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  • Sudden closure of luxury appliance store Pirch leaves SoCal customers frustrated, confused

    03/24/2024 8:09:30 PM PDT · by george76 · 23 replies
    FOX 11 ^ | March 23, 2024 | Gina Silva
    LOS ANGELES - Many Southern California customers are frustrated and confused to learn that they might not be receiving their expensive appliance orders, purchased through the luxury appliance store Pirch, when all locations suddenly closed this week. "Are we getting our merchandise? Are we getting a refund?" asked one customer, Maribell Rodriguez. Rodriguez told FOX 11 that she has yet to receive any answers from Pirch regarding her order since the company's abrupt closure Wednesday. She is in the middle of a home renovation and just took out a $20,000 loan to pay for the appliances. "I really feel that...
  • IDF Comes Across Luxury Apartments in Khan Yunis for Hamas Big Shots-Meet the 'oppressed' leadership that takes very good care of itself

    03/22/2024 6:27:16 AM PDT · by SJackson · 5 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | March 22, 2024 | Hugh Fitzgerald
    As is well known, the senior leadership of Hamas takes good care of itself. Just three of its leaders — Ismail Haniyeh, Mousa Abu Marzouk, and Khaled Meshaal — have between them squirreled away $11 billion, stolen from the aid money that was meant for the people of Gaza. They all now live in lavish apartments in Doha, Qatar, watching the war from a safe distance, while egging on those who are doing the real fighting, and dying.Qatar has been the main financial supporter of Hamas, and it isn’t just money it provides. Qatar thoughtfully built luxury apartments for the...
  • Feds detail Jags ex-employee's spending on 'life of luxury' (Amit Patel stole $22 million)

    03/08/2024 5:28:17 AM PST · by Libloather · 8 replies
    ESPN ^ | 3/07/24 | Michael DiRocco
    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Amit Patel, the former Jacksonville Jaguars employee who deposited $22 million stolen from the team primarily at FanDuel and DraftKings, spent $5 million on a "life of luxury," including Tiger Woods' 1996 putter and $78,800 in private jets, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday. Patel also spent $275,000 to retain his attorney, Alex King, according to the filing. In the filing, prosecutors rebutted King's assertion that his client's behavior was fueled by gambling addiction and that "99% of the misappropriated funds" were used to pay back gambling losses. Instead, authorities say, $5 million went to...
  • Brazen teens use SUV as ‘battering ram’ to steal nearly $600K in luxury vehicles before leading police on chase

    02/25/2024 11:36:15 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 40 replies
    Nypost ^ | 02/25/2024 | Olivia Land
    Startling surveillance footage captured the moment a band of teens from the Chicago area broke into a Wisconsin Jaguar/Land Rover dealership and sped off with more than half a million dollars worth of high-end vehicles – later leading police on a dramatic 40-mile chase. In a coordinated heist, several black-clad individuals pulled up to the Waukesha dealership in the early hours of Feb. 18, pried open the key box and got into nine cars, the footage shared by FOX6 News showed. One of the thieves got into a Land Rover Velar and used the car “as a battering ram” to...
  • Eric Adams is confronted by furious Harlem residents over plans to move migrants into luxury building

    02/16/2024 9:47:45 PM PST · by Libloather · 41 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 2/16/24 | Dominic Yeatman
    Furious Harlem residents forced New York Mayor Eric Adams into a humiliating u-turn on plans to house migrants in an empty luxury apartment building after they spotted bunk-beds being discreetly delivered. The WA condominium off 130th Street promised buyers an indoor swimming pool, marble bathrooms and a rooftop running track, before the project was put on ice in a neighborhood with a chronic housing shortage. Schools, nursing homes and a string of landmark hotels have been requisitioned to house many of the 170,000 migrants who have arrived in the city since the spring of 2022. But neighbors of the condominium...
  • Magnificent Mile luxury store robbed at gunpoint, Chicago police say

    08/16/2023 10:56:16 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    abc7chicago ^ | 08/16/2023 | ABC7 Chicago Digital Team
    CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police are looking for the people who reportedly stole from a luxury clothing store on Michigan Avenue. Police said two suspects entered MCM, which is located in the 500-block of North Michigan, just before 2:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon. One of them took merchandise as the other threatened the security guard with a handgun, CPD said. They then ran away together. No one was in custody Wednesday, and area detectives are investigating. The Mac cosmetics store, also located in the 500-block of North Michigan on the Magnificent Mile, was also robbed Saturday morning.
  • Luxury San Francisco store may close after 166 years because of ‘litany of destructive’ policies that have made the city ‘unlivable’

    08/16/2023 10:29:30 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 38 replies
    NY Post ^ | 08/16/2023 | Isabel Keane
    The owner of a luxury San Francisco department store took out a full-page ad to bash the city’s leadership — warning that rampant homelessness and drug abuse could force it to shut up shop after 166 years. “Gump’s has been a San Francisco icon for more than 165 years,” John Chachas wrote in his open letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor London Breed and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. “Today, as we prepare for our 166th holiday season at 250 Post Street, we fear this may be our last because of the profound erosion of this city’s conditions.” The...
  • LUXURY RUSSIAN YOUTH TODAY, Life in Moscow of stylish people | Walking tour

    06/11/2023 8:33:39 AM PDT · by JonPreston · 49 replies
    Windoe to Moscow ^ | 6/11/23 | YouTube
  • LA police launch manhunt for gunman after three men and a woman are shot near a luxury high-rise building

    05/20/2023 12:35:28 PM PDT · by Libloather · 10 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 5/20/23 | Emma James
    Police have launched a manhunt in downtown Los Angeles after a gunman opened fire on four people near a luxury residential building. Authorities were called to the building at 2am on Saturday morning to reports of a shooting at the property. Officers are now hunting the gunman, who fled the scene of the crime, but a description has not yet been made available. LAPD officers found three men and one woman suffering from gunshot wounds on the lobby floor. Their conditions are not currently known, but police confirmed that they were taken to hospital and they were expected to survive....
  • Twitter users declare eggs a ‘luxury item’ as prices soar: ‘The new bitcoin’

    01/11/2023 7:26:01 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 31 replies
    NY Post ^ | 01/11/2023 | Fox News
    Twitter users appeared disgusted at the rising price of eggs and called it “ridiculous” as some labeled them a “luxury item.” Multiple users noted the high cost of a carton of eggs at Whole Foods and posted photos showing prices as high as $11.49. “I never thought EGGS would become a luxury item,” conservative commentator Mike Cernovich wrote. The price of eggs has tripled in certain places across the U.S. in the last year, according to CBS News. The price per carton surged as high as 49.1% in November, according to the Consumer Price Index. “$11.49 for eggs at Whole...
  • 'Crime' DOES pay! FTX 'fraudster' Sam Bankman-Fried relaxes at JFK lounge and on business class AA seat 'as he flies home to California after being freed on $250m bail over $1.8bn crypto scam'

    12/24/2022 4:54:04 AM PST · by dynachrome · 41 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12-23-22 | ANEETA BHOLE
    Disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried appears to be living a life of luxury, after pictures of him in an American Airlines lounge and business class seat emerged following his $250 million bond release. Photos show the accused fraudster Bankman-Fried relaxing at JFK's American Airlines Flagship lounge and later, without shoes, in a business class seat on a AA flight. The pictures, posted to social media on Friday show two snaps in the lounge with a caption saying that he was there 'with his parents, FBI and lawyers.' The person taking the lounge pictures said that they had asked if they could take...
  • Analysis of RNC Spending Since 2017 Shows Millions Were Spent on Private Jets, Limousines, Luxury Retreats, Broadway Shows Analysis of RNC Spending Since 2017 Shows Millions Were Spent on Private Jets, Limousines, Luxury Retreats, Broadway Shows

    12/17/2022 3:20:16 AM PST · by Chad C. Mulligan · 37 replies
    Red State ^ | 11:15 PM on December 14, 2022 | By Jennifer Van Laar |
    Back in 2010, RNC Chair Michael Steele was heavily criticized and eventually lost his position because donors were angry about what they believed was luxurious spending on private jets, floral arrangements, chauffeur services, and member meetings in expensive tropical locales. Donors were used to frugality from the RNC under the George W. Bush administration, when “Karl Rove would bitch if there were flowers on the tables” and staff holiday parties were catered by Chick-fil-A. Despite Joe Biden’s economy and three straight cycles of election losses, the RNC’s big-spending days are back with a vengeance. Perhaps because of these losses both...
  • Swalwell campaign spends thousands of dollars on luxury hotels

    10/18/2022 1:00:20 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 10 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10/18/2022 | Cameron Cawthorne , Houston Keene
    FIRST ON FOX: California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaign once again spent thousands of dollars on luxury hotels, including locations in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and New York City. Swalwell’s campaign dropped some serious cash in the California Democrat’s latest lavish expenditures, which included ritzy hotels, luxury car rides and fine dining. The spending comes as Americans both in his district and around the country face sky-high inflation that is driving food, fuel and energy costs through the ro
  • First class arrogance! New Orleans' Democrat mayor says flying economy is UNSAFE for black women, as she refuses to repay $30,000 of taxpayer cash she splurged on luxury flights to Europe

    09/11/2022 2:20:33 AM PDT · by Libloather · 77 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 9/11/22 | James Gordon
    New Orleans Democrat mayor has declared economy class flights unsafe for black women, while insisting she wont repay $30,000 of taxpayers' money blown on first-class flights to France and Switzerland. Speaking at a press conference Thursday, LaToya Cantrell said: 'My travel accommodations are a matter of safety, not of luxury. As all women know, our health and safety are often disregarded and we are left to navigate alone. 'As the mother of a young child whom I live for, I am going to protect myself by any reasonable means in order to ensure I am there to see her grow...
  • GOLD-PLATED MONSTER Inside Putin’s £500m superyacht with pool that becomes dance floor, huge home cinema and even a GOLD toilet roll holder

    03/23/2022 8:07:19 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 43 replies
    The Sun ^ | 23 Mar 2022 | julia Atherley
    Mad Vlad, whose forces are bombing women and children in Ukraine, spared no expense on the six-deck Scheherazade. Vladimir Putin's superyacht Scheherazade’s official cost could be close to $1billion A worker who helped build it said: “Every surface is marble or gold. There are countless swimming pools, a spa, a sauna, a theatre, ballrooms, a gym, two helipads. It’s like a mini city. “And it is an unimaginable amount of wealth when the average Russian’s salary is £5,000 a year, and people there are struggling to eat.” A tiled dancefloor lowers to turn into a pool. It is thought to...
  • Supply chain issues ‘not as big a factor’ for luxury retail: Fmr. LVMH exec

    10/13/2021 1:36:13 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    Yahoo News! ^ | Wed, October 13, 2021
    Pauline Brown, Former LVMH Chairman of North America and Author of 'Aesthetic Intelligence’, joins
  • Steak could become a ‘luxury product’ thanks to climate impact, CEO fears

    10/12/2021 1:49:20 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 76 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/12/2021 | Emily Crane
    Steak could become a champagne-type luxury because beef isn’t climate friendly to produce, the head of Europe’s top meat processor said. Danish Crown CEO Jais Valeur told Denmark’s Berlingske newspaper on Monday that beef will eventually become a “luxury product” because of the climate impact of producing it. “Beef is not going to be super climate friendly. It will be a bit like champagne, namely a luxury product,” Valeur said. “The beef cattle will be a luxury product that we eat when we need to pamper ourselves.” Valeur said the way people consume and think about meat is going to...
  • US bishops’ conference denies any wrongdoing in ongoing Peter’s Pence lawsuit, blames parishioners

    04/28/2021 4:56:20 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 7 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | April 28, 2021 | David McLoone
    US bishops’ conference denies any wrongdoing in ongoing Peter’s Pence lawsuit, blames parishionersWASHINGTON, April 28, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — In an ongoing case regarding the use of Peter’s Pence donations, lawyers for the U.S. bishops have asserted that parishioners were aware (or at least ought to have been) that their money could be used by the Holy See for any purpose, despite their own advertisement to the contrary.The Peter’s Pence lawsuit was originally filed in January 2020 against the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) by the Stanley Law Group based in Dallas, Texas, representing a Class Action brought by...
  • New York City Luxury Buildings Hire Armed Guards For Possible Election Day Unrest

    10/29/2020 3:13:17 PM PDT · by blam · 27 replies
    Fox News ^ | 10-29-2020 | Jennifer Gould/Alex Hogan
    New York’s ultra-rich are quietly preparing for civil unrest on Election Day — by hiring armed guards to stand watch over their luxury Manhattan buildings. At the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, where the penthouse is going for $62.5 million, managers are deploying off-duty cops with “submachine guns” to stand watch, while other wealthy city enclaves are also beefing up protection for residents. “Everybody is worried about security,” an insider told the Post. “Every top building is adding security. It’s out of control. We hope it won’t be needed, but we will be ready.” The building is working with...
  • Peak comfort: Climbers can now scale Mount Everest in luxury including gourmet meals, drinks at bars and glamping in tents - and even 5G reception at the summit

    04/26/2020 6:18:19 AM PDT · by C19fan · 63 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | April 25, 2020 | Harry Howard
    When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 they wore woollen suits and wielded wood-handled ice axes. But today's climbers can now enjoy luxury tents, bars and gourmet meals and even 5G mobile reception at the summit. Lukas Furtenbach, the founder of firm Furtenbach Adventures, which specialises in upmarket expeditions, said every climber gets a tent boasting a bed, electricity and even wifi.