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...In 2006, the year Piaggio floated on the Milan stock exchange, production topped 100,000 and, under the headline “Vespa’s Builder Scoots Back to Profitability”, Colaninno Sr told the Wall Street Journal:...
...Last month it said it would close its oil refinery in Martinez, California, and explore repurposing it to make renewable diesel....
...McVean Trading will pay a penalty of $1.5m while its chief executive, Charles Dow McVean Sr, has agreed to a $2m penalty....
...Named after Thomas Watson Sr, the chief executive who built the modern IBM, the system first saw the light of day five years ago, when it beat two human champions on an American question-and-answer TV game...
...fifth-largest US commercial bank by assets comes almost a year after authorities discovered a $215m gap in customer funds at Peregrine, leading to its bankruptcy and the conviction of founder Russell Wasendorf Sr...
...At Peregrine Financial, founder and chief executive Russell Wasendorf Sr has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100m from customers....
...gregory.meyer@ft.com...
...The account deficit this week led to civil government fraud charges against Russell Wasendorf Sr and Peregrine, the broker he founded in 1990....
...Russell Wasendorf Sr was arrested on Friday on criminal charges of making and using false statements to trick regulators into believing the broker held customer funds in excess of $200m when the real sum...
...Raphael Martinez, spokesman for the Belizean police, on Monday told the FT that he had no information about Mr McAfee. “We do not know his whereabouts,” he said....
...On Thursday, Raphael Martinez, spokesman for the Belizean police, told the FT: “When he gets to Belize, he will be handed over to the police and detained for questioning....
...ordered broker Peregrine Financial Group to stop doing further business, in a probe over missing customer funds prompted by an apparent suicide attempt by company founder and chairman Russell Wasendorf Sr...
...The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Peregrine and owner Russell Wasendorf Sr, a fixture of Chicago’s trading community, kept only $5.1m in a customer account they falsely said held more than $220m...
...Russell Wasendorf Sr, founder of Peregrine Financial Group, had reportedly attempted suicide that morning outside company headquarters in nearby Iowa....
...snapped Susanna Martinez, the Republican governor of New Mexico, in an interview this week with the Daily Beast....
...Earlier in the debate, Mr Gregory asked a similarly non-concrete question of Jon Huntsman, former US ambassador to China....
...(Asked why they had not found him, Martinez said, “It beats the hell out of me.”)...
...Selections by Vanessa Friedman … Junot Díaz, Author of ‘This is How You Lose Her’ (Faber) The most extraordinary (and harrowing) book I read this year was Oscar Martínez’s The Beast: Riding the Rails...
...But Kinnear Sr died when his son was only 10 years old, which perhaps helps to explain the considerable difference between the two....
...Mel Martinez, also a Cuban-American and now a Florida senator, was in Mr Bush’s first cabinet....
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