Epoch Times embroiled in alleged cryptocurrency money laundering scheme – The Washington Post
The chief financial officer of right-wing news outlet The Epoch Times has been arrested and indicted on charges of using cryptocurrency to launder $67 million in criminal proceeds, the Department of Justice announced. Said Monday. Weidong Guan, 61, also known as Bill Guan, is charged with one count of money laundering conspiracy and two counts […]
CFO Of Newspaper Epoch Times Faces Charges In Alleged $67M Money Laundering Scheme
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a press release on Monday that The Epoch Times’ Chief Financial Officer, Weidong Guan, also known as Bill Guan, was arrested for his alleged involvement in a money laundering scheme. Guan, 61, was arrested and charged with participating in a money laundering scheme that illegally obtained at least […]
Robot breaks Guinness World Record for solving Rubik’s Cube — 10 times faster than any human
That was fair and just. A specially designed robot from Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has set an astonishing Guinness World Record by solving a Rubik’s Cube in a split second. Champion TOKUI High-speed, high-precision synchronous motion test robot Turned a colorful six-sided puzzle In just 0.305 seconds, the MIT bot 0.38 seconds in 2018. it […]
T.J. Simers, former Los Angeles Times sports columnist, dead at 73
Former Los Angeles Times sports columnist TJ Simmers has died at the age of 73. According to Lance Pugmire of boxingscene.com:. Simmers had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. According to Awful Announcement. “Longtime @latimes sports editor Bill Dwyer just let me know that legendary columnist TJ Simmers has passed away,” Pugmire posted to X. […]
Blaze News original: 10 times ‘defund the police’ backfired
Less than two weeks after George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody in May 2020, prominent city council members came together with activists and vowed to begin dismantling the Minneapolis Police Department. “Decades of police reform efforts have proven that the Minneapolis Police Department cannot reform or be held accountable for its actions,” the council […]
Easy Money and Hard Economic Times
Editors’ Note: As the article below indicates, a new magisterial history of interest rates and central banking has been published. The author, Edward Chancellor wrote a previous book just before the last great financial crash called Devil Take the Hindmost, which was extremely timely if not prescient. This new book is extremely critical of current […]
Suspects In Custody After Machete Stabbings In Times Square: REPORT
Police have arrested three suspects in connection with a machete attack that took place in Times Square on Thursday, according to the authorities. The victim was stabbed in both legs at around 10:00 a.m. and was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, NBC New York reported. It is not known whether the victim […]
Bad Habit by Alana S Portero review – hard times in Madrid | Fiction in translation
aLana S. Portero’s debut novel became a minor sensation when it was published in Spain last year: it spent seven weeks on the bestseller list, won multiple awards and was translated into 13 languages. The protagonist, Alex, is a kid growing up in Madrid during the transition from dictatorship to democracy. But instead of the […]
RBC Canadian Open: Round 3 tee times, as Robert MacIntyre, Ryan Fox co-lead
Robert McIntyre and Ryan Fox have never led 36 holes on the PGA Tour before, but they enter the third round of the RBC Canadian Open tied for the lead at 10 under par. The Scotsman shot into the lead after a morning round of 4-under 66 on Friday. McIntyre, batted by his father, had […]
Red Lobster tries to keep Times Square location open, NYC rent battle
Red Lobster is fighting to stay open in Times Square, but the bankrupt seafood chain has just weeks to finalize a deal because its landlord is trying to double the rent, according to information obtained by The Washington Post. The restaurant’s lease at Crossroads of the World expires June 30, and the company is negotiating […]