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As of Wednesday’s court hearing, Barcelona president Joan Laporta has been charged with suspected bribery . The charges are part of the “Negreia case” in which Laporta is suspected of offering payments to companies linked to José María Enríquez Negreira, former vice president of the refereeing committee during his first tenure as president from 2003-2010. Laporta was not initially named as a defendant when the charges were first filed in September, but he and his board of directors have now been added to the list of accused, alongside former president s Josep María Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell, Negreira, and Negreira’s son, Javier Enríquez Romero. Barcelona has been under investigation for a total of 33 payments of over $1.5 million between 2016 and 2018 and paid Negreira’s companies over $7.3 million between 2001 and 2018. Laporta denies any bribery and said the payments were for “technical reports about referees”. Judge Joaquin Aguirre said that there were “more than ample indic...

Charlie Javice, previously featured as a Forbes magazine “30 Under 30” honoree, allegedly lied about the number of customers her company serviced. A tech start-up CEO once considered a preeminent American entrepreneur has been arrested and charged with fraud for allegedly lying to J.P. Morgan Chase, the Department of Justice said Tuesday. Charlie Javice, previously featured as a Forbes magazine "30 Under 30" honoree, was arrested Monday night in New Jersey for lying about the number of customers her company serviced with its student loan assistance program, according to DOJ. MORE: Elizabeth Holmes bought one-way ticket to Mexico, prosecutors say "She lied directly to JPMC and fabricated data to support those lies -- all in order to make over $45 million from the sale of her company," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement. "This arrest should warn entrepreneurs who lie to advance their Business es that their lies will catch up to them, and this Offi...