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Elizabeth Lopatto

Elizabeth Lopatto

Senior Reporter

Senior Reporter

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    Why did Caroline Ellison do it?Why did Caroline Ellison do it?
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    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    What’s going on with Netflix’s Bill Gates documentary?

    Gates critic Tim Schwab says when he was approached by the production company for What’s Next: The Future with Bill Gates, the people he spoke to misrepresented what the documentary was about. He also notes that Jen Krajicek, one of the producers, appears to work for Gates Ventures.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    SEC seeks to sanction Elon Musk.

    Turns out the SEC doesn’t like it when you no-show on them. Now the regulator is seeking to penalize Musk for refusing to appear and testify in a probe into his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    “What they’re doing is uncomfortably close to grave-robbing.”

    More than 2,000 people’s unclaimed bodies in Dallas and Tarrant counties were given to the University of North Texas Health Science Center’s Willed Body Program. Some of the bodies were used to teach medical students; others were sold to for-profit companies.

    JD Vance sells himself to Silicon ValleyJD Vance sells himself to Silicon Valley
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    The king of wishful thinking files an appeal on his fraud conviction.

    Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers argue that Judge Lewis Kaplan unfairly limited the evidence that was allowed in court, including that Bankman-Fried had relied on lawyers in making his decisions. Also stealing all that money wasn’t really that bad because his victims were eventually repaid.

    RIP XOXORIP XOXO
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Oops, the SEC posted a draft of a Gary Gensler speech.

    They’ve pulled it down, but not before it got archived. Sample comment:

    I strongly recommend that a sentence be placed here (or soemwhere in the first part of the speech) to reassure markets that you are not making the speech because you think there is an imminent crisis.

    Coinbase’s no-good, very bad summerCoinbase’s no-good, very bad summer
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