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Robert Allen Stanford (born March 24, 1950) is a convicted financial fraudster, former financier, and sponsor of professional sports. He was convicted of fraud in 2012, having operated an eight billion dollar Ponzi scheme, [1] [2] [3] and is now serving a 110-year federal prison sentence.
Emory Andrew Tate III was born on 1 December 1986 [23] [24] [25] at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. [26] He is biracial; [27] his African American father Emory Tate (1958–2015) was a chess international master, [28] while his White English mother Eileen Tate worked as a catering assistant. [29]
The Vatican leaks scandal, also known as Vatileaks and Vati-Leaks, is a scandal beginning in 2012 initially involving leaked Vatican documents, exposing corruption.Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi published letters from Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in which he exposed corruption that caused the Holy See to pay increased prices for contracts.
The 2G spectrum case was a political controversy in which politicians and private officials of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) coalition government India were allegedly involved in [1] selling or allotting 122 2G spectrum licenses on conditions that provided an advantage to specific telecom operators.
Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted by the NDA government to prevent money laundering and to provide for confiscation of property derived from money laundering. [1] [2] PMLA and the Rules notified thereunder came into force with effect from 1 July 2005.
It is the biggest money laundering case in Singapore, and among the biggest in the world, [2] involving assets worth 3 billion Singapore dollars. [ 3 ] Initially, only 1 billion Singapore dollars worth of assets was either seized, frozen or issued prohibition of disposal orders although the value of assets involved would later balloon to 3 ...
Christopher James Christie (born September 6, 1962) is an American politician and former federal prosecutor who served as the 55th governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he was the United States Attorney for New Jersey from 2002 to 2008 and a Morris County commissioner from 1995 to 1997.
The Money Laundering Control Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-570) is a United States Act of Congress that made money laundering a federal crime. It was passed in 1986. It consists of two sections, 18 U.S.C. § 1956 and 18 U.S.C. § 1957. It for the first time in the United States criminalized money laundering.