All posts tagged "Fraude"

New York (AFP) - He was the face of cryptocurrency, and a young one at that -- a media darling seemingly destined to unite the sector. But the stunning rise of Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX platform would be matched by an equally spectacular fall, after it was revealed that billions of dollars of clients' funds had been moved and spent without their consent. A federal jury in New York has convicted Bankman-Fried of leading the fraudulent scheme, for which 31-year-old former tycoon now faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars. Before it all came crashing down, the nati......

New York (AFP) - Nine days after Donald Trump announced he was about to be arrested over a hush-money payment to a porn star, the world still awaits what would be one of the most famous police mugshots in history.  The Republican former US president, who has never been shy about grabbing the limelight, sent newsrooms in the United States and beyond into a spin on March 18 when he announced he was three days away from being brought before a New York judge. Trump, it turned out, had bad information or was simply guessing, and his equally baseless claim a week later that the case had been dropped......