Mark Strong Sr., of Thomastan, Maine was convicted of 12 counts for promoting prostitution and one count of conspiracy for his role in a sex operation with his mistress Alexis Wright's Zumba studio in the quiet Kennebunk town on Thursday.
Renata Shamrakova, the glamorous "personal assistant" to hedge funder Todd Meister admitted in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday that she stole nearly $1 million working for him. After a year of denials, Shamrakova came clean in an effort to avert a possible 15-year prison term on grand larceny charges.
Celebrity surgeon and daytime host Dr. Mehmet Oz is being sued by Frank Dietrl, a new Jersey man who claims that an insomnia cure promoted on The Dr. Oz Show resulted in third-degree burns on his feet.
Citigroup agreed to pay $730 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed investors were misled by the bank's disclosed when they purchased its debt and preferred stock. These investors' purchases were made from May 11, 2006 through November 28, 2008.
