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Feds accuse Nevada company owner of $13.5M fraud

May. 15, 2009
Federal authorities are accusing a Las Vegas businessman and his companies of fraud and misrepresentation in a scheme that regulators say cost more than 100 investors some $13.5 million. Records show a U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles froze the assets...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch