#financial-misconduct

#financial-misconduct

The billionaire behind the retail empire that once blanketed shopping malls with names such as Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch told members of Congress on Wednesday that he was "duped by a world-class con man" - close financial adviser Jeffrey Epstein. Les Wexner also denied knowing about the late sex offender's crimes or participating in Epstein's abuse of girls and young women.

The National Rifle Association (NRA) is suing its own charitable arm, the NRA Foundation, claiming that its leaders are trying to seize control of the gun rights organization and illegally repurposing $160m in donations to support their thirst for power. The allegations come in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Washington DC laying bare the turmoil that has plagued the NRA since its disgraced long-time chief executive Wayne LaPierre was ousted in 2024 alongside other senior figures after a financial corruption scandal.

Federal law officers are investigating a youth baseball company owned by the Major League Baseball Players Association that spent at least $3.9 million while holding few sparsely attended live events for kids, sources familiar with the inquiry told ESPN. The Florida-based business, Players Way, has generated barely six figures in revenue since its founding in 2019. While the union said it has put $3.9 million into the company,

Black Rabbit 's third episode opens up on the moment Vince Friedken let his dream slip through his fingers. Another flashback, this time in the immediate aftermath of Vince daring a drunken employee to jump from the roof to a neighboring fire escape, paralyzing the man and leaving the Rabbit to pay out half a million dollars. For his part, Vince gets a $100,000 buyout to exit the Rabbit, which is just enough to lose after a run of careless dice rolls and bad hands.

It's been over a year now since Sheryl Davis resigned as executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC), amid a bombshell report about her apparent use of taxpayer dollars for frivolous expenses like a $10,000 house rental on Martha's Vineyard. Davis, who was also appointed by former Mayor London Breed to lead the mayor's Dream Keeper initiative which was intended to direct more city funds to the city's historically underserved Black population now may face more scrutiny after the release of a city audit report detailing the full extent of that unethical spending.

According to the complex case, the alleged misappropriation was part of a wider pattern of fiscal wrongdoing by Maple & Ash co-owner Jerald Lasky, his brother James Lasky and by companies controlled by them.