Bangladesh Bank has cautioned the public against multi-level marketing (MLM) schemes, highlighting their hallmarks—unrealistically high profits and referral-based commissions—as traits of pyramid or Ponzi schemes that often lead to significant financial losses for investors. The central bank issued the warning…[Continue Reading...]
Tasked with convincing the Second Circuit Court of Appeals that the 14 charges her client had been convicted of should be overturned, public defender Allegra Glashausser needed to pull one heck of a legal rabbit out of her hat during…[Continue Reading...]
Taipei, March. 8 (CNA) Two Taiwanese Unification Church followers have been arrested in China and are unable to return to Taiwan as of Friday, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) said. Following the arrest, the SEF received a request for assistance…[Continue Reading...]
Freeform's new documentary series How I Escaped My Cult has brought to us Kristel Leonard's story. The docu-series highlights the stories of ex-cult members who managed to break free from their cults and have come forward to share the story…[Continue Reading...]
I’m not – I’ll bet a pound to a penny that Xi Jinping has never heard of me, has never tasked anyone to contact me, or people like me, and, to be honest, probably doesn’t even care about Falun Gong…[Continue Reading...]
MANHATTAN (CN) — Public defender Allegra Glashausser told a panel of federal appellate judges Wednesday morning, “The failure to provide magic is not criminal fraud.” It’s almost certainly the first time such an argument has been uttered to the Second…[Continue Reading...]
Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, a senior IDF officer in charge of encouraging ultra-Orthodox enlistment says that of around 10,000 draft orders sent to Haredim since the summer, only 177 have so far enlisted in the…[Continue Reading...]
The following is an excerpt from prepared remarks submitted to the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. To read the full testimony, download the PDF on this page. This is an important topic in light of…[Continue Reading...]
The owners of OneTaste, a San Francisco company whose “orgasmic meditation” retreats were made infamous by a Netflix documentary and a federal indictment, are selling their 162-acre Mendocino compound for $12 million. A recently posted listing for “The Land,” a…[Continue Reading...]
When a splinter group of Mormon fundamentalists founded the town of Pinesdale more than 60 years ago, the hundreds of acres in the Bitterroot Valley were seen as a secluded haven, a place where its followers could live communally and…[Continue Reading...]
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