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Monthly Archives: April 2017
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Far-right, white supremacist troll and former Breitbart tech editor and book deal-haver, Milo Yiannopoulos, is making another ill-advised foray into the national spotlight he so desperately craves with a new media company called—what else—Milo Inc.
Last month, the US Department of Justice indicted a Lithuanian man for “orchestrating a fraudulent business email compromise scheme that induced two U.S.-based internet companies,” CNET reports.
At the time, the DOJ did not reveal what these companies are, but Fortune discovered they’re none other than Google and Facebook.
It seems the scheme the hacker used is pretty common:
Evaldas Rimasauskas, a 40-something man, came up with the scheme in 2013. He forged email addresses, invoices, and corporate stamps to impersonate a large Asian-based manufacturer that did business with these companies regularly.
Rimasauskas impersonated Quanta Computer, Fortune’s investigation revealed. Over two years, Rimasauskas convinced the accounting departments of both Facebook and Google to make transfers of over $100 million, which were then stashed in banks in Eastern Europe. The man says he didn’t do it.
It’s only “remarkable” because of its scale.
You’d think tech companies like Facebook and Google would know better.
Source: http://bgr.com/2017/04/28/google-and-facebook-100-million-heist/
16,386 times – A Texas judge ruled that Exxon Mobil should pay $20 million in fines after violating the Clean Air Act 16,386 times from 2005 to 2013 at a refinery outside Houston. [CNN Money]
ExxonMobil has lost a legal fight against environmentalists in its home state of Texas over air pollution at one of the oil giant’s oldest refineries.
Source: Exxon released 10 million pounds of air pollution in Texas – Apr. 27, 2017
Seriously, these fucking maniacs executed ALL the people they had on death row because, wait for it, their lethal injection drug was about to expire.
Read that shit again. The drug was going to expire. So they said, “Shit, we’d better get ‘r done!”
Kenneth Williams was the final inmate executed as the state sped up its schedule to beat the expiration date of its lethal-injection drugs.
Source: Arkansas Executes 4th Inmate In 8 Days : The Two-Way : NPR
His proposal to slash the tax rate on partnerships and limited liability companies could set off a stampede of individual taxpayers trying to reclassify themselves as so-called pass-through businesses.
Source: Trump’s Tax Plan Could Turn ‘Everyone and Their Dog’ Into an LLC – Bloomberg