Maurice Sessum, co-owner of 4 Star Resolution, a Buffalo-based debt collection company, will be spending 7 1/2 years in prison for fraud. Sessum, also the company’s chief financial, was sentenced Friday for orchestrating a scheme to coerce thousands of victims to overpay their debts by more than $31 million, according to officials. The U.S. Attorney’s…
Volcano, Brighton 4 are currently in post-production. Michel Merkt has signed on as a producer on works in progress 2017 films Volcano and Brighton 4. Volcano is directed by Roman Bondarchuk and produced by Olena Yershova. The film centres on Lukas, a translator working for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, who is…
No country can be indifferent to China’s economy, especially not Australia. We’re more exposed to what goes on in it than just about any other nation. China has long been the biggest market for our commodities, such as iron ore, coal and wool. And now it is the largest foreign buyer of our services, especially…
By Afp Published: 15:45 +10:00, 4 July 2017 | Updated: 15:45 +10:00, 4 July 2017 e-mail Ma Long is one of three top Chinese table tennis players to revolt against the country’s sports establishment after the removal of head coach Liu Guoliang China’s table tennis stars usually demolish their rivals but they may be fighting…
By Kai Sedgwick, ContributorPublished: June 26, 2017 12:24 EST | Updated: June 26, 2017 12:24 EST Share this: Man arrested in Queensland allegedly caught with cash and casino chips Case reportedly involves former mayor, and up to $5 million in gambling debt It has been reported by the Brisbane Times that police in…
AN IPSWICH mum admitted to a colleague she was systematically stealing thousands from her Riverlink employer to pay a gambling debt. Kelly Anne Mackney told a person she worked with she was “constantly robbing Peter to pay Paul” before she was caught for stealing $4669 from the Ipswich Riverlink Rivers store. Mackney didn’t deposit money…
Police swoop on a luxury Sydney apartment building, ending the 11-month flight of a problem gambler said to be linked to a colourful former mayor’s decision to carry a bag with $50,000 through a Melbourne airport. Inside the Sydney apartment, Queensland police will allege, is $207,000 in cash and another $50,000 in poker chips, despite…
Phil Mickelson has long been known as golf’s consummate escape artist. His signature flop shot has turned innumerable misdirected approaches into tap-in pars. When his drive on the 13th hole at Augusta National in the final round of the 2010 Masters settled on pine straw, Mickelson fired a 6-iron between two trees and onto the…
Police swoop on a luxury Sydney apartment building, ending the 11-month flight of a problem gambler said to be linked to a colourful former mayor’s decision to carry a bag with $50,000 through a Melbourne airport. Inside the Sydney apartment, Queensland police will allege, is $207,000 in cash and another $50,000 in poker chips, despite…
Double Olympic table tennis champion Kong Linghui (right in the picture) was suspended as head of the Chinese women’s team on Tuesday, the country’s sports association said on its website, after it emerged that he faced a lawsuit over a gambling debt. Kong, who won gold at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Games, was reported…
