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Madagascar
Aide to Madagascar leader accused of seeking bribe from UK gemstone miner
...Offences under the relevant section of the act can incur fines or a jail sentence of up to 10 years. Gemfields declined to comment....
August 13, 2023
The Trump Organization
Former Trump executive Weisselberg gives up little in latest testimony
...He spent three months at the notorious Rikers Island jail last year after pleading guilty to tax evasion for arranging to receive luxury cars, school tuition payments and other unreported perks from the...
October 10, 2023
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Travel
Pitcairn: an island on the edge
...Eventually a jail had to be built, mostly by men who were defendants and later convicts. The world would never look at Pitcairn the same way again....
February 1, 2024
News in-depthUS society
Illinois to become first US state to abolish cash bail
...One of the worst cases involved 22-year-old Kalief Browder, who died by suicide after being incarcerated on New York’s notorious Rikers Island for three years without a trial, having been unable to post...
September 17, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein
Unsealed documents shed light on Jeffrey Epstein’s lurid world
...Richardson is now deceased, as is Brunel, who died in a jail cell in France while under investigation for rape and sexual abuse....
January 4, 2024
Jeffrey Epstein
JPMorgan settles Epstein lawsuits with US Virgin Islands and Jes Staley
...In 2019, he was charged by federal prosecutors with sex trafficking of minors and died by suicide in jail while awaiting trial....
September 26, 2023
FT Live
Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference
Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
Venezuela
US reimposes oil sanctions on Venezuela after broken election promises
...Shell and Trinidad’s national gas company signed an agreement to export Venezuelan offshore gas via the Caribbean island, while Spain’s Repsol and France’s Maurel & Prom also inked deals, according to news...
April 17, 2024
Leon Black
Leon Black agreed $62.5mn deal over potential Epstein-related claims
...He had previously served jail time in Florida after pleading guilty to soliciting sex from a minor....
July 21, 2023
FirstFT
FirstFT: Biden to warn Beijing against South China Sea aggression
...officials said the president would express serious concern about China’s increasingly aggressive activity in the South China Sea, especially around the Second Thomas Shoal, a submerged reef in the Spratly Islands...
April 8, 2024
News in-depthEl Salvador
Inside El Salvador’s mega-prison: the jail giving inmates less space than livestock
...That is far smaller than Rikers Island or Turkey’s Marmara mega-prison, which are both larger than 100ha and have smaller populations....
March 7, 2023
Transcript
The FTC is primed for Amazon
...He died by suicide in jail while awaiting trial. The bank said it will pay $75mn to the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein had a home....
September 27, 2023
FT SeriesIcons only – the HTSI autumn arts special 2023
Sicily, the 49th state of America?
...Allegedly, Lucky Luciano (a Sicilian-born gangster who was at that point in jail in New York State) secretly provided the US military with contacts of local mafia bosses....
September 18, 2023
Allen Weisselberg
Former Donald Trump executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in jail
...Weisselberg, who worked for the Trump family in a number of roles since 1973, will serve his five month sentence on Rikers Island, where 19 inmates died in 2022....
January 10, 2023
EU immigration
Brussels shootings raise pressure on EU to tighten immigration rules
...Only hours later, Swedish newspapers revealed he had been imprisoned in one of the country’s highest-security jails....
October 19, 2023
Jes Staley
Ex-Barclays chief Staley banned for misleading watchdog over Epstein
...Staley visited Epstein in Florida in 2009 as the latter was on work release during his jail sentence for procuring a child for prostitution....
October 12, 2023
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
ReviewFilm
A Thousand and One — portrait of a mother, son and city going through changes
...It starts in 1994, with 22-year-old Inez (Teyana Taylor, whose intensity burns up the screen), just out of Rikers Island prison and hustling for legit work as a hairdresser in Brooklyn....
April 20, 2023
Brooke Masters
JPMorgan’s decision to settle over Epstein was a long time coming
...The $75mn is less than half the $190mn the island government sought....
September 27, 2023
Live news updates from December 6: Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud, Kirchner sentenced to 6 years
Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud in Manhattan trial
...He was promised a lenient sentence — five months of incarceration, albeit in the notoriously tough Rikers Island jail — on the condition that he testified truthfully in the trial against the Trump Organization...
December 6, 2022
Thailand
Thai voters complain of betrayal after Thaksin Shinawatra’s return
...He further pointed to plans to encourage Thailand’s crucial tourism industry by enabling more flights to Chiang Mai and the island of Phuket....
September 14, 2023
The Trump machine
The Trump machine: the former president’s dash for campaign cash
...But just as quickly, some goes straight out to protect him from jail....
April 2, 2024
Jeffrey Epstein
JPMorgan knew about Epstein accusations by 2006, lawsuit claims
...The disgraced financier died by suicide in 2019 while in jail awaiting trial on federal charges....
April 12, 2023
The indictment of Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s legal drama features a colourful cast of characters
...They have been unable to flip him, in spite of winning a guilty plea on tax charges that landed Weisselberg in the Rikers Island prison for a five-month sentence. He will be released in late April....
April 1, 2023
JPMorgan Chase & Co
JPMorgan’s Dimon sought for second interview in Epstein lawsuit
...Epstein died by suicide in 2019 as he awaited trial in jail....
June 9, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein
Epstein claimed to have set up meetings with senior UK ministers
...In 2009, according to the report, Epstein emailed Staley: “Ask Andrew about [the] island, tell him about your boat plans”, an apparent reference to Little St James, Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean...
June 19, 2023
ObituaryMalcolm Deas
Malcolm Deas, historian, 1941-2023
...He published on subjects as varied as Swiss democracy, soft home furnishings, and the battle for the Falkland Islands....
August 5, 2023

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