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Everyone loves a good heist yarn, so I suppose we should be grateful to Major League Baseball and a Northern California billionaire for providing us with one.It’s the saga in which the Oakland A’s ballclub and its owner, an heir to the Gap fortune, are plotting to abandon the club’s home city and move to Las Vegas, enticed by more than $380 million in municipal subsidies for a $1.5-billion stadium and permanent immunity from property taxes. The move still requires approval by the owners of at least 23 of the league’s 30…

A Fugees rapper accused in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies spanning two presidencies was convicted Wednesday after a trial that included testimony ranging from actor Leonardo DiCaprio to former US attorney general Jeff Sessions.Prakazrel “Pras” Michel was accused of funneling money from a now-fugitive Malaysian financier, Low Taek Jho, through straw donors to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, then trying to squelch a justice department investigation and influence an extradition case on behalf of China…

While the specific details of Disney’s settlement with Alonso haven’t been made public, Deadline reports it as being a multimillion-dollar amount. Neither Disney nor Alonso’s legal representation has made statements about the settlement itself, but in the weeks leading up to the agreement, both sides were vocal about what they believed led to Alonso’s dismissal.Reports alleged that Alonso’s work as a producer on director Santiago Mitre’s film Argentina, 1985 — an Amazon Studios film — and her decision to promote the…

The governor of Nigeria’s central bank, Godwin Emefiele, is embroiled in a multi-million-dollar legal battle that has torn apart a once close family relationship. The legal tussle is separate from the troubles he faces over the handling of his job. Mr Emefiele recently sneaked out and back to the country to avert the possibility of arrest by the State Security Service (SSS) who accuse him of financing terrorism. He faces growing criticisms over the policies of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) often blamed for…

The company said the price was determined with consideration of the “clinical, societal, economic, and innovative value represented by this novel gene therapy.” Earlier last month, the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, a Boston-based nonprofit research institute that estimates the value of drugs and other medical services, said Hemgenix would be fairly priced at upward of $2.9 million.But Michael Gusmano, professor of health policy at Lehigh University and a research scholar at the Hastings Center, an…

Hackers who crippled a French hospital and stole a trove of data last month have released personal records of patients online, officials have confirmed.The cyberattackers demanded a multimillion dollar ransom from the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital near Paris a month ago, but the institution refused to pay.The hospital said the hackers had now dumped medical scans and lab analyses along with the national security numbers of patients."I condemn in the strongest possible terms the unspeakable disclosure of hacked data," health…

Ricky Martin has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against his nephew, saying he has been “harassed” and “extorted” even after the defendant admitted under oath that he hadn’t been assaulted by the singer.As reported in July, Martin’s nephew—identified as Dennis Yadiel Sanchez—voluntarily dismissed the would-be case. In a statement shared at the time, Martin’s legal team summarized the situation as being “never anything more than a troubled individual making false allegations.”In the new lawsuit, per a report from CBS…

Earlier this week, thousands of crypto wallets connected to the Solana ecosystem were drained by attackers who used owners’ private keys to steal both Solana (SOL) and USD Coin (USDC). Solana now says that, after an investigation “by developers, ecosystem teams, and security auditors,” it’s linked the attack to accounts tied to the Slope mobile wallet app. A chart set up on Dune to track the attacks tallies the amount of crypto stolen at just over $4 million, taken from over 9,000 unique wallets. Slope Finance, which…

Written by Angelica Mari, Contributing Editor…