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Brown University trustee quits board over Israel divestment vote

Top hedge fund manager Joseph Edelman plans to resign from Brown University's board of trustees in protest at an upcoming vote on whether the Ivy League school should divest from investments in companies with business ties to Israel. Edelman, who founded Perceptive Advisors, which specializes in health care and biotechnology, Written in the Wall Street […]

‘Dolton Dictator’ Tiffany Henyard’s former assistant, town trustee betrays her over ‘unethical, predatory behavior’ amid lavish spending accusations

Embattled “Dictator of Dolton” Mayor Tiffany Henyard received a major blow Monday from a supposed ally of hers in her ongoing battle against fraud charges following reports of lavish spending while in office. Thornton Parish Council member Carmen Carlisle accused the 41-year-old self-proclaimed “super mayor” of engaging in “unethical and predatory behaviour” to “gain influence” […]

Bankruptcy court trustee plans to shut down Alex Jones' Infowars, liquidate assets

The bankruptcy trustee for Alex Jones said on Monday that he plans to shut down Jones’ media site Infowars and liquidate his business assets to repay the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook High School shooting. Court-appointed trustee Christopher Murray said in an “emergency” motion that he would conduct an “orderly winding down” […]

Alex Jones’s Infowars will be shut down and sold, court trustee says

Alex Jones’s outlet Infowars will be shut down and sold off, a bankruptcy court trustee said. In an “emergency” motion filed Sunday in a Houston court, trustee Christopher Murray said he has been “planning to wind-up [Free Speech Systems’s] operations and liquidate its inventory.” He did not give a timeline for the liquidation. According to the Associated […]