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Federal prosecutors said Friday that Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency tycoon convicted of masterminding a multibillion-dollar fraud, should be sentenced to 40 to 50 years in prison.Prosecutors described the recommendation in a filing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Mr. Bankman-Fried’s sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 28, when Judge Lewis A. Kaplan will decide his fate. He faces a maximum sentence of 110 years.”Justice demands that he be given a prison sentence commensurate with the extraordinary dimensions of his crimes,” prosecutors said in a 116-page sentencing brief to the judge.The federal probation division separately recommended a 100-year sentence for Mr.…
When Romeo Chicco tried to get car insurance in December, he was turned down by seven different companies. When he finally got insurance, it was almost double the rate he was paying before. According to a federal complaint filed this week seeking class-action status, it was because the 2021 Cadillac XT6 was spying on him.Modern cars are called “smartphones on wheels” because they are connected to the internet and packed with sensors and cameras. According to the complaint, a Liberty Mutual agent told Mr. Chicco that he had been rejected because of information in the “LexisNexis report.” LexisNexis Risk Solutions,…
Kent Campbell, a defining figure in the global fight against malaria — mostly in Africa, where he led an innovative program that provided nets to protect rural villagers from the mosquitoes that carry the disease — died Feb. 20 in Oro Valley, Ariz. . a suburb of Tucson. It was 80.His death, in a nursing home, was caused by complications from cancer, his children said.As chief of the malaria branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1981 to 1993, and later as a consultant to UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Campbell is credited…
Dear Tripped Up,Last September, my husband and I left our children with their grandparents and set off for Ireland. Our $2,132 itinerary took us from Minneapolis to Toronto to Dublin on tickets booked on United Airlines through Expedia but ultimately operated by United’s partner Air Canada. We had boarded our flight to Toronto (and was already asleep in my seat) when the captain announced that an operator had dropped the bridge of the jet on the starboard engine. We were given hotel vouchers and told they would rebook us for the next day. Checkout time came and went without a…
Senator Chuck Schumer, D-New York and the majority leader, delivered a scathing speech on the Senate floor Thursday, blasting Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a major obstacle to Middle East peace and calling for new leadership in Israel, five months into war.Many Democratic lawmakers have condemned the leadership of Mr. Netanyahu and his right-wing governing coalition, and President Biden even criticized the Israeli military’s attack on Gaza as “over the top.” But Mr Schumer’s speech was the sharpest criticism yet from a senior US elected official — effectively urging Israelis to replace Mr Netanyahu.”I believe in his heart, his…
A jury found James Crumbley guilty of involuntary manslaughter late Thursday for failing to stop his teenage son from killing four of his classmates and injuring seven others in Michigan’s deadliest school shooting.Mr. Crumbley and his wife, Jennifer Crumbley, who were found guilty of the same charges in a separate trial last month, are the first parents in the country to be directly charged in the deaths of their child in a mass shooting.Their prosecutions were seen as part of a national effort to hold some parents responsible for the deadly violence of their children. In the Crumbleys’ trials, “the…
The World Bank’s internal watchdog on Thursday criticized the handling and oversight of its investment in a chain of Kenyan schools that were the subject of an internal investigation following allegations of student abuse.The investigation, which began in 2020, has consumed World Bank officials and shareholders in recent months and led to scrutiny of its investment arm, the International Finance Corporation, which invested in the education project a decade ago.The countries that make up the IFC’s board of directors have discussed how to compensate victims of abuse. While the scandal predates the tenure of Ajay Banga, the new president of…
Russia is stepping up its internet censorship ahead of an election this weekend that is sure to give President Vladimir Putin another six years in power, further shrinking one of the last remaining spaces for political activism, independent information and free speech .Russian authorities have stepped up a crackdown on digital tools used to bypass internet blocks, restricting access to WhatsApp and other communication apps in certain areas during protests and expanding a program to disrupt websites and online services, according to groups civil society, researchers and affected companies.Russia, they said, is turning to techniques that go beyond established hacking…
Early detection of colon cancer can prevent the majority of deaths from this disease, possibly up to 73 percent of them. But only 50 to 75 percent of middle-aged and older adults who should be screened regularly are being screened.One reason, doctors say, is that screening methods put many people off.There are two options for people at average risk: a colonoscopy every 10 years or a stool test every one to three years, depending on the type of test.Or, as Dr. Folasade P. May, a gastroenterologist at UCLA Health, “either you take this horrible laxative and then a doctor puts…
For more than 20 years, Melissa Goldstein worked as a magazine photo editor. While researching images, she developed a fascination with Scandinavian ceramics, 17th-century botanical illustrations, and Japanese woodblock prints dating back to the 1500s. It wasn’t until she moved to Brooklyn and began restoring the verdant garden behind her stone that she began to combine her interests:[My brand MG by Hand] it was the amalgamation of my research, the garden and making things for my family,” Goldstein says of the fine English porcelain ceramics she now sells in select stores and online. In 2008, the artist began handcrafting everyday…