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☆ Bob Menendez's congressman son survives fight of his political life amid father's 'gold bars' corruption scandal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Rob Menendez — the son of Sen. Bob Menendez — just survived a tough primary challenge. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . It's a significant victory for the younger Menendez, who had found himself in the fight of his life amid his father's lurid corruption scandal. Sen. Menendez has been accused of accepting bribes in the form of wads of cash and gold bars in exchange for, among other things, acting as a foreign agent. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ It’s Crazy to Think Trump Wants to Be a Felon - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The myth of Donald Trump is that he is immune to scandal — that there’s nothing he could say or do that would undermine his political prospects. In this rendering of the Trump dynamic, his shamelessness helps him glide past controversy, and the unshakable devotion of his base keeps him afloat through the worst of storms. The truth of Donald Trump is very far from the myth. Trump did not shrug off the debacle of the “Access Hollywood” tape; his campaign came as close as it ever would to total collapse. Even minor scandals, like his derisive reference to “shithole countries,” forced both Trump and his White House into a defensive crouch.

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☆ Qantas CEO: ‘We let our customers down’ on airline’s canceled flights scandal
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Maisie Linford | Anna Cooban | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

London CNN —The boss of Qantas Airways has acknowledged the “anger” of thousands of customers who were sold tickets for already-canceled flights. Because not only (did) we let our customers down, we let our people down.”Last August, Australian regulators accused Qantas in a lawsuit of selling tickets for more than 8,000 flights that the airline had already canceled — affecting more than 86,000 customers. Qantas agreed last month to pay 120 million Australian dollars ($79 million) to settle the lawsuit. Of that, about 20 million Australian dollars ($13.3 million) will go to the affected customers. The remaining 100 million Australian dollars ($66.5 million) is a fine — the biggest ever for an Australian airline, according to Reuters.

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Learn moreThe complicated history behind the LA Clippers is finally getting the miniseries treatment with a new FX on Hulu series. Keep reading to learn everything you need to know about where to watch Clipped. Clipped tells the scandalous story of former Clippers owner Donald Sterling's (Ed O'Neill) reign. Keep reading to learn all of the details on Clipped, including what time new installments drop and how many episodes are expected this season. How to watch Clipped in the USNew episodes of Clipped are available to stream on Tuesdays at 12 a.m.

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☆ MLB bans Padres player for betting on his team's games
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

MLB player Tucupita Marcano has been banned for gambling on his own team's games. Marcano bet on 25 Pittsburgh Pirates games he didn't play in. AdvertisementIn yet another spots-betting scandal, San Diego Padres player Tucupita Marcano has been permanently banned for gambling on hundreds of games — including his own team's. Major League Baseball (MLB) cited Rule 21 stating players can't bet on games where they have "a duty to perform," but noted Marcano didn't actually play in any of the games. Four other players also received one-year suspensions for gambling, MLB announced Tuesday.

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☆ Sports leagues got millions in betting company sponsorships. Then came the gambling scandals.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . After a landmark SCOTUS decision let states legalize sports-betting in 2018, the sector has become flush with cash, as countless leagues and team owners have struck deals. FanDuel inked a pact with Major League Baseball (MLB) to become its official betting partner last year, for instance. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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Tokyo CNN —Japanese officials descended on the headquarters of Toyota on Tuesday, after a safety test scandal at a number of automakers in the country widened this week. The ministry said five automakers — Toyota (TM), Mazda, Honda (HMC), Suzuki and Yamaha — had submitted incorrect or manipulated safety test data when they applied for certification of the vehicles. All five companies were told to review their safety certification processes. Kyodo/ReutersKoji Endo of SBI Securities said that Japan’s certification tests are very stringent and much stricter than in other countries. In January, Toyota announced it would suspend shipments of certain models after finding irregularities in certification tests for diesel engines developed by its affiliate, Toyota Industries.

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☆ Ippei Mizuhara pleads guilty to fraud; MLB clears Shohei Ohtani after probe
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Alex Andrejev | Dennis Lin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementShortly after Mizuhara entered his plea Tuesday, MLB said it cleared Ohtani and closed its investigation into the matter. Ohtani accused Mizuhara of “massive theft,” alleging that Mizuhara had taken the money without his knowledge. Mizuhara had worked for Ohtani since the player’s arrival in the United States in 2018, when Ohtani hired Mizuhara as his de facto manager and interpreter, according to court documents. The investigation unearthed no evidence that Ohtani teamed with Mizuhara to place bets, nor that Mizuhara had placed any bets on baseball, prosecutors said. Mizuhara pleaded not guilty to bank and tax fraud charges on May 14, a formality ahead of the plea deal negotiated with federal prosecutors, Mizuhara’s attorney, Michael Freedman, said.

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☆ Election Updates: Welcome to the post-conviction campaign.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( Maggie Astor | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +6 min

Federal Documents CaseImage The federal indictment against Mr. Trump in the documents case. The charges were brought by Jack Smith, the special counsel appointed to oversee the federal investigations into Mr. Trump. Credit... Jacquelyn Martin/Associated PressLast summer, Mr. Smith charged Mr. Trump with conspiring to subvert democracy and stay in power against the will of voters following his loss in the 2020 election. Georgia Election CaseImage Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, at a hearing on the Georgia election interference case in March in Atlanta. Dozens of pretrial motions have yet to be resolved, including recent sparring over the precedent in a legal case from the 1890s.

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☆ As Japan’s auto safety scandal widens, Toyota halts some shipments
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Tokyo — A safety test scandal at Japanese automakers widened Monday, with Toyota Motor and Mazda both halting shipments of some vehicles after Japan’s transport ministry found irregularities in applications to certify certain models. The automakers were found to have submitted incorrect or manipulated safety test data when they applied for certification of the vehicles. The ministry ordered Toyota (TM), the world’s biggest carmaker by the number of vehicles sold, Mazda and Yamaha to suspend shipments of some vehicles. In a report to shareholders, ISS singled out the “spate of certification irregularities” at the Toyota Group. Toyota said it had temporarily halted shipments and sales of three car models made in Japan.

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☆ 10% of GOP voters are less likely to back Trump after conviction, new survey shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Trump is poised to lose a small — but significant — share of GOP voters over his conviction. A Reuters/Ipsos survey found that 10% of GOP voters were now less likely to vote for Trump. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Most GOP voters also backed Trump. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ David Beckham bonds with King Charles over beekeeping as he is named charity ambassador
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Catherine Nicholls | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Soccer icon David Beckham exchanged beekeeping tips with King Charles, he said, when the pair met ahead of the former England captain being named ambassador for The King’s Foundation. Beckham met the King at Highgrove Gardens in the Cotswolds, England, where he also met students of the King’s Foundation, who practice skills such as woodworking and embroidery in specialized workshops on site. In his work with The King’s Foundation, Beckham will be hoping to spread awareness of the charity’s mission. The King’s Foundation was originally called The Prince’s Foundation, and came into existence after a number of Charles’ charitable projects merged into one group in 2018. Beckham visited students at the Snowdon School of Furniture, one of The King's Foundation's specialist workshops.

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☆ Here’s Where Trump’s Other Cases Stand
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Alan Feuer | Danny Hakim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan came to an end this week when a jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to upset his 2016 presidential campaign. But Mr. Trump is still facing federal charges, brought by a special counsel, in two cases: one in Florida, where he is accused of illegally holding on to classified documents after leaving office and obstructing government efforts to retrieve them, and one in Washington, D.C., where he’s accused of plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He faces similar election-tampering charges in a third case brought by a local prosecutor in Georgia. The proceedings — all of which are bogged down in delays — can be confusing to keep track of. Here are updates on where each of them stands.

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☆ Opinion: Trump is now in a club no one ever wants to be part of — convicted former leaders
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Opinion Chris Good | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The criminal trial and conviction of (mostly former) national leaders has happened in stable, mature democracies, just as it has in former dictatorships. The track record of convicted leaders shows just how risky it is to try to predict what will happen. In 2017, South Korea impeached and later criminally convicted now-former President Park Geun-hye in a bizarre corruption scandal involving the influence of a friend and confidante. After a scandal emerged involving the state oil company Petrobras, Lula was convicted in 2017 of corruption and money laundering. “Political leaders can choose how they will speak about these institutions.”

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☆ After Trump’s Conviction, a National Enquirer Editor Sends His Regrets
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Jacob Bernstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Even before former President Donald J. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a sex scandal, a verdict was being delivered on The National Enquirer. The no-holds-barred supermarket tabloid was once famous for publishing salacious stories about celebrities and politicians. “It’s just a tragedy for the paper,” said Barry Levine, the publication’s former executive editor, sitting in the living room of his one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan on a recent morning. Even among those who consider it a guilty pleasure, The Enquirer can hardly be described as a national treasure. But try telling that to Mr. Levine, a swashbuckling journalist who worked there from 1999 until 2016 and whose professional and personal identity was shaped by it.

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☆ Prison Time for Trump? The Cases for and Against. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( New York Times Opinion | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Now that Donald Trump has been convicted on 34 felony counts, his sentencing hearing looms on July 11. Below are two legal experts weighing in on the critical question of whether Mr. Trump ought to receive a prison sentence. I am a lawyer, not a judge, but I have practiced criminal law for over three decades. Under New York law, sentencing should be based on the gravity of the crime — and the 34 offenses on which Mr. Trump has now been convicted are profoundly serious. That was the payment of hush money to hide damaging information, “a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election” under New York’s criminal code.

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“This is long from over,” Donald J. Trump, the former president and current felon, declared on Thursday, moments after a Manhattan jury convicted him on 34 counts of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal. Mr. Trump, the first American president to be branded a criminal, is banking on the jury not having the final word on his legal fate or his political fortunes. He will now appeal, both to a higher court and the American people, seeking to contain the fallout as he campaigns for the White House. But even if the former — and possibly future — president persuades voters to toss his conviction aside, the appellate courts might not be so sympathetic.

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☆ Scandals and Missteps Slow Momentum of Germany’s Far Right
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Sarah Maslin Nir | Christopher F. Schuetze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The far-right Alternative for Germany party was poised for a banner year. Not long ago, the party, known as AfD, was polling nationally near 25 percent. With elections approaching for the European Parliament and in three eastern states — its traditional stronghold — the party looked set to achieve its chief goal of moving from the margins to the mainstream. It is still riding relatively high — the second-most popular party in the country. “This week that is behind us was not a good week,” Alice Weidel, one of the two leaders of the party, said at a campaign stop on May 25.

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Where the two sides were even within shouting distance of each other was vanishingly small, if it existed at all. But a few voices in the Trump universe allowed that Mr. Trump may well have done something wrong, and a few in the anti-Trump sphere said they had finally been convinced to vote for his opponent, President Biden. Prosecutors had framed their case in the loftiest of terms, election interference — an all-out effort to thwart the exposure of a sex scandal that may well have changed the course of history. That was not how Mr. Trump’s supporters saw it. (False claims that the 2020 election was rigged, pushed by Mr. Trump and his allies, have been repeatedly debunked, and there is no basis for the suggestion that the Manhattan case or the verdict rendered unanimously by a jury of 12 was rigged.)

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☆ Sports Gambling Scandals Will Only Get Worse - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Leigh Steinberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Some of the biggest scandals in sports history have revolved around players and gambling. Pete Rose is barred for life from baseball, in an agreement stemming from admissions of gambling. These aren’t just hypothetical concerns: Jontay Porter, a center for the Toronto Raptors, was recently barred for life from the N.B.A. As the new baseball season was starting, federal prosecutors said the interpreter for the star pitcher Shohei Ohtani had stolen millions from Mr. Ohtani to pay off gambling debts to an illegal sports bookie. Major League Baseball is investigating Mr. Ohtani’s former teammate David Fletcher over allegations that he placed bets with the same bookie.

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political memoThe outcome of Donald Trump’s Manhattan trial on Thursday had seemed almost unthinkable to the Trump team as recently as last summer. Guilty.”When Mr. Trump got up to leave court, his face looked as if he’d been punched in the solar plexus. Mr. Trump and his allies on Capitol Hill and in conservative media assiduously prepared their audiences to be outraged, whatever the outcome. “There’s a sense of personal resentment,” added the senator, who is on a shortlist to be Mr. Trump’s running mate. He got MAGA’d yesterday,” Mr. Trump said in the hallway outside the courtroom.

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☆ Vatican investigation of secretive society in Peru brings fresh hope for victims
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Claudia Rebaza | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Like many victims of sexual abuse, it took years for Santiago to acknowledge that he was raped as a teenager. I come here to tell the truth because the authorities have not allowed me to speak,” Figari told reporters in Rome. At the age of 15, Figari told him he had great mental powers and offered to train him in ancient techniques, Santiago said. Years later, Santiago first reported his abuse to SCV members and filed a complaint against Figari at Lima’s Archdiocesan Tribunal in 2011. “I felt privileged, I felt listened to … (with) that phone call,” Santiago told CNN about when he first learned the Pope’s envoys wanted to meet him.

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☆ Trump Media Stock Swings After Guilty Verdict
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Jason Karaian | Matthew Goldstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group whipsawed after former President Donald J. Trump, the company’s largest investor and primary user of its Truth Social platform, was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal. Trump Media’s stock began falling immediately after the verdict in Mr. Trump’s trial in Manhattan was announced on Thursday, which came after the stock market had closed. The company’s stock is typically volatile, so such large moves are not unusual, especially after the official close of regular trading, when low trading volumes can accentuate price swings. Trump Media remains richly valued relative to the size of its business. The stock has become his main source of wealth since Trump Media make its market debut in March, but he cannot sell or borrow against the shares until September.

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Instead, Wall Street and Silicon Valley money is flowing into his re-election campaign following the ruling. “This verdict will have less than zero impact on my support,” Omeed Malik, the president of 1789 Capital and a co-host of a Trump fund-raiser last night at the Pierre hotel, told Bloomberg. “I haven’t heard anybody who gives a …,” he told CNBC of the conviction, using an expletive. Some big Silicon Valley names are doubling down. One who did is Shaun Maguire, a partner at Sequoia Capital, who gave $300,000 to the Trump campaign after the ruling, even though he acknowledged the decision could cost him friends and hurt business.

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But in closing arguments, one of Mr. Bragg’s prosecutors said that Mr. Cohen had told his lies for Mr. Trump. After the election, Mr. Pecker testified, Mr. Trump summoned him to Trump Tower. The ShowdownEven that did not prove that Mr. Trump had falsified records to disguise his reimbursement of Mr. Cohen. Mr. Trump washed his hands of Mr. Cohen, who turned on the man he had once idolized. Mr. Blanche also argued that Mr. Cohen had profited from his hatred for Mr. Trump with two books and a lucrative podcast deal.

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