The cavalry is here, and megadonors on both sides of the aisle are donating massive amounts of cash to politicians and outside groups in what’s expected to be the most expensive election ever, new filings show. Businessman Timothy Mellon, who has been a major donor to super PACs backing both former President Donald Trump and […]
The last time William “Doc” Pickard and I talked, about 18 months ago, he was starting work on a book about 100 Black entrepreneurs from 1850 to 1950 — people most of us never heard of who had made their mark with unique products or inventions. Pickard, one of the most successful Black entrepreneurs in the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman who prosecutors say bribed Sen. Bob Menendez testified Monday that the Democrat told him in summer 2019 that he’d look into a state criminal probe threatening his business and later assured him there was no threat and boasted about saving him. At the time, Jose Uribe said […]
A New Jersey businessman testified on Friday that he bribed Sen. Bob Menendez, telling a jury in the New Jersey Democrat’s bribery trial that he gave the lawmaker’s wife a Mercedes in exchange for his influence. Jose Uribe, who pleaded guilty in March and is cooperating with prosecutors, was asked on the witness stand whom […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey businessman who pleaded guilty in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez began testifying Friday as the key witness in the month-old trial in Manhattan, telling a jury that another businessman mentioned the Democrat and his wife in 2018 as he told him that in return for $200,000 […]
Thick smoke slows traffic along Interstate 35 through the Kansas Flint Hills each spring when ranchers set the prairie afire so the grass will grow back thick and tall on millions of rolling acres that have changed little since herds of wild bison roamed where beef cattle now graze. Bill Haw Sr. never ceased to […]
South Mississippi businessman Ted Cain and other defendants have reimbursed the federal government $14.2 million, plus post-judgment interest, for defrauding Medicare while operating Stone County Hospital in Wiggins. Cain, who owns the hospital, and controls nursing homes and other businesses through a management company, refinanced the 134-bed Woodland Village Nursing Center in Diamondhead for $14 […]
By Jody Godoy (Reuters) -Exiled Chinese businessman Miles Guo scammed his followers out of more than $1 billion after Chinese authorities seized his property, a federal prosecutor said on Friday as Guo’s fraud trial began in New York. Assistant U.S. Attorney Micah Fergenson told jurors that Guo, who was a real estate developer in China […]
A Manhattan businessman who masterminded a paid hit on his former protege will spend the rest of his life in federal prison. Qing Ming “Allen” Yu, 56, and accomplice Zhe Zhang, 36, were sentenced Wednesday to mandatory life terms after a Brooklyn Federal Court jury found them guilty last October for the Queens murder-for-hire of […]
Top Border Patrol officials who are under investigation for their ties to a Mexican tequila mogul also attended parties hosted by his friend, a wealthy businessman involved in cross-border trade, raising questions about whether there is a conflict of interest, two sources familiar with the relationship told NBC News. Mexican American businessman Eduardo Garza, who owns Uni-Trade, which advises […]
The man charged in a federal fraud case, along with the prominent, late El Paso businessman Russell Vandenberg, told a judge Wednesday that he regrets following orders from his former boss. He also apologized to investors hurt by the alleged fraud. It was “inherently poor judgment in believing he would pay the money back in […]
A wealthy Texas businessman — with few connections to Oklahoma ― is one of four Republicans trying to unseat incumbent 4th District Congressman Tom Cole. The GOP primary election is set for Tuesday, June 18. Paul Bondar, a self-described patriot and family man from Texas, said he now lives in Oklahoma. Bondar, who grew up […]