Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is facing a formal campaign finance complaint over money sent from the company that syndicates his podcast to a political action committee supporting his reelection bid. The
NEW YORK (AP) — Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. Though he described Bankman-Fried as “extremely smart,” U.S. District Judge
A MASSACHUSETTS woman is begging the court to allow her to build and live in a tiny home on her property — but they say it is “uninhabitable.” Tiny homes have exploded in popularity in recent years, but finding the right location to set up small structures can be harder than some people realize. Jennifer
A Montenegrin court has ruled that cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon should be handed over to his native South Korea, the latest twist in the months-long legal procedure that followed the arrest of the Terraform Labs founder in the Balkan nation last year By PREDRAG MILIC Associated Press March 7, 2024, 10:29 AM ET • 2
NEW YORK — Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyer said Tuesday that a suggested 100-year prison sentence for the FTX founder by an arm of the court is “grotesque” and “barbaric” and at most a term of a few years behind bars is appropriate for cryptocurrency crimes that the California man still disputes. In presentence arguments filed just
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump could be at risk of losing some of his prized properties if he can’t pay his staggering New York civil fraud penalty. With interest, he owes the state nearly $454 million — and the amount is going up $87,502 each day until he pays. New York Attorney General Letitia
Terraform Labs has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, less than two years after a collapse of the company’s cryptocurrency devastated traders around the world January 22, 2024, 10:30 AM ET • 2 min read NEW YORK — Terraform Labs has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, less than two years after a collapse of
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Richie DeVillier’s property north of Houston has been owned by his family for generations and had never flooded, but that all changed when the state revamped Interstate 10. His rice farm first flooded
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s highest court on Monday upheld the search of Google users’ keyword history to identify suspects in a 2020 fatal arson fire, an approach that critics have called a digital dragnet that threatens to undermine people’s privacy and their constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. However the Colorado Supreme Court cautioned