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💬 Quoted…​​An economic danger to the public.

Justin Costello, a former fugitive accused of posing as a billionaire, a Harvard MBA, and an Iraq War vet to scam people out of ~$35 million, was denied bail pending trial yesterday by a federal judge.

  • He faces a recommended prison term of 27 to 34 years under federal sentencing guidelines, if convicted on all 25 counts of wire and securities fraud.

🦠 Stats of the Day: People with mild/moderate Covid cases who took ivermectin recovered within an average of 12 days, while people with mild/moderate Covid cases who didn’t take the drug recovered in 13 days. That’s per a new study published in JAMA examining data from ~1,600 patients, which ultimately concluded ivermectin doesn’t meaningfully improve Covid recovery time.

🤯 Did You Know?... Just 5% of all plastic waste generated in the US last year was recycled, down from a peak of 10% in 2014, per new research from Greenpeace.

📖 Worth a Read: ‘Deepfakes’ of Celebrities Have Begun Appearing in Ads, With or Without Their Permission → (WSJ)

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