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Tal Alexander and Oren Alexander attend 565 Broome Sales Gallery launch event at 372 West Broadway on September 20, 2016 in New York City.

Star real estate brokers Alexander brothers charged with sex trafficking

By Chris Dolmetsch, Felipe Marques, and others

A dystopian-looking guard from the Netflix show "Squid Game" stands in front of the show's title on a red carpet for the premier.

Lawsuit alleges ‘Squid Game’ plot was stolen from 2009 film

By Chris Dolmetsch 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 Images

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

By Ava Benny-Morrison, Chris Dolmetsch, and others

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)

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

Group of delivery people waiting outside Burger King fast food restaurant, in Queens, New York.

Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub will have to pay their New York delivery workers $18/hour after losing a court appeal to block a minimum wage rule

By Chris Dolmetsch and Bloomberg

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)

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao can’t return to his UAE home before sentencing—at least for now, U.S. federal judge rules

By Chris Dolmetsch and Bloomberg

15 November 2023, Bavaria, Munich: Markus Braun, former Wirecard CEO, stands in a courtroom of the Higher Regional Court at the start of the continuation of the Wirecard trial. In the largest fraud case in German post-war history, former CEO Braun and two other former Wirecard managers are accused of commercial gang fraud. Photo: Matthias Balk/dpa (Photo by Matthias Balk/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Private eye whose hacking of hedge funds and journalists left victims with ‘professional, emotional and physical devastation’ gets 7 years in prison

By Chris Dolmetsch and Bloomberg

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – AUGUST 25: Glen ‘Big Baby’ Davis #0 of the Power shoots a free throw during the BIG3 Playoffs at Smoothie King Center on August 25, 2019 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Chris Graythen/BIG3 via Getty Images)

Ex-NBA championship winner is convicted of defrauding the league’s healthcare plan out of $5 million

By Chris Dolmetsch and Bloomberg

FILE PHOTO / BEST BLOOMBERG PHOTOS FOR 2011: John Paulson, president of Paulson & Co. Inc., listens at the Foreign Policy Association’s annual Financial Services Dinner in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011. This year’s FPA dinner honored Tony Tan, deputy chairman and executive director of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp. (GIC), Andre Esteves, chief executive officer of Banco BTG Pactual SA, Joseph Ficalora, president and chief executive officer of New York Community Bancorp Inc., and Daniel Sullivan, consul general of Canada. Photographer: Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Billionaire John Paulson sues his ex-business partner of siphoning off millions for luxury shopping and partying in Las Vegas

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John Paulson, president of Paulson & Co., right, and his wife Jenny Paulson arrive at the 92Y in New York, U.S., on Monday, May 20, 2013. The gala raised $4.2million for the Upper East Side institution, with programs ranging from concerts to classes. Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Hedge fund founder John Paulson is accused of hiding billions of dollars in a divorce that includes fighting over a luxury penthouse in Puerto Rico

By Chris Dolmetsch, Bob Van Voris, and others

Nathaniel Chastain, former product manager at OpenSea, leaves federal court in New York, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. Chastain is being sentenced after being convicted of wire fraud and money laundering for using confidential information to make thousands of dollars in profit at OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace. Photographer: Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images

NFTs and Culture

Ex-OpenSea manager convicted in first-ever NFT insider-trading case is sentenced: ‘I let down the community’

By Chris Dolmetsch and Bloomberg

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Ford exec arrested after his wife told police he assaulted her and threatened to burn 2 of her Hermes purses with a butane torch

By Keith Naughton, Chris Dolmetsch, and others

Goldman Sachs is being fined $3 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for marking 60 million short trades as long between 2015 and 2018 in Suqian, Jiangsu Province, China, on April 7, 2023. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ex-Goldman banker says he ‘panicked’ in recorded conversation used in insider trading trial: ‘It has to be deleted’

By Chris Dolmetsch, Teresa Xie, and others

Jamie Dimon, billionaire and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview at the JPMorgan Global Markets Conference in Paris, France, on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Dimon said US regulators are likely to overreact in their response to the turmoil that swept through the banking industry in March, leading to the collapse of four regional lenders. Photographer: Cyril Marcilhacy/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Charlie Javice is indicted for a ‘brazen scheme to defraud’ JPMorgan over its $175 million acquisition of her startup, Frank

By Chris Dolmetsch and The Associated Press

CNBC EVENTS — Pictured: Carl Icahn, Chairman, Icahn Enterprises, at the 2015 Delivering Alpha Conference on July 15, 2015 — (Photo by: Adam Jeffery/CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

How Carl Icahn’s latest investigation announced after Ponzi scheme allegations made by short-seller Hindenburg could stand apart

By Chris Dolmetsch and Bloomberg