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Lori Loughlin began her jail sentence in a federal prison in California on Friday. The Huffington Post reports that she’s set to serve a two-month sentence for her role in the college admissions cheating scheme. “The parties recently agreed that the defendant can report to prison on October 30, 2020, instead of on November 19, […]
If there’s one thing the internet age has taught us, it’s that the boys are always watching and listening. Yet, it seems like one Tennessee rapper missed this lesson in common sense as he’s now facing fraud charges after boasting about scamming in his latest music video. Fontrell Antonio Baines was arrested for allegedly committing unemployment fraud, […]
Wanda Cooper-Jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery, has come out with a public condemnation of multiple people who she says are profiting off the death of her son. Obtained by TMZ, Cooper-Jones’ entire letter on that topic can be read here, which is what I would personally suggest. But we’ll also do our best to summarize […]
Kendall Jenner has reached a settlement in a lawsuit that pertained to her involvement with the legendarily disastrous Fyre Festival. Specifically, she has settled over the charge that she promoted the festival on her Instagram page in a photo that has since been deleted. It’s also worth noting is that her IG post contained no disclosure that she […]
The Federal Trade Commission is warning people about scammers that are using the coronavirus pandemic to steal account information. The FTC released a report on Tuesday explaining that there are scammers posing as COVID-19 contact tracers. Contact tracers are being used by state health departments to get the names and phone numbers of infected patients. […]
A Virginia man crafted an elaborate scheme to defraud bankruptcy court. Russell Geyer pleaded guilty to a number of crimes in federal court on Wednesday, after faking his own death to conceal assets from federal bankruptcy court and fraudulently using a Florida attorney’s identity to cover up his plot, KTRK-TV reports. The 50-year-old pleaded guilty […]
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu took to Twitter Thursday, demanding that a self-proclaimed casting associate remove a post where he claimed to be in search of “new lead roles” for China Rich Girlfriend, the sequel to the 2018 film, as well as an adaptation of the final installment in author Kevin Kwan’s trilogy, Rich People Problems. The false information was provided by […]
As the global health crisis rages on, coronavirus scams have proliferated, with the latest involving ventilators. New York state paid $69.1 million to a man to produce ventilators, even though he had no medical supply expertise—and the ventilators ultimately never arrived, BuzzFeed News reports. On March 27, as the COVID-19 pandemic was underway, Donald Trump […]
The reason the phrase “Hot Pockets heiress” keeps popping up all over your timeline is, it’s sad to say, likely less compelling than the potential for interestingness contained therein. Prosecutors are seeking 21 months behind bars for Michelle Janavs—whose family, per KTLA, developed the aforementioned microwavable concept before selling off the company—due to Janavs’ involvement in […]
A group of men posing as rap industry bigwigs finessed more than $100,000 from luxury hotels in Georgia, according to the Associated Press. The men, who were driving a Rolls Royce Phantom rented from A-National Limousine, pulled up to the hotels and told employees they were with Roc Nation and Wu-Tang Clan, the criminal complaint […]
