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Indonesia seize luxury yacht Equanimity sought in 1MDB probe: Police JAKARTA (REUTERS) - Indonesia on Wednesday (Feb 28) seized a luxury yacht on the island of Bali sought by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) as part of a multi-billion dollar corruption investigation linked to Malaysian state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). “We have been inspecting the crew since yesterday and now we are taking action since we have received approval from the court to seize the boat,” Agung Setya, director of economic and special crimes at the Indonesia’s criminal investigation bureau, told Metro TV. Television footage in Indonesia...

<p>B&G FOODS Inc said on Thursday it would drop an image of a Black chef from the packaging of its Cream of Wheat porridge mix, the latest company to make branding changes widely considered as racially insensitive.</p> <p>Companies including Mars Inc and PepsiCo Inc are changing names and branding of some of their products that are rooted in racist imagery amid a wider national debate over racial inequality in the United States.</p>

It speaks for itself...Florida Early Voting statistics, thus far: Votes Cast: - Republicans - 768,619 - Democrats - 694,993 - Republican - +73,626 In 2016 The Democrats cast more early votes then the Republicans did...but, DJT still won the state of Florida. I suspect that Republicans, Rick Scott, Ron DeSantis & Frank White will all win their races on Primary day next Tuesday. Every Republican in the state of Florida must turn out on election day. It is imperative the Democrat Party get politically destroyed in Florida and the entire USa for obvious reasons. this ios a most critical path...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States moved Wednesday to recover more than $1 billion that federal officials say was stolen from a Malaysian economic development fund and that was used for high-end real estate, fancy artwork and production of the Hollywood film, "The Wolf of Wall Street." The diverted funds paid for luxury properties in New York and California, a $35 million private jet and expensive paintings by Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet, according to federal government complaints that demand the recovery and forfeiture of the ill-gotten assets. The complaints, filed in Los Angeles, allege a complex money laundering...

According to local television reports, former Arkansas Governor Frank White died this evening. He was nationally known as the Republican who defeated Bill Clinton in 1980 election for Arkansas governor. MORE...