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SeptemEx-Broker Gets 3½ Years for Sports Cryptocurrency FraudĪ Manhattan federal judge sentenced a former securities broker Thursday to 3½ years in prison after a jury convicted him of stealing more than $600,000 from backers who thought he was developing a sports-oriented cryptocurrency.

prosecutors argue the foreign judgments simply aim to frustrate their civil forfeiture case. Two men accused of helping launder money stolen from a Ukrainian bank told a Florida federal judge that courts in Ukraine have already found the transactions were aboveboard, even as U.S.

SeptemUkrainian Courts OK'd Loans In Laundering Case, Judge Told.

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Atty Says Death Was A 'Tragic Accident'Īn Atlanta attorney on trial for murder after fatally driving into a real estate developer who allegedly threw a golf ball at his car testified Thursday that he has spent the three years since the 'tragic accident' beating himself up over his 'mistake.' SeptemEx-Uber GC 'Shocked' She Wasn't Told Of Hack, Jury HearsĪ former Uber general counsel who testified Thursday in the criminal obstruction trial of former security chief Joseph Sullivan said she was 'shocked' that her 'A-team' colleague never disclosed a massive 2016 data breach and confirmed that then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick also never told her about the incident.Department of Justice's request to allow further agency review of classified records seized from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, saying she is not yet ready to agree with the government that the documents are still classified and that Trump has no plausible claim of privilege to any of them. Judge Rejects DOJ Bid For Stay In Mar-A-Lago CaseĪ Florida federal judge on Thursday rejected the U.S. Visa, in its motion to dismiss the claims, said if the lawsuit was allowed to continue it would “upend the financial and payment industries.” The firm said the suit would encourage misdirected litigation since it doesn’t have the ability to investigate the circumstances of each of the billions of transactions it processes every year.įuture litigants could apply this lawsuit’s “reasoning to injuries caused by guns, prescription drugs, tobacco, soda, furs and myriad other products - all on the theory that a Visa card was used somewhere along the way and that Visa should have somehow stopped conduct by unrelated actors,” Visa said.

Throughout various stages of the past five years she was homeless and lived in her car.” Serena remains estranged from certain family members.

“The original Pornhub videos of Serena continue to be disseminated through other platforms, including on MindGeek affiliated sites and other pornography sites. “Although Serena is now sober, the long-term effects of Pornhub’s wrongdoing continue to this day,” according to the original lawsuit. She became addicted to heroin and attempted suicide several times. By then, the video had been downloaded and then uploaded again several times, with one version garnering an additional 2.7 million views, according to the lawsuit.įleites, who filed the case along with nearly three dozen other anonymous victims of sex trafficking, said her life spiraled out of control because of the video. She alerted MindGeek, which then took weeks to remove the video. The video already had 400,000 views by the time Fleites discovered it. Visa, for its part, reinstated card-acceptance privileges for MindGeek sites other than Pornhub.Īt the center of the California case is Serena Fleites, who says her boyfriend posted on Pornhub a sexually explicit video of her he filmed when she was in eighth grade. Mastercard ultimately said it won’t allow its cards to be used on Pornhub, and it later announced that banks will have to ensure that sellers require “clear, unambiguous and documented consent” in adult content.

Immediately after the review, Pornhub announced it had removed 80% of its content. both began reviewing their ties to MindGeek after a New York Times column in December 2020 accused Pornhub of distributing videos depicting child abuse and non-consensual violence. The payments giant and rival Mastercard Inc. The lawsuit is the latest turn in a long-running controversy between Visa and Pornhub. Visa will not tolerate the use of our network for illegal activity.” “This pre-trial ruling is disappointing and mischaracterizes Visa’s role and its policies and practices. “Visa condemns sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, and child sexual abuse materials as repugnant to our values and purpose as a company,” the San Francisco-based firm said in an emailed statement. Visa said it believes it’s an “improper defendant” in the case.