Scandal
How the Sussmann trial revealed Hillary Clinton’s role in the Alfa Bank scandal
The trial of former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann crossed a critical threshold Friday when a key witness uttered the name “Hillary Clinton” in conjunction with a plan to spread the false Alfa Bank Russian collusion claim before the 2016 presidential election. For Democrats and many in the media, Hillary Clinton has long held a Voldemort-like …
Credit Suisse takes $4.7 billion hit from Archegos hedge fund scandal
A Swiss flag flies over a sign of Credit Suisse in Bern, Switzerland FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Credit Suisse on Tuesday announced several high-level staff departures and proposed a cut to its dividend as it weighs heavy losses from the Archegos Capital saga. The Swiss lender now expects a first-quarter pre-tax loss …
Republicans Have Been Waiting for a Matt Gaetz Scandal to Break
After Rep. Matt Gaetz accused a Florida lawyer of a $25 million extortion scheme to make sex trafficking allegations disappear, Republicans on and off Capitol Hill on Wednesday largely kept their mouths shut. Gaetz—the Trump-loving, Fox News-grinning, 38-year-old Florida Republican—has a less-than-sterling reputation among his congressional colleagues. More than a half-dozen lawmakers have spoken to …
Cuomo implicated in ‘criminal corruption scandal’ over nursing home coronavirus deaths: Stefanik
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said Friday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. was implicated in a “criminal corruption scandal” over his state’s reported undercounting of nursing home COVID-19 deaths. In an interview on “The Story,” Stefanik said New York lawmakers needed to hold Cuomo accountable for what the state’s attorney general has alleged was a …
Pelosi claims hair salon scandal was a ‘set-up’
“So I take responsibility for falling for a set-up.” Pelosi also said the salon owed her an apology, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. Pelosi’s stylist, Jonathan DeNardo, backed up the speaker’s claim that she was set up by the salon’s owners. In a letter Wednesday night, DeNardo’s legal team said Erica Kious, who owns the …
Barr calls Russia scandal ‘bogus,’ says he acts independently of Trump in blistering opening statement
In Barr’s prepared remarks, which were provided to CNN by the Justice Department on Monday, the attorney general says he has acted independently of President Donald Trump in the decisions he’s made in several criminal cases he’s handled. “Ever since I made it clear that I was going to do everything I could to get …
Wirecard CEO Markus Braun resigns as scandal batters shares
Markus Braun, CEO of the technology and financial services company Wirecard, poses in the company headquarters in Aschheim near Munich, southern Germany, on September 18, 2018. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP) (Photo credit should read CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images) CHRISTOF STACHE | AFP | Getty Images Wirecard CEO Markus Braun has stepped down amid a …
The 2016 election scandal waiting to break
The virus isn’t the only thing going on in Washington that Wall Street and investors need to pay attention to. There is another Black Swan about to take flight that could poop on the markets. As I’ve been telling you for a long time, there are going to be repercussions from the political scandals of …
BREAKING! Four OPM officials including PS arrested in Coronavirus food relief procurement scandal – PML Daily
PS. Ma. Christine Guwatudde has been arrested on suspension of inflating princes (PHOTO/File) KAMPALA – KAMPALA – The State House Anti-corruption unit headed by President Museveni’s military assistant Lt. Col. Edith Nakalema has arrested top officials at the Office of the Prime Minister including the Permanent Secretary Christine Guwatudde Kintu on suspension of inflating prices …
Horse racing trainers and veterinarians charged in international doping scandal
More than two dozen trainers, veterinarians and others in horse racing were charged in a widespread doping scheme that “amounted to nothing less than abuse,” federal officials and court papers revealed Monday. The defendants ran horses at tracks in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Ohio, Kentucky and the United Arab Emirates, federal prosecutors in New …
