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☆ The best time-loop movies and shows to watch this Groundhog Day
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Gabbi Shaw | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

In honor of the real Groundhog Day, you can choose to watch the original time-loop film, 1993's "Groundhog Day." Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day." "Groundhog Day" has prompted much discussion over the years, including how long Phil was stuck inside the time loop (guesses range from a few weeks to "a lifetime"), and if the movie is a religious allegory. We can't say for sure, but we can say that "Groundhog Day" is a stone-cold classic. "Groundhog Day" is streaming with AMC+.

Persons: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Phil Connors, Rita Hanson, Phil Organizations: Columbia, AMC Locations: Punxsutawney , Pennsylvania

☆ She fled Ukraine and found belonging with her Russian boxing coach in America
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-08 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Akimova found her footing in a boxing gym run by a Russian trainer who became a grounding force. A Ukrainian refugee named Anzelika Akimova enters her fighting stance at the Eastern Block Boxing gym in Los Angeles. At the Eastern Block Boxing gym in Los Angeles, Russians and Ukrainians alike come to train. Before their paths aligned at Eastern Block Boxing, Poddubnov fought as an amateur boxer in Russia. Salman Poddubnov opened the boxing gym after a stint in prison, where he trained fellow inmates.

Persons: Anzelika Akimova, Arina, Akimova, Joe Biden's, Stella Kalinina, Salman Poddubnov, —, hadn't, ached, didn't, LIRS, Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, we've, Vignarajah, Poddubnov, Vladimir Putin's Organizations: Eastern, Karate, Lutheran Immigration, Refugee Service, Department of Homeland Security, TPS, Soviet Union Locations: Ukraine, Los Angeles, Russian, Ukrainian, California, Russians, Odesa, Kyiv, Akimova, Toluca Lake, North Hollywood, That's, Moldovan, Romania, Czech, Prague, Mexico, Tijuana, Mexicali, Calexico, Russia, Volzhsky, Stalingrad, Eastern, Poddubnov, Soviet, Soviet Union

☆ Matt Gaetz seeks to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Erin Snodgrass | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced a motion to vacate against House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Monday. AdvertisementAdvertisementRep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on Monday introduced a motion to remove Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California as speaker of the House amid a broiling intraparty feud among congressional Republicans. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe feud between Gaetz and McCarthy has been building since McCarthy's election to the position in January, which took 15 painstaking votes amid heavy resistance from Gaetz and other GOP members. The speaker's fate could also be determined by Democrats, whose votes helped McCarthy pass a stop-gap spending bill to avert a government shutdown over the weekend. AdvertisementAdvertisementAccording to NBC, some Democrats are looking for political concessions from McCarthy, and it's unclear whether McCarthy has already started courting Democrats for their votes.

Persons: Matt Gaetz, Kevin McCarthy, —, Kevin McCarthy of, Gaetz, McCarthy, Biden, Congress hasn't, Katherine Clark Organizations: Service, Democratic, Congress, GOP, NBC Locations: Florida, Kevin McCarthy of California

☆ Trump trial judge Arthur Engoron: Who is the quippy, Ivy league-educated judge deciding the fate of Trump's NY business empire?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Associated Press | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

New York City judge Arthur Engoron is presiding over Donald Trump's NY fraud trial. Engoron, a Democrat, has ruled repeatedly against Trump in the three years he's been presiding over James' lawsuit. But asked Friday if he planned to be at the New York trial, Trump said: "I may. In 2013, he was appointed an acting justice of the state's trial court and ran unopposed for a permanent post in 2015. In another ruling, Engoron said New York's review process for new housing "seems like Rube Goldberg, Franz Kafka, and the Marquis de Sade cooked it up over martinis."

Persons: Arthur Engoron, Donald Trump's, he's, James, —, Stevie, Engoron, Trump, Letitia James, frontrunnerwrote, Jean Carroll, He's, Christopher Kise, who've, irreverence, Michael Bloomberg's, Wheatley, Michelle Bernstein Ravenscroft, Bob Dylan, Shakespeare, Marx, Frank Sinatra, — Engoron, Rube Goldberg, Franz Kafka, Marquis, Sade Organizations: Democrat, Trump, ACLU, Service, New, Ivy League, NYS, Trump Organization, White, The Wheatley, New York Mets, Mets, Columbia University, American Civil Liberties Union, New York University, New York, New York City Civil Court Locations: York City, Vietnam, New York City, York, Engoron, Manhattan, New, New York, Queens, East Williston, Long, Old Westbury , New York, Wheatley, Central Park, Trump

☆ Trump attacks the judge in his fraud trial, saying he's 'getting away with murder,' while standing directly outside his courtroom door
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump appeared in court today to defend himself in a $250 million fraud trial against him and his associates. Trump accused the Manhattan judge of "getting away with murder" and "interfering with an election." Attorney General Letitia James has accused Trump and the Trump Organization of widespread fraud. AdvertisementAdvertisementDonald Trump accused the judge in his $250 million fraud trial of "getting away with murder" while standing directly outside his courtroom door. The NY Attorney General has claimed that the statements were inflated by close to $3.6 billion.

Persons: Trump, Letitia James, —, Donald Trump, Arthur Engoron, Engoron, James, it's, — Donald Jr, Eric Trump —, It's, Attorney Alvin Bragg, Stormy Daniels, Bragg, Eric, Donald Jr, Donald Trump —, General Organizations: Trump Organization, Service, Court, Trump, Manhattan, Attorney, NY Locations: Manhattan, New York

☆ Mark Milley took an apparent dig at Trump, saying that the military doesn't take an oath to 'queen' or 'wannabe dictator'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

On Friday, former Army General Mark Milley retired from leading the US military. Milley finished his four-year term as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which included two years under Trump. "We don't take an oath to a king or a queen or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator," Milley said on Friday, according to the Associated Press. In the speech, Milley also appeared to respond to Trump's latest threat, speaking collectively for the military.

Persons: Mark Milley, Milley, —, Staff Mark Milley, Donald Trump, Trump, Joe Biden, Trump's, George Floyd's, it's Organizations: Joint Chiefs of Staff, Trump, Service, Joint Chiefs, Staff, Army, Associated Press, AP, USA, CBS Locations: America, Washington, Iraq, Syria, Milley

☆ The crowds of Armenians fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh are so big you can see them from space
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

At least 70,000 ethnic Armenians have fled the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh this week. Now, the line of cars bringing Armenian refugees to Armenia is so long that it's visible from space. AdvertisementAdvertisementTens of thousands of refugees have fled the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh in the last week, leaving a traffic jam between Azerbaijan and Armenia so long that it's visible from space. Armenians leaving the territory told the Daily Beast that the peacekeepers mostly stood idly by. Like sheep, they counted us," Flora, an Armenian escaping the territory, told the Daily Beast,"'How many of you are there?'

Persons: — Organizations: Azerbaijan, Service, New York Times, Times, Associated Press, Daily Locations: Nagorno, Karabakh, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Stepanakert, Soviet Union, Russia, Azerbaijan's, Turkey, Ukraine, Flora

☆ Inviting a former Nazi to Zelenskyy's speech was 'deeply embarrassing' to all Canadians, Trudeau says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Azmi Haroun | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Still, Trudeau has not called for speaker Anthony Rota to resign, and Rota is also resisting the calls. Peter Julian, the New Democratic Party House leader, and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet both said Anthony Rota should step down. "This is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians." "I think it's going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian disinformation and continue our steadfast unequivocal support for Ukraine," Trudeau said, per the BBC. "It's been deeply embarrassing for Canada, and I think it was deeply embarrassing for the president of Ukraine," said Gould, who is a descendent of Holocaust survivors.

Persons: Justin Trudeau, Trudeau, Anthony Rota, —, Peter Julian, Yves, Francois Blanchet, Julian, Yaroslav Hunka, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Rota, Hunka, Zelenskyy, Simon Wiesenthal, Dmitry Peskov, Peskov, Vladimir Putin, Pierre Poilievre, Will, Karina Gould, It's, Gould, Daria Litvinova Organizations: Service, Nazi, New Democratic Party House, Bloc Quebecois, Kremlin, Liberal Party, BBC, Politico, 1st Ukrainian, Ukrainian, Waffen, SS, SS Galicia Division, Waffen Division, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Holocaust Studies, Ukraine, Liberal, Conservative, Canada, Hunka, Associated Press Locations: Canada, Ukrainian Nazi, Rota, Ukrainian, Moscow, Ottawa, SS Galicia, Ukraine, Tallinn, Estonia

☆ The Silicon Valley investors who secretly bought up $800 million in Northern California real estate reveal unexpected plans for 'a city of yesterday'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Chris Kaye | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A mysterious company backed by Silicon Valley investors has been purchasing land near San Francisco. They're planning to build a retro city on the 52,000 acres of farmland they bought. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementAdvertisementThe Silicon Valley investors that got the government's attention by gobbling up $800 million worth of land outside San Francisco say the mystery city they plan on building is, well… kinda retro. Solano County Google Maps"The plans that people put forward will be very inspired by those great old American neighborhoods that someone who was born 100 years ago will recognize," Sramek told KQED.

Persons: —, we've, Jan Sramek, Sramek, Goldman Sachs, Marc Andreessen, Laurene Powell Jobs, Michael Moritz of, Reid Hoffman, Flannery, who've, Catherine Moy, Moy, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Musk, Chap Ambrose, Ambrose, Azmi Haroun Organizations: Service, KQED, The New York Times, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital, Flannery Associates, Travis Air Force Base, Solano County Google, Boring Company, SpaceX, Washington Post Locations: Silicon, San Francisco, California, Solano County, Bay, Fairfield, Solano Silicon, Austin , Texas, Bastrop Country

☆ CreditNinja, which has charged loan customers an interest rate of 447%, is complaining that their $1 million PPP loan forgiveness request was rejected
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-23 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Short-term lending company CreditNinja is mad about the SBA denying them loan forgiveness. The company charges interest rates as high as 447% in Texas, per KHOU. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. According to Forbes, Kanye West's fashion company Yeezy received over $2 million in PPP loans. Artist Jeff Koons, also notably rich, received a $1.1 million PPP loan in April 2020, according to ProPublica.

Persons: Seamus Hughes's CourtWatch, CreditNinja, CreditNinja wasn't, —, Kanye, Yeezy, Jeff Koons Organizations: SBA, Service, Court, Southern Division, Small Business Association, Relief, Economic, Forbes Locations: Texas, Wall, Silicon, Illinois

☆ An Egyptian official responded with a 'thumbs up' emoji when Sen. Bob Menendez offered sensitive weapons information for gold and bribes, prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-22 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Sen. Bob Menendez was hit with bribery charges by federal prosecutors in a newly-unsealed indictment. Prosecutors claimed that Menendez provided sensitive US government data to Egypt, to which in one instance, Egyptian officials responded to a weapons deal with a thumbs-up emoji, per the indictment. In 2018, Menendez met with Egyptian officials, where the senator expressed his support for foreign military aid for Egypt. Egypt: 46,000 120MM Target Practice Rounds and 10,000 Rounds Tank Ammunition: $99 million," Sen. Bob Menendez texted his wife, Nadine, per the indictment. Both Hana and Nadine Menendez are also charged in the indictment.

Persons: Sen, Bob Menendez, Menendez, Will Hana, Hana, Bob Menendez texted, Nadine, Prosecutors, Nadine Menendez, Chuck Schumer Organizations: Prosecutors, Service, Bob Menendez of New, Menendez, Foreign Relations Locations: Wall, Silicon, Bob Menendez of, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, New Jersey, Egypt

☆ Lauren Boebert's ex comes to her defense after theater groping video, saying his unfaithfulness 'broke her down'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jayson Boebert said in a Facebook post his unfaithfulness during their marriage "broke her down." He took partial blame for her conduct, captured on video, and said his unfaithfulness during their 20-year marriage "broke her down." I am the root," Jayson Boebert wrote in a Facebook post on Monday. AdvertisementAdvertisement"She deserves a chance to earn your forgiveness and regain trust," Jayson Boebert wrote. In 2004, Jayson Boebert pleaded guilty to exposing himself to a 17-year-old in a bowling alley.

Persons: Lauren Boebert's, Jayson Boebert, Lauren Boebert, Colorado Representative groping, Boebert, Lauren Organizations: Service, Colorado Representative, Facebook Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ It's doubtful that Silicon Valley billionaires could pull off building a new city from scratch in a remote California farmland anytime soon, developer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Silicon Valley billionaires buying up land in Solano County, California, could face big hurdles. In 2017, Flannery Associates pitched an idea to create a new, walkable city in Solano County. Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. With the land purchased, the group's plot of land has started to encircle Travis Air Force Base nearby, according to The Wall Street Journal. AdvertisementAdvertisementThey're also not the first Silicon Valley billionaires using their extreme wealth to chase bold developing ambitions only to be met with grinding bureaucracy.

Persons: Flannery, Marc Andreessen, Laurene Powell Jobs —, Mark Friedman, It's, John Garamendi —, —, They're, Elon Musk Organizations: Flannery Associates, Service, Silicon, New York Times, Travis Air Force Base, Wall Street, Times, San Francisco, Democratic, FBI, Treasury Locations: Solano County , California, Solano County, Wall, Silicon, San Francisco , California, California, Sacramento

☆ Why Mark Meadows wants an Obama-appointed judge to oversee his Georgia indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Mark Meadows wants his criminal case moved to federal court, under an Obama-appointed judge. A federal judge may be more sympathetic to arguments that he's immune from the case, experts say. Meadows, Clark, and several other defendants have asked to have their cases removed to federal court. "A federal court judge might be more sympathetic to some of their federal constitutional defenses that they might want to raise," Ratakonda told Insider. A state court proceeding would also take in jurors from Fulton County, which voted overwhelmingly for Biden in 2020.

Persons: Mark Meadows, Obama, Trump, Mark Meadows —, Donald Trump's, —, Barack Obama, Fani Willis, Jeffrey Clark, Joe Biden's, Meadows, Ronald Carlson, it'll, Mai Ratakonda, Ratakonda, Steve C, Jones, Clark, David Shafer, Cathleen Latham, Biden, Donald Trump, Sarah Silbiger, Norm Eisen, Brad Raffensperger, they're, Eisen, Azmi Haroun Organizations: Service, Meadows, Justice, Trump, University of Georgia School of Law, United Democracy Center, White, Prosecutors, Georgia, States United Democracy Center Locations: Wall, Silicon, Fulton County, Trump, Georgia, Joe Biden's Georgia, Meadows, Clark

☆ Wagner Group may be absorbed by the Russian Defense Ministry, which Prigozhin rallied against before his death. The mercenary group's current arrangement could 'disappear rather soon,' former GRU capt
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The fate of the Wagner Group is in the hands of Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. The New York Times reported the Russian Defense Ministry was considering absorbing the group. AdvertisementAdvertisement"The Wagner Group will disappear rather soon," Boris Volodarsky, a former captain in Russia's Spetsnaz GRU special forces and a fellow with the Royal Historical Society in London, told Insider. As tensions mounted between Wagner and Putin this summer, the Kremlin mandated that Wagner recruits sign contracts with the Russian army — which Prigozhin resisted. In his tirade, Prigozhin said the ministry "must be stopped" and the people responsible for the death of Wagner fighters must be punished.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Wagner, Boris Volodarsky, Russia's, Putin, Dmitry Utkin, Valery Chekalov, Volodarsky, —, Alexander Lukashenko Organizations: Wagner, Kremlin, The New York Times, Russian Defense Ministry, Service, Wagner Group, New York Times, Institute for, Royal Historical Society, Defense Ministry, Times, Central African, Associated Press, Russia's Defense Ministry, Belarusian Locations: Wall, Silicon, East, Africa, Russian, London, Tver, Moscow, Belarus, Bakhmut, Ukraine, Mali, Russia, Rostov

☆ Wreckage of Prigozhin's plane was scattered across roughly 4 miles, and experts say it looks like an explosion knocked it out of the sky
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Experts are zeroing in on a theory around a plane crash that Russia says killed Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to CNN, fragments of Prigozhin's plane were scattered throughout a 4-mile radius. Analyzing the wreckage"It is very difficult to understand what happened without a proper investigation," Daniel Kwasi Adjekum, an aviation expert at the University of North Dakota, told CNN. So far, flight data from Flightradar24 also paints a patchy picture, showing Prigozhin's plane steeply dropping 8,000 feet in the last 30 seconds of the flight. Robert Schmucker, a rocket expert who works with NATO, also told CNN that the manner in which the plane plummeted down from the sky was highly suspicious.

Persons: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner, Prigozhin, Putin, Daniel Kwasi Adjekum, Robert Schmucker, Schmucker, Markus Schiller, Anthony Brickhouse, Brickhouse, Prigozhin's Organizations: Aviation, CNN, Service, Wagner Group, Novosti, University of North, Washington Post, NATO, telltale, National Transportation Safety Board, Embry, Riddle Aeronautical University, Russian Telegram, Pentagon, Reuters, AP, New York Times, BBC Locations: Russia, Wall, Silicon, Tver, Moscow, Ukraine, Kuzhenkino, University of North Dakota, Europe

Donald Trump might make new campaign merch soon — featuring his Georgia mugshot. But New York doesn't make mugshots public like Georgia does, so the Trump campaign had to get creative. Immediately following that first New York indictment, the Trump campaign started advertising a new T-shirt featuring a clearly fake mugshot of the former President emblazoned with the words "NOT GUILTY." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Now that he has the public mugshot he wanted, Trump's team might swap out the fake mugshot on his campaign merch for the real one. On Thursday, Trump rolled out a fundraising plea entirely based on the Georgia indictment and his arrest.

Persons: Donald Trump, merch, Trump's, he's, —, Georgia's, Trump, Alex Brandon, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro Organizations: Georgia, Service, Manhattan, New York Times, Times, Guardian, Justice Department, Biden, Hartsfield, Jackson Atlanta International Airport, White, Georgia RICO, New Locations: Wall, Silicon, Fulton County, Manhattan, York, Georgia, New York, Atlanta, New Jersey, Fulton

☆ A video claiming to show Prigozhin's jet plummeting from the sky and the plane's fiery wreckage could be starting points for an investigation into the crash — if a fair investigation is possible, avia
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On Wednesday, Russian officials said Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a plane crash. Photos on social media have also surfaced showing a fiery wreckage at the crash site. AdvertisementAdvertisementRussia's Federal Air Transport Agency claimed on Wednesday that the bodies of the 10 deceased passengers were retrieved from the crash site, signaling a moving investigation. "In early stages, the most important thing is to get on scene and secure the wreckage, so that it can't be tampered with," Brickhouse told Insider. Brickhouse added that the crash site, engulfed in flames, could point to a plane that went down with a full gas tank.

Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, That's, Prigozhin's, Prigozhin, Anthony Brickhouse, Brickhouse, It's, Putin, Russia's, Alexander Lukashenko Organizations: Service, Novosti, Street, National Transportation Safety Board, Embry, Riddle Aeronautical University, CNN, Air Transport Agency, Belarusian Locations: Wall, Silicon, Tver, Moscow, Russia, Ukraine, Russian, Rostov, Belarus, Africa

☆ Prigozhin's plane may have been brought down by a 'device' on board: former MI6 boss
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Former MI6 chief John Sawers suggested a bomb could have been on board Prigozhin's plane. Several theories exist as to how the plane crashed, killing all those on board. "I would have thought there was some device on board," Sawers told the BBC. AdvertisementAdvertisementSpeaking about it on BBC radio's "Today," former MI6 chief John Sawers suggested a device on-board could have been the culprit. In video released by Prigozhin Press Service, Yevgeny Prigozhin is seen in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023.

Persons: John Sawers, Sawers, Yevgeny Prigozhin's, Vladimir Putin, Anthony Brickhouse, Insider's Azmi Haroun, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Associated Press Sawers, Putin, Dmitry Utkin, Wagner Organizations: BBC, Service, Wagner, Embraer, Kremlin, Reuters, Prigozhin Press Service, Prigozhin Press, Associated Press Locations: Wall, Silicon, Moscow, Rostov, Don, Russia

☆ One of Trump's co-defendants just got a speedy trial date in Georgia — but Trump himself doesn't want that
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Grace Eliza Goodwin | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump and his Georgia co-defendants have had a strategic legal breakdown. Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 19 defendants in Trump's Georgia indictment, requested an October trial date. The move for a speedy trial may have been a bet by Chesebro that prosecutor Fani Willis wouldn't be prepared. AdvertisementAdvertisementBut Willis accepted his request for a speedy trial, proposing in a legal filing that all defendants begin the proceedings as soon as October 23. In other criminal proceedings, Trump has tried to delay trials until after the 2024 election.

Persons: Trump, Kenneth Chesebro, Fani Willis, it's, Donald Trump, Chesebro, Fani Willis wouldn't, Tamar Hallerman, Willis wasn't, Willis, Donald Trump —, Georgia's Organizations: Fulton, Service, Atlanta -, NBC, GOP Locations: Georgia, Trump's Georgia, Fulton County, Wall, Silicon

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried does not have access to Adderall in custody and subsists on a diet of peanut butter sandwiches and water, his attorney alleges
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

He's been living off of bread, water, and peanut butter, according to NBC News. AdvertisementAdvertisementSam Bankman-Fried's attorney claimed the disgraced crypto mogul is living off of scraps in custody because his requests for a vegan diet have been ignored. According to a commissary list for the prison, Bankman-Fried has been able to purchase two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches per visit, costing $3.65 per sandwich. AdvertisementAdvertisementBefore he was remanded to prison in the US this year, Bankman-Fried previously said that he mainly ate peanut butter while incarcerated in the Bahamas. Bankman-Fried's attorney didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Persons: Sam Bankman, He's, Mark Cohen, Fried, Sarah Netburn, FTX, Caroline Ellison's, Ellison, Bankman, didn't Organizations: NBC News, Morning, Metropolitan Detention, NBC, Alameda Research, MDC, Alameda Locations: Brooklyn, Bahamas, Bankman

☆ A Mar-a-Lago employee in charge of security cameras changed his testimony and implicated Trump after switching attorneys, prosecutors say
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

"Trump Employee 4" had initially been represented by a lawyer paid for by a Trump political action committee. Nauta is represented by Stanley Woodward, who previously repped Trump Employee 4, and prosecutors said that Woodward's continued presence in the case could also mark a conflict of interest. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Advising Trump Employee 4 to correct his sworn testimony would result in testimony incriminating Mr. Woodward's other client, Nauta; but permitting Trump Employee 4's false testimony to stand uncorrected would leave Trump Employee 4 exposed to criminal charges for perjury," prosecutors said in the filing. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn the latest development, federal prosecutors said that they plan to call on Taveras to describe the pressure campaign to delete security footage. "The Government anticipates calling Trump Employee 4 as a trial witness and expects that he will testify to conduct alleged in the superseding indictment regarding efforts to delete security footage," prosecutors wrote.

Persons: Trump, Donald Trump's, Jack Smith's, —, Prosecutors, Taveras, Aileen Cannon, Smith, Walt Nauta, Carlos De Oliveira, Stanley Woodward, Woodward's, Mr, uncorrected, Woodward, De Oliveira Organizations: Trump, Service, Trump's Save America PAC, NBC News, US, Prosecutors, DOJ Locations: Wall, Silicon, Florida, Washington, Taveras

☆ Federal officials claim Elon Musk is treated like an ‘unelected official’ due to growing influence in Ukraine war policy, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new report highlights how Elon Musk's Starlink satellites have been crucial in the Ukraine war. Since the outset of the war, Musk has provided Starlink satellites to Ukrainian troops — with some caveats. According to The New Yorker, Musk is treated like an "unelected official" by government officials. According to The New Yorker, Musk is treated like an "unelected official." Obviously, we are pro Ukraine," Musk tweeted after the poll.

Persons: Elon, Musk, Starlink Organizations: Yorker, Service, Privacy, Department of Defense, New Yorker, CNN, SpaceX, Pentagon, Kremlin, Elon Locations: Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Yorker, New, Russia, Crimea

☆ Inside the jail where Trump and the 18 co-defendants in the Georgia racketeering case will be booked
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

By August 25, Trump will be booked at a notorious Atlanta jail known as 'Rice Street.' Get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in business, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley — delivered daily. The Georgia jail cell where Lashawn Thompson was found dead. Photos of the jail cell where Lashawn Thompson was held show squalid conditions. Handout from Michael HarperAs it stands, Trump's attorneys are negotiating the terms of his surrender with the Fulton County DA, according to CNN.

Persons: Trump, Donald Trump, Fani Willis, —, Sarah Flack, Lashawn Thompson, Handout, Michael Harper Robert G, Rubin, Michael Harper, Willis Organizations: Trump, Service, The New York Times, Times, Department of Justice, Fulton County DA, CNN, GOP Locations: Atlanta, Wall, Silicon, Fulton County, Manhattan, Georgia

☆ In a recording of an all-hands meeting, Sam Bankman-Fried's ex Caroline Ellison blamed him for FTX's collapse
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An employee recorded Caroline Ellison blaming him for using customer funds, per a new filing. Federal prosecutors said that Caroline Ellison, a top affiliate and ex of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, blamed the embattled cryptocurrency mogul for using FTX customer deposits in a recording from a company meeting. Ellison told Alameda employees about the impending bankruptcy in the recording, prosecutors claimed. Federal prosecutors said that one employee pushed back, asking who decided to use FTX customer deposits. The memo tracks bad press around Alameda and FTX, but also shows Ellison's reflections on the alleged scheme between FTX and Alameda, prosecutors said.

Persons: Prosecutors, Sam Bankman, Caroline Ellison, Fried, Ellison, Bankman, Sam, FTX Organizations: Alameda Research, Prosecutors, Alameda Locations: New York, Alameda, FTX, Bankman

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