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How to tell if you’re one of millions who could be owed compensation over huge car finance mis-selling scandal

  • March 13, 2025

MILLIONS of borrowers could be set to receive thousands of pounds in compensation due to the car finance mis-selling scandal. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched an investigation last year into whether motorists were unknowingly overcharged when they took out car loans. 1 The investigation focuses on past practices where banks allowed car dealerships and brokers to set their own interest

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Investors

Dallas man defrauded investors out of $27 million in oil, gas, water rights scams

  • August 28, 2024

A Dallas man pleaded guilty this week to defrauding investors out of more than $27 million in oil and gas and water rights scams. Dennis James Rogers II, 35, concocted phony business opportunities and convinced investors to hand over millions of dollars, which he spent on items like a private jet, a custom home builder

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Crypto

US court orders FTX to pay $12.7bn to customers | Crypto News

  • August 8, 2024

FTX has committed to a bankruptcy liquidation that will repay customers whose deposits were locked during its late 2022 collapse. A United States court has ordered bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to pay $12.7bn in relief to its customers, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has said. FTX drew customers in with “an illusion that it was

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Loans

‘Broke’ Shannen Doherty died in debt after she was forced to take out $3.15m loans while sick in messy divorce

  • July 17, 2024

CASH-STRAPPED Shannen Doherty died while in debt as she was forced to take out an unconventional $3 million mortgage and $150,00 bank loan while battling cancer, The U.S. Sun has learned. Doherty was in a long-running battle for her life and was fighting her ex-husband, Kurt Iswarienko, in court until her last breath. Beloved Beverly

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Finance

NRA ex-finance chief who approved Wayne LaPierre’s jet-set spending must pay millions in damages

  • July 9, 2024

The National Rifle Association’s former finance czar, Wilson “Woody” Phillips, has been banned for a decade from managing money for any nonprofit company in New York, the state’s attorney general said Tuesday. Phillips agreed to the ban in May, three months after a jury found him liable in a scheme to have the influential gun rights organization

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Finance

Vatican chief of staff testifies in UK finance trial, admits to false invoice and blames a deputy

  • July 4, 2024

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ chief of staff became one of the highest-ranking Holy See officials to testify in a foreign court Thursday, telling a British tribunal about the negotiations at the heart of the Vatican’s so-called “trial of the century,” admitting he filed a false invoice and pointing a finger at his one-time deputy

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Finance

Vatican chief of staff testifies in UK finance trial, points finger at deputy who escaped unscathed

  • July 4, 2024

ROME — Pope Francis’ chief of staff became one of the highest-ranking Holy See officials to testify in a foreign court Thursday, giving a British tribunal a detailed explanation of the negotiations at the heart of the Vatican’s so-called “trial of the century” and pointing a finger at his onetime deputy who escaped the scandal

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Investment

SA couple says it’s been nothing but bad news since investing in Good News Burgers

  • June 25, 2024

SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio couple who invested $25,000 in a local restaurant company has yet to recoup any money and is no longer receiving messages from the then-owner of the company, they told KSAT Investigates. Christine and Jason Douglas said they were approached in 2022 by Robert Walker, who offered them a five-percent

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Funds

Tennessee sheriff indicted for profiting from inmate labor, misusing funds

  • June 12, 2024

Officials say the sheriff of a rural Tennessee county illegally profited from the work of jail and prison inmates under his care and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the prison without permission By ADRIAN SAINZ Associated Press June 12, 2024, 5:51 PM ET • 3 min read MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The

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Funds

Ten individuals charged with theft of federal program funds from Tuskegee University

  • May 14, 2024

Today, United States Attorney Jonathan S. Ross announced that a grand jury has indicted ten individuals for theft of federal program funding from Tuskegee University. Tuskegee University, located in Macon County, Alabama, receives federal funding in excess of $10,000 per calendar year. The individuals named in the indictment are: (1) Wanda Tyner Hairston, 51, from Auburn, Alabama; (2)

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