Written by Sarah Iasiello, October 24, 2016 Poor LiLo just cant catch a break! Following a string of personal crises, 30 year-old Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan is facing the possibility of declaring bankruptcy after she reportedly failed to pay rent on her London home (worth around $5.5 million). Lawyers for the landlord of the property have…
DetailsHe was known by all the bookmakers, Tom Waterhouse says in Andrew Sigalla fraud trial Tom Waterhouse enters King Street Supreme Court where he is giving evidence in the Anthony Sigalla trial. Photo: Nick Moir Andrew Sigalla (right) leaves the Supreme Court. Photo: Jessica Hromas exit High-profile bookmaker Tom Waterhouse has told a Sydney court…
DetailsFamily First senator Bob Day is set to return to the Senate chamber to vote for the government’s industrial relations legislation despite announcing his resignation from Parliament. The South Australian announced his resignation last week after his housing construction empire went into liquidation, but is yet to hand his formal resignation to Senate President Stephen Parry. Previous slide…
DetailsNew Delhi: The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) is scheduled to hold its second meeting around 11-12 November to discuss and finalize the draft rules under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. The draft rules were notified earlier this month and put out for public comments till 31 October. The Centre has till…
DetailsSmashing 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…
DetailsOne 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…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsHigh-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…
DetailsOct. 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…
DetailsMore 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…
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