Fraud
Exiled Chinese billionaire and darling of the U.S. far right Guo Wengui has been found guilty of masterminding a massive securities fraud to fund his lavish lifestyle.
The juror was dismissed after a woman dropped a bag of $120,000 off at her home, promising more if she voted to find the case’s seven defendants not guilty.
The 32-year-old says a shady blogger misled her into signing away her life rights while she was in prison.
Carlos Watson’s latest machinations take “sandbagging and flouting the Court’s orders to the extreme,” prosecutors said.
The former MSNBC daytime anchor may have eaten a slice of humble pie during jury selection for his fraud case on Monday.
“Hollywood Con Queen” recounts one of the last decade’s weirder scams, where one man posed as big-time women producers to pocket millions and lure victims into strange phone sex.
“It seems to me that, no matter what I do, I find conflict,” disbarred attorney Audrey Thomas told The Daily Beast of her recent issue with Spirit Airlines.