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Tag: Frauds and Swindling

Sunny Balwani, No. 2 Theranos Executive, Is Sentenced for Fraud

Ramesh Balwani, the former chief operating officer of the failed blood testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison...

Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Theranos Fraud

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the failed blood-testing start-up Theranos, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on...

Private Medicare Plans Misled Customers Into Signing Up, Senate Report Says

Companies selling private Medicare plans to older adults have posed as the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies, misled customers about the size...

Education Department wipes out $4 billion in ITT Tech student loans.

The Education Department sent a claim this week to DeVry University, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains, seeking $24 million to...

Why Alex Jones’s Trial Won’t Stop the Spread of Lies

If it hadn’t been so excruciatingly sad, Alex Jones’s defamation trial might have been cathartic.Mr. Jones, the supplement-slinging conspiracy theorist, was ordered to pay...

Don’t Expect Alex Jones’s Comeuppance to Stop Lies

If it hadn’t been so excruciatingly sad, Alex Jones’s defamation trial might have been cathartic.Mr. Jones, the supplement-slinging conspiracy theorist, was ordered to pay...

On the Docket: Atlanta v. Trumpworld

ATLANTA — The criminal investigation into efforts by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies to overturn his election loss in Georgia has...

Theranos Executive Ramesh Balwani Found Guilty of 12 Counts of Fraud

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Ramesh Balwani, a former top executive at Theranos, was found guilty on Thursday of 12 counts of fraud, in a...

Orlando Museum Director Loses Job After Jean-Michel Basquiat Dispute

Aaron De Groft, the director and chief executive of the Orlando Museum of Art, was removed from his post Tuesday night, just days after...

Government to Cancel $6 Billion in Student Loans for Defrauded Borrowers

Around 200,000 former students who attended schools that they said had defrauded them will have $6 billion in federal loans canceled under a sweeping...

Closing Statements Begin in Trial of Sunny Balwani

For months, Ramesh Balwani’s lawyers have tried to distinguish him from Elizabeth Holmes, his former girlfriend and business partner at the failed blood-testing...

Anna Sorokin Talks About Making Art

Down a narrow hallway packed with lockers and plumes of marijuana and cigarette smoke, at A2Z Delancey, a small pop-up art gallery on the...

Elizabeth Holmes’s Ex-Boyfriend Set to Go on Trial in Theranos Case

Elizabeth Holmes was a star entrepreneur whose trial for defrauding investors in her blood-testing start-up became one of the biggest Silicon Valley spectacles since...

Fraud Is Flourishing on Zelle. The Banks Say It’s Not Their Problem.

Another Wells Fargo customer, Julia Gibson, lost $2,500 to a similar scam in October. After she reported the fraud to the bank, it gave...

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