#Murray Huberfeld sentenced to 7 months in kickback scheme

#Murray Huberfeld sentenced to 7 months in kickback scheme

“#Murray Huberfeld sentenced to 7 months in kickback scheme” A New York hedge fund founder who helped bribe the former head of a city correction officers’ union was sentenced Tuesday to seven months in prison Tuesday — nearly a year after his previous sentence in the case was overturned. Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Liman…

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#IKEA Juneteenth menu of watermelon, fried chicken sparks outrage

#IKEA Juneteenth menu of watermelon, fried chicken sparks outrage

“#IKEA Juneteenth menu of watermelon, fried chicken sparks outrage” An attempt to honor Juneteenth has backfired spectacularly for one Georgia Ikea. An Atlanta branch of the Scandinavian furniture chain has sparked outrage with what employees are calling an intensely problematic menu curated to celebrate the holiday, which marks the emancipation of the very last enslaved…

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#NYC bans new electric taxi licenses

#NYC bans new electric taxi licenses

“#NYC bans new electric taxi licenses” New York’s taxi regulator voted Tuesday to stop issuing new for-hire licenses for electric vehicles, snubbing a ride-share company that wanted to launch an all-Tesla ride-sharing rival to Uber and Lyft.  The five-to-one vote by the Taxi and Limousine Commission blocks electric transit startup Revel from launching its fleet of…

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#Times Square hoverboarder reveals himself as brilliant engineer

#Times Square hoverboarder reveals himself as brilliant engineer

“#Times Square hoverboarder reveals himself as brilliant engineer” He’s a fly-by-night kind of guy. The mysterious man seen zooming about 30 feet above Times Square over the weekend to stunned onlookers has revealed himself as hoverboard developer Hunter Kowald. “It’s everybody’s childhood dream to fly,” Kowald, 28, told The Post. On Tuesday, he published footage…

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#Wild boar takes subway ride in Hong Kong

#Wild boar takes subway ride in Hong Kong

“#Wild boar takes subway ride in Hong Kong” A baby wild boar was spotted running through a Hong Kong subway car and catching another train to evade transit workers, video shows.  The plucky piglet’s wild ride started around 4 p.m. Friday when it wandered into the Mass Transit Railway’s Quarry Bay station and hopped aboard…

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#Amazon warehouse destroys 130K unsold items per week: report

#Amazon warehouse destroys 130K unsold items per week: report

“#Amazon warehouse destroys 130K unsold items per week: report” An Amazon warehouse in Scotland reportedly destroys millions of unsold products every year, according to undercover footage and anonymous employees at the facility. British news outlet ITV obtained footage from inside the e-commerce giant’s Dunfermline facility that showed laptops, books, jewelry and other still-packaged products being sorted into…

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