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Trinidad: Stepfather of missing toddler charged with his murder
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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, May 26, CMC – The Haitian based airline, Sunrise Airways, says it will on June 1, inaugurate its new direct flight between Cap-Haitien (CAP) and Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in the United States. “With this direct route between Cap-Haïtien and Newark, Sunrise Airways is strengthening a vital link between Northern […]
Zohran Mamdani unveils $28 billion housing plan that could define his time in office
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Guyana marks 60th anniversary of independence
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St. Vincent: Man who was jailed in France, while awaiting trial in SVG, given lengthy jail sentence on drug charges
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Not so long ago, Oliver was behind bars. He’s now a billionaire
An Australian businessman who was jailed for insider trading is now among the country's richest people after cashing in on the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.
Oliver Curtis walked out of a NSW prison on June 23, 2017 after serving 12 months of a two-year sentence for conspiring to commit 45 illicit trades, which banked him and former pal John Hartman $1.43 million.
Less than 10 years after his release, Curtis, 41, has made his debut on the Australian Financial Review (AFR) rich list with an estimated personal fortune of $1.25 billion.
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Curtis has earned this impressive net worth through Singapore-based AI infrastructure start-up Firmus, which is on track for a nearly $7 billlion valuation after computer chip giant Nvidia doubled its investment last month.
The former investment banker is now the 125th-richest person in Australia, according to the AFR.
Curtis is in good company as a rich list debutant.
There are 15 other first-time entries, including the founders of chicken chain El Jannah and clothing brand White Fox.
His path to the rich list is one that is as well-documented as it is tumultuous.
Curtis, the husband of well-known public relations boss Roxy Jacenko, began Firmus alongside his cousin Tim Rosenfield in 2019.
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Just nine years ago, Curtis was a newly-released parolee after a year-long stint at Cooma Correctional Centre.
He served the minimum sentence for insider trading, which took place between May 1, 2007, and June 30, 2008, resulting in a net profit of $1,432,228.85.
At the time, Justice Lucy McCallum said Curtis "shows no sign of progression beyond the self-interested pursuit of material wealth which prompted his offending".
The money was spent on luxury cars, a Bondi apartment and trips overseas.
His co-conspirator Hartman later became the Crown's star witness and served a 15-month sentence at Silverwater jail.
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Curtis was back in business plotting his billionaire redemption arc within months of walking free and reuniting with Jacenko and his children.
Before Firmus, he co-founded cryptocurrency medical start-up e-Nome with his father Nick Curtis.
The company fizzled out quickly and Curtis then pivoted to AI, launching Firmus two years later in 2019.
Despite his criminal record, Curtis was given the green-light to run Firmus as a publicly-listed company in March this year.
Firmus is expected to float on the ASX by September.
Trump’s handpicked candidate may cost his party their most important state
Republicans are fretting that a candidate endorsed by Donald Trump may cost them in their most important state.
Ken Paxton has claimed the nomination as the Republican Senate candidate in Texas, beating long-time incumbent John Cornyn.
His comfortable win this morning over Cornyn comes after Trump threw his support behind Paxton last week after a bitter and expensive primary election.
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But Paxton has been so scandal-prone that it could give Democrats an opening in the conservative state.
As Texas attorney-general, his own staff reported him to the FBI with bribery and corruption accusations.
Paxton then fired the whistleblowers.
He was impeached by the state House of Representatives but kept his job after a vote to remove him failed by a single vote in the Texas Senate.
In 2015, he was arrested while attorney-general and charged with security fraud, paying a $A400,000 fine and doing 200 hours of community service in a deal with prosecutors.
He was also caught on CCTV pocketing another lawyer's $A1400 pen when it had been left behind at a metal detector.
"To call Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder," Republican senator Thom Tillis said.
"This guy is an empty suit and will do us no service by being in the US Congress."
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His wife Angela filed for divorce last year on "biblical grounds", alleging adultery.
Mrs Paxton, herself a state senator, did not make an endorsement in the election.
Despite his misdeeds, Paxton publicly professes his Christian faith and was a co-founder of a Dallas megachurch in the 1990s.
His deeply conservative views have made him a darling in Texas Republican politics.
He has been a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, transgender rights and COVID-19 restrictions.
In 2022, he said he would be in favour of recriminalising sex between men.
Making Republicans nervous in Texas is the surprising popularity of Democratic candidate James Talarico.
Talarico is a state representative and former teacher who also speaks of his own Christian faith. He has a masters of divinity from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
In the first three months of the year, he raised $A37 million for his campaign, more than ten times Paxton did.
But in the past 20 years, Texas has been the prize Democrats can't quite win.
But Trump is so on the nose with voters that it may cost Republicans their crown jewel.
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Voters have turned hard against Trump, with the most pronounced swing among Hispanic Americans. In Texas, 40 per cent of the population is Hispanic.
Trump's endorsement of Paxton came after a battle with Cornyn to win the president's approval.
Both candidates campaigned on their devotion and loyalty to Trump, but Paxton won out in the end.
Texas is the biggest Republican-leaning state in the United States. If Democrats can make the state competitive, it will transform the way presidential elections are run.
The midterm election will take place in November.
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