The raid was made by DIA, Italy’s own police force focused expressly on organized crime. It was focused on Virgas, a construction company in Sicily that was a front for Mafia organizations. As part of the raid, dozens of bank accounts were frozen, several cars seized, as well as an estimated 800 buildings owned by Virgas. DIA’s vice-chief of operations Adelmo Lusi held a press conference following the raid, telling supporters “today’s seizure is certainly one of the biggest the DIA has carried out in its 20-year history,” clearly a big victory for the organization....

As an actor he was best known for starring as Kinchloe on the television series Hogan’s Heroes from 1965 to 1970. Dixon also appeared in or directed several films and episodes of TV series including The Twilight Zone, Have Gun – Will Travel, A Raisin in the Sun, Battle at Bloody Beach, Perry Mason, Outer Limits, Nothing But a Man, The Fugitive, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, It Takes a Thief, Clay Pigeon, Nichols, The Waltons, Starsky & Hutch, The Rockford Files, Car Wash, Quincy, M....

Jamie is the daughter of Ken Xie, the billionaire co-founder of cybersecurity firm Fortinet. Ken and his brother Michael Xie founded Fortinet in 2000. They founded the company with the belief that security should be encrypted end-to-end, nearly 20 years before end-to-end encryption became standard with many communications platforms and apps. Their first product was a firewall called FortiGate. Today Fortinet is a market-leader in firewall, anti-virus and other cybersecurity software....

Early Life and Career Beginnings with the Rishi Rich Project Jay Sean was born Kamaljit Singh Jhooti on March 26, 1981, in London, England. He was raised in the Southall district by his Indian immigrant parents Sharan and Bindi. Demonstrating musical talent at an early age, Sean formed a hip-hop duo called Compulsive Disorder with his cousin Pritpal. He went to Latymer Upper School, where he was a straight-A student, and subsequently enrolled at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry....

Naturally, Joao Roberto Marinho made his career beginnings in his father’s company as a journalist for the newspaper “O Globo”. Over the years, he also became Managing Director of the Roberto Marinho Foundation as well as Chairman of the Editorial Board who in practical terms determines the editorial line of the Globo Organizations. Joao Roberto Marinho is married to Gisela Marinho, with whom he has one son, Rodrigo Marinho, the vice president of the Globo Organizations today....

Early Life and Education John Cazale was born on August 12, 1935 in Revere, Massachusetts to Irish-American mother Cecilia and Italian-American father John. He had an older sister named Catherine and a younger brother named Stephen, and was raised in Winchester. Cazale was educated at Buxton School in Williamstown, where he participated in the drama club. He went on to attend Oberlin College in Ohio before transferring to Boston University....

Legal and Financial Problems In 2014 Larry was sued by a former landlord for allegedly owing back rent and damaging an Atlanta apartment. The landlord was suing for $16,000 to cover debt and repairs. In October 2018, Larry was sued by his former bandmates for allegedly cashing group royalty checks without paying them a cut. They claimed that Larry had cashed over $100,000 in royalties without paying them a dime. They also claimed that Larry was using Cameo’s music in his Vegas residency without their permission....

At the end of her life, Liliane owned 185 million shares of L’Oreal, roughly 33% of the company. She also owned 30% of Nestle. She was the largest individual shareholder of both companies. Liliane co-founded the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation with her husband and daughter to support scientific research, humanitarian projects, and the arts. She gained notoriety for her affair with writer and artist François-Marie Banier, upon whom she bestowed lavish gifts, and for her legally-fraught relationship with her estranged daughter....

Mark Victor Hansen was born in Waukegan, Illinois in January 1948. He graduated from Southern Illinois University. Hansen and Jack Canfield co-created the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. The series would eventually go on to sell 500 million books worldwide and spawn more than 100 licensed products. The first book sold more than two million copies and the series is now published in more than 50 languages. Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen co-wrote the book Cracking the Millionaire Code in 2005....

I guess that’s sort of good news/bad news for their daughter. The good news is you’re born and your parents are extremely rich and famous! The bad news is, they also just gave away 99% of your future trust fund. (Not to worry though, the Zuckerberg/Chan fortune still clocks in at roughly $450 million after the $46.6 billion donation.) The couple penned a letter to their newborn daughter in which they said that the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative will “join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation....

Martin Prado was born in Maracay, Venezuela in October 1983. Prado has played left field, right field, shortstop, first, second, and third base and bats and throws right handed. Martin made his Major League Baseball debut for the Atlanta Braves in 2006 where he played through 2012. After the 2012 season Prado was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks in a deal that reunited Justin Upton with his brother B.J. Upton in Atlanta....

Bansal arrived in the United States on July 4, 2000. He immigrated to the land of the free on an H1-B visa – typically, it’s the only way a foreign national can work long-term in America. The problem is, people in the United States on an H-1B are not permitted to start a company under the terms of that visa. Jyoti had half of his dream, as he was working at a startup in America....

Boatman’s later roles include parts on “Scrubs”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Hannah Montana”, “The Good Wife”, and “Anger Management”. In addition to his acting career, Boatman is a novelist and screenwriter and enjoys writing horror. His work appears in collections such as “God Laughs When You Die”, “Until Someone Loses An Eye”, “Badass Horror”, “Sick Things: An Anthology of Extreme Creature Horror”, and “Christmas in Hell”. Boatman published his debut novel, “The Revenant Road”, in 2009....

Yet, even if the NBA is getting roasted at the moment, the long-term health of the league is doing just fine financially. Per CNBC, the latest valuations find the average NBA team is worth $4.66 billion. The Golden State Warriors, led by a decade-and-a-half of Stephen Curry, are the league’s most valuable team. They’re worth $9.4 billion and generated $781 million in revenue last year, both tops in the NBA....

Before his Beatles stint, Best had been part of the Liverpool music scene with his own group, the Black Jacks, and his mother’s Casbah Coffee Club provided an early performance venue for the pre-fame Beatles. After his dismissal, Best briefly joined Lee Curtis & the All-Stars before forming The Pete Best Combo, which found modest success but nothing approaching The Beatles’ trajectory. The subsequent decades saw Best retreat from music entirely....

Between the two games, there were about 12 million fewer viewers this season relative to last season. Since both games failed to reach ratings estimates, guaranteed by ESPN, the network has to give some of the money back that they collected from advertisers. So what happened? The obvious answer would be the timing. For some crazy reason the semifinal games were played on New Year’s Eve when the world is looking to go out and party; not sit down and watch a football game....

Early Life and Education Robert Klein was born on February 8, 1942 in the Bronx borough of New York City to Jewish parents Frieda and Benjamin. He has an older sister named Rhoda. After graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School, Klein attended Alfred University, from which he earned his bachelor’s degree. He went on to study drama at Yale University. Stand-up Comedy Klein began his career in comedy in 1965, as a member of the improvisational troupe the Second City in Chicago, Illinois....

Russell Westbrook and Jordan Brand have agreed to a 10-year contract extension that will make the Oklahoma City Thunder guard the highest paid athlete in the brand’s history. Figures have yet to be released officially but consider the following – Westbrook first signed with the brand in 2013, inking a 5-year deal. Last year he made $10 million from his shoe deal. So if one assumes he got a raise AND signed a 10-year deal, it’s likely the total value of this deal is over $100 million....

Early Life and Discovery Born on February 15, 1983, in George Town, Grand Cayman, Selita Ebanks was raised in a large family with seven brothers. Her father is Caymanian of Jamaican descent, while her mother is from Jamaica with Indian heritage, giving Ebanks her distinctive exotic look. When she was young, her family relocated to Staten Island, New York, where she attended Curtis High School. Ebanks’ entry into modeling came through serendipity....

Marina Picasso was born on November 14, 1950. Her father Paolo Picasso, was Pablo’s only child with his first wife, Russian ballet dancer Olga Khokhlova. Marina had a brother named Pablito who was born a year earlier but tragically committed suicide when he was just 24 years old. By the time Marina was born, grandpa Pablo had been long gone from grandma Olga. Onto another of many many conquests. Marina’s mother was a woman named Emilienne, an alcoholic who raised the two kids mostly on her own after Paolo left the family....