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Month: September 2023

Russian man with Kremlin ties gets 9 years in US prison for hacking and insider trading scheme

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million stock market cheating scheme that relied on secret earnings information stolen through the hacking of U.S. computer networks. Vladislav Klyushin, who

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Fani Willis accuses Rep. Jim Jordan of ‘partisan misrepresentations’ over inquiry of election case

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The district attorney who brought charges against former President Donald Trump and others over their efforts to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 election sent a scathing letter to U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan on Thursday, accusing him of interfering in a state case and pushing “outrageous partisan

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Biden announces Michael Whitaker as FAA pick

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden intends to nominate Michael Whitaker as administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, the White House announced Thursday. Whitaker has previously served as deputy administrator of the agency and is “currently the chief operating officer of Supernal, a Hyundai Motor Group company designing an electric advanced air

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Foreign Relations chair seeks answers from US oil firms on Russia business after Ukraine invasion

By ED DAVEY Associated Press The head of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee has asked the country’s top three oilfield services companies to explain why they continued doing business in Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, and demanded that they commit to “cease all investments” in Russia’s fossil fuel infrastructure. Sen. Bob Menendez, a

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Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, who was one of Europe’s youngest leaders, quits politics

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin, who was one of Europe’s youngest leaders and a strong voice in supporting Ukraine, says she’s quitting Finnish politics and will join a London-based non-profit organization. Marin, who was 37 years old when she took office in 2019, led a five-party center-left governing coalition until

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