“Please LeBron, get in the dunk contest. I’m going to put up a million dollars. A million dollars to LeBron. Please get in the dunk contest. I go every year. I want to see you out there. A million to the winner,” Johnson said on ESPN Friday.
A judge sentence a member of gospel music’s Winans family to nearly 14 years in prison for his role in a 8 million dollar financial ponzi scam.
Michael Winans Jr, a third-generation member of the Winans family attracted more than 1,000 investors in 2007 and 2008 in a scheme to sell Saudi Arabian oil bonds. He promised 100 percent returns in two months (usually an indicator of a ponzi scheme), then used the money for personal expenses or to pay off earlier investors.
Winans made his pitch from church pulpits and used friends to unwittingly round up investors, in order to keep the scam going. In court he said he had no “malicious intent” but acknowledged he continued to collect money even after it was revealed to him that the bonds were bogus.
In court U.S. District Judge Sean Cox read letters from some of the victims who had been defrauded by Michael Winans. Records revealed about 600 people are still owed about $4.7 million.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission calls the kind of crime committed by Winans “affinity fraud,” which involves targeting specific groups, in this case Christians, and using their shared faith to attract investments from the group’s members, as well as from their friends and family members.
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#16. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 22,000 (379,000)
#30. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 15,000 (746,000)
#32. A$AP Rocky – Long.Live.A$AP – 14,000 (245,000)
#43. T.I. – Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head – 12,000 (401,000)
#59. 2 Chainz – Based On A T.R.U. Story – 7,600 (550,000)
#64. Wiz Khalifa – O.N.I.F.C. – 6,800 (330,000)
#69. Joe Budden – No Love Lost – 6,300 (47,000)
#81. Chief Keef – Finally Rich – 4,900 (134,000)
#92. Game – Jesus Piece – 4,100 (201,000)
#96. Trinidad James – Don’t Be S.A.F.E. – 4,000 (11,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
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Streetball legend and former AND 1 mixtape star, Tyrone “Alimoe” Evans has reportedly passed away from complications following a stroke.
The Harlem, NY resident also known as “The Black Widow” rose to prominence during the street ball boom of the late 90s and early 2000s. The 6’7″ player was known for his trademark ball handling skills.
Alimoe reached superstar status as one of the most popular players during the AND 1 Mixtape Tour. He stood out with famous street ball players of the era including Hot Sauce, The Professor, Main Event, The Air Up There, and many more.
Our prayers are with Alimoe’s friends & family.
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A mural by graffiti artist Banksy that was painted on the side of a pound shop in North London is likely to sell for hundreds of thousands at a Miami auction.
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2013 Money Makers Methodology via Billboard
The data used to compile Moneymakers was supplied by Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen BDS, YouTube and Billboard Boxscore. Artists are ranked by U.S. earnings, and Billboard calculated a variety of income streams, including touring, recorded-music sales, publishing royalties and revenue from an array of digital music and video services for downloads, as well as on-demand and noninteractive streaming. Due to a lack of sufficient data, our figures don’t include revenue from sponsorships, merchandise sales or synchronization data. For album and track sales, we assumed a royalty rate of 20% of retail, minus producers’ fees. We treated all streaming revenue as derived from a licensing deal and thus split that revenue in half to calculate the artist’s take. We also applied corresponding statutory mechanical rates for album and track sales and the Copyright Royalty Board-approved formulas or rates used for the various streaming channels, and further estimated the share of songs written by the artists. For all artist revenue, we subtracted a manager’s fee of 10%. For box office, we credited each artist with 34% of gross receipts, typically what’s left after the promoter’s fee, the artist manager’s cut and other costs are subtracted.
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