NEW YORK — Charlie Javice, the founder of a startup company that sought to dramatically improve how students apply for financial aid, was sentenced Monday to more than seven years in prison for cheating JPMorgan Chase out of $175 million by greatly exaggerating how many students it served. Javice, 33, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court for her March conviction …
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More details are emerging about a company that allegedly paid Clippers star Kawhi Leonard millions, including that the team came close in 2021 to granting naming rights for its Inglewood arena to Aspiration Partners. Clippers owner Steve Ballmer nearly granted naming rights to the company, but ended up choosing financial services firm Intuit to grace the $2-billion venue, a source …
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Trinity Broadcasting Network, former business partner of Dr. Phil’s now-bankrupt Merit Street Media, filed a counterclaim against the TV personality — alleging he engaged in a scheme to “fleece” the Christian broadcasting company and “enrich” himself and “his associates and affiliates.” Merit Street Media, formed as a joint venture between TBN and Phil McGraw’s Peteski Productions, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy …
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Fraudulent scientific research is on the rise and is jeopardizing medical research, experts have warned. A new study has found that networks of bad actors work together to publish bogus research. The findings, published in the journal PNAS this week, came from analyzing more than 5 million scientific articles published across 70,000 journals. “There are groups of editors conspiring to publish …
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SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS exist to do one thing: provide accurate, peer-reviewed reports of new research to an interested audience. But according to a paper published in PNAS on August 4th, that lofty goal is badly compromised. Scientific fraud, its authors conclude, happens on a massive scale and is growing quickly. In fact, though the number of scientific articles doubles every 15 …
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