Lawsuits
Roche alleges counterfeit diabetes medical devices were sold on Amazon
Roche Diabetes Care Inc. Accu-Chek brand glucose test strips are arranged for a photograph in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, April 4, 2019. Alex Flynn | Bloomberg | Getty Images Roche, one of the world’s largest biotech companies, said “dangerous counterfeits” of its diabetes medical devices ended up for sale on […]
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DOJ settles CityMD Covid fraud allegations for $12 million
Persons wait in in a queue to enter CityMD, a health and fitness clinic that features coronavirus illness (COVID-19) tests, on the Higher West Aspect as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York Town, U.S., December 19, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Walgreens-backed CityMD will fork out $12.04 million to settle […]
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Bitcoin billionaire Michael Saylor settles DC tax fraud case for $40 million
Billionaire bitcoin investor Michael Saylor and the company he established, MicroStrategy, will spend $40 million to settle a tax fraud lawsuit brought by the Washington, D.C., lawyer common, the AG’s business introduced Monday. Between 2005 and 2021, Saylor allegedly evaded over $25 million in District of Columbia profits taxes by posing as a resident of […]
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Retired U.S. Navy admiral charged in bribery scheme with tech CEOs for $500,000 salary
Retired Navy Admiral Robert Burke. Courtesy: U.S. Navy A retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral, who was once the military branch’s second-highest-ranking officer, was arrested on Friday for a bribery scheme with two tech CEOs, the Department of Justice announced. From 2020 to 2022, Robert Burke, a 62-year-old resident of Coconut Creek, Fla., allegedly used his […]
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Dinesh D’Souza election fraud film, book ‘2000 Mules’ pulled after defamation suit
Dinesh D’Souza attends the DC premiere of his film, “Death of a Nation,” at E Street Cinema on August 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. Shannon Finney | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The conservative gadfly Dinesh D’Souza’s film and book “2000 Mules,” which pushes false conspiracies about voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, has been […]
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Biden, Democrats react to Trump’s guilty verdict: ‘No one is above the law’
The Biden campaign wasted no time slamming former President Donald Trump and making a plea for campaign donations, minutes after the guilty verdict in Trump’s New York hush money trial. “In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law,” Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said in a statement on Thursday evening. […]
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South Korean tech conglomerate SK Inc. surges 16% soon after chair’s $1 billion divorce settlement
Chey Tae-gained, billionaire and chairman of SK Team, prepares to leave soon after speaking through the Nikkei Discussion board Upcoming of Asia in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, May 23, 2024. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Photographs Shares of SK Inc., just one of South Korea’s major conglomerates, surged as much as 16% on Thursday […]
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Jim Chanos phone calls accommodate accusing him of embezzling resources ‘baseless and defamatory’
Crucial Points Jim Chanos was sued by a previous husband or wife accusing him of working with his company as a “piggy lender” with $10 million of outstanding financial loans that he borrowed from his company above a lot more than a decade, according to a Bloomberg Information report. Conlon Holdings, a Chicago-based organization run […]
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E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer responds to Trump Memorial Day post: ‘All options are on the table’
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media amid his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City, U.S., on May 16, 2024. Angela Weiss | Via Reuters Donald Trump on Monday again denied rape and defamation claims against him […]
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Fat Brands, chair Andy Wiederhorn indicted in $47 million ‘sham’ loan scheme
Federal authorities on Friday charged Fat Brands and its chair Andy Wiederhorn of committing a brazen scheme that netted him $47 million in bogus loans from the restaurant company that owns Fatburger, Johnny Rockets and Twin Peaks. Fat Brands, Wiederhorn and a few other people were criminally indicted by a federal grand jury in Los […]
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