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☆ Buying a dream home in Italy can be a nightmare. This couple says they have the answer
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Silvia Marchetti | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The couple has set up a flourishing business buying properties, restyling and reselling them, ready-to-occupy, helping foreign buyers every step of the way. They hunt for old houses in historical villages in need of a makeover, which once renovated make the perfect summer getaway. The BEFORE picture: The couple find old houses in need of a makeover. The old properties the pair handles are located in small towns where centuries-old traditions survive. I really like old houses and the idea of giving them a second chance: especially when they are abandoned buildings rich with history.

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☆ How soccer club Juventus is becoming one of the leading sports brands on social media despite 'tough times' on the pitch
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Juventus is a 127-year-old Italian soccer club with a long history of success. With 32.7 million followers, Juventus' account is the fifth-most-followed soccer team on the platform, and its audience is bigger than that of the NBA or WWE. It's also the sixth in the world across all social media, according to data from the soccer analysis platform Football Benchmark. From left: Juventus players Wojciech Szczęsny and Kenan Yıldız with YouTuber Celine Dept during the launch day of Juventus Creator Lab. One of the areas of the new Juventus Creator Lab.

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☆ Bannon co-defendant Shea sentenced to 5-1/4 years over 'We Build the Wall' fraud
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Timothy Shea's sentence was the longest imposed over the "We Build the Wall" campaign, which federal prosecutors said raised more than $25 million from hundreds of thousands of donors. Two other defendants, who pleaded guilty, received shorter prison terms. Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was also charged in the case, but Trump pardoned him in the final hours of his presidency. Two other defendants, the campaign's leader Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, pleaded guilty and were sentenced in April to 4-1/4 years and three years in prison, respectively. Bannon was criminally charged last September by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with state law violations arising from the wall campaign.

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☆ AI startup cloud deals by Microsoft, Google and Amazon ring 'accounting alarm bells' across Silicon Valley over revenue 'round-tripping'
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-19 | by ( Eugene Kim | Stephanie Palazzolo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Some investors question whether these arrangements are artificially juicing cloud revenue growth. When Microsoft announced a multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI earlier this year, the deal made Azure the ChatGPT-maker's "exclusive cloud provider." There's another deal in the works with similar attributes involving Runway AI and a major cloud company. But they are drawing more scrutiny lately because they could artificially inflate cloud revenue, a key driver of growth for Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, according to Ted Mortonson, managing director of financial-services firm Baird. Is OpenAI a regular cloud customer that is getting no investment money from Microsoft?

☆ We Build The Wall founder sentenced to 4 years in prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A third man involved in siphoning funds from the wall project, Colorado businessman Tim Shea, won't be sentenced until June. Kolfage, Badolato and Shea were not pardoned by Trump, leaving them to face the prospect of years in prison. As money poured into the cause, Kolfage and his partner, Shea, turned to Bannon and Badolato for help creating a nonprofit, We Build the Wall, Inc. "The fraudsters behind We Build The Wall injured the body politic," she said. Some sections of a border barrier were built by We Build the Wall on private lands, but the nonprofit is now defunct.

☆ Bannon associate sentenced to more than 4 years for fraud over Trump border wall
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Luc Cohen | Thomson Reuters | Reports On The New York Federal Courts. Previously Worked As A Correspondent In Venezuela | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Kolfage, 41, pleaded guilty last year to misappropriating funds meant for the "We Build the Wall" campaign. Andrew Badolato, 58, another former Bannon associate, also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years in prison at the same hearing. "The fraud perpetrated by Mr. Kolfage and Mr. Badolato went well beyond ripping off individual donors," Torres told the hearing. He also pleaded guilty to tax charges. In September, Bannon, 69, was indicted in New York state court in Manhattan on money laundering and conspiracy charges over the planned wall.

☆ Judge Sentences Trump Allies in ‘We Build the Wall’ Scheme
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Colin Moynihan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In 2019, Brian Kolfage, an Air Force veteran injured in Iraq, formed a nonprofit group to construct the border barrier that then-President Donald J. Trump had promised. It was called simply We Build the Wall. Mr. Kolfage had three co-founders: a Colorado entrepreneur named Timothy Shea; a Florida financier, Andrew Badolato; and Stephen K. Bannon, who had served as an adviser to Mr. Trump. Mr. Badolato and Mr. Bannon took significant control of day-to-day operations, according to federal prosecutors. Mr. Kolfage, who lost both legs and part of his right arm in Iraq, was the group’s public face, pledging that all money raised would go toward a wall between the United States and Mexico and that he would “not take a penny of compensation.”In 2020, however, prosecutors accused Mr. Badolato, Mr. Bannon, Mr. Kolfage and Mr. Shea of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars, with some going to personal expenses, like boat payments.

☆ Steve Bannon's donor-fraud charges in New York include money laundering, conspiracy, scheme to defraud
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-08 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Steve Bannon has been charged in Manhattan with money laundering, conspiracy, and scheme to defraud. The charges are less severe than in the federal 'We Build the Wall' case Trump pardoned him on. Read Bannon's new 'We Build the Wall' donor-scam indictment here. A handcuffed Steve Bannon is escorted to his seat at the defense table in Manhattan Supreme Court on September 8, 2022. Kolfage and co-defendant Andrew Badolato, both of Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan in April and have yet to be sentenced.

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