Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan, previously a producer at TNA Wrestling, was named President of TNAs parent company Impact Ventures in August. Rumors spread about the companys financial troubles and Corgan talked to the press about potentially becoming the majority owner of the company. Last week, Corgan sued Impact Ventures and asked for a temporary restraining order; the details were kept under…
One man has been fined $14,960 and another $9920 after a four-year long Fair Work Ombudsman case over deductions from staff wages was concluded. In February 2014, the Ombudsman took Travice Blom, the former operator of labour hire company Oz Staff Career Services Pty Ltd, to court over $130,000 that was alleged to have been unlawfully…
A Victorian bricklayer who tried to murder two council workers after they went to his property to inspect illegally constructed buildings will spend at least seven-and-a-half years behind bars. Jonas Black was sentenced in the Supreme Court of Victoria on Monday after a lengthy dispute over the sheds turned violent at his remote bush block…
High-profile bookmaker Tom Waterhouse has told a Sydney court that a former client accused of defrauding a company of $9 million was a “big punter” who told him he had “made a lot of money from Macquarie Bank”. A smiling Mr Waterhouse appeared at the King Street Supreme Court on Monday to give evidence in…
Oct. 23, 2016 5:51 p.m. ET Their owners may be bankrupt, but the sprawling mines of Wyomings Powder River Basin are still churning out coal. It is the same story in oil fields along the Gulf Coast and with shale-gas wells in the Rocky Mountains. Energy investors have long hoped that falling prices would solve…
More than 100 low-paid cleaners who worked at Melbourne’s Federation Square and Crown Casino had their wages illegally docked and their pay records falsified to cover up the corrupt practice. The cleaners, many of whom were young workers and migrants, had so-called “administration fees” of about $25 taken out from their pay every week, while lesser amounts for…
The number of people seeking debt relief has almost doubled compared to last year, as rules protecting insolvency arrangements from bank objections continued to make themselves felt. The third quarter of the year saw a continued upturn in applications to the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) with 899 people seeking debt arrangements 22 per cent…
I believe there are some charitable grants available for people who are having problems affording some utility bills. How does someone go about claiming? PW, Shropshire What I think you are after is Charis Grants. This administers schemes set up by various utility companies for people struggling with bills. One of these is the British…
When Yousif Khans father was killed by robbers, the last thing the family needed was a battle for the roof over their heads, but that is the cruel legacy of a heinous act, Shireena Al Nowais writes DUBAI // When Yousif Khans father was killed in a robbery while on holiday in Pakistan, it started…
Bang Showbiz – Bang Showbiz on October 23, 2016, 11:39 am Lindsay Lohan reportedly owes almost £78,000 ($125,000) in rent. It has been claimed that the 30-year-old actress has been issued with court papers by lawyers acting for the landlord of a £3.5 million flat she was leasing in Knightsbridge, London after she failed to…