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How romance scams are thriving during quarantine

The Verge

He was a successful businessman who worked in solar energy, drove a Mercedes, and had two houses — one in Cuba and another in the US. Later, he began laying the groundwork for the financial fraud, which involved a joint business venture in Cuba. She’d been with her husband for nearly 20 years before he died from cancer in 2017.

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Radio and TV host Larry King dies at 87

The Verge

Not, ‘What about Geneva or Cuba?’ King had a colorful personal life; the son of immigrants, he was born Lawrence Zeiger in Brooklyn in 1933, and eventually ended up in Miami, where he got his first on-air radio gig. At one time a heavy smoker, King was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2017. I ask, ‘Mr. That’s fascinating.”.

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