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Photo: Steve Pope Matt Whitaker is a real piece of work. In the less than a week since his appointment to acting Attorney General by President Trump, journalists have uncovered a history that includes working as an advisor for an inventions marketing company which was under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission for defrauding customers….
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether a fugitive Malaysian financier laundered tens of millions of dollars through two associates and used the funds to pay a U.S. legal team that includes former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and a lawyer who represents President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Jho Low, the…
An ad-tech firm says it has discovered a large and sophisticated advertising-fraud operation in which fake websites and infected computers were used to scam advertisers and publishers out of upward of hundreds of thousands of dollars a day. Denmark-based Adform, identifier of the scheme, named it “Hyphbot” and estimates that it has been going on…
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (Image: AP) Today, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit accusing Charter’s subsidiary, Spectrum, of lying to customers about the internet speeds it advertised and the reliability of its network. Charter’s subsidiary, Spectrum, was previously known as Time Warner Cable until last year, when the name changed…
.entry-header December 20, 2016, 6:35 PM EST E-mail Tweet Facebook Linkedin Share icons In what appears to be the largest digital advertising scam in history, a group of Russian hackers reportedly built a click-fraud machine that stole up to $5 million daily from top advertisers and publishers. But even that is just the tip of…
It’s a common stereotype that food stamp recipients, and those who abuse it, are black, Hispanic, or any other race but white. According to the USDA in their report for fiscal year 2013, 40% of recipients are white and 26% are black. Courtesy of Travissonno.com While the media and America’s culture will have you believe…