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Forkast NewsCEO of South Korea’s V Global US$2 bln crypto pyramid scheme gets 25 years in prison

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Lee Byung-gul, the chief executive officer of South Korea’s failed cryptocurrency exchange V Global, will serve 25 years in prison after his conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court of Korea on Friday. The court upheld an appeal court’s sentence…[Continue Reading...]

Allison Mack was “a seeker”: “Infamous” host on being NXIVM’s chosen reporter, interviewing members

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Afew years ago, Vanessa Grigoriadis started to tell the story of a lifetime. That story would take her to a suburb north of Albany, New York, and to a mysterious location in Mexico. That story would put her in front…[Continue Reading...]

Infinity 2 Global, or I2G, purportedly a multi-level marketing company, which the United States proved at trial was operating as a pyramid scheme.

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On November 13, 2019, a federal grand jury in returned a thirteen-count superseding indictment charging Richard Maike, Doyce Barnes, Richard Anzalone, Faraday Hosseinipour, Dennis Dvorin, and Jason Syn in connection with an alleged pyramid scheme.  Maike was also charged with…[Continue Reading...]

Three militia members sentenced in plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Whitmer

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Three men were sentenced Thursday for providing material support for a terrorist act and two other state-level charges related to the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, according to a statement from the Michigan attorney general’s office. Pete…[Continue Reading...]

Appeals court upholds sentences for NXIVM sex cult leaders Keith Raniere, Clare Bronfman

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A federal appeals court Friday upheld the convictions and sentences for NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere and his co-conspirator, Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman. Raniere, who was sentenced to 120 years in prison after his conviction in Brooklyn federal…[Continue Reading...]

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