Shkreli's Ex-Lawyer Convicted of Aiding Him in Fraud Schemes

A former lawyer for Martin Shkreli's companies might be heading to prison after a jury convicted him of scheming with the former biotech executive to defraud a pharmaceutical firm. Evan Greebel, who advised companies including Retrophin Inc., was found guilty Wednesday of helping Shkreli steal $11
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The agency's experience after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 could provide one explanation for a strict policy governing what kind of housing can go to storm victims. Some 144,000 FEMA trailers became symbols of the troubled federal response after some victims who lived in them for years won millions of
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Blockchain technology was invented back in 2008. But it's just now taking the internet, technology, and even banking by storm. Already, 24% of people around the globe are familiar with blockchain technology. That number is 41% if you only count people in North America. In 2015, 13 different
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Silicon Valley's commercial real estate scene is slipping into unprecedented territory, riding an economic upswing that hasn't faltered in almost a decade. Most analysts seem to be summing up 2017 with one word: stable. Leasing wasn't booming and feverish like the past five years, but most on the
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If you've been taking calcium and vitamin D supplements thinking you were boosting your odds of avoiding future broken bones, you may have been wasting your time. New research published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that seniors may be wasting their
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U.S. consumer confidence declined in December from a 17-year high as Americans became less upbeat about the outlook for the economy and job prospects, according to figures Wednesday from the New York-based Conference Board.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has long been reluctant to impose restrictions on gerrymandering, the practice of drawing election districts for partisan advantage. There's no accepted standard to say where justified redistricting stops and outright vote-rigging begins, and any ruling might arouse suspicions of
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It's taken South Africa's rand exactly nine months — and a new ruling-party leader — to claw back the losses it suffered after President Jacob Zuma unexpectedly fired Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan in March. The rand gained as much as 1.8 percent on Wednesday to 12.2889, erasing its losses since
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“This is the second year Community Bank has been a sponsor for this event,” said Laura McKinney, Director of Marketing for Community Bank. “It was fun to see the excitement on the children's faces as they found the perfect gift for a family member, or were able to buy a toy they really wanted. There is
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I'm also not entirely sold on the amalgam of land-policy changes that Ryan-Collins, Lloyd and Macfarlane favor. But I am thinking about land's economic role a little differently. Maybe we all should. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
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More eyebrow raising than that, the Sea Cliff abode (and its out of place basketball hoop over the garage) formerly belonged to none other than “Lucky Luke” Brugnara, a local real estate tycoon who proved quite unlucky when the FBI arrested him in 2014 for attempting to steal millions of dollars worth of
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View full details for Mortgage Broker – Aberdeenshire job in Aberdeen on s1jobs.com.
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Oaktree Specialty Lending logo Media stories about Oaktree Specialty Lending (NASDAQ:OCSL) have trended somewhat positive on Wednesday, according to Accern Sentiment Analysis. Accern identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than 20 million blog and news sources
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Amazon's $30 Echo Dot found its way under a lot of Christmas trees this year—so many, it seems, that Amazon's Alexa app reached the top of the App Store charts this weekend for the first time. (Unsurprisingly, it's also at the top of the most popular apps list in the Google Play Store, which serves
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President Donald Trump sent 26 percent fewer Mexicans back home this year through November than Barack Obama did in the same period in 2016, despite vows to crack down on illegal immigration, Mexican government data show. About 152,000 Mexican nationals were repatriated from the U.S.
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PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust ( PMT ) will begin trading ex-dividend on December 28, 2017. A cash dividend payment of $0.47 per share is scheduled to be paid on January 26, 2018. Shareholders who purchased PMT prior to the ex-dividend date are eligible for the cash dividend payment.
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… as the nonbank announced Wednesday that it reached settlements with two more states that will remove each state's mortgage servicing restrictions on … are similar” to Ocwen's previous settlements, which prohibit the nonbank from acquiring any new residential mortgage servicing rights until April 30,
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Northeast Ohio real estate, for once, almost had it all in 2017. There were big projects bringing lots of jobs to the region. There were new properties projects opening and taking shape, from 28-story Beacon apartments in downtown Cleveland the Pinecrest mixed-use project rising in Orange Village.
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“Million Dollar Listing” star Josh Altman, his brother, Matt Altman, and real estate firm Hilton & Hyland are being sued for $3.7 million for allegedly steering a client in the wrong direction, according to federal court documents obtained by Page Six on Wednesday. Peter Kleidman claimed in the suit filed
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SunTrust has a career opportunity for a Commercial Team Manager, Business Banking in PeachTree City, GA.
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