The fraud investigator who helped bring down former Trump aide
Paul Manafort is back on the case this time focusing on the ex-president himself. According to CNN,
Morgan Magionos, a former FBI agent and member of
Robert Mueller’s team, is working on Manhattan District Attorney
Cyrus Vance’s sweeping probe into
Donald Trump’s business interests.
Vance reportedly brought Magionos on last year, as part of an accounting team from FTI Consulting. She spent nearly a decade working for the FBI as a member of its international corruption squad and is a certified fraud examiner and an accountant. Her investigation into Manafort led to multiple charges against the former Trump aide, including for bank and tax fraud, and she served as a “star witness” in his 2018 trial. Among her more notable achievements: uncovering Manafort’s $15,000 ostrich skin jacket, which became a symbol of his over-the-top lifestyle one funded by his shady work for various foreign governments.
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With COVID cases rising from their early spring lull, the race against dangerous variants has taken on an even greater sense of urgency. Unfortunately, the United States vaccination sprint is now facing a setback: Following a mix-up at a Baltimore production facility in March, states are expected to receive 85% fewer Johnson & Johnson shots next week, a massive drop that could slow down the U.S. vaccination campaign. It wasnât clear if the supply dip was related to last monthâs error, and Johnson & Johnson says it should still be on track to deliver 100 million single-dose shots to the U.S. by the end of next month. But the sharp drop from five million doses to 700,000 doses to states next week comes at a bad time, with infections spiking along with pandemic fatigue.
A lot of people hear the name
Snoop Dogg, and they think of â90s rap, smoking blunts, and Long Beach, California. But what most people donât know is that Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., is a prolific entrepreneur, always on the cutting edge of new technologies, and has invested in a handful big-name start-ups, including the telemedicine company, HIMS, that recently went public, through a SPAC, at $1.6 billion. Now, heâs getting into the NFT game, and plans to launch a collection of eight pieces, including an original piece of art that contains a Snoop Dogg track that no one has ever heard of before, which he wrote and produced just for this âdrop.â I caught up with Snoop to get his thoughts on cryptocurrency, the insanity of NFTs, and how much weed he smoked during the pandemic.
Last December 17, the unlikely May-to-December romance between
Stephen Cloobeck and
Stefanie Gurzanski sure seemed like it was heading toward a happy Hollywood ending.
That night, at a cost of $130,000, he threw a lavish 26th birthday party for her and her five girlfriends at his $45 million house in Cabo San Lucas, after flying them down to Mexico from Los Angeles on his Global Express private jet. He gave her a $200,000 Richard Mille watch. He plied everyone with $7,000 worth of caviar, 80 bottles of Domaines Ott wine, 12 bottles of 1942 Don Julio tequila, and $13,000 worth of âswagâ bags, filled with specially designed Stefanie Gurzanski keepsakes (embossed with âBaby G AFââher Instagram bio). He gave Gurzanski and each of her friends a Chanel handbag, totaling $30,000.