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Individuals sentenced to prison for cattle-trading Ponzi scheme

The Department of Justice recently announced a six-year prison sentence for two individauls involved in a cattle-trading Ponzi scheme that resulted in millions of dollars in victim losses. According to court documents, from late 2017 until early 2019, Reva Joyce Stachniw, 71, of Galesburg, Illinois, and Ron Throgmartin, 59, of Buford, Georgia, along with a co-conspirator, […]

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My Favourite Painting: Robin Hanbury-Tenison

The explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison chooses a charmingly traditional portrait that resonates with a long-gone age — yet behind which lurks a troubled soul. Robin Hanbury-Tenison on Girl in Boater (Portrait of Florence Carter-Wood) by Harold Knight ‘Florence Carter-Wood arrived in Cornwall to join the Newlyn School group of artists in 1910, aged 22, and everyone fell […]

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