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Bloomberg For Madoff Victims, ‘Tragedy Goes On’ After Scammer’s Death (Bloomberg) — Bernard Madoff’s death in prison Wednesday doesn’t change much for his victims, many of whom are still waiting to be made whole on their share of $20 billion that vanished with the con man’s 2008 arrest.The recovery effort, still underway in court more than a decade later, has been remarkably successful at recouping the lost principal, under the circumstances. But that’s little comfort to… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Texas came uncomfortably close to another round of rolling blackouts Tuesday night because grid operators misjudged the weather. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages most of the state’s grid, had counted on a mild cold front sweeping the state, lowering demand for power. It didn’t happen. As a result, demand on the grid was about 3,000 megawatts higher than anticipated — or the equivalent of 600,000 homes. The forecasting error, coming as 25% of power… Source link

Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Google for years operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company’s digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage over competitors, according to court documents filed in a Texas antitrust lawsuit. The program, known as “Project Bernanke,” wasn’t disclosed to publishers who sold ads through Google’s ad-buying systems. It generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the… Source link

The program, known as “Project Bernanke,” wasn’t disclosed to publishers who sold ads through Google’s ad-buying systems. It generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the company annually, the documents show. In its lawsuit, Texas alleges that the project gave Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc., an unfair competitive advantage over rivals. The documents filed this week were part of Google’s initial response to the Texas-led antitrust lawsuit, which was filed in… Source link

Google for years operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company’s digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage over competitors, according to court documents filed in a Texas antitrust lawsuit. The program, known as “Project Bernanke,” wasn’t disclosed to publishers who sold ads through Google’s ad-buying systems. It generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the company annually, the… Source link

The Guardian Texas court to hear appeal from woman sentenced to prison for voting while ineligible Crystal Mason was sentenced to five years in prison for voting while inadvertently ineligible in 2016 Crystal Mason said she did not know she was ineligible to vote in 2016. Photograph: Ed Pilkington/The Guardian Sign up for the Guardian’s Fight to Vote newsletter. Texas’ highest criminal appeals court said Wednesday it would hear an appeal from a Texas woman who was sentenced to five years… Source link

MMA Weekly UFC 260 results: Francis Ngannou KO’s Stipe Miocic, becomes new baddest man on the planet Stipe Miocic was the baddest man on the planet heading into Saturday night’s event at The Apex in Las Vegas. Now that the UFC 260 results are in, there is a new baddest man on the planet. UFC 260 results: Francis Ngannou lands brutal KO Francis Ngannou showed massive improvement in his skill and his approach in taking out Stipe Miocic at UFC 260. It was evident from the opening bell that… Source link

The PGA TOUR heads to TPC San Antonio for this week’s Valero Texas Open. It’s a short journey for the stars in the field who played in Austin last week. They will return to the Lone Star State in May. There is plenty of course history to lean on this week as TPC San Antonio has hosted here since 2010. However, most of those editions were not played a week before the Masters. There are few added elements to the course setup that come into play when that’s the case. So, instead of relying too… Source link

Each time Texas attempted to stomp back into it, South Carolina answered. The No. 1 seed Gamecocks handled the six seed with ease in the Hemisfair region, 62-34, and are moving on to the Final Four. Texas didn’t score over the final 12:30 of the game. South Carolina, which finished the 2020 season as the No. 1 team in the country, plays the winner of No. 1 overall seed Stanford and No. 2 Louisville.   South Carolina shuts down Texas in final quarter South Carolina advanced with a balanced… Source link

There is no greater sleeping giant in all of college basketball than the University of Texas — a program so ripe with potential that it consistently attracts high-quality dreamers … who eventually leave vexed and frustrated. It’s been that way for, what, 70 years? For a long time, its best attribute was hiring Abe Lemons, whose actual name was just A.E. Lemons, two initials that stood for nothing so he inserted the “b”. A product of the Oklahoma dust bowl of the Great Depression, he used… Source link