State Rep. Richard McGrew, R-District 22, of Piney, is ready to stop campaigning and start legislating.
The House race he won by a three-to-one margin Tuesday concluded his fourth political campaign in less than a year. The District 12 Justice of the Peace Republican primary in May 2018 was the first of five races he won in a 30-month period.
McGrew defeated Judy Bowers 12,361-4,129 Tuesday night, his second victory over the Hot Springs Village Libertarian in eight months. He defeated her in the March 3 special election to serve the remainder of Mic…
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A former IT worker for Dundee City Council who was sentenced to five years and four months imprisonment for fraud has successfully appealed against the length of his sentence.
Mark Conwayscase was referred to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission in August 2019. The SCCRC referred the sentence on the basis that there was evidence that Dundee City Council had recovered sums equal to the value of the fraud.
The appeal was heard in theAppeal Court of the High Court of Justiciaryby theLord Justice General, Lord Carloway, sitting withLord MenziesandLord Turnbull.
Gambling debts
The appellant was employed as an IT officer for Dundee City Council between 1986 and 2016. He was regarded as th…
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MILAN Another style icon of the Eighties risks disappearing from the fashion map.
Denim brand Rifle, which celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2018, has been declared bankrupt by a court in Florence, Italy.
Established by Tuscan brothers Giulio and Fiorenzo Fratini, who in the late Forties started importing denim cloth from North Carolina, the brand reached its peak in the Eighties, when it was distributed in several countries. For example, Rifle was one of the first fashion companies to open stores in Russia, and in 1988 it sold 3 million denim pieces at Moscows legendary Gum department store.
In the Nineties, increased international competition as well as lower demand for denim accelerated the decline of Rifle, which in 2000 went thr…
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BREAKING: Perth-based Indigenous health provider Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service was placed under special administration on Friday despite protest from two Board Directors.
In an announcement via Facebook, Derbarl Yerrigan Deputy Chair Laurence Riley said six members of the Board moved a resolution at a meeting on Thursday night to put the health service into voluntary administration despite no substantiated reason or justification.
These directors have now put 15 thousand [sic] lives at risk. Because of these six people we may lose our Aboriginal Health Service, Riley said.
Riley alleged he and fellow Director Michelle Nelson-Cox were sent to a separate board room for the meeting while the remaining six Directors met at the Aboriginal …
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ), a leading law firm serving the financial services industry, has announced the addition of Douglas S. Mintz as a partner and co-chair of the Business Reorganization Group. Mr. Mintz is resident in the Washington, DC office. He was previously a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Mr. Mintzs practice focuses principally on the representation of creditors in financial restructurings, including secured and unsecured lenders, ad hoc committees of noteholders, equity sponsors and distressed investors. He has deep experience advising on public finance, energy, commodities and technology restructurings. At Orrick, Mr. Mintz co-led the firms hedge fund client initiative, representin…
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The Illawarra name will return for the upcoming NBL season, if the Hawks reach a new membership target. Following a corporate and community backlash over the decision to dump the name and simply call the club ‘The Hawks’, the new owners and the NBL announced on Friday morning, Illawarra would be reinstated. However, it will only happen if a membership drive can secure a specific target of 4379 members for the 2021 season, a delayed start due to ongoing Covid concerns. The figure has been reached as a symbolic gesture, given the only remaining foundation club has been in the NBL for 43 seasons, starting in ’79 (1979). In a statement obtained by the Mercury, the NBL will also need to see “significant support from the local business comm…
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Bank didnt think about gambling problem
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has been fined AUD$150,000 (USD$107,580) after a Federal Court ruled that it had violated the National Credit Act for increasing a customers credit limit, even after that customer told the bank that he had a gambling problem. The bank also did not bother to verify the customers financial situation before offering the credit bump.
According to the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) its investigation into the situation had to do with a credit limit increase on the customers bank-issued credit card from AUD$27,100 (USD$19,436) to AUD$35,100 (USD$25,174) on January 20, 2017. CBA offered the customer, Mr. Harris, the increase and installed it …
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Debt consolidation gathers debt from multiple sources and puts it in one place, which simplifies paying off what you owe. Consolidation can also allow you to reduce the interest rate or total amount of your debt.
Most of us manage many forms of debt simultaneously, keeping track of due dates and balancing interest rates to avoid late fees or a bruised credit score. But one lump sum means one lender, one due date, one interest rate, and one set of login credentials. It can be a strategic personal finance move in the long run as long as its done right.
Heres everything you need to know about debt consolidation and whether its right for you.
What is debt consolidation?
Debt consolidation is an umbrella term for programs that turn multipl…
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