Countrywide’s Mozilo off the hook as U.S. said to abandon suit The Charlotte Observer U.S. prosecutors have abandoned their case against Angelo Mozilo, a pioneer of the risky subprime mortgages that fueled the financial crisis, after a two-year quest to bring a civil suit against him. | The Justice Department sent a letter informing M...
Crooks rush to beat clock as U.S. retailers switch to chip cards The Charlotte Observer The slow transition to chip credit cards by U.S. retailers hasn't gone unnoticed by criminals. | Counterfeit-card fraud will rise to $4.5 billion in 2016, up 12.5 percent from last year, as crooks ramp up their thievery before all merchants and banks...
Nigerian woman pleads guilty to marriage fraud conspiracy Houston Chronicle A Nigerian woman admitted to a federal judge in Houston Monday she had conspired with others to commit marriage fraud in order to attain permanent residency status. | Ifeoma J. Adamolekun, 40, of Houston, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Mary Milloy in her...
Rio Olympics: Mayor Eduardo Paes apologises for mugging of Liesl Tesch and Sarah Ross in Rio Sydney Morning Herald Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes has lamented the mugging of Australian Paralympian Liesl Tesch and team official Sarah Ross in the city, issuing an apology at a press conference. | Fronting the media to present an account of the city's Olympic budget on Tuesday, Mr Paes said the security incident which reverberated around the ...
Brexit: Will a Remain vote be better for Britain and Europe? asiatimes Today, Britain will cast a historic and decisive vote on whether to leave or remain in the European Union, a 65-year-old regional bloc it joined in 1973. | This is the United Kingdom’s second referendum on its continued membership in the EU. In 1975, it held a similar vote and 67% of its electorate voted to stay in the then European Economic Comm...
