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Counterfeiting has ballooned into a massive problem for Crye, costing it millions of dollars a year, said Jonathan Antone, the company's general counsel. By 2016, sellers were speaking out about Amazon's growing counterfeit problem, telling CNBC of the company's effort to openly court Chinese manufacturers. "There's a lot more space on that digital shelf for potential counterfeit products," he added. Agents seized "multiple tractor trailer loads" of counterfeit MultiCam products, estimated to be worth $8 million, according to court documents. Crye showed CNBC examples of counterfeit MultiCam products that were allegedly sold by retailer L&Q Tactical, one of the defendants in the lawsuit, on Amazon.

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☆ FDA eyes McDonald's supplier Taylor Farms as source of E. Coli outbreak
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Berkeley Lovelace Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburger is shown in this photograph, in New York's Times Square, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024. An E. coli outbreak has been traced to McDonald's Quarter Pound hamburgers served with raw slivered onions. An FDA spokesperson confirmed Thursday the agency was investigating Taylor Farms, adding, "We're looking at all possible sources." A McDonald's spokesperson said Wednesday that the raw onions were sourced from a single supplier and processed at a single facility. According to the company's website, Taylor Farms is a California-based producer of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables.

Persons: Taylor, Taco Bell Organizations: Drug Administration, . Foods, FDA, Centers for Disease Control Locations: New, Colorado, California

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood mogul whose alleged sexual misconduct fueled the #MeToo movement and who was recently indicted on new charges, has chronic myeloid leukemia, two sources told NBC News. The sources added that Weinstein is undergoing treatment in prison at Rikers Island in New York. Chronic myeloid leukemia is an uncommon form of cancer of the bone marrow, according to the Mayo Clinic. In a statement to NBC News on Monday night, Weinstein's legal health care representative Craig Rothfeld said in part, "Out of respect for Mr. Weinstein's privacy, we will offer no further comment." Weinstein's health issues come amid his legal battle with Manhattan prosecutors over their efforts to combine his original 2020 sexual crimes with a new criminal indictment.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein, Craig Rothfeld, Weinstein’s Organizations: Hollywood, NBC News, Mayo Clinic, Manhattan, Prosecutors, Appeals Locations: Rikers, New York, York, Los Angeles

☆ Diddy's children break their silence on his arrest and compare the accusations to 'conspiracy theories'
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Callie Ahlgrim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sean "Diddy" Combs is awaiting trial on federal charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and more. AdvertisementAs Sean "Diddy" Combs awaits trial in jail on three felony charges, including sex trafficking, his children are standing united behind their father. AdvertisementThe photo shows all six children with their father, plus Combs' mother, Janice Small Combs; Combs' seventh child, a 1-year-old daughter named Love Sean Combs; and Love's mother, Dana Tran. Combs, the millionaire rap entrepreneur and founder of Bad Boy Records, has been charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. Kim Porter and Sean Combs in 2018 with their four children: D'Lila, Christian, Quincy, and Jessie.

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☆ Business Insider Subscriptions: Enjoy Premium News Stories
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-19 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

It isn't an accident that people who want to cancel a subscription often have to navigate a web of bureaucracy and confusion. "Actual affirmative consent from a consumer," Witte said, would establish trust between the consumer and the company, boosting loyalty. Along with litigation from the CFPB, state attorneys general have pursued legal action against big companies over hard-to-cancel subscriptions. Last year, Letitia James, New York's attorney general, sued SiriusXM over claims that the radio company trapped customers in subscriptions and maintained a complicated and burdensome cancellation process. AdvertisementIndustries have mastered techniques to maximize their profits by crafting their business models in confusing ways that can lure customers into a subscription without realizing it.

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☆ Minnesota Lynx defeat New York Liberty in dramatic fashion to force title-deciding Game 5 of WNBA Finals
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( David Close | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The Minnesota Lynx defeated the New York Liberty 82-80 in Game 4 of the WNBA Finals to force a winner-takes-all decider on Sunday. The packed crowd at the Target Center in Minneapolis almost had their hearts broken in a consecutive Finals game. Afterall, Ionescu had won the game on Wednesday, hitting a long, tiebreaking three at the end of the game. Liberty center Jonquel Jones (No. Minnesota can win a record-breaking fifth WNBA championship, while the Liberty seek the franchise’s first title in franchise history.

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☆ NYC's short-term rental ban slashed Airbnb listings. A year later, it's unclear if it's made housing more affordable.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Eliza Relman | Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

It's been a year since New York City began enforcing its near-ban on short-term rentals, including Airbnbs. While the number of short-term rentals has plummeted, the effect on the housing market is unclear. AdvertisementNew York City's ban on most short-term rentals was supposed to make housing cheaper in the city. In September 2023, NYC began enforcing new regulations — known as Local Law 18 or LL18 — that severely restricted short-term rentals. With so many Airbnbs out of the short-term rental picture, they've been able to charge more.

Persons: It's, Airbnb, —, it's, Ben Kallos, LL18, they've, Sean Hennessey, Jonathan M, that's, they're, Paul, who's, Paul —, Theo Yedinsky, Yedinsky, Eric Adams Organizations: New, Service, New York Times, New York, Tisch Center of Hospitality, Facebook, Business, York City Locations: New York City, York, New, Astoria, Queens, San Diego, Mission Beach

☆ Trump tries once again to get NY hush-money case moved to federal court on immunity grounds
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-15 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Lawyers for Trump on Monday night again sought to move his hush-money case to federal court. An appellate brief reprises arguments from two failed attempts to move the case out of state court. AdvertisementLawyers for former President Donald Trump have filed a 99-page appellate brief seeking again to transfer his hush-money case to federal court. Trump's first attempt at what is called "removal" to federal court was made in May during his Manhattan trial. On Monday, Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove reprised their May and August arguments in appealing Hellerstein's decision, calling the hush-money case "an unprecedented and baseless prosecution."

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☆ America's offices are about to see a wave of distress that could result in a billion square feet of fresh housing supply
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Advertisement"The banks are going to have to dispose of that real estate," Barkham told Business Insider in an interview. John Vavas, a real estate finance attorney at Polsinelli who works with commercial real estate lenders, has worked on a handful of office-to-residential conversion deals this year. There's around 1.2 billion square feet worth of office space that could be spun into residential space, Yardi said in a separate report. Late payments on commercial real estate loans have climbed to 1.42% in the second quarter, the highest rate in nearly 10 years. Commercial real estate prices, meanwhile, dropped another 9% year-over-year in the first quarter, Fed data shows.

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☆ Why Roblox investors are shrugging off a blistering short-seller report
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-12 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Roblox stock closed at $41.60 on Friday, slightly above where it was earlier in the week when Hindenberg published its research. Related storiesIn the wake of the report, Wall Street and investors seemed to largely stick by the company. AdvertisementRoblox, which primarily makes its money from sales of online currency and items, has been working to grow its advertising business. The report could hinder Roblox's ad businessDespite Roblox's nearly immediate stock recovery and support from Wall Street, the report and related issues could have implications for Roblox's advertising business. Its ad business is barely a rounding error today, but Roblox is still not profitable, so it's trying hard to change that.

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Sean "Diddy" Combs wants to go to trial on sex trafficking charges next spring, the embattled hip-hop mogul's lawyers informed a judge Wednesday. "Mr. Combs continues to assert his right to a speedy trial and intends to request a trial date in April or May 2025, and as consistent with the Court’s trial schedule," the jailed rapper's lawyers wrote. Combs was charged last month with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution in a sweeping indictment by the Southern District of New York. Combs' preference was mentioned in a joint letter from his lawyers and prosecutors. In the joint letter, U.S. government prosecutors said they have started submitting to defense lawyers some of the "voluminous" evidence in the case, including "several terabytes of electronic material" regarding Combs.

Persons: Sean, Diddy, Combs, Mr, Dawn Richard, Danity Kane, that's, Tony Buzbee Organizations: Southern, of, Metropolitan Detention Locations: of New York, Brooklyn, Manhattan, New York's, Texas, New York City

It should put a damper on just how much we should expect the next president to accomplish, especially if the divide is between the House and the White House. There’s a big difference in just how divided government becomes, depending on whether the House and the White House are controlled by the same party or different parties. Two words send chills down the spine of any presidents who find the “other” party in control of the House: subpoena power. Both Trump and Joe Biden saw the second halves of their terms (after they lost control of the House) essentially paralyzed by an oppositional House. First, because California House races will determine overall House control, it could take as much as two or three weeks before we know the makeup of Congress in 2025 for sure.

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☆ Advertisers are scrutinizing the value of AI tools as some early efforts fall flat
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Lucia Moses | Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

AdvertisementTwo years after OpenAI's ChatGPT and other chatbots launched, the advertising community's excitement over generative AI has come down to earth. The shift was evident at New York's Advertising Week, a four-day gathering this week that organizers expected 17,000 to attend. Last year, a Salesforce survey showed about three-quarters of marketers were or planned to use generative AI. Though enthusiasm about AI was tempered in the industry at this year's Advertising Week, there wasn't a widespread abandonment of the tech. Adtech company LiveRamp announced a pair of AI partnerships to help marketers find the right AI company for a given problem.

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☆ This travel concierge's clients are worth at least $100 million. Here's how they do Las Vegas differently — from where to stay to where to eat.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Brittany Chang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Ultra-luxury travel concierge Sienna Charles' clients have an average net worth starting at $100 million. Its founder explained how its clients do Las Vegas, from the best hotels to the top restaurants. While you'd be right, you'd also be missing one key destination — Las Vegas. India said Las Vegas is a once-a-year trip for some of Sienna Charles' clients. However, unlike most attendees, Sienna Charles' clients also get VIP or backstage access tickets.

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☆ Fact check: JD Vance and Tim Walz at the vice presidential debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +32 min

Tim Walz and Republican Sen. JD Vance of Ohio are facing off Tuesday night in New York City for their first – and only – vice presidential debate. Vance mischaracterizes Harris’ role on border policySen. JD Vance claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris was appointed the “border czar” during the Biden administration. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance attend a debate hosted by CBS News in New York on Tuesday. A recent report from the US Department of Energy found 142,000 new clean energy jobs were created in 2023. Alex Kent/Getty Images Cutout images of Vance and Walz are displayed at a debate watch party in New York.

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☆ Takeaways from the Vance and Walz vice presidential debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Eric Bradner | Daniel Strauss | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —The vice presidential debate between Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Vance repeatedly hit Vice President Kamala Harris on border security, while Walz lambasted former President Donald Trump on abortion rights. Tim Walz take part in a vice presidential debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York on Tuesday, October 1. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Vance addresses Walz during the debate. Alex Kent/Getty Images Cutout images of Vance and Walz are displayed at a debate watch party in New York.

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Jon-Adrian Velazquez spent close to 27 years caught in the criminal justice system — nearly all of it behind bars in New York's Sing Sing prison, convicted of a murder he insisted he did not commit. Andrew Cuomo granted Velazquez executive clemency, citing his work in Sing Sing on an educational initiative by those incarcerated to combat gun violence, and he was freed after serving almost 24 years of a 25-year-to-life sentence. The results determined Velazquez's DNA was not on the key evidence. Since his release from prison, Velazquez has used his experience to become an advocate for criminal legal reform and even played himself in the 2023 drama "Sing Sing," based on an actual Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at the prison. The podcast "Letters from Sing Sing" was a finalist for a 2024 Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting and Slepian's book about the case, "The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice," was released this month.

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☆ Mark Cuban says he's glad he never hung out with Diddy
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Mark Cuban says he's "sure glad" that he wasn't close to rapper Sean "Diddy Combs." Cuban said he only worked with Combs' designers on a set of jerseys for the Dallas Mavericks. AdvertisementBillionaire investor Mark Cuban says he's relieved he kept his distance from rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs. The "Shark Tank" star added that while he had met and worked with Combs before, he didn't interact with Combs outside work. Cuban and representatives for Combs didn't immediately respond to requests for comment sent outside regular business hours.

Persons: Mark Cuban, Sean, Diddy Combs, Combs, Cuban, —, he's, Diddy, Theo Von, Combs didn't, Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Evan Nierman, Banyan, Callie Ahlgrim, Jacob Shamsian, Sam Bankman Organizations: Dallas Mavericks, Service, NBA, Metropolitan Detention, MDC, Business Locations: Manhattan, Cuban, York, Florida, New York's

☆ Jimmy Carter is setting a new record for American presidents. It’s important for everyone
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +25 min

Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images Carter works at a construction site sponsored by the Jimmy Carter Work Project in Asan, South Korea, in 2001. Alex Wong/Getty Images Carter meets with Obama and other former presidents at the White House in January 2009. Richard Lewis/The Elders/Getty Images Carter was interviewed for "The Presidents' Gatekeepers" project at the Carter Center in Atlanta in September 2011. Chris McKay/Getty Images Carter talks about his cancer diagnosis during a news conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta in August 2015. The 1983 tweaks to Social Security included, for instance, the counting of some Social Security benefits as taxable income and a gradual increase of the retirement age from 65 to 67.

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Eric Adams was indicted on 5 criminal charges but denies wrongdoing in language that mirrors Trump. AdvertisementNew York City Mayor Eric Adams' indictment may be unprecedented, but his rhetoric isn't. In his staunch denial of any wrongdoing, Adams is sounding eerily similar to another politician: former President Donald Trump. AdvertisementBeyond painting themselves a victim or "target," Trump and Adams struck a similar tone another topic: immigration. At a press conference in New York City on Thursday afternoon, Trump defended Adams and praised the mayor's immigration stance.

Persons: Eric Adams, Biden, Trump, Adams, —, Donald Trump, Roy Cohn, he's, He's, Fani Willis, Jack Smith, Joe Biden, Harris, Kathy Hochul, Democratic National Convention . Sen, Mark Kelly, Kamala Harris Organizations: Service, York City, Democrat, Mansion, Biden, Democratic National Convention . Locations: York, Turkish, Fulton County, New York City

☆ NY appellate judges voice serious doubts about Trump's $454M civil fraud verdict
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Trump's arguments for overturning his $454M civil fraud verdict received a warm reception Thursday. Trump attorney D. John Sauer has made this line drawing a central point of his appeal. The appeal argues that James' fraud case wrongly interfered in the decisions of "sophisticated" banks that had been happy to loan Trump money regardless of any exaggerations. Deutsche Bank relied on Trump's financial statements in loaning him $400 million to develop his Chicago skyscraper, his Washington, DC hotel, and his Miami golf resort. Advertisement"And I will stress, your honor, that this does have harm to the public and the markets," she said of Trump's persistent financial frauds.

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☆ Eric Adams federal probe hones in on little-known Turkish businessman
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Brian Schwartz | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Federal prosecutors have honed in on ties between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and little-known Turkish businessman Enver Yucel, CNBC has learned from the indictment and other public records, including campaign finance documents. A federal indictment unsealed on Thursday describes a 2021 campaign fundraising scheme involving Adams, his team and a person only identified in the indictment as "Businessman-1." An August 2015 letter from New York's conflict of interest board approving the travel, lists Bahcesehir as the only university helping pay for the trip. The City reported that Adams met with Yucel in December 2015 as part of his second trip that year to the country. A spokesman for Adams referred CNBC to his personal attorneys who did not return requests for comment.

Persons: Eric Adams, Enver Yucel, Adams, Yucel Organizations: New York City, CNBC, Bahcesehir University, Bay Atlantic University, The City, Yucel Locations: New, Turkish, Turkey, Washington ,, Brooklyn, The

☆ The Olivia Nuzzi-RFK Jr. story is still spinning out — and New York mag staffers have questions
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

As news of the Olivia Nuzzi-RFK Jr. scandal tore through media and government circles over the past week, with increasingly titillating details emerging, those inside the New York magazine fold began to wonder about their own fallout. In a note to readers, New York called it a "violation of the magazine's standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures." Nuzzi said in a statement to The New York Times that the relationship wasn't physical. She is currently on leave from the magazine, and the magazine is conducting a more thorough third-party review. AdvertisementNew York mag didn't say who was conducting the third-party review or what additional information it hoped to learn from it.

Persons: Olivia Nuzzi, she'd, Robert F, Kennedy Jr, Oliver Darcy, Kennedy, Nuzzi, Donald Trump, Kennedy didn't, wasn't, David Haskell, Vox, Brian Leung, Haskell, Haskell —, EIC Adam Moss, Tirhakah Love, Love, Corey Lewandowski's, Trump Organizations: Service, RFK Jr, New York, Washington, New York Times, Business, Media, Employees, Staff, Trump, Vox Media, Hollywood, Penske Media Locations: New York, Israel, , New York

☆ Americans have an average of $6,300 in credit card debt: Here's how much you'd pay monthly to clear it in 1, 2 or 3 years
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-25 | by ( Cheyenne Devon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The average American has thousands of dollars of credit card debt. As a whole, Americans hold a record $1.14 trillion in credit card debt as of the second quarter of this year, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's August report. "Credit card debt is easy to get into and hard to get out of," Rossman says. Carrying credit card debt can cost youCarrying a balance from month to month can make your credit card debt more expensive in the long run due to accruing interest. How to pay off your credit card debt

Persons: Ted Rossman, Bankrate, Rossman, it's Organizations: Federal Reserve Bank of New, CNBC Locations: LendingTree

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