• Mark Cuban on running for president: ‘stranger things have happened’

    Mark Cuban on running for president: ‘stranger things have happened’

    Mark Cuban refused to rule out a run for the White House on Thursday, saying “stranger things have happened.” Asked at a virtual event about his chances of making a bid, Cuban, 61, said, “It’s highly unlikely because of the timing, but stranger things have happened. You know me, I’m an entrepreneur — I’m never …
  • How Esteban Loaiza blew $44 million before massive cocaine bust

    How Esteban Loaiza blew $44 million before massive cocaine bust

    Esteban Loaiza spent 14 seasons in the majors — including a fairly miserable stint with the Yankees in 2004 — and made nearly $44 million. And now the 48-year-old is sitting in Seattle-Tacoma Federal Detention Center, serving three years in prison for felony cocaine possession with intent to distribute. Loaiza’s fall, attributed to a lavish …
  • Carl Icahn takes $1.8 billion loss as he dumps stake in bankrupt Hertz

    Carl Icahn takes $1.8 billion loss as he dumps stake in bankrupt Hertz

    Carl Icahn exited Hertz like a stuntman abandoning a burning car — and he suffered some nasty cuts and bruises on his way out. The billionaire investment tycoon took a loss of more than $1.8 billion as he dumped his entire stake in the bankrupt rental-car company in recent days, according to court filings. Icahn, …
  • Regal movie theater owner Cineworld expects to reopen in July

    Regal movie theater owner Cineworld expects to reopen in July

    Cineworld, the owner of Regal cinemas in the US, expects to reopen its doors for business in July. The movie-theater giant said late Wednesday it anticipates that government restrictions related to cinemas will be lifted in each of its territories in the coming months and “anticipates the reopening of all of its cinemas in July.” …
  • LATAM Airlines files for bankruptcy as coronavirus slams travel industry

    LATAM Airlines files for bankruptcy as coronavirus slams travel industry

    LATAM Airlines Group announced Tuesday that it filed for bankruptcy in the latest sign of how the coronavirus pandemic has roiled the travel industry. Latin America’s biggest airline and its affiliates in Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and the US sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Manhattan federal court as part of a reorganization brought on …
  • Hertz files for bankruptcy protection amid coronavirus pandemic

    Hertz files for bankruptcy protection amid coronavirus pandemic

    Hertz filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, unable to withstand the coronavirus pandemic that has crippled global travel and with it, the heavily indebted 102-year-old car rental company’s business. The Estero, Florida-based company’s lenders were unwilling to grant it another extension on its auto lease debt payments past a Friday deadline, triggering the filing in U.S. …
  • Faraday Future’s bankrupt founder gets OK for reorganization plan

    Faraday Future’s bankrupt founder gets OK for reorganization plan

    The billionaire founder of electric-car startup Faraday Future — who boldly challenged Tesla with a far-out car design in 2015, only to file for personal bankruptcy last fall — said Friday his Chapter 11 restructuring plan has won court approval. The nod from a federal bankruptcy judge is a win for Faraday Future’s ex-chief executive …
  • Hertz may be on verge of liquidation

    Hertz may be on verge of liquidation

    Carl Icahn’s car-rental company Hertz may be skidding toward liquidation, The Post has learned. The 102-year-old Hertz — known for tapping O.J. Simpson as its spokesman in the 1970s — could file for bankruptcy in the coming days tied to a tardy collateral payment next due on Friday. As The Post has previously reported, the …
  • Thomas Ravenel calls Cameran Eubanks ‘terrible’ after her ‘Southern Charm’ exit

    Thomas Ravenel calls Cameran Eubanks ‘terrible’ after her ‘Southern Charm’ exit

    It seems there’s no love lost between Thomas Ravenel and his former “Southern Charm” co-star Cameran Eubanks. On Saturday, Ravenel blasted Eubanks and fellow “Southern Charm” personality Patricia Altschul on Twitter, calling the duo “terrible.” “The truth is never terrible. Cameran and Patricia are terrible. Anyone who falls for Bravo editing BS has a very …
  • Wall Street banker blasts employees for not responding to 3 a.m. email

    Wall Street banker blasts employees for not responding to 3 a.m. email

    Wall Street bosses continue to crack the whip on junior staffers during coronavirus lockdowns, a viral new e-mail suggests. An e-mail chain making the rounds on Wall Street appears to show a senior banker at PJT Partners reprimanding subordinates for not promptly responding to an email that came in at 3 a.m. “We’re working on …