Sen. Marco Rubio acknowledged on Tuesday through a spokesperson that he met with indicted ex-Rep. David Rivera to discuss a potential deal to normalize relations between the United States and Venezuela but didn’t know that his one time friend and long time political ally was working on behalf of Nicolás Maduro. Rubio’s dealings with Rivera emerged Monday night after federal authorities arrested and charged the former Miami lawmaker with eight criminal counts, including money laundering, conspiracy and failing to register as a foreign agent for work allegedly connected to

The Chinese government announced on Wednesday a broad easing of its exceptionally stringent Covid restrictions, an implicit concession to public discontent after mass street protests in more than a dozen cities a week ago challenged Beijing’s authority.The changes are not a complete dismantling of China’s “zero Covid” policy, but still represent a considerable loosening of measures that have dragged down the economy by disrupting daily life for hundreds of millions of people, forcing many small businesses to shutter and driving youth unemployment to nearly 20 percent, a

Despite “credible allegations” of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s involvement in the 2018 killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered a lawsuit against the Saudi royal to be dismissed. The basis for the decision, wrote Judge John D. Bates of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was the legal protections the prince is entitled to in his new role as Saudi Arabia’s prime minister.“The United States has informed the court that he is immune, and Mohammed is, therefore ‘entitled to head of state immunity … while he remains in

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s office said late Tuesday that his daughter is OK and asked for privacy for the family after Houston police and fire personnel were called to his home.”This is a family matter, and thankfully their daughter is okay,” Cruz’s representatives said in a statement to ABC affiliate KTRK and other outlets.”There were no serious injuries. The family requests the media respect their daughter’s privacy at this time,” Cruz’s office said.According to KTRK, the Houston Police Department said they received reports just before 8 p.m. local time on Tuesday of a 14-year-old with

Sen. Raphael Warnock has defeated GOP challenger Herschel Walker in Georgia’s Senate runoff, giving Democrats a 51 seat majority next year and capping off an extraordinary defense of the chamber that saw every incumbent win reelection. Warnock, who won a special election runoff in early 2021 and has now earned a full six year term finished narrowly ahead of Walker in the November general election. But because neither reached the majority mark, they advanced to this week’s one-on-one runoff, extending one of the most expensive and hard-fought campaigns in the country.

Argentina’s vice president and former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has been sentenced to six years in prison and given a lifelong ban on holding public office after being found guilty in a $1bn fraud case related to public works. Fernández – who was president of Argentina for two terms between 2007 and 2015 – was found guilty on Tuesday, though she is unlikely to serve any prison time soon as she has immunity thanks to her government roles and is expected to launch a lengthy appeals process that could take years.A three-judge panel rejected a charge of running

The Trump Organization was convicted Tuesday of multiple crimes, including tax fraud, falsifying business records and conspiracy after a trial in New York City.The convictions come weeks after the company’s owner, former President Donald Trump, declared his candidacy for the White House in the 2024 election.A jury in Manhattan Supreme Court began deliberations in the case this week.The Trump Organization faces fines of up to $1.6 million at sentencing in the case.The verdicts also could harm the company’s ability to obtain loans.One of the subsidiaries charged in the

More than 7 in 10 voters want President Joe Biden to honor a commitment he made last year and release the final trove of JFK assassination records on Dec. 15, according to a poll released Tuesday in coordination with a research group that sued the administration to force more document disclosure.About 16,000 of the most closely guarded government secrets into the assassination nearly 60 years ago still remain hidden — including 44 records that would shed light on a covert Cuba-related CIA program that involved Lee Harvey Oswald less than four months before he shot

King Charles had an egg hurled at him for the second time in a month today, with police arresting a man for common assault. Bodyguards quickly intervened to move the monarch away from the scene of the disturbance on St George’s Square in Luton. Bedfordshire Police confirmed a suspect had been arrested and is now being questioned. Charles, 74, appeared unfazed by the incident and quickly resumed shaking hands with members of the public after being moved to a different area. The incident comes four weeks after 23-year-old Patrick Thelwell was arrested for throwing an egg at the

Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed local officials in Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin — three states that were central to former president Donald Trump’s failed plan to stay in power following the 2020 election — for any and all communications with Trump, his campaign, and a long list of aides and allies.The requests for records arrived in Dane County, Wis.; Maricopa County, Ariz.; and Wayne County, Mich., late last week, and in Milwaukee on Monday, officials said. They are among the first known subpoenas issued by Smith, who was named last month by Attorney

Like most nerds who read science fiction, I’ve spent a lot of time wondering how society will greet true artificial intelligence, if and when it arrives. Will we panic? Start sucking up to our new robot overlords? Ignore it and go about our daily lives.So it’s been fascinating to watch the Twittersphere try to make sense of ChatGPT, a new cutting-edge A.I. chatbot that was opened for testing last week.ChatGPT is, quite simply, the best artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public. It was built by OpenAI, the San Francisco A.I. company that is also responsible

The Police Chief of Tampa, Florida resigned on Monday after body cam footage showed her asking a deputy to “just let us go” from a traffic stop. Mayor Jane Castor said in a statement that she’d requested and received the resignation of Chief Mary O’Connor following an internal affairs investigation into the incident.”It is unacceptable for any public employee, and especially the city’s top law enforcement leader, to ask for special treatment because of their position,” Castor wrote.”Public trust in Tampa’s police department is paramount to our success as a city and community

The suspect in last month’s deadly rampage at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub was charged with 305 criminal counts in a case that will have a “voluminous” amount of evidence, prosecutors said Tuesday. Anderson Lee Aldrich is suspected of killing five people and wounding 17 others on Nov. 19 at Club Q in Colorado Springs. Five more were injured but not by gunshots. Twelve others were victims with no visible injuries, police said. The 305 charges filed in court include accusations of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, and bias

Authorities in Honduras will partially suspend constitutional rights as part of an effort to combat an apparent rise in extortion, raising fears of human rights violations and warnings of creeping authoritarianism in Central America. Under the plan, which will come into effect late on Tuesday and will be in effect for at least 30 days, thousands of security forces will be deployed to 162 gang-infested neighborhoods in the country’s two largest cities, San Pedro Sula and the capital, Tegucigalpa.“[Extortion] is one of the main causes of insecurity, migration, displacement, loss of freedom,

Facebook warns it could ban news in the US if Congress passes a bill that would require the platform to negotiate with and compensate publishers for their content. Andy Stone, Meta’s head of policy communications, said on Twitter that Facebook will “be forced to consider removing news” from Facebook if the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is passed. Facebook previously threatened to block news in Canada and Australia when similar laws were proposed. Introduced last year with bipartisan support, the JCPA would allow publishers to negotiate with platforms like

Disgraced former celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti was sentenced Monday in a California federal court to 14 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars from four former clients. U.S. District Judge James Selna handed down the sentence to Mr. Avenatti, who earlier this year pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and one count of obstructing the Internal Revenue Service. Federal prosecutors said Mr. Avenatti, 51 years old, lied to his former clients about settlement agreements he had negotiated for them and secretly spent some of the proceeds. He also obstructed the

The Biden administration has extended temporary deportation protections to as many as 110,000 more Haitians who arrived in the country since August 2021, as political and living conditions in the Caribbean nation continue to deteriorate following the assassination of its president. Haitians in the U.S. without a permanent legal status—such as migrants who crossed the border illegally or students and workers on expiring visas—will be eligible for deportation protections and work authorization under a program known as Temporary Protected Status. They will qualify so

Unionized journalists at the New York Times are heading into a critical negotiating session with management on Tuesday that will determine whether more than 1,000 members of the NewsGuild will make good on their threat to stage a one-day walkout Thursday.The two sides are feuding over pay hikes, health care, and pension plans as they head into a bargaining session that is slated to stretch from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.“We will walk out and stop work for 24 hours, on Thursday, Dec. 8, if we do not have a deal for a complete and equitable contract by then,” Bill Baker, the NYT’s unit

Over three dozen women filed a joint lawsuit against alleged “serial sexual predator” James Toback on Monday for sexual misconduct. In the court documents obtained by Page Six, the women claim the director “used his reputation, power, and influence in the entertainment industry” to “lure young women through fraud, coercion, force and intimidation into compromising situations where he falsely imprisoned, sexually abused, assaulted, and/or battered them.”Despite the alleged abuse spanning over the last 38 years, the victims allege they are only speaking out now due to his

Former president Donald Trump’s political action committee is paying legal bills for some key witnesses involved in the Justice Department investigation into whether Trump mishandled classified documents, obstructed the investigation, or destroyed government records, according to people familiar with the matter.The witnesses include Kash Patel, who has testified in front of the grand jury and is key to Trump’s defense, along with Walt Nauta, a potentially critical prosecution witness, according to these people, who like others interviewed spoke on the condition of

Hollywood actress and devout Scientologist Kirstie Alley has died at the age of 71 following a private battle with cancer, her devastated children revealed on Monday.Alley’s son William True, 30, and daughter Lillie Price, 28, issued a statement on social media to announce the news about their ‘incredible, fierce and loving mother, who was best known for her roles on TV’s Cheers and in the Look Who’s Talking films.They revealed how their mother had only ‘recently discovered she had cancer, and that she ‘was surrounded by her closest family and fought with great strength, leaving

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s inauguration celebration is expected to be spread out over two days — and will give up-close access to donors willing to contribute between $50,000 and $1 million, according to a breakdown of sponsorship packages. Five donors who give $1 million to the Republican Party of Florida will be recognized as “inaugural chair” sponsors who will receive tickets to a candlelight dinner the night before the inauguration, VIP seating at the inauguration ceremony held on the steps of the Old Capitol as well tickets to the inaugural ball and a “Toast to One Million

A former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government has been arrested in connection to an ongoing federal criminal investigation, law enforcement officials said. David Rivera, a Republican who served from 2011 to 2013, was arrested Monday at Atlanta’s airport, said Marlene Rodriguez, spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami. She said Rivera was indicted by a Miami grand jury last month, but that document remains sealed and she could not discuss the charges. She said Rivera had an initial

A pair of identical twins accused of cheating at a South Carolina medical school have been awarded a $1.5 million payout – by a jury that agreed the sisters “are genetically predisposed to behave the same way.”Kayla and Kellie Bingham filed their defamation suit against the Medical University of South Carolina in 2017 — a year after the school claimed they in cahoots during an exam, Insider reported. The pair was sitting at the same table but “we were about four or five feet apart,” Kellie told the news outlet, explaining that they couldn’t watch each other because their monitors blocked

Stack Overflow the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by the AI chatbot ChatGPT. The site’s mods said that the ban was temporary and that a final ruling would be made sometime in the future after consultation with its community. But, as the mods explained, ChatGPT simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination.“The primary problem is that while the answers which

The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, is hiring a former senior justice department official with a history of taking on Donald J. Trump and his family business, as the office seeks to ramp up its investigation into the former president.The official, Matthew Colangelo, who before acting as third in command at the Justice Department, led the New York attorney general’s civil inquiry into Mr. Trump, will likely become one of the leaders of the district attorney’s criminal investigation into the former president.His work on the attorney general’s Trump inquiry may inform his work

U.S. logistic managers are bracing for delays in the delivery of goods from China in early January as a result of canceled sailings of container ships and rollovers of exports by ocean carriers.Carriers have been executing an active capacity management strategy by announcing more blank sailings and suspending services to balance supply with demand. “The unrelenting decline in container freight rates from Asia, caused by a collapse in demand, is compelling ocean carriers to blank more sailings than ever before as vessel utilization hits new lows,” said Joe Monaghan, CEO

Two strands of recent Supreme Court jurisprudence clash on Monday, as the justices weigh whether a website designer’s free-speech rights entitle her to turn away customers seeking online services for same-sex weddings, despite state law protecting LGBT individuals from discrimination.The Supreme Court in 2015 held that same-sex couples enjoy the same marriage rights as those of opposite sexes, culminating in a line of decisions beginning in the 1990s that extended legal equality to LGBT Americans. Over much of the same period, the court has been expanding

Jurors in New York were on Monday set to deliberate their verdict in the trial of the Trump Organization, accused of running a criminal tax fraud scheme enriching executives with off-the-books benefits including property and luxury vehicles. While Donald Trump himself is not on trial, prosecutors have said the former president knew of – and sanctioned almost every aspect of – the fraud, as head of the eponymous company handling his real estate and other dealings.“This whole narrative that Donald Trump was blissfully ignorant is just not real,” Manhattan assistant

Good Morning America hosts T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach have been taken off air following DailyMail.com’s bombshell report revealing their affair. Sources tell DailyMail.com that Stephanie Ramos and Gio Benitez will host GMA3 this week while ABC works out how to handle the PR nightmare.’There is massive confusion internally,’ a source said. ‘ABC News executive Kim [Godwin] has taken them off the air while they deal with this internally.’The co-stars appeared to be taking the scandal in stride as they continued to anchor the news last week without responding to the report,

Hackers linked to the Chinese government stole at least $20 million in U.S. Covid relief benefits, including Small Business Administration loans and unemployment insurance funds in over a dozen states, according to the Secret Service.The theft of taxpayer funds by the Chengdu-based hacking group known as APT41 is the first instance of pandemic fraud tied to foreign, state-sponsored cybercriminals that the U.S. government has acknowledged publicly, but may just be the tip of the iceberg, say U.S. law enforcement officials and cybersecurity experts.The officials and

Bob McGrath one of Sesame Street’s first human charactersappearing as Bob Johnson in its pilot in 1969, died on Sunday at age 90, his family confirmed on social media.“Hello Facebook friends, the McGrath family has some sad news to share. Our father Bob McGrath, passed away today. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family,” the family posted on Facebook Sunday.McGrath was an original cast member and played the recurring character Bob Johnson and Sesame Street’s resident music teacher from its inception until 2016. However, he continued to appear at public

Explosions at a pair of air bases deep inside Russia killed at least three people and wounded six others on Monday, Russian authorities said, while Ukrainian officials hinted at a capability to strike deeper within Russian territory.A fuel tanker exploded at an airfield in Ryazan, southwest of Moscow, killing at least three people, according to RIA Novosti, a Russian state-run news agency. The report didn’t say what caused the explosion.Separately, Russian authorities said they were investigating the cause of an explosion at a military base near the city of Engels in Russia’s Saratov region.

North Korea fired around 130 artillery shells into the sea off its east and west coasts on Monday, South Korean officials said, in the latest apparent military drill by Pyongyang near their shared border. Some of the shells landed in a buffer zone near the sea border in what Seoul said was a violation of a 2018 inter-Korean agreement designed to reduce tensions. The South Korean military sent several warning communications to the North over the firing, the ministry of defense said in a statement. North Korea did not immediately report on the artillery fire, but it has been carrying out

The listing agent for the Victorian home featured in The Goonies film in Astoria, Oregon, said this week the likely new owner is a fan of the classic coming-of-age movie about friendships and treasure hunting, and he promises to preserve and protect the landmark. The 1896 home with sweeping views of the Columbia River flowing into the Pacific Ocean was listed in November with an asking price of nearly $1.7 million. Jordan Miller of John L. Scott Real Estate said the sale is expected to close in mid-January, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. The new owner, a

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, pressing his education culture war, took the extraordinary step of endorsing school board candidates in nonpartisan races. Now the winners are beginning to make their mark.Since Election Day, newly conservative school boards in two counties have moved to push out their superintendents. Once approved a new restrictive policy regarding transgender students is. Another school district terminated a contract with an LGBTQ+ youth network, and critics suspect the superintendent’s actions were influenced by her new board.School board races in Florida are

After five long years, the Kennedy Center Honors are finally back in full force. How can we be sure? Because almost no one mentioned its return to normal during a weekend of festivities that culminated Sunday in a slightly more than three-hour ceremony celebrating five new honorees.Really, the only mention of the past five years at the 45th annual Kennedy Center Honors, which will be broadcast on Dec. 28 on CBS, came from Sacha Baron Cohen. While speaking in character as fictional Kazakh journalist Borat, the actor/comedian made remarks that arguably stretched the

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted on Sunday that he would testify before the House Financial Services Committee after he finished “learning and reviewing” the events that led to the spectacular collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange. The U.S. House Financial Services Committee plans to hold a hearing in December to investigate the collapse of FTX and expects to hear from the companies and individuals involved, including founder and CEO Bankman-Fried. Committee Chair Maxine Waters last week invited Bankman-Fried to participate in the panel’s hearing on Dec. 13.“

The FBI warned Twitter during “weekly” meetings before the 2020 election to expect “hack-and-leak operations’’ by “state actors” involving Hunter Biden, and “likely” in October, according to a sworn declaration by Twitter’s former head of site integrity, Yoel Roth. The warnings were so specific that Twitter immediately censored The Post’s scoop about Hunter Biden’s laptop on Oct. 14, 2020, citing its “hacked materials” policy, a move described on Saturday as “election interference” by Twitter’s new owner, Elon Musk. The extraordinary revelation for the first time lays bare how

The police chief of Tampa, Florida, was placed on administrative leave after flashing her badge in an attempt to get out of a traffic stop, the city’s mayor said. On 12 November, Mary O’Connor and her husband were stopped by a Pinellas county sheriff’s deputy for driving a golf cart without a license plate. Body camera footage showed the officer explaining to the pair why he stopped them. In the footage, O’Connor asks if the officer’s body camera is on, to which he replies: “It is.”O’Connor says: “I’m the police chief in Tampa.”She then shows her police badge.The officer says, with

British police – “wealthy Russian businessman” has been arrested at his multimillion-dollar London home on potential money-laundering suspicions, and later released on bail. The National Crime Agency did not identify the man in its December 3 statement. But Russian state news agency TASS identified the man as Mikhail Fridman, a Russian-Ukrainian billionaire and one of the principals behind the Alfa Group conglomerate. In its statement, the crime agency said a 58-year-old man was among three men who were arrested by officers from the Combating Kleptocracy Cell on December 1 at a “multimillion-pound

Jerry Jones, embroiled in controversy after a photo emerged of him at a pro-segregation rally 65 years ago, was spotted looking carefree in Miami during the city’s Art Week. Jones, 80, has been in the headlines since last week when The Washington Post unearthed a snap of him at 14, standing in the back of a group of white students at North Little Rock High in Arkansas in 1957 as the mob tries to block black students from entering.WaPo ran it as part of a larger article on Jones’ failure to hire a black head coach years later. He told the broadsheet he was there

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s niece was kicked off a Spirit Airlines flight and arrested after she accused a Latino family of “smuggling cocaine” — and allegedly injured six sheriff’s deputies, one of whom was bitten. Shannon Epstein, 25, allegedly caused the ruckus on a 6 a.m. flight from New Orleans, Louisiana to New Jersey on Thanksgiving Day. She asked a Latino family sitting nearby if they were “smuggling cocaine,” Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Jason Rivarde told NOLA.com. Epstein, the niece of the failed 2016 Republican

A trickle of high-profile sexual abuse lawsuits passing through New York’s civil courts is likely to become a flood in the coming months because of a new, one-year window for time-expired claims.Already, some bold-faced names from the worlds of arts, finance, and politics have become involved, including Donald Trump and banker Leon Black.A broad legislative sweep, the New York Adult Survivors Act, allows for adult survivors to file lawsuits and for the alleged abusers or their estates, as well as businesses and institutions that enabled the conduct by ignoring or encouraging

Three Chinese astronauts landed in a northern desert on Sunday after six months of working to complete the construction of the Tiangong station, a symbol of the country’s ambitious space program, state TV reported. A capsule carrying commander Chen Dong and astronauts Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe touched down at a landing site in the Gobi Desert in northern China at approximately 8:10 p.m. (1210 GMT), China Central Television reported. Prior to departure, they overlapped for almost five days with three colleagues who arrived Wednesday on the Shenzhou-15mission for

Iran’s attorney general said the country had disbanded its so called morality police and is considering altering the requirement that women cover their heads in public, a move that analysts said was aimed at peeling away support for anti government protests.Mohammad Jafar Montazeri outlined the steps Saturday, saying the law requiring veils, known as hijabs, was under review by Iran’s Parliament and judiciary, and that the morality police had been abolished, according to government-run news agencies.President Ebrahim Raisi echoed his remarks in a televised speech

A post Thanksgiving uptick in covid-19 patients at U.S. hospitals is arriving even as health systems contend with waves of feverish, coughing people stricken with RSV and influenza infections.Covid hospitalizations last week reached their highest level in three months, with more than 35,000 patients being treated, according to Washington Post data tracking. National hospitalizations had stagnated throughout the fall but started rising in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. All but a few states reported per capita increases in the past week.Public health authorities are concerned

Authorities were investigating widespread power outages in south central North Carolina overnight as intentional criminal acts, the sheriff of Moore County said in a statement late Saturday. An estimated 45,000 customers were without electricity late Saturday, with no estimate on a restoration time because a number of facilities are involved and the work will be complicated, said Jeff Brooks, a spokesperson for utility Duke Energy. Utility company Duke Energy said nearly 38,000 customers were without power in Moore County, while the Randolph Electric Membership Corporation

Indonesia’s highest volcano on its most densely populated island released searing gas clouds and rivers of lava Sunday in its latest eruption. Monsoon rains eroded and finally collapsed the lava dome atop 3,676-meter (12,060-foot) Mount Semeru, causing the eruption, according to National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Abdul Muhari. Several villages were blanketed with falling ash, blocking out the sun, but no casualties have been reported. Several hundred residents, their faces smeared with volcanic dust and rain, fled to temporary shelters or left for other safe

An Arizona polygamist cult leader had 20 wives aged as young as nine, married his own daughter, and drove his spouses around in a trailer with a bucket for a toilet, it is claimed. A new FBI affidavit has revealed shocking allegations against Bentley-driving Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, who was arrested in Arizona earlier this year. Samuel Rappylee Bateman, 46, is accused by witnesses of ‘marrying’ up to 20 women and girls as young as nine, including his own daughter, according to the affidavit filed on Friday, the Salt Lake Tribune reported. He has been in federal custody on

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Saturday the ELN rebel group has agreed to allow a displaced Indigenous community to return to its lands in the west of the nation, the first significant achievement in 12 days of peace talks. The ELN, or National Liberation Army, is the sole leftist insurgency yet to lay down weapons in Colombia.”The first point of agreement that we reached with the ELN — in barely a week of these dialogues — is the return of the indigenous Embera people … to their reservations,” Petro said in a public appearance in Dabeiba, a town in northwestern Colombia

Chevron Corp. scored a reversal of fortunes in Venezuela last weekend after the U.S. government allowed it to pump oil there again, but its new license to operate carries considerable risk.The oil giant will have to partner with an authoritarian regime accused of crimes ranging from human rights violations to sprawling corruption to state-sponsored narcotics trafficking.Days after the U.S. authorized Chevron’s return, the company’s top executive there met with Venezuela’s oil minister, a man the U.S. has accused of drug smuggling. Tareck El Aissami, who denies the U.S.

The government of El Salvador sent 10,000 soldiers and police to seal off a town on the outskirts of the nation’s capital Saturday to search for gang members. The operation was one of the largest mobilizations yet in President Nayib Bukele’s nine-month-old crackdown on street gangs that long extorted money from businesses and ruled many neighborhoods of the capital, San Salvador. The troops blocked roads going in and out of the township of Soyapango, checking people’s documents. Special teams went into the town looking for gang suspects.”Starting now,

Financial technology firms at the front lines of approving loans through the Paycheck Protection Program — intended to help small businesses survive during the pandemic — lacked fraud controls, chased high fees to the detriment of some borrowers, and sometimes exploited their business relationships to arrange suspect loans for the companies’ own executives. One such executive falsely claimed in loan documents to be a Black veteran and received loans through multiple business entities.These are among the findings in a report released Thursday by the House