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Latest money stories
Money · ⚖️ Cases 1000, 2000, 4000: NIS 1.8B alleged, Benjamin Netanyahu
Netanyahu denies wrongdoing in Cases 1000, 2000 and 4000. The gifts are put above NIS 700,000; no verdict is in the record read. 🗣️
Money · 💸 Trump border wall: $15B allocated, 47 new miles, CNN says
CNN counted 453 border-wall miles by Jan. 2021, only 47 new. How the suits against the funding ended is not in the records read. ⏳
Money · ⚖️ Contempt of Congress: Bannon got 4 months, Holder no charges
Holder, held in contempt 255–67 in 2012, faced no criminal charges. Bannon was convicted and jailed; he says he relied on his lawyers. 📌
Money · 💸 Alina Habba Mildon fired from $50M Concord deal, NYT reports
Trump called the deal 'outrageous'; the NYT says a Nov. 4 letter cites 'failure to perform duties'. Concord has yet to comment. ⏳
Money · ⚖️ Galleon insider trading cases ranked: Rajaratnam got 11 years
Rajaratnam got 11 years, a $10M fine and $53.8M forfeiture; he insisted he had done nothing wrong. Gupta got two years, Smith probation. 🗣️
Money · 🧾 Jensen Huang trends as Nvidia files five Form 4s since Sept.
EDGAR lists the filings; share counts and proceeds are not in the papers read. Nvidia shares fell over 4% as the Huang reports landed. ⏳
Money · ⚖️ Brian Flores v. NFL: Ross fined $1.5M over Dolphins tampering
The NFL called Flores's suit meritless. A judge sent some claims to arbitration and kept others in court; the end result is unknown. ⏳
Money · ⚖️ Thomas Massie files 8 impeachment articles on Pete Hegseth
Hegseth calls them "sham articles"; Trump says he'll "stand by" him. The House must take the measure up within two legislative days. 🗣️
Money · ⚖️ Only 2 cabinet secretaries ever impeached: Belknap, Mayorkas
Belknap was acquitted in 1876; Mayorkas's articles were dismissed in 2024. Hegseth calls Massie's articles 'sham.' Vote pending. ⏳
Money · ⚖️ Supreme Court rejects Roberto Clemente sons' $15M plate suit
Justices declined Clemente Properties' appeal; an appeals court held Puerto Rico immune. No Puerto Rico response in the reports read. 📌
Money · ⚖️ Viktor Orbán's brother reported detained in smuggling probe
Police searched a site tied to Áron Orbán but have not confirmed he was held. Viktor Orbán calls it a score-settling 'dirty game'. 🗣️
Money · 💸 Viktor Orbán circle money trail: over €21B of EU funds frozen
Orbán calls the probe of his brother Áron a political 'dirty game'; no charge is on record. The money trail is older. 🗣️
Money · ⚖️ Biggest charity fraud cases ranked, from $65,564,360 judgment
Proposed FTC orders suspend big judgments for payments of $75K or less. Final approval isn't in the records read. ⏳
Money · 🏦 TD Bank pleaded guilty in U.S. money-laundering case: $3.09B
TD admitted conspiracy to launder money and took a U.S. asset cap. Sen. Warren says the penalties did not go far enough. 🗣️
Money · 💸 Biggest college football buyouts ranked: Jimbo Fisher $77M
Texas A&M owes Jimbo Fisher $77,562,500, USA Today reports, and his deal has no job-offset clause. Holgorsen's has one. 📌
Money · ⚖️ Investors sue Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen over FTX promotion
Who paid what is not in the record we read. Bundchen's representative declined to comment on the suit. ⏳
Money · ⚖️ Trevor Milton pardoned after 4-year Nikola fraud sentence
A jury convicted him in 2022. The pardon ends his order to compensate shareholders; Milton says he did nothing wrong. 🗣️
Money · 📉 Wirecard admits €1.9B likely didn't exist; Braun denies fraud
Wirecard filed for insolvency in 2020. Markus Braun denies wrongdoing; EY says it acted professionally; no verdict is on record here. ⏳
Money · 💰 Sackler family agrees to $7.4B Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
Purdue pleaded guilty and was sentenced; the Sacklers have denied wrongdoing. Here is who pays what, and when. 🗣️
Money · ⚖️ Danny Nozell drops suit vs Dolly Parton's nephew, can refile
Bryan Seaver denies threatening anyone. The dismissal is without prejudice, and the terms are not yet known. ⏳
Money · 📺 Meta, Paramount, ABC settled Trump suits: $25M, $16M, $15M
The money goes toward his library. None of the three admitted wrongdoing, and Paramount says it pays Trump nothing directly. 🗣️
Money · 💎 Most expensive divorces: Wildenstein's $2.5B tops our ranking
Four of the seven carry a dollar figure on record. The other three rank on what was filed, frozen or reported. 📌
Money · 🪙 Binance to pay $4.3B; Zhao served four months, then a pardon
He pleaded guilty to an anti-money-laundering charge. The White House called the case overreach with "no allegations of fraud". 🗣️
Money · 🎓 Charlie Javice gets 85 months; JPMorgan paid $175M for Frank
She owes $287.5M in restitution. Javice says she accepts the verdict, but the judge said she never admitted a crime. 🗣️
What the Money desk covers
The money beat follows fortunes when they change hands the hard way: divorces, wills, trusts, inheritance fights, prenuptial agreements and the relatives who contest them. The question every story answers first is who ended up holding the money, and on what document that rests.
Big round numbers travel fast online and are often wrong. A divorce figure from a tabloid, a net-worth estimate from a ranking or a sum a lawyer mentioned on television is not a record. The desk leads with the number a court, a filing or a public accounts document actually states, says when a figure is only an estimate, and leaves a figure out rather than guess it.
The records this beat is built on
- Divorce and family-court filings
- Petitions, support orders and judgments where they are public, which in many places they are only in part.
- Probate court records
- Wills admitted to probate, contests, trustee disputes and the settlements that close them.
- Company and charity accounts
- Annual accounts and filings that show who owns what, through which vehicle.
- Tax and insolvency records
- Liens, bankruptcy petitions and insolvency notices, the paper trail of a fortune that did not last.
House rules on this beat
Money stories carry the currency and the date of every figure, because a 1990s settlement and a 2026 one are not the same amount. Ranked lists convert figures to today's money with a stated method. Family members who are not public figures are named only where the record and the story need them, and children are not named.
Files on this beat
64 files- ABC News
- Alec Wildenstein
- Apple Inc.
- Archegos Capital Management
- Bill Hwang
- Binance
- Changpeng Zhao
- Charlie Javice
- Conan O'Brien
- Dana Holgorsen
- Dmitry Rybolovlev
- Dolly Parton
- Donald Trump
- Ernst & Young
- Frank
- FTX
- George Lucas
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Harold Hamm
- James Cameron
- Jan Marsalek
- Jensen Huang
- Jimbo Fisher
- Johnny Depp
- JPMorgan Chase
- Katy Perry
- MacKenzie Scott
- Markus Braun
- Matt Rhule
- Mel Gibson
- Meta Platforms
- National Football League
- Nikola Corporation
- Paramount Global
- Purdue Pharma
- Raj Rajaratnam
- Richard Sackler
- Rudy Giuliani
- Sam Bankman-Fried
- Scarlett Johansson
- Shaquille O'Neal
- Steven Spielberg
- TD Bank
- Tom Brady
- Trevor Milton
- Wirecard
- Alejandro Mayorkas
- Alina Habba
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Brian Flores
- Donald J. Trump Foundation
- Eric Holder
- Galleon Group
- Lőrinc Mészáros
- Paris Jackson
- Pete Hegseth
- Prince
- Riley Keough
- Roberto Clemente
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Steve Bannon
- Thomas Massie
- Viktor Orbán
- William W. Belknap