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Feeding Our Future’s Founder Gets 41.5 Years and a $240 Million Bill
The seized Porsche Panamera turned out to be only the opening move. Aimee Bock, the Minnesota nonprofit founder at the center of one of the largest pandemic-era fraud schemes in U.S. history, has now been sentenced to roughly 41.5 years in federal prison and ordered to repay more than $240 million. When we last reported…
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A Father Chased His Son’s Stolen Truck. The Suspect Should Have Been Behind Bars.
A Houston father of five is dead after he went looking for his son’s stolen truck, and his family is not just grieving. They are asking a harder question: why was the man charged with killing him free to be on the street at all? Louis Erebia, 56, was shot and killed Saturday afternoon, and…
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Lotus’s CEO Set a Weight Limit for ‘Real’ Sports Cars. His Own Hypercar Fails It.
The boss of Lotus wanted to make a point about weight, and he made it a little too well. CEO Feng Qingfeng declared that any sports car tipping the scales past 3,968 pounds is mediocre, a line that sounds perfectly on brand for a company built on being light. The problem showed up almost immediately.…
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A 145 MPH Chase Just Showed Why Florida’s New Speeding Law Has Teeth
A Hudson man learned the hard way that Florida’s roads are no longer the place to test a sport bike’s top end. Jeff Freymuller, 44, is sitting in the Pasco County Jail after Florida Highway Patrol says he pushed a motorcycle past 145 mph while leading troopers on a 16-minute pursuit that wound across half…
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The DOJ Wants Apple and Google to Unmask 100,000 Car Tuner App Users
If you own a tuner, a diesel truck, or really any car that talks to an app on your phone, this one should land close to home. The Department of Justice is no longer just going after the companies it accuses of breaking emissions law, it’s now reaching for the people who bought their products.…
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Jeep Told a Million Owners Their Truck Could Catch Fire. There’s No Fix Yet.
Jeep just told more than a million Wrangler and Gladiator owners that their vehicles carry a fire risk, and the part that should make people uneasy is what the company admitted next. There is no fix yet. The recall is out, the danger has been identified, and the remedy is still missing. That is the…
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The I-75 Fireworks Truck Fire Exposed a Stack of Safety Violations
The fireworks truck that turned a stretch of Interstate 75 into a fireball over the weekend was not just unlucky. According to the Tennessee Highway Patrol, it was hauling its dangerous cargo without almost any of the federal safety measures the law requires, and now the driver and carrier are facing the kind of scrutiny…
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Trump Says GM and Ford Want a Law Making It Harder to Fix Your Own Car
President Trump dropped a bombshell on car owners this week, claiming that executives from General Motors and Ford sat down with him to push for legislation that would stop people from repairing their own vehicles. If that sounds backward to you, you are not alone. Trump said as much himself. The claim landed in an…
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A McLaren and a Bentley Were Seized in a $30 Million Kids’ Medicaid Fraud Case
Federal prosecutors say four people in Ohio turned a children’s health program into a personal slush fund, and the proof is now sitting in an impound lot. A McLaren. A Bentley. Six different Mercedes models. Fourteen luxury vehicles in total, allegedly bought with money that was supposed to pay for behavioral health services for kids…
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A Fully Equipped Cop SUV Was Stolen From an Oakland Garage, and It’s Still Missing
Stealing a cop car is the kind of thing that usually only happens in a video game. You boost a cruiser, the sirens light up, and you tear off down the street. In real life, it almost never happens. Yet that’s exactly what went down early Sunday morning in a downtown Oakland parking garage, where…
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A Port Fire Destroyed 33 Already-Sold SUVs, and the Buyers Are Left Waiting
Imagine buying a new car, signing the paperwork, and waiting on delivery only to learn the vehicle was reduced to a burnt shell before it ever reached your driveway. That’s exactly the situation facing more than 30 customers in Britain right now. A fire at the Port of Southampton wiped out 33 Jaecoo SUVs in…
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A Rivian Owner Spray-Painted His Truck ‘Junk’ and Parked It at the Showroom
Most unhappy car owners write a bad review, fire off an angry email, or maybe vent in a forum. Jake Burns went a different direction. He took his Rivian R1T, spray-painted phrases like “DON’T BUY JUNK” and “RIVIAN IS JUNK” across the body, and parked it right across from the company’s Denver showroom for everyone…
