortune, there are scandals and scandals. Over time, anger usually erupts, and scandals fall into oblivion. We recall here six scandals that did everything wrong in the 1980s.
  • Lori Loughlin’s cushy prison offers yoga, pilates and music lessons

    Lori Loughlin’s cushy prison offers yoga, pilates and music lessons

    The his-and-hers California federal prisons where a judge has agreed to send Lori Loughlin and her husband to serve their upcoming sentences in the college admissions scandal are hardly Alcatraz. Both are low-security slammers within two hours of their $9.5 million mansion in a gated community west of Los Angeles. If approved by the federal …
  • Former JPMorgan trader sentenced to prison for currency rigging

    Former JPMorgan trader sentenced to prison for currency rigging

    A former JPMorgan Chase foreign exchange trader was sentenced Thursday to eight months in prison, following his November 2019 conviction for conspiring with traders at other banks to rig currency trades. Akshay Aiyer, 37, was also sentenced to two years supervised release and fined $150,000 by Manhattan Federal Judge John Koeltl. Prosecutors had sought up …
  • Lori Loughlin’s request to serve sentence at California prison approved

    Lori Loughlin’s request to serve sentence at California prison approved

    Lori Loughlin has been approved to serve her upcoming sentence at a federal prison in Victorville, Calif. — her first choice of slammers, according to new court docs. A judge has signed off on the “Full House” actress’ request to do her time at the facility, which is the federal lockup nearest to her home, …
  • Former Volkswagen CEO to face charges of organized commercial fraud

    Former Volkswagen CEO to face charges of organized commercial fraud

    Former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn will face charges of conspiracy to commit organized commercial fraud with a high likelihood of conviction, a court probing the carmaker’s diesel emissions scandal said on Wednesday. A court in Braunschweig, Germany, near where Volkswagen is headquartered, expanded the list of charges beyond fraud to include organized commercial fraud, …
  • White House sex scandals were a thing long before Bill Clinton

    White House sex scandals were a thing long before Bill Clinton

    The president was inside a closet just off the Oval Office with a random blond woman when his wife appeared in the hallway just outside. Suspicious that something was up, the wife demanded entry into his office. The Secret Service agent standing guard, however, refused, telling the missus she’d have to go around to the …
  • Malaysia drops criminal charges against Goldman Sachs over 1MDB bond sales

    Malaysia drops criminal charges against Goldman Sachs over 1MDB bond sales

    Malaysian prosecutors on Friday withdrew criminal charges against three Goldman Sachs units accused of misleading investors over $6.5 billion in bond sales they helped organize for a state fund, the Bernama state news agency reported. The move comes after Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $3.9 billion to Malaysia to settle a probe into its alleged …