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Samsung Electronics head Jay Lee was declared not guilty of accounting fraud and stock manipulation in a 2015 merger. The ruling could grant Lee more flexibility in steering South Korea's largest conglomerate In a major…

Image Source : REUTERS Samsung Chairman Jay Y. Lee found not guilty A Seoul court cleared Lee Jae-yong, Chairman of Samsung Electronics with the controversial 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates which was allegedly conducted to help him to take over control of South Korea's biggest conglomerate. The Seoul Central District Court delivered the not-guilty sentence for…

Jam Master Jay “was nervous about something” days before he was killed, according to witness testimony on Thursday at the Brooklyn trial for two men accused of killing the Run-DMC DJ in 2002. The Associated Press reports that Stephon Watford, a cousin and business associate of the late DJ (whose real name was Jason Mizell), told the jury Mizell had started carrying a gun to protect himself in the days prior to the fatal shooting. Watford also claimed that one of the defendants, Ronald Washington, had asked for…

Jam Master Jay exclaimed “Oh shit” just before he was shot and killed in October 2002, according to testimony given in court on Wednesday. Uriel “Tony” Rincon, a friend and business associate of the late DJ (whose real name was Jason Mizell) explained his recollection of what happened when assailants entered a recording studio, killing the DJ and shooting Rincon in the leg to the jury at a Brooklyn federal court. Rincon, who dried his eyes and sniffled during emotional testimony, told both a U.S. attorney and a…

Comedian Jay Leno is seeking to become conservator over his wife Mavis Leno’s affairs because she has dementia. Leno filed court documents Friday to ask a family court judge to grant the conservatorship so he can structure a living trust and other estate plans to make sure that his 77-year-old wife has “managed assets sufficient to provide for her care” should he die before her, according to a copy of the petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.“Unfortunately, Mavis has been progressively losing capacity and…

Jam Master Jay, the trailblazing DJ who propelled Run-DMC to become hip-hop’s first superstar group, was shot dead at a recording studio in Queens, New York more than two decades ago. Now three men will stand trial for the death of the DJ, whose real name was Jason Mizell. Prosecutors allege the men were dealing drugs with Mizell at the time they shot him dead over a deal gone bad. In 2020, federal authorities charged two of the men — Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan, Jr. — with one count each of murder while…

Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s attempt to justify his ludicrous threat to have President Joe Biden removed from the state’s electoral ballot spiraled into chaos over the most basic of questions: “How so?” During a Monday interview with CNN’s Boris Sanchez, the Republican was asked how he justified his threats to have Biden removed from the state’s ballot in retaliation for recent attempts to remove Trump from state ballots on grounds that his actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election constitute…

Emma Stone offers a vague Cruella 2 update. Get a look at Ghosts’ return. Echo prepares for a showdown with the Kingpin. Plus, what’s coming on For All Mankind, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and more. Spoilers get!Spoilers of the Week: July 22ndCruella 2During a recent interview with Variety, Emma Stone stated the sequel to Cruella is currently “a work in progress.” Hopefully sooner, rather than later. There’s a work in progress kind of thing going on. Yeah, yeah. We’ll see… She’s a blast, so we’ll see.Godzilla X Kong: The…

Evangelical lawyer Jay Sekulow, who defended Donald Trump in his first impeachment trial, is still cashing in on the former president’s misdeeds. As states consider whether to disqualify Trump from their ballots for engaging in insurrection, Sekulow and his family have been working furiously to raise money for their campaign to keep the Republican primary frontrunner on state ballots — a fight he’s now brought before the Supreme Court.  “This is a judicial emergency — we need you to stand with us,” Sekulow said…

As usual, I have a few Fast Company technology stories to recommend:The moment Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter became official, on October 27, 2022, he began trashing his new toy. And for millions of Twitterphiles, the downsides of a social network controlled by a single erratic billionaire became obvious.But well before Musk plunked down his $44 million, people who’d thought deeply about social networking and its role in society were concerned about Twitter’s centralization. Among them was the company’s cofounder, Jack…