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Report: Former Raiders CB Damon Arnette arrested on meth, firearm charges

Report: Former Raiders CB Damon Arnette arrested on meth, firearm charges

Damon Arnette has now been arrested several times since the Raiders selected him in the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette was arrested in Texas last month and charged with possession of meth and the unlawful carrying of a firearm, according to the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Arnette was arrested in the Dallas area on Jan. 6 at 3:30 a.m., per the report. It’s not clear specifically what led to the arrest. While… Source link

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Hornets F Miles Bridges has charges against him dropped

Hornets F Miles Bridges has charges against him dropped

Miles Bridges had all three criminal counts against him dropped Tuesday afternoon, according to a document filed in the Mecklenburg County (North Carolina) court. The state of North Carolina dropped its cases against the Charlotte Hornets forward due to “lack of sufficient evidence” against him, ESPN reported. Prosecutors were pursuing three charges against Bridges: domestic violence protective order violation, misdemeanor child abuse and injury to personal property. Neither the Hornets nor the… Source link

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Grand jury in Georgia delivers report on Trump, charges could come in next few months

Grand jury in Georgia delivers report on Trump, charges could come in next few months

Former President Donald Trump at a rally in Commerce, Ga., in March of last year. (Megan Varner/Getty Images) A Georgia special grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in that state has delivered its report to local judges, paving the way for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to potentially bring criminal charges against the former president and some of his allies in the next few months. The special grand jury completed its work… Source link

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SEC charges 8 social media influencers for $100M pump-and-dump stock scheme

SEC charges 8 social media influencers for $100M pump-and-dump stock scheme

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission filed parallel lawsuits against eight social media influencers, alleging they engaged in a pump-and-dump stock manipulation scheme that fleeced their followers out of $100 million. The SEC announced fraud charges on Wednesday against seven self-proclaimed “FinTwit” financial gurus on Twitter: Perry Matlock a/k/a “PJ Matlock;” Edward Constantin a/k/a “Edward Constantinescu” and “MrZackMorris;” Thomas… Source link

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SEC charges SBF with scheme to defraud investors out of $1.8 billion

SEC charges SBF with scheme to defraud investors out of $1.8 billion

Early Tuesday morning, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, alleging the 30-year-old disgraced founder of FTX orchestrated a scheme to defraud the company’s equity investors. “We allege that Sam Bankman-Fried built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto,” SEC Chair Gary Gensler said in a release. “The alleged fraud committed by Mr. Bankman-Fried is a clarion call to… Source link

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Former FTX CEO Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas after U.S. files charges

Former FTX CEO Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas after U.S. files charges

By Jasper Ward, Luc Cohen and Angus Berwick (Reuters) -FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the behest of U.S. prosecutors on Monday, the day before he was due to testify before Congress about the abrupt failure last month of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. The arrest marks a stunning fall from grace for the 30-year-old entrepreneur who rode a boom in bitcoin and other digital assets to become a billionaire many times over until FTX’s rapid… Source link

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40 states settle Google location-tracking charges for $392 million

40 states settle Google location-tracking charges for $392 million

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Search giant Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations, state attorneys general announced Monday. The states’ investigation was sparked by a 2018 Associated Press story, which found that Google continued to track people’s location data even after they opted out of such tracking by disabling a feature the company called “location history.” The attorneys general… Source link

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