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  • SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – NOVEMBER 21: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao leaves the U.S. District Court on November 21, 2023 in Seattle, Washington. Zhao pleaded guilty to a money-laundering charge. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)Leadership

    ‘The king is back:’ Binance billionaire CZ plots life after prison

    By Ava Benny-Morrison, Kateryna Kadabashy, and others
  • SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon MuskPolitics

    Voters sue Musk for fraud over $1 million election sweepstakes

    By Ava Benny-Morrison and Bloomberg
  • A Citibank branch in New York, US, on Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Citigroup Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 12. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Broker sues Citigroup and TP ICAP, alleging years of harassment by Citi trader

    By Ava Benny-Morrison, Sridhar Natarajan, and others
  • Guo WenguiFinance

    Chinese magnate with a red Lamborghini and superyacht convicted for bilking $1 billion from investors

    By Ava Benny-Morrison and Bloomberg
  • Ryan Salame, former co-chief executive officer of FTX Digital Markets Ltd., exits federal court in New York, US, on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. Salame pleaded guilty to criminal charges stemming from the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange and agreed to surrender $1.55 billion in assets. Photographer: Stephanie Keith/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRegulators

    Bankman-Fried lieutenant Ryan Salame gets 7.5 years in prison for role in FTX debacle

    By Ava Benny-Morrison, Chris Dolmetsch, and others
  • British billionaire Joe Lewis is escorted by his attorneys after leaving Manhattan Federal Court on July 26, 2023 in New York CityFinance

    British billionaire Joe Lewis’ private pilot pleads guilty to tax evasion in insider trading scandal’s latest twist

    By Ava Benny-Morrison and Bloomberg
  • Shohei Ohtani and Ippei MizuharaPersonal Finance

    Dodger superstar’s confidant pleaded guilty to stealing $17 million from the power hitter to cover debts

    By Ava Benny-Morrison and Bloomberg
  • Tottenham Hotspur Football Club owner Joe LewisFinance

    Joe Lewis’ $250 million superyacht, ranked among the world’s 25-most valuable, sets sail after he pays US fine

    By Ben Stupples, Ava Benny-Morrison, and others
  • Joe LewisFinance

    British billionaire Joe Lewis’ pilot pleads guilty to insider trading: ‘I knew at the time what I was doing was wrong’

    By Ava Benny-Morrison and Bloomberg
  • FILE – President of the football club AS Monaco, Dmitry Rybolovlev, attends a French league two soccer match between Monaco and Caen at the Louis II stadium on May 4, 2013, in Monaco. Sotheby’s defended itself at a trial Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, against accusations that it helped defraud Rybolovlev out of tens of millions of dollars, saying it knew nothing of wrongdoing by an art buyer who advised the billionaire on buying works by famed artists like Amedeo Modigliani and Leonardo da Vinci. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)Finance

    Russian billionaire says Sotheby’s helped dupe him out of millions for da Vinci’s ‘Lost Leonardo’ and paintings by Klimt and Magritte

    By Chris Dolmetsch, Ava Benny-Morrison, and others
  • In this handout, the mug shot of Jeffrey Epstein, 2019. (Photo by Kypros/Getty Images)Finance

    Documents naming people in the orbit of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are unsealed after a years-long battle over their release

    By Ava Benny-Morrison and Bloomberg
  • Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, arrives at court in New York, US, on Thursday, March 30, 2023 Bankman-Fried faces a total of 13 counts ranging from conspiracy to commit wire fraud to conspiracy to violate the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and faces more than 155 years in prison if convicted of all of them – although any sentence is likely to be much lower if he is found guilty. Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesRegulators

    Convicted crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried won’t face a second trial on remaining charges that include conspiracy to bribe foreign officials

    By Peter Blumberg, Ava Benny-Morrison, and others
  • Denise George, US Virgin Islands former attorney general, in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. George was the driving force behind three high-profile legal battles involving Jeffrey Epstein and was fired as attorney general after spending more than three years trying to seek justice. Photographer: Nancy Borowick/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Attorney general going after Jeffrey Epstein’s estate says she was fired for her dogged pursuit: ‘My bar license, my integrity were more important to me’

    By Ava Benny-Morrison and Bloomberg
  • LOS ANGELES, CA – NOVEMBER 03: Morning light on Federal Court on Friday, Nov. 3, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)Finance

    ‘Expert conman’ who defrauded investors of $4 million by claiming his Goldman Sachs source could get them IPO shares is sentenced

    By Ava Benny-Morrison and Bloomberg
  • In this handout, the mug shot of Jeffrey Epstein, 2019. (Photo by Kypros/Getty Images)Finance

    JPMorgan Chase settles case over its ties to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein for $75 million, saying it ‘deeply regrets any association with this man’

    By Hannah Levitt, Ava Benny-Morrison, and others