Tuesday, March 26, 2024
From 2022, former NBA star "Richard Jefferson's former assistant embezzled $4.7M"
One write-up from 2022 after he was convicted:
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office of Arizona, [the assistant] was hired to manage Jefferson's day-to-day tasks and finances. [He] would forge the athlete's signature on dozens of documents in order to give him access to Jefferson's funds.
Back in the news:
Is it hard to believe that Ippei Mizuhara had access to Shohei Ohtani's bank account?
— Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 (@mrjeffu) March 26, 2024
No. It's quite plausible, says Katsunori Kojima, a former interpreter for the Mets/Giants. He handled lots of financial transactions for players.pic.twitter.com/OOakRYFtdl https://t.co/bhRQCVKh3a
Asahi TV's coverage of the Ohtani/Mizuhara scandal quoted lawyer Takuya Murao, who believes it is plausible that Mizuhara could have stolen millions from Ohtani's bank account(s). He noted that something similar happened to NBA player Richard Jefferson in the 2000s. pic.twitter.com/5Rm0snTgHH
— Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 (@mrjeffu) March 26, 2024
Swimming Godzilla display in London
This is literally such a cool marketing thing pic.twitter.com/eZGsFdQ8MB
— ⋈ Tank (@Just_Tank_Man) March 25, 2024
SPOTTED: Godzilla and Kong with their sights set on London! 👊 #GodzillaXKong pic.twitter.com/fyxyCwR24Q
— Warner Bros. UK (@WarnerBrosUK) March 25, 2024
Home filled with aquariums to raise corals
Hung out with a guy last night who grows corals in tanks set up all throughout his house, including his kitchen pic.twitter.com/pDI2vQvBPe
— Matt Saincome (@MattSaincome) March 23, 2024
"Purple Boy" was a whale that destroyed ships for over 50 years near sixth century Constantinople
The whale was given the name Porphyrios by Byzantine sailors; the name is sometimes alternatively rendered as Porphyrius, Porphyrion, Porphyry or Porphyrio and its origin is not clear. Common hypotheses on the name include it being derived from the contemporary charioteer Porphyrius or from the mythological giant Porphyrion, who waged war against the gods of Greek mythology. Anthony Kaldellis suggested in 2010 that the name of the whale alluded to the imperial purple and was "a sign of the respect in which the whale was held". This idea was also supported by Sian Lewis and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones in 2018, who believed the name alluded to the color of royalty and was a sign of great awe for the whale.
In 1996, James Allan Stewart Evans suggested that the name was a reference to the color of the whale's skin. Porphyra meant a deep purple color in Greek and Porphyrios might have had dark-wine colored skin. This was further supported by John K. Papadopoulos and Deborah Ruscillo in 2002, who believed the name simply meant "purple". Daniel Ogden in 2008 also supported the idea that Porphyrios evoked the color of the whale, believing that the name was best interpreted as "purple boy"
Monday, March 25, 2024
Fraud victim gave $789,000 worth of gold bars to a scammer claiming to be a federal agent
[The scammer] first contacted the 64-year-old woman in February and claimed to be “Mark Cooper”, an agent with “the office of the inspector general, Federal Trade Commission”, according to court documents, the Washington Post reported.
[The scammer] told the woman that her identity had been stolen and used by dangerous identity thieves in a money- and drug-laundering scheme.
He claimed that he could help the woman obtain a new social security number and protect her assets – but only if she converted them to gold bars and turned them over.
The victim then contacted the police, who ran a sting of their own and and caught the scammer.
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