Billionaire Leon Black gave even more money to Jeffrey Epstein than we knew, Senate investigators say
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Tiesto's ex-lawyer saved the DJ $28 million in taxes via illegal offshore shelters. Now, the lawyer is on the hook with the IRS.
On Thursday, Tiesto's ex-tax attorney, now jailed on tax fraud, will fight having to pay as much as $19M in the Dutch DJ's back taxes.
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A Black Sea resort town is suing Russian ship companies after 10,000 people had to shovel spilled oil off its beaches
The town of Anapa says it's seeking an initial 211 million rubles to pay for cleaning up its oil-struck beaches after two ships breached in December.
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5 takeaways from SBF's rare jailhouse interview, from life with Diddy to trading muffins as currency
Sam Bankman-Fried, who is in a Brooklyn prison with Sean "Diddy" Combs, told Tucker Carlson that the rapper has been kind behind bars.
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SBF's crisis manager quit after the crypto scammer's surprise Tucker Carlson interview
The crisis PR manager told Business Insider he wasn't aware Bankman-Fried arranged a jailhouse interview with Tucker Carlson.
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A once-hot startup got a $1.5 billion loan. More than $500 million went to a high school dropout's 'sham' hedge fund, judge rules.
Top private lenders, including Ares Management and HPS Investment Partners, are a step closer to trying to get — or even find — some of their money.
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Trump asks federal courts to clear his criminal record. Meanwhile, his NJ liquor licenses remain at risk of revocation.
Trump wants the federal courts to take control of his state hush-money appeal. The liquor licenses for his New Jersey golf clubs remain on the line.
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Jay-Z is the latest celebrity to sue his sex abuse accuser for defamation. These lawsuits are especially hard to win.
Other celebrities including Johnny Depp, Justin Baldoni and Bill Cosby have responded to allegations against them with defamation lawsuits.
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Trump White House just keeps dropping regulatory lawsuits — the latest break goes to Google
Crypto companies in particular are racking up wins, with the SEC moving to drop cases against Robinhood, Coinbase, and Kraken.
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The DOJ hyped the release of Jeffrey Epstein's address book. Business Insider saw one years ago.
The Justice Department hyped the release of documents related to the Epstein investigation, but there were no new bombshells.
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KPMG becomes first Big Four firm to break into the US legal market
KPMG has been granted a license to practice law in the US by the Arizona Supreme Court in a first for a Big Four firm.
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Mindy Kaling's 'Running Point' is airing on Netflix despite Pepperdine University's trademark lawsuit. Here's what's happening.
Mindy Kaling's new sports comedy with Netflix and Warner Bros. Entertainment is making waves at Pepperdine University — but not for a good reason.
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A judge is ordering DOGE office-affiliated employees to testify under oath
US District Judge John Bates highlighted the DOGE office's "unclear" structure and authority as keys to the legal decision.
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How Donald Trump could change free speech as we know it
Donald Trump's lawsuits — and threats — are very much about limiting what we're all allowed to say, write, or publish. The Supreme Court could decide.
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More than 60,000 DoorDash delivery workers will share the company's $16.75 million settlement, New York AG says
A New York probe found DoorDash secretly used tips to offset delivery worker salaries, New York Attorney General Letitia James said.
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Musk's 'What did you do last week?' inquiry gets an early answer: a lawsuit
Unions for federal employees are suing to stop Musk's "What did you do last week" threat.
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How Anonymous actually works, according to a former hacktivist
Mustafa Al-Bassam is a former member of Anonymous, the global hacktivist collective known for cyberattacks on governments and corporations.
Few prisoners claiming abuses have access to a jury trial. The Supreme Court could soon change that.
A Clinton-era law, the PLRA, stymied prisoner lawsuits claiming serious harm. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether certain prisoners deserve jury trials.
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Judge gives Trump the go-ahead to continue putting USAID employees on leave
Judge Carl Nichols in a Friday ruling allowed President Donald Trump's staff reductions in the US Agency for International Development to proceed.
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Charlie Javice called for a mistrial, saying her right to a fair trial was 'irreparably compromised' during openings
Lawyers for Charlie Javice on Friday moved for a mistrial in the fraud case against her, arguing her right to a fair trial had been "compromised."
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Charlie Javice trial: Frank founder's lawyer says JPMorgan Chase didn't do its due diligence before buying her startup
Prosecutors said the Frank founder Charlie Javice earned millions by defrauding JPMorgan Chase. Her lawyer said the bank didn't do its due diligence.
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DOJ says it will drop lawsuit against SpaceX over claims it discriminated against refugees in hiring
The lawsuit alleged that Elon Musk's SpaceX discriminated against refugees and asylees.
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Meet Andrew Ferguson, the new chairman of the FTC who has vowed to go after Big Tech's 'vendetta against competition'
President Donald Trump appointed Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission. Ferguson, a Republican, has vowed to take on Big Tech.
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Florida takes aim at Target's 2023 Pride collection in a lawsuit over the retailer's DEI initiatives
Florida sues Target, claiming board misled investors about the impact of anti-DEI backlash.
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How Tiesto's celebrity tax attorney hid $100M in income for his client list of millionaire DJs and models
Holland's "Taxman to the Stars" Frank Butselaar may have to pay Tiesto's back taxes after being sentenced for tax fraud in New York.
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Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni reach an agreement of sorts: Neither wants to stop fighting in court
In a joint letter filed Thursday, Lively and Baldoni revealed some rare common ground, telling a judge they didn't want mediation.
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Sam Altman pulls Elon Musk's OpenAI takeover bid into court
Sam Altman asked a federal judge to take a look at the letter Elon Musk sent OpenAI in a bid to take over the company.
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Sam Altman scoffs at Elon Musk's claims of an OpenAI antitrust 'conspiracy' in new lawsuit filing
There is no OpenAI antitrust conspiracy, Altman tells Musk in their latest lawsuit volley. And Musk is hardly a "harmed' party, Altman also argues.
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Diddy files $100 million lawsuit against NBCUniversal over 'Making of a Bad Boy' doc
The lawsuit accuses the media giant of defamation over allegations made in the documentary 'Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.'
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Macy's calls Diddy 'an equal opportunity sexual predator' in bid to be dropped from sexual assault lawsuit
Lawyers for Macy's call Combs "an equal opportunity sexual predator" in arguing that the male accuser therefore can't sue for gender-based violence.
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Billionaire couple win refund after paying $40 million for a Notting Hill mansion infested with moths
A judge ruled in favor of Iya Patarkatsishvili and Yevhen Hunyak, granting them a refund and damages for their purchase of Horbury Villa in London.
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Judge orders Trump administration to immediately unfreeze federal funding and to stop violating his rulings
The administration must immediately restore federal funding, wrote the federal judge in Rhode Island who's overseeing a lawsuit brought by 22 states.
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Trump and Musk said these bold moves were imminent. Now they're stuck in the mud.
The Trump administration promised swift-moving changes. While some of those plans have progressed, many were almost immediately put on hold.
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Treasury agrees to interim ban on Elon Musk's DOGE accessing the financial data of millions of Americans
Elon Musk has no access to the Treasury's tax and Social Security data, a government lawyer said. Treasury agreed to keep it that way.
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Sam Altman swears to judge that Elon Musk's claim of OpenAI restrictions on investors is false
Altman responds to Musk's claim in a federal racketeering lawsuit that OpenAI investors must agree not to invest in rivals: "That is false."
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Luigi Mangione's free-of-charge death penalty lawyer also repped WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef
The man accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson gets a free death penalty expert under federal law and will be repped by Avi Moskowitz.
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Judge in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni fracas tells their lawyers to stop trash-talking each other's clients in the press
At a contentious hearing, Blake Lively's lawyer said she would add defendants to the lawsuit. The judge told both sides to stop trash-talking.
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Amazon agrees to pay $6M and block sales of skin-lightening creams containing mercury, settling a decadelong lawsuit
Amazon has agreed to block sales of skin-lightening creams containing dangerous amounts of mercury.
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OpenAI has little legal recourse against DeepSeek, tech law experts say
OpenAI may find little refuge under intellectual property and contract law if DeepSeek used ChatGPT to cheaply train its popular new chatbot.
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Diddy's latest indictment adds two anonymous women as victims but no new charges
In Sean Combs' new indictment, federal prosecutors in Manhattan reveal a smattering of detail, but not enough, they say, to delay his May 5 trial.
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Jay Z wants lawyer sanctioned over lawsuit accusing him and Diddy of VMA after-party rape
Jay-Z is seeking attorney sanctions over a "Jane Doe" lawsuit that accuses him and Diddy of raping a 13-year-old girl after the 2000 VMA awards.
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Trump begins appealing his hush-money conviction and sentence
The president's new criminal lawyers have begun the potentially yearslong process of appealing his sentencing and conviction. Read the first filing.
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk appear in Ben & Jerry's censorship lawsuit against Unilever, its parent company. Here's why.
Ben & Jerry's said it was "unilaterally barred" from sharing a post mentioning President Donald Trump, according to an amended complaint.
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Scammers are now sending fake toll-collection texts to get your bank information
Scammers are using fake toll-collection texts to steal bank information, authorities warned. Avoid clicking suspicious links and report scams to protect your personal data.
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They spoke out against their employer. Then trade secrets law was used against them.
Companies have hit whistleblowers with trade secrets suits over actions like saving code to GitHub or printing documents for remote work.
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Joe Biden left Elon Musk a parting gift that's helping fuel his beef with OpenAI
WIth one foot out the White House door, the Biden administration issued 2 documents Musk is now using in his battle to break up OpenAI and Microsoft.
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Indicted startup founder Charlie Javice's ex-colleague plans to attack her at their shared fraud trial
On Thursday, the trial judge had bad news for Javice: she'll have to share the defense table with a codefendant planning to attack her.
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Federal judge blocks Trump's 'blatantly unconstitutional' executive order to revoke birthright citizenship
A federal judge in Seattle temporarily halted President Donald Trump's executive order denying automatic citizenship to people born on US soil.
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Nondisclosure agreements are now rampant, covering nearly half of employees, study finds
Nearly half of employees have to sign NDAs for their jobs, a new survey finds. But the binding agreements are not applied equally by race or gender.
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