https://www.thenonprofittimes.com/report/another-record-for-a-giving-day-66-million/
$66 million giving day
Venezuelan community targeted in alleged $66 million investment scam Ron Hurtibise, South Florida Sun-Sentinel - Sep 28, 2021
wners of a payday loan company targeted members of South Florida’s Venezuelan community in a fraudulent investment scheme that raised more than $66 million, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The SEC complaint, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Miami, said Sky Group USA and owner Efrain Betancourt, 32, sold promissory notes to at least 505 investors who were promised returns of between 24% and 120%.
Investors were told their money would be used by Sky Group to make small-dollar short-term loans to consumers with poor credit or no credit and for costs associated with the loans, the complaint states.
While the investors were told that the company’s payday loan business was profitable, in reality “the proceeds Sky Group generated from its consumer loan business were woefully insufficient to cover principal and interest payments to investors,” the complaint states.
Instead, Betancourt used money from new investors to pay promised dividends to early investors, a familiar characteristic of a Ponzi scheme, the SEC said.
The complaint alleges that he also spent at least $2.9 million in luxuries for himself, including on a chateau wedding in France and vacations to Disney World and the Caribbean. At least $3.6 million was given to friends and relatives “for no apparent business purpose.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/venezuelan-community-targeted-in-alleged-66-million-investment-scam/ar-AAOT4bx
6 million/66 million- beat that anons- kek
Nearly 6K fully vaccinated Americans got COVID-19 – out of 66 million: CDC
https://nypost.com/2021/04/15/nearly-6k-fully-vaccinated-americans-got-covid-19-out-of-66-million-cdc/
Read more at:
https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/indias-billionaire-poonawalla-family-pledges-66-million-to-oxford-university/88308566
66.6 million people in the US speak a language other than English at home
Updated: Sep 25, 2020
“In America’s five largest cities, 48 percent of residents now speak a language other than English at home”
This has doubled since 1990. That is more than 20% of the total population of the US. Why is this significant? In the translation business a native speaker is often defined by two characteristics:
The language they spoke as a child, and
The language they speak at home
This rapidly increasing statistic (not only doubling in the last twenty years but tripling since 1980), should be a wake-up call for companies doing business in the US, both domestic and foreign. If you exclusively market to English speakers, or even English and Spanish, in the US, you are not reaching a huge percentage of the population.
https://www.languageintelligence.com/post/66-6-million-people-in-the-us-speak-a-language-other-than-english-at-home
how many roles does one actor/politician/crisisactor juggle? Smoke and mirrors