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Controversial exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui — an associate of former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon — was arrested Wednesday in New York for allegedly orchestrating a complex $1 billion fraud scheme that duped online followers with promises of outsized investment returns. Guo allegedly used some of the money raised through his company GTV Media and other entities to buy a 50,000-square foot New Jersey mansion, a $37 million yacht, a $3.5 million Ferrari for his son, a $140,000 Bosendorfer piano and two Hasten 2000T mattresses that cost a whopping $36,000 apiece. Prosecutors seized more than $650 million in...

New Arrest in Death of Pregnant Woman Published: 6/24/07, 7:25 PM EDT By JOE MILICIA CANTON, Ohio (AP) - A former classmate of the man suspected of murdering a pregnant woman was arrested Sunday on an obstruction of justice charge, the FBI said. Myisha Ferrell was arrested in the death of 26-year-old Jessie Davis after sheriff's deputies and FBI agents broke down the door of her apartment Saturday night, agent Scott Wilson said. The Stark County Sheriff's Department refused to discuss the arrest, saying any information made public would hurt their case. Ferrell was to be arraigned Monday, Wilson said....

A Rich vein of gossip for Clinton foes A new book on Bill Clinton's post-presidential life is heading to bookstores faster than a speeding Swift boat. Among the allegations in "The Clinton Crack-Up" is a claim that the former Horndog-in-Chief had an affair with New Yorker Denise Rich, whose ex-husband, Marc, he famously pardoned. And Madame Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, knew about it, alleges ultraconservative author R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., a prominent anti-Clintonite who founded the American Spectator Magazine. "Denise Rich's contact with Clinton began long before Hillary confided her allegations to Representative [now Speaker] Nancy Pelosi that Bill 'f—' Denise,"...