And also a difficult race for both Yamaha and Honda. A hypothetical improvement for the two Japanese brands is neither present nor expected. Fabio Quartararo was 11th, while Alex Rins finished outside the points (16th). Joan Mir, for his part, was 13th, while Luca Marini was 20th, 42 seconds behind Pecco Bagnaia. A lot of work, therefore, lies ahead for both factories.
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There is no peace for Carlos Sainz, who this winter found out that Ferrari was not going to renew his contract that expires at the end of the year, and that this Friday he will have to get out of the car without facing the timing of the second stop of the year, in Saudi Arabia , due to appendicitis that will have to be operated on. The Ferrari driver from Madrid, who last week, at the World Cup premiere held in Bahrain, managed to get into third place on the podium, following the two Red Bulls, will be replaced at the Jeddah circuit by Oliver Bearman .
Carlos Sainz has been diagnosed with appendicitis and will require surgery.
As from FP3 and for the rest of this weekend, he will be replaced by reserve driver Oliver Bearman. Oliver will therefore take no further part in this round of the F2 Championship.
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This will be the debut in Formula 1 of the young British driver, 18 years old, who is part of the ‘Scuderia’ youth team – Ferrari Drivers Academy – and who this weekend was on the Saudi track, competing with Prema. , the team with which he faces the Formula 2 championship and with whom this Thursday he was awarded pole position. Last year, the boy already participated in two free rehearsal sessions (Mexico and Abu Dhabi), riding a Haas, a team powered by the Maranello brand. The regulations prevent a rider from competing in the same event in both categories, a circumstance that has forced the Italian team to withdraw him. Bearman will now board the SF-24 in the third free practice session this followingnoon, before the qualifying session, scheduled for 6:00 p.m., Dazn).
The appendicitis that forces Sainz to get out of the car already prevented him from taking part in the media engagements on Wednesday. The following day, the Spaniard finished seventh in the time table following the first two training sessions in Jeddah. When he got out of the car, however, he did not respond to the journalists either.
“I am happy to have been able to complete the program scheduled for this Thursday. But without a doubt it has been one of my most difficult days since I competed in F1. Above all, due to the demands of the G forces,” Sainz agreed.
2023-12-17 14:01:18
Byron Tollefson | WOOD TV-8
GRAND RAPIDS — Two former West Michigan business owners might face decades in prison for an alleged $2.5 million fraud scheme.
Gregory Hite and Bridget Bureau ran businesses across the region for recreational vehicle and trailer sales, manufacturing and repair. The businesses operated under a range of different names, including Great Lakes Recreational, Alpine Trailer Sales, Great Lakes of West Michigan, Great Lakes Trailer Manufacturing, GLR Transport and Great Lakes Recreational Brokerage, according to an indictment.
According to the federal indictment, released this week, investigators said the pair used stolen identities to obtain millions of dollars’ worth of loans between 2016 and June 2020.
Investigators say the duo used to run an RV business in Colorado, which nearly went bankrupt. Their credit was reportedly so bad they mightn’t get loans.
Prosecutors say the pair moved to West Michigan, launching businesses in Coopersville, Dorr and Byron Center. They allegedly stole their family members’ and employees’ social security numbers and driver’s licenses, using their good credit to get loans.
The victims had no idea their names were attached to the loans, investigators said.
“In the documents, defendants falsely represented those individuals as co-owners or guarantors for the loans when they had not consented to be,” the indictment reads. “Defendants electronically submitted the fraudulent loan documents using the internet from Michigan to the lenders who were located in other states.”
Over four years, the feds say, the pair secured at least 55 fraudulent loans and credit advances, adding up to a $2.5 million loss.
Mark Totten, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, told WOOD TV-8 the alleged criminal activity “hurts a lot of people.”
“It hurts the lenders who gave money believing they would be rightly paid back, it hurts those people whose identities were stolen,” Totten said. “It might have long-term effects on them. It perhaps hurts consumers as well, who thought they were dealing with a good-faith honest business.”
The location in Coopersville shut down, the indictment alleges, because “(defendants’) collateral was repossessed by a lender.” Investigators say the Dorr location closed for similar reasons.
Hite and Bureau moved to the Byron Center location in September 2019 and started manufacturing trailers instead, according to court records. Investigators say they kept moving to different locations to avoid detection by lenders.
“The scheme that we have described in our indictment demonstrates a willingness at every turn to try to hide this behavior: being willing to move the location of the business, being willing to change the name of the business, impersonating the voices of the people who had their identities stolen,” Totten said.
Investigators say victims eventually caught on following lenders filed civil suits once morest them.
Hite and Bureau face multiple federal charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud. The most serious charge carries up to 20 years in prison.
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Totten said his office is committed to holding people who commit fraud accountable.
“This case touches a lot of criminal patterns that we’re seeing that especially are hurting some of the more vulnerable populations in West Michigan,” Totten said.
“We often see elderly citizens who are victims of scams, who perhaps are victims of identity theft. We want to make sure we are providing an effective deterrent, that there’s a message that’s getting out there to criminals that if you engage in this type of behavior, the federal government is going to come following you.”
If convicted, the pair will be required to forfeit at least $5 million.
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2023-10-26 14:26:07
Fabian Le Castel, one of the emblematic figures of the show “Le Grand Cactus”, broadcast on Thursday evenings on RTBF, is leaving the program. The Mouscronnois is taking a new turn in his career. The Belgian impersonator with sarcastic and satirical humor now wishes to devote himself to other projects.
“I’m not leaving angry but I haven’t really found my place for some time. When I was absent in the Grand Cactus, an imitator replaced me and when I came back, I found my place even less.”
Since 2015, Fabian Le Castel has participated in Grand Cactus, this humorous show which revisits Belgian and international news. But not only that… you might also hear it in the morning show of Vivacité, on 8/9, several times a week.
It must be said that the comedian has no time to be bored since the end of his collaboration with RTBF since in October 2022, Fabian Lecastel opened his café-show, “Le Hurlu Comedy Club” in Mouscron in order to allow young talents and theater routines to perform on an intimate stage. By leaving RTBF, Fabian Le Castel will invest more in more personal projects. “I am going to devote myself to the stage and the café-theatre. I will continue my Comedy Club but also my shows. I also have a project for a comedy club between Tournai and Ath. And I am preparing the show of the “4 without voices”, the quartet of international imitators for 2025”.
We wish the comedian much success.
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