Pin ItemailprintIn the wake of yesterday’s government shutdown of Megaupload.com, it has been revealed that super-producer Swizz Beatz was the website’s CEO. Beatz, thought, was not among those indicted by the Department of Justice and doesn’t own a stake in the company. Swizz Beatz, whose real name is Kasseem Dean (husband to R&B star Alicia [...]
Sex abuse charges have been filed against Penn State coaching legend and Second Mile charity founder Jerry Sandusky, who arrested on Saturday. The charges follow a lengthy grand jury investigation that began when a teen alleged inappropriate contact against the 67-year-old former coach. During said investigation, other allegations from 1998 came to the surface as [...]
Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta has just been indicted on charges of insider trading, according to U.S. prosecutors. The Federal Bureau of Investigation says Gupta has been charged with six counts of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Gupta surrendered this morning. “Today’s surrender is the latest step in an initiative launched by [...]
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A grand jury today indicted Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City on a misdemeanor charge of failure to report child abuse. The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph also was charged with failure to report. The charges, announced at an afternoon press conference, make Finn, leader of the 134,000-member diocese, the highest-ranking Catholic official ever indicted [...]
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Sanford Wallace, the man known as the “Spam King”, has turned himself in to police after being indicted for devising a nefarious plan that sent over 27 million unsolicited junk messages to Facebook users. Wallace, 43, surrendered to FBI agents to face 11 counts of fraud, intentional damage to a protected computer, and criminal contempt [...]
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Donald Lapre, a Phoenix man and renowned infomercial marketer, is alleged to have scammed nearly 227,000 people out of about $51 million via his company “The Greatest Vitamin in the World”. (UPDATE: Lapre has been found dead in his cell) Lapre has been indicted for conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and transactional money [...]
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A federal grand jury has just indicted former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards. The charges come on the heels of a lengthy, two-year investigation into whether Edwards used political contributions to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter. The extramarital affair reportedly began in early 2006. Records indicate that Hunter was hired [...]
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A source close to John Edwards says that the Department of Justice is planning to pursue criminal charges against the former presidential hopeful. The DOJ, which launched an investigation into Edwards two years ago, says Edwards violated campaign laws by using over $1 million in political donations to try and cover up his extramarital affair [...]
A judge has just granted former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn bail. He will post $1 million as part of the deal and stay confined to his wife’s apartment in New York City, which will be monitored by armed guards. Strauss-Kahn also had to provide $5 million in collateral. He had waived his extradition [...]
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If you love to play online poker, you’re kind of screwed. The founders of the three largest poker websites on the internet were indicted today in what could sound the death knell for the business. Eleven execs at Poker Stars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and several other companies were hit with charges of bank [...]
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Elisa Baker was indicted in North Carolina today on charges of second-degree murder in the death of her 10-year-old stepdaughter, Zahra Baker. Zahra had been reported missing in October and some of her dismembered body parts were discovered one month later. Elisa Baker, 42, “desecrated the victim’s body to hinder detection, investigation and prosecution of [...]
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Amy Locane of Melrose Place fame has been indicted on charges stemming from that fatal car crash in New Jersey that Blippitt first told you about back in June. Amy Locane-Bovenizer, 39, was indicted and charged Thursday with aggravated manslaughter and assault by auto. At the time, Locane admitted that she had been drinking wine [...]
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