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Charlie Javice, who is charged with defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co into buying her now-shuttered college financial aid startup Frank for $175 million in 2021, arrives at United States Court in Manhattan in New York City, June 6,…

President Donald Trump pardoned Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton for his 2022 conviction of federal crimes related to defrauding investors with false claims about the success of the electric and hydrogen-powered truck maker.Milton, 42,…

 Carlos Watson, co-founder of Ozy Media, speaks with press after his sentencing hearing at Brooklyn Federal Court on December 16, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump commuted the criminal fraud…

Ho Kwon Ping is the co-founder and executive chairman of Banyan Group.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesGrowing up, Ho Kwon Ping didn't think he'd become a businessman, let alone a hotel tycoon."I had not always wanted to be an…

Count Baked by Melissa founder Melissa Ben-Ishay among the entrepreneurial success stories founded on getting out of the corporate rat race.Before starting her company, Ben-Ishay worked at an ad agency in New York City – a role she felt…

<!-- -->Despite Luna crash, Chanpeng Zhao has a net worth of around $14.9 billionChangpeng Zhao, the founder of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, tweeted a few days ago that he was “poor again” after losing billions of dollars in…

Elizabeth Holmes, the 37-year-old founder of failed blood testing start-up Theranos, is facing decades in prison after being found guilty by a jury in California of conspiring to defraud her investors. In one of Silicon Valley’s…

SAN JOSE, Calif.— A federal jury convicted Elizabeth Holmes, the startup founder who claimed to revolutionize blood testing, on four of 11 charges for a yearslong fraud scheme against investors while running Theranos Inc., which ended up…

SAN JOSE, Calif.—In their second week of deliberations, jurors in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes seized on what one juror described as two “smoking guns” that sealed the fate of the Theranos Inc. founder.Huddled in a fifth-floor…

The jailed founder and former chief executive of the failed Italian food giant Parmalat, Calisto Tanzi, sits in his garden at his residence near Parma, northern Italy, September 27, 2004. REUTERS/Daniele La MonacaRegister now for FREE…