BlackMarket
By Kitty Block The exotic pet trade is so often cruel to the trafficked animals who are bred or captured just to be bought and sold as novelties, as well as potentially harmful to native species if and when exotic pets get abandoned in local habitats. Alamy Stock Photo Forest cobra, inland taipan, bushmaster, rhinoceros […]
The black market for the top tickets at the Cannes Film Festival is in full swing. While industry professionals and accredited journalists get in free, there are many general punters who show up in the hope of blagging or buying entry to the hottest events on the Cannes Croisette. Many hang around — ready to […]
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today that BORIS AMINOV, CHRISTY CORVALAN, DAVID FERNANDEZ, DEZYRE BAEZ, and CRYSTAL MEDINA were charged with engaging in a […]
Argentina’s black market exchange rate plunged to a record low this week as people are bought dollars ahead of their holidays and a recent Central Bank resolution drained fresh dollar bills from visiting tourists at exchange houses. The street rate, known locally as the “dólar blue” or “blue dollar”, plunged to 357 pesos to the […]
COYLE, Okla.—Finding marijuana crops in Oklahoma these days is easy, said Logan County Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Tillman, as he stared at rows of cannabis greenhouses surrounded by fields of red-dirt farmland. Figuring out if they are legal—well, that is another matter. “It’s not . . .
A federal jury convicted a California woman last Friday, Oct. 14 for a health care fraud and prescription drug diversion scheme involving two Southern California pharmacies. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Irina Sadovsky, 53, of Calabasas, the owner and pharmacist-in-charge of Five Star RX doing business as Five Star Pharmacy (Five […]
The Lebanese pound on Monday dropped to a historic low against the US dollar on the parallel, or black, market. Elnashra news reported that $1 could buy 39,000 Lebanese pounds. This is 6.6% lower than the previous record exchange rate of 36,600 pounds to the dollar, reached on September 13. Mounir Younes, an economist and […]
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Two Missouri men are facing murder charges after a home near St. Louis exploded Friday, killing four people – including three teens – who were assembling black-market fireworks in a garage. Terrell Cooks, 37, and Seneca Mahan, 43, are each charged with three counts of second-degree murder […]
Last week, investigators serving a search warrant in Orange County uncovered a vast Lululemon theft ring, netting more than $200,000 in leggings. if you’re keeping score at home, that’s 1,861 stolen pairs of the high-end athleisure wear — for the uninformed, those are clothes worn by people who want to wear workout gear without working […]
Last week, investigators serving a search warrant in Orange County uncovered a vast Lululemon theft ring, netting more than $200,000 in leggings. if you’re keeping score at home, that’s 1,861 stolen pairs of the high-end athleisure wear — for the uninformed, those are clothes worn by people who want to wear workout gear without working […]
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