NEW YORK — WFAN host Craig Carton and a New Jersey man ran a “Ponzi-like” ticket-sales fraud scheme to cover their personal debts that defrauded investors out of million of dollars, authorities said Wednesday. Carton, 48, and Michael Wright, 41, of Upper Saddle River, are charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy, the U.S. Attorney’s…
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Details165 shares By: Kyle Koster | 53 minutes ago Follow @KyleKoster Boomer & Carton co-host Craig Carton was arrested early Wednesday morning, charged with federal wire and securities crimes. Carton and his partner, Joseph Meli, allegedly ran a multi-million dollar fake ticket scam. Carton chalked up deep gambling debt about $3 million to casinos and…
DetailsNEW YORK Federal agents arrested WFAN sports talk radio host Craig Carton, the co-host of the popular New York morning show Boomer & Carton, Wednesday morning. Carton and New York businessman Joseph Meli are accused of soliciting millions of dollars in investments for what federal prosecutors say was a fraudulent concert ticket-selling enterprise, according to…
DetailsThe couple, who have three young children, had been seeking approval for a deal which would have seen debts of 739,000 written down to 360,000, effectively wiping out their negative equity. They argued the proposal, which was signed off by a personal insolvency practitioner (PIP), gave the bank a better deal than if they had…
DetailsA number of personal insolvency cases could now be affected by a significant ruling that a couple have no legal standing to seek a court review of KBC Banks rejection of their personal insolvency arrangement (PIA). KBC had rejected a proposed PIA sought by a couple with three young children, under which the bank would…
DetailsThe future of 44 jobs have been saved after funding was secured to set up a new renewable energy company. Greener For Life Energy Ltd, based at Cleave Farm, Templeton, Tiverton, which had been trading for three and a half years, went into liquidation on August 29. However, a number of the directors of the…
DetailsBuyers are likely to benefit from insolvency of developers as work is in progress and handover of completed projects is being expedited. A handful of developers in the National Capital Region have filed for insolvency. However, a majority of investors (about 90%) are still unaware of their rights as also how are they impacted in…
DetailsThe Liverpool event’s second day was cancelled, with some punters calling the festival ‘shambolic’ and ‘dangerous’ The company behind Hope & Glory Festival has gone into liquidation. The inaugural event, which was held on August 5-6 in Liverpools St. Georges Quarter, was plagued by an onslaught of problems on its first day. Organisers were forced…
DetailsBillionaire Network Ten backer Bruce Gordon and the Murdoch family’s 21st Century Fox have each made last-ditch pushes to thwart the purchase of the failed network by America’s CBS. Lawyers for Mr Gordon are arguing that administrators should have considered selling the business to Mr Gordon’s private company Birketu and Lachlan Murdoch’s Illyria Nominees Television which…
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