This story is bananas -- Death and deceit in Malibu: How yogi couple befriended and stole millions from a mentally-ill doctor
Lukas I. Alpert
@lalpert1
Financial investigations for Marketwatch. Ex-media reporter, Moscow correspondent + tabloid scribe. Author of Kremlin Speak: Inside Putin's Propaganda Factory.
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Death and deceit in Malibu: How a yogi couple befriended and stole millions from a mentally-ill doctor
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Sorry, Scott Rolen? Wut?
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Why does every band I want to see (and there are not many these days) always end up playing at Terminal 5 when they come to NYC? Can’t somebody tell them that everyone hates that venue
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Kind of blown away by how good this album is. I’ve passed it in dollar bins for years before picking up this copy for free. Guess you shouldn’t always judge an album by its cover #nowplaying
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Deadwood and It’s Your Move (80s show with Jason Bateman)
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What TV show got cancelled that you’re still mad about?
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Redemption undone: Man stuck up bank to finance film about finding God in prison
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New York attorney general files fraud suit against Celsius Network and its founder Alex Mashinsky
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Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty in multi-billion dollar FTX fraud case
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Santos seems convinced he can just talk his way out of this. Same as Sam Bankman-Fried, until he got indicted.
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Toys attached to their packaging with tiny screws are the bane of my existence
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Blinged-out Brooklyn bishop who was robbed during sermon hit with federal fraud and extortion charges
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All I see when watching soccer matches is violent ultranationalism and blinding corporate branding all over a game where almost nothing happens for 89 of the 90 minutes (and sometimes for the entire 90).
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Any good football games on today?
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Surprisingly weak headline from what was the king of the tabloids back then
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire of deception laid bare in SEC suit alleging massive FTX fraud
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FTX's new CEO is set to lay out an alarming picture to congress of how badly mismanaged the crypto exchange really was
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What are the wildest financial fraud cases of 2022? What steps will law enforcement, regulators and financial institutions be taking to combat them in 2023?
Join and tomorrow for a discussion: trib.al/F7ePVdD
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