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PA Beauty Queen Stripped; SEPTA Lottery Part 2; Wall Street Hacking Scheme

by: iradiotom - Philadelphia, PA
started: 08/12/15 11:36 am | updated: 08/12/15 11:36 am

A Pennsylvania beauty queen is facing charges she faked having leukemia to benefit from fundraisers, and has been jailed. Brandi Lee Weaver-Gates, of State College will be stripped of her title as Miss Pennsylvania U.S. International. The 23-year-old, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of theft by deception. A benefit raised $14,000 for the pageant winner and the state is asking the public to come forward if they have donated money to Weaver-Gates. The company that sponsors the pageant, says that they were also "led to believe that she was dealing with this horrible disease" and are making her return her crown and sash.

SEPTA is holding another lottery today for limited quantities of Special 3-day SEPTA Transit passes for the Norristown High Speed Line and the Trolley Routes 101 and 102 for the Popeâ€™s visit to Philadelphia. The lottery will last until 11:59 p.m. tonight. Those interested in the passes will have to go to SEPTA.org and click the â€œEnter Lottery,â€ link.
These passes will be good for travel from Saturday, September 26 until Monday, September 28. SEPTA says those entering the lottery will choose up to three preferred stations from the following list:
Route 101 Trolley
-Springfield Mall
-Leamy Avenue
Route 102 Trolley
-North Street
-Clifton-Aldan
Norristown High Speed Line
-Gulph Mill Station
-Villanova Station
Customers can request up to 10 passes each day. Those who are selected through the lottery will be notified on Friday, August 14 if they win.

In what prosecutors are calling an "unprecedented hacking and trading scheme" Justice Department officials unveiled a sprawling securities fraud case Tuesday against a Glenn Mills minister and eight others. Vitaly Korchevsky, 50, and a group of other Ukranians allegedly made millions on Wall Street by hacking some of the business world's largest newswire services and stealing corporate news releases before they were made public. With early access to earnings reports and other financial news, the group allegedly traded on that information, exploiting a gap lasting in some cases only minutes before the news it contained was widely released.

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