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"El impacto comunitario de la policía predictiva", difundido por Investor News, se alza con un galardón La corresponsal Aitana Vargas recibió anoche dos galardones del Club de Prensa de Los Ángeles (LA Press Club) en una gala que premió los mejores trabajos periodísticos del sur de California y que contó con la presencia de grandes personalidades del mundo del periodismo...

AN IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 22, 2021, Hadari Oshri –Marc Lubaszka’s business partner– filed a civil harassment restraining order (CHRO) against Investor News reporter Aitana Vargas to stop the publication of her investigative series “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar crime,” and any subsequent installments or future media coverage. On August 3, 2021, Vargas filed an anti-SLAPP...

El Sindicato Nacional de Escritores de EE. UU. (NWU, por sus siglas en inglés) apela al espíritu democrático y al rigor periodístico y hace un llamado urgente para que las cabeceras españolas contrasten la información antes de difundir informaciones sobre cualquier dirigente o fuerza política incluyendo el Presidente español, Pedro Sánchez. Nuestro llamado y apoyo al manifiesto en contra del...

Spouse purchased stock using non-public information about planned merger Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission this week charged Tyler Loudon of Houston, Texas, with insider trading ahead of a February 2023 announcement that London-based oil and gas company BP p.l.c. agreed to acquire TravelCenters of America Inc., a full-service truck stop and travel center company headquartered in Ohio....

Six Texas men were sentenced a few days ago for their roles in a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain more than $20 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans that the Small Business Administration (SBA) guaranteed under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Hamza Abbas, 31, Ammas Uddin, 31, and Arham Uddin, 27, all of Richmond, were...

A federal jury convicted a California man yesterday for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by billing $2.8 million for hospice services that patients did not need. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Dr. John Thropay, 74, of Arcadia, was the medical director of several hospice companies, including Blue Sky Hospice Inc. located in Van...

A federal jury in Atlanta convicted a Georgia man and woman yesterday for their roles in an over $11 million Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud scheme. Teldrin Foster, 42, of Decatur, was convicted of bank fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured financial institution, and money laundering in connection with...

Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that registered investment adviser Van Eck Associates Corporation has agreed to pay a $1.75 million civil penalty to settle charges that it failed to disclose a social media influencer’s role in the launch of its new exchange-traded fund (ETF). According to the SEC’s order, in March 2021, Van Eck Associates...

Florida-based company agrees to settle charge concerning interest feature on crypto asset accounts Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against TradeStation Crypto, Inc., based in Plantation, Florida, for failing to register the offer and sale of a crypto lending product that allowed U.S. investors to deposit or purchase crypto assets in a TradeStation account in...

Los Ángeles (CA) – La Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) de España tiene en el punto de mira a una serie de campañas publicitarias distribuidas a través de X, anteriormente conocida como Twitter, que pretenden estafar a los consumidores con suculentas inversiones en criptomoneda. Los anuncios publicados en la red social explotan la imagen y el nombre de...