Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos, daughter of the country's former president, faces being dragged into a $400 million London lawsuit brought by Angolan telecoms operator Unitel.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave a big boost to two real estate developers and a former state university official convicted of fraud for rigging bids for one of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's signature projects, the latest reversal for the Justice Department in a major corruption inquiry.
The young entrepreneur Charlie Javice has been indicted on charges of defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co , the largest U.S. bank, into buying her now-shuttered college financial aid startup Frank.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and former CEO Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani were on Tuesday ordered to pay $452 million to victims of the blood-testing startup's fraud, and an appeals court also denied Holmes' request to remain out of prison while challenging her conviction.
The World Bank has suspended funding for humanitarian and development projects in Democratic Republic of Congo worth more than $1 billion after the government dissolved the project fund without warning, the lender said.