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Real Housewives of Salt Lake City cast member sentenced to over six years in prison in telemarketing fraud scheme

By Kara Scannell, CNN Jennifer Shah, a cast member on Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for defrauding thousands of victims in a long-running telemarketing scheme that targeted the elderly and vulnerable. Judge Sidney Stein ordered the sentence of 78 months, along with five

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US government moves to seize $460 million Robinhood stake linked to Sam Bankman-Fried

By Allison Morrow and Kara Scannell, CNN The US government is stepping into a contentious, multijurisdictional legal battle over the ownership of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of assets connected to the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire. The Justice Department said Wednesday that has moved to seize millions of shares of Robinhood, the

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Roommate who survived Idaho student killings saw figure dressed in black clothing and a mask, affidavit says

By Dakin Andone, Elizabeth Joseph and Veronica Miracle, CNN One of the two roommates who survived the fatal November stabbings of four University of Idaho students told investigators she saw a masked man dressed in black in the house the morning of the attack, according to a probable cause affidavit released Thursday in prosecutors’ case

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Suspect in the Idaho college student killings returned home for the holidays weeks after the crime. Here’s what we know about him

By Paul P. Murphy, Christina Maxouris and Alaa Elassar, CNN The man arrested in connection with the November killings of four University of Idaho students who were found stabbed to death attended a nearby university in Washington state and traveled across the country in December to spend the holidays with his parents. Bryan Christopher Kohberger,

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Nearly half of US states lack data on incarcerated mothers, new report finds. Here’s why that’s ‘very troubling’

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN Nearly half of US states do not collect data on the number of incarcerated women with children making it difficult for some nonprofits to provide services to those youth, according to a new report released Wednesday. The study, conducted between July and October of this year by the nonprofit Girls

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Six people may have lived in the house where 4 Idaho college students were killed, police say

By Mallika Kallingal, Jason Hanna, Veronica Miracle, Jason Kravarik and Travis Caldwell, CNN Six people may have lived in the house where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death last month, police say. “Investigators are aware of a sixth person who could have potentially lived at the residence. That person was not at the residence on

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