May 2, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried says 63 to 78 months should guide sentencing for FTX fraud

Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried told a US judge on Tuesday that a sentence ranging from 63 to 78 months would be an appropriate punishment for the FTX founder’s conviction for stealing $8 billion from customers of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange. The lawyers for the jailed former billionaire, who turns 32 next week, made the request to US District Judge […]

Fire at multi-story building in Johannesburg leaves at least 63 dead, more than 40 injured

A fire at a five-story building in downtown Johannesburg Thursday morning left at least 73 people dead and more than 50 injured, city officials announced. The fire in South Africa’s largest city broke out around 1:30 a.m. local time, according to the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services. When firefighters arrived at the scene, crews […]

Thanks to McCain, Obamacare premiums to rise 15%, 63 counties to lose coverage in 2018

Obamacare, which could have been killed off last summer, were it not for the saving vote of Sen. John McCain of Arizona, is continuing its living-death death spiral and taking its unwilling consumers down for the ride. Insurance premiums under Obama’s Affordable Care Act are set to jump 15% in 2018 according to projections from the Congressional […]

63 Percent Of Independents Don’t Care About Trump’s ‘Locker Room’ Comments

Voters aren’t concerned about Republican nominee Donald Trump’s comments during a 2005 interview about women, according to a national NBC/Surveymonkey poll published Monday morning. A strong majority of 63 percent of Independent voters reported that Trump’s comments make no difference in their decision about who to support in November, compared to only 33 percent of […]

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