Reported financial crimes rose by 15 percent last year, reaching an all-time high.
Truong My Lan (67), the founder of Van Thinh Phat Group, a real estate development group, was arrested in 2022 for her role in a £10bn financial fraud, the country's biggest on record.
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial is underway in New York. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by Rachel Maddow, Nicolle Wallace, Jen Psaki, Chris Hayes and Alex Wagner break down the latest from day one of Trump’s trial. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)
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CNN’s Phil Mattingly takes a look into former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric as it gives a glimpse of what another Trump presidency might look like.
Donald Trump made a pit stop Tuesday at a New York City convenience store where a worker stabbed an ex-con to death in self-defense in 2022. The former president vowed to take on crime and “straighten New York out.”
Ex-president avoided past ‘shithole countries’ racist invective, but said the US hadn’t gotten enough immigrants from ‘nice countries’Donald Trump bemoaned a lack of immigrants to the US from “nice” countries “like Denmark [or] Switzerland”, offering millionaire donors at a Florida fundraiser a reprise of infamous racist Oval Office remarks about people coming to America from “shithole countries”.Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee for president again, despite facing 88 criminal charges...
Former President Donald Trump’s impromptu trips to fast-food restaurants have gone viral, showcasing his rising popularity with communities that have soured on President Biden.
This past February, the increasingly legendary crime fiction author Don Winslow announced the publication of “City in Ruins,” the third and final book in his bestselling Danny Ryan series. He also announced that the novel would be his last, and that he was retiring from writing books, to concentrate full-time on political activism of the extremely anti-Donald Trump variety. This was not entirely unexpected, but it still felt like a surprise. For several years, Winslow and Shane Salerno—his best...
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper has called him a “threat to democracy.” Former national security adviser John Bolton has declared him “unfit to be president.” And former Vice President Mike Pence has declined to endorse him, citing “profound differences.” As Donald Trump seeks the presidency for a third time, he is being vigorously opposed by […]
An Axios report on the Trump team’s intention to use civil-rights laws to target DEI policies discriminating against whites has occasioned sneering and denunciations.
American Latino voters prefer former President Donald Trump's policies on migration over President Joe Biden's policies, according to an Ipsos poll released on April 9.