Fashion tech founder sentenced to prison for $300m fraud scheme pred 1 dnevom, 11 urami in 55 minutami Christine Hunsicker, former CEO of CaaStle, gave investors falsified documents that overstated profit and cash reservesA fashion tech founder was sentenced to five years in federal prison for her involvement in a $300m “fraud scheme” spanning from 2019 to 2025, the Manhattan US attorney’s office announced on Thursday. Christine Hunsicker, 49, was also sentenced to three years of supervised release.Hunsicker, the founder and ex-CEO of CaaStle Inc, had pleaded guilty this March to one count of securities fraud in relation to a scheme that “defrauded hundreds of investors”, authorities said. Her attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Australia news live: PM says he shouldn’t have gone on Bush Deep podcast; home sales to overseas buyers plunge pred 1 dnevom, 12 urami in 41 minutami Albanese said now-infamous interview, dubbed ‘melon-gate’, taught him he needs ‘to do better every day’. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastButler says Israeli government should ‘demonstrate some accountability’ on Zomi FrankcomHealth minister Mark Butler said the Israeli government could “demonstrate some accountability” after the country’s ambassador, Hillel Newman, was called in for formal talks following the decision not to open a criminal investigation into the death of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom.Something monumentally bad has happened here, and it just appears there’s no accountability on that side. Also, there has been to-ing and fro-ing very serious discussions between us and the Israelis about some of that evidence that you mentioned.We continue to want to have that released both to Australia, but more importantly, to the family. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Website behind widely shared fake election polls run by 21-year-old pred 1 dnevom, 12 urami in 49 minutami Exclusive: Rahil Prakash tells the Guardian: ‘I wanted to see if fake polls could penetrate the ecosystem that easily’A 21-year-old recent college graduate was behind an anonymous website that put out widely shared fake election polling in Wisconsin, Nevada and California, the Guardian can reveal.The website, Median Strategies, abruptly shut down and withdrew its polling earlier this week following questions from a reporter from the Los Angeles Times. In an unsigned statement, it described a “short-term social experiment” to examine how fake polling “could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
