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☆ Private Jets and Pop-Up Workspaces: Boeing Eases Return to Office for Top Brass
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Andrew Tangel | Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Impeachment Investigators Look Into Texas Attorney General’s Real-Estate Spree
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Mark Maremont | Elizabeth Findell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Ken Paxton’s Home Renovation Payment Disclosure Shows New Ties to Donor
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Elizabeth Findell | Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Gun Group’s Financial Dealings With Founder Spark State Investigation
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Zusha Elinson | Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Second Amendment Foundation, a small but influential organization involved in scores of federal lawsuits to expand gun rights, is being investigated by the Washington state attorney general’s office, with the organization saying investigators have examined transactions involving its founder. The nonprofit, its founder and top executive, Alan Gottlieb , and other related entities this week sued the attorney general’s office, saying the probe is politically motivated. State investigators seem to have shifting legal theories, the lawsuit claimed, among them that Mr. Gottlieb was “unjustly enriching himself.” In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs denied any wrongdoing.

A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman arrested in connection with a leak of purported highly classified intelligence documents was charged Friday as federal prosecutors offered new details about how they think some of the government’s most closely guarded material ended up online. Prosecutors charged Jack Teixeira with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material, in a brief hearing in U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

☆ Citizens Financial Unit Investigated for Sales of Savings Product Controlled by Troubled Financier Greg Lindberg
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-29 | by ( Mark Maremont | Leslie Scism | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Citizens Financial has 1,200 branches, mostly in the Northeast. Massachusetts securities regulators said they are investigating a unit of Citizens Financial Group Inc. over its sales of a savings product offered by an insurer controlled by now-indicted financier Greg Lindberg . News of the probe follows an article published this week in The Wall Street Journal, which reported that tens of thousands of people, many of them retirees, had a total of $2.2 billion of their money frozen since 2019 amid the implosion of Mr. Lindberg’s insurance empire.

☆ Thousands of Retirees Can’t Withdraw Savings Invested in Firms Controlled by Indicted Financier Greg Lindberg
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-26 | by ( Mark Maremont | Leslie Scism | Photographs Christopher Capozziello For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Mark Zintel, a retiree who lives near Tampa, Fla., is furious that $700,000 in annuities he bought from an insurer have been frozen for almost four years. He is one of tens of thousands of people whose money was rendered unreachable as the empire of self-described billionaire Greg Lindberg slowly imploded.

☆ Greg Lindberg, Insurance Entrepreneur, Faces New Criminal Charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Jennifer S. Forsyth | Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Greg Lindberg, pictured in 2018, was sent to federal prison in 2020 before an appeals court in June overturned his conviction and ordered a new trial. A federal grand jury indicted North Carolina insurance entrepreneur Greg Lindberg , alleging that he directed a criminal scheme to defraud policyholders of hundreds of millions of dollars in part to finance his lavish lifestyle. The new charges, handed up in the Western District of North Carolina, are the latest salvo in a roller-coaster legal fight that has lasted for several years. Mr. Lindberg was sent to federal prison in 2020 on charges related to the bribing of a public official before a federal appeals court in June overturned his conviction and ordered a new trial. The additional charges revealed Friday are separate from that coming trial.

☆ Operator of LasikPlus Vision-Correction Clinics Lured Customers with Deceptive Advertising, FTC Alleges
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-21 | by ( Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against the leading chain of laser vision-correction procedures in the U.S., alleging it lured customers with bait-and-switch advertising that tricked them into believing they could pay less than $300 for LASIK surgery, while actually charging many times that amount to most patients. The vision-correction firm, LCA-Vision Inc., agreed to modify its practices and pay $1.25 million to settle the FTC’s administrative complaint, without admitting or denying the allegations. The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

☆ Top Executive For Financier Greg Lindberg Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Insurance Fraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Mark Maremont | Leslie Scism | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Greg Lindberg, who is being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for fraud, also faces bribery charges in North Carolina. A former top lieutenant of North Carolina insurance mogul Greg Lindberg agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal conspiracy charge. The plea is the latest episode in prosecutors’ pursuit of Mr. Lindberg and his associates, a saga that has had many twists. The guilty plea indicates that prosecutors are continuing with their investigation and could be seeking a second indictment of Mr. Lindberg.

☆ Top Executive for Financier Greg Lindberg Pleads Guilty to Charges Related to Insurance Fraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Mark Maremont | Leslie Scism | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Internal Revenue Service’s audits of Donald Trump‘s tax returns were thinly staffed and unusually deferential to Mr. Trump’s tax advisers, according to a nonpartisan report from congressional tax specialists. At times, only a single IRS agent was assigned to examine Mr. Trump’s complex tax returns, with insufficient support from specialists, according to the report by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, which provided the information to the House committee that voted to release the former president’s tax information.

Representatives of former President Donald Trump have criticized the decision of Democrats to make his tax returns public. The Internal Revenue Service’s audits of Donald Trump’s tax returns were thinly staffed and at times unusually deferential to Mr. Trump’s tax advisers, according to a nonpartisan report from congressional tax specialists. At times, only a single IRS agent was assigned to examine Mr. Trump’s complex tax returns, with insufficient support from specialists, according to the report by the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, which provided the information to the House committee that voted to release the former president’s tax information.

☆ PGA Tour Fesses Up on Private Jet Perks for Its Commissioner
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The PGA Tour disclosed in its 2021 tax filings that commissioner Jay Monahan flies on private jets for all of his personal and business travel, and that the nonprofit golf league also may offer personal travel on private jets to other top officials. The new disclosures contrasted with prior years, when the Tour had said that in “limited cases,” top executives “may utilize charter or first class travel for business,” citing security, privacy or efficiency reasons. The prior filings made no mention of any personal private-jet travel provided by the nonprofit.

LIV alleges that the PGA Tour and Clout ‘organized and likely funded’ the protests by 9/11 families at LIV tournaments. When Saudi-funded LIV Golf first arrived in the U.S. earlier this year, it was met with criticism from politicians and the families of 9/11 victims, who claimed the new golf circuit was a bid by Saudi Arabia to use a popular sport to whitewash its reputation for brutality and alleged involvement in the 2001 terrorist attacks. Now, LIV Golf is claiming in a new court filing that much of this backlash was secretly coordinated by its rival, the PGA Tour, through a Washington, D.C. public relations firm hired by the PGA Tour.

☆ North Carolina Tribal Casino Violated Federal Gaming Laws, Regulators Say
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A North Carolina tribal casino violated federal law by allowing deep-pocketed outsiders excessive control over the facility’s expansion, according to the findings of an investigation by the National Indian Gaming Commission made public Wednesday. The NIGC, which has regulatory authority over tribal casinos, issued a formal “Notice of Violation” against the casino and various outside backers of the project, saying the investigation found multiple violations of federal Indian-gaming laws.

☆ Leon Black Is Accused in Lawsuit of Rape at Home of Jeffrey Epstein
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Miriam Gottfried | Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Leon Black, at a 2015 conference in California, stepped down as Apollo’s chief executive and chairman last year. A woman sued Leon Black , alleging the billionaire co-founder of Apollo Global Management Inc. attacked and raped her in 2002 at the home of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein . In the suit, filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court, the woman, Cheri Pierson, alleges that Mr. Black raped her in a private suite in Epstein’s Manhattan mansion. Ms. Pierson says she entered the room believing she was going to give Mr. Black a massage in a meeting prearranged by Epstein.

☆ Ex-Green Beret, Son Return to U.S. After Prison Sentence Over Carlos Ghosn Escape
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Nick Kostov | Mark Maremont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The American father and son who helped former Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. Chairman Carlos Ghosn escape from Japan have returned to the U.S. after spending 20 months in Japanese jails. Michael Taylor , a 62-year-old former Green Beret, is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles with a release date set for Jan. 1, 2023, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. His son Peter Taylor is back home in Massachusetts with his family, according to their lawyer, Paul V. Kelly . Mr. Kelly said he was in discussions with the Federal Bureau of Prisons and parole officials about releasing his client sooner. Bloomberg News reported earlier that the Taylors were back in the U.S.

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