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An Orange County man who fraudulently obtained $5 million in pandemic relief loans and then spent the money on lavish vacations, luxury sports cars and his own personal expenses was sentenced Friday to 4½ years in prison, federal prosecutors said.Mustafa Qadiri, 42, of Irvine, had obtained the funds by submitting loan applications to the federal Paycheck Protection Program, which Congress created in March 2020 to provide emergency aid to small businesses struggling to survive amid COVID-19 related shutdowns and other business interruptions.

William "Rick" Singer arrives Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Boston.He was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $19 million in restitution and forfeitures.Brian Snyder/Reuters Rick Singer, the man behind the notorious "Varsity Blues" college admissions bribery scandal, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 1/2 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $19 million about half as restitution to the IRS and the other half as forfeitures of money and assets.

The ceremonial return of 21 Benin bronzes to Nigeria by Germany last month gave the latest powerful signal of how fast the international tide is turning on the repatriation of looted art.The German handover followed an American one two months earlier, when the Smithsonian Institution signed over 29 bronzes in Washington.

Former President Donald Trump released a campaign video on Tuesday titled Higher Education, in which he outlined plans to seize the endowments of any college or university practicing affirmative action.Trump began by raging against the Marxist takeover of higher education and vowed to change how colleges and universities are accredited so that higher education will reflect values that defend the American tradition and Western civilization.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on Sept. 29, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Mariam Zuhaib/AP Every month, Renee Hoolan sends her son, Bailey Sanders, $75.He's been incarcerated for the last 6 years, so he uses that money for things like over-the-counter medications, shoes for his job or minutes on the phone.

Mark Anderson at the Marin County courthouse, where he faced charges that he embezzled $1.1 million worth of wine from his clients.Anderson, a Berkeley native, later set a fire at a wine storehouse to cover his tracks.Photo: Marin Independent Journal A Berkeley man who embezzled thousands of bottles of wine from his clients and set fire to a warehouse in 2005, destroying 4.5 million bottles of wine worth $250 million, has died.

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, center, walks into court in San Jose, Calif., on Friday alongside her mother, Noel Holmes, and partner, Billy Evans.Philip Pacheco/Getty Images Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the medical technology startup Theranos, returned to court Friday to argue that she should remain free on bail while she pursues an appeal of her conviction for wire fraud and conspiracy.

Water utilities will be required to routinely test for toxic forever chemicals, and spend billions upgrading treatment plants to filter them, under the first-ever national limits intended to protect Americans from widespread threats to human health and the environment.In Illinois alone, the drinking water of more than 660,000 people is contaminated at levels exceeding the proposed standards for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS.

A Mississippi man has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for burning a cross in his front yard to intimidate a Black family, according to a news release from the US Justice Department.Axel Cox, 24, was sentenced to 42 months in connection to the cross burning, which happened in December 2020 and violated the Fair Housing Act, the release said, adding Cox admitted that he lit the cross on fire because the victims were Black and that he intended to scare them into moving out of the neighborhood.

The FBI is asking for the public's help in finding additional victims of a Hoffman Estates doctor who was recently indicted on 13 counts of health care fraud after allegedly bilking Medicaid and multiple health care programs out of nearly $800,000, officials said.A website and online questionnaire have been created to identify any more victims of Dr. Mona Ghosh, according to a statement from FBI spokesperson Siobhan Johnson.

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A former East Flatbush United States Postal Service worker has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for postal theft after she stole $4 million in blank money orders, the U.S. Attorney's office announced on Wednesday.

A Chicago man's lawyers are sharing news with every publication they can that Buffalo Wild Wings's marketing misleads consumers when it comes to its boneless chicken wings.In a class-action lawsuit filed last week, the plaintiff claims the sports bar chain's menu and commercials lead "reasonable consumers" to believe the company's boneless wings are deboned chicken wings "comprised of entirely chicken wing meat," when in reality they're glorified chicken nuggets.

What, exactly, is a boneless chicken wing?Is it a wing from an actual chicken, with the bones removed for easier snacking?Or is it a chunk of succulent breast meat molded into the shape of a wing?Whatever the answer, it's a topic that wing enthusiasts have long debated, often over a beer or three.It is also the subject of a class-action lawsuit brought this month against Buffalo Wild Wings by a Chicago-area man who claims the restaurant chain is falsely advertising its boneless wing products, which he says are more like chicken nuggets.

TD Bank Group says it will pay $1.205 billion US to settle a lawsuit in connection with a multi-year Ponzi scheme operated by the Stanford Financial Group.Under the terms of the agreement, TD has settled with the receiver, the official Stanford Investors Committee and other plaintiffs in the litigation.

Boris Johnson hit out at the campaign to return the Elgin Marbles and the rewriting of Roald Dahl books as he expressed irritation at wokeness.The former prime minister said people should be vigilant about freedom of speech and warned that returning the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece would leave a huge gap in the British Museum's ability to tell the story of world history.

Boris Johnson has criticised a publisher's rewriting of some language in Roald Dahl's stories by reciting a song by the Oompa-Loompas.The former prime minister expressed his irritation at wokeness and political correctness after Puffin made extensive changes to the author's work to remove language it deemed offensive.

Regulators trying to crack down on financial fraud have certainly had their hands full lately.They notched a rare win on Dec. 20, when Wells Fargo & Co. announced it would pay $3.7 billion to settle a consumer fraud allegation by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - $1.7 billion as a civil penalty and $2 billion for restitution to consumers.

Twenty-one precious artefacts that were looted by British soldiers from the former west African kingdom of Benin 125 years ago have been physically handed over by Germany to Nigeria amid laughter, tears, and some audible frustration with the ongoing silence of the country that first stole them.The objects from the haul of treasures known as the Benin bronzes, including a brass head of an oba (king), a ceremonial ada and a throne depicting a coiled-up python, were taken from the sacked city during a British punitive expedition in 1897 and later sold to German museums in Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Cologne.

The University of Cambridge will return looted Benin bronzes to Nigeria.The 116 artefacts, which are mainly made of brass but also include some ivory and wooden objects, were taken by British armed forces during the sacking of Benin City in 1897.During the attack, the British burned the city's palace and exiled Benin's Oba, or king, with thousands of brasses and other works  collectively known as the Benin bronzes'  taken and later sold off in London to recoup the costs of the military mission.