New York, April 7 (Ians) An Indian national has been sentenced to 33 months in prison, and ordered to pay $2.4 million in restitution for his role in an international conspiracy that preyed on elderly victims in the US.
Ashish Bajaj, 29, pleaded guilty in August last year before District Judge Kevin McNulty in Newark federal court to information charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court, from April 2020 to August 2021, Bajaj and his conspirators preyed on elderly victims by impersonating fraud prevention specialists from various banks, online retailers, and online payment companies.
They contacted victims and falsely claimed that they were fraud prevention specialists employed by reputable companies and that the victims’ accounts with banks, online retailers, or online payments companies were being targeted for fraud.
Bajaj and his conspirators then falsely told the victims that their fraud prevention efforts required...
Ashish Bajaj, 29, pleaded guilty in August last year before District Judge Kevin McNulty in Newark federal court to information charging him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court, from April 2020 to August 2021, Bajaj and his conspirators preyed on elderly victims by impersonating fraud prevention specialists from various banks, online retailers, and online payment companies.
They contacted victims and falsely claimed that they were fraud prevention specialists employed by reputable companies and that the victims’ accounts with banks, online retailers, or online payments companies were being targeted for fraud.
Bajaj and his conspirators then falsely told the victims that their fraud prevention efforts required...
- 4/7/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Apple TV+’s “Schmigadoon!” broke onto the scene in July and instantly endeared itself to audiences. The musical-comedy stars Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as a New York couple going through relationship pains, so they trek through the woods and wind up in the magical town of Schmigadoon where everyone sings and dances. The six-episode series, created by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, takes its inspiration from the classic Broadway musical “Brigadoon.” In all, 13 cast members are eligible for the ensemble prize at the 2022 Screen Actors Guild Awards (see below).
SEECecily Strong shines in ‘Schmigadoon!’: From ‘SNL’ to SAG Awards?
Key plays Josh Skinner, a successful surgeon, while Strong takes on the role of Melissa Gimble, a caring Obgyn. While Key is a former SAG Award nominee for being a part of the “Key and Peele” ensemble, this would mark Strong’s first-ever bid with the actors guild.
One...
SEECecily Strong shines in ‘Schmigadoon!’: From ‘SNL’ to SAG Awards?
Key plays Josh Skinner, a successful surgeon, while Strong takes on the role of Melissa Gimble, a caring Obgyn. While Key is a former SAG Award nominee for being a part of the “Key and Peele” ensemble, this would mark Strong’s first-ever bid with the actors guild.
One...
- 12/9/2021
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Arctic Air is coming back for a second season.
The Canadian adventure-drama series Arctic Air has been renewed for a second season. The show, which airs on CBC, is centered on a Yellowknife-based maverick airline.
The first season of Arctic Air was watched by the largest audience for a new CBC drama series in 15 years. According to a press release, it premiered to more than 1.2 million viewers in January and then drew an average audience of 965,000 viewers each week.
Over the course of the first season almost 7.3 million viewers tuned in to some part of the program, according to the CBC. That is about 22% of the population or about 1 in 5 Canadians.
“With a star-studded cast, stunning aerial footage and the incredible natural beauty of the Northwest Territories, we were confident that Canadians would make Arctic Air fly high. This is a terrific achievement and we congratulate everyone involved with the production of this outstanding show,...
The Canadian adventure-drama series Arctic Air has been renewed for a second season. The show, which airs on CBC, is centered on a Yellowknife-based maverick airline.
The first season of Arctic Air was watched by the largest audience for a new CBC drama series in 15 years. According to a press release, it premiered to more than 1.2 million viewers in January and then drew an average audience of 965,000 viewers each week.
Over the course of the first season almost 7.3 million viewers tuned in to some part of the program, according to the CBC. That is about 22% of the population or about 1 in 5 Canadians.
“With a star-studded cast, stunning aerial footage and the incredible natural beauty of the Northwest Territories, we were confident that Canadians would make Arctic Air fly high. This is a terrific achievement and we congratulate everyone involved with the production of this outstanding show,...
- 5/12/2012
- by Michael Simpson
- CinemaSpy
Arctic Air premieres at 9 pm on CBC tonight. A bunch of Caprica and BSG actors are either regulars or recurring guest stars: Carmen Moore, Michael Hogan, Leah Gibson, Kandyse McClure, Brian Markinson and Aleks Paunovic. There might be more of them as the season progresses.
Here is the plotline, from the show's Facebook page:
Arctic Air is a one-hour adventure series set in the booming Arctic, about a maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it.
On the ground, Bobby, the headstrong business partner, struggles to save the airline from crashing financially while Mel, the cantankerous co-owner, keeps his crew of pilots in the air. Caught in the crossfire is Mel’s hotshot pilot daughter Krista. (...)
Over the season this character-based drama will deliver hard-hitting emotional stories – from the romantic entanglement of Bobby and Krista, to the conflicts that spark between Bobby and his competitors, his business partners and even his extended family.
Here is the plotline, from the show's Facebook page:
Arctic Air is a one-hour adventure series set in the booming Arctic, about a maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it.
On the ground, Bobby, the headstrong business partner, struggles to save the airline from crashing financially while Mel, the cantankerous co-owner, keeps his crew of pilots in the air. Caught in the crossfire is Mel’s hotshot pilot daughter Krista. (...)
Over the season this character-based drama will deliver hard-hitting emotional stories – from the romantic entanglement of Bobby and Krista, to the conflicts that spark between Bobby and his competitors, his business partners and even his extended family.
- 1/11/2012
- by fanshawe
- CapricaTV
Adam Beach has plenty of things to be happy about these days. He got to work with Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig in last summer's blockbuster "Cowboys & Aliens." He enjoyed a stint as a popular guest star on "Combat Hospital." And now he's starring in "Arctic Air," a show that he's passionate about and also happened to lead him to his current girlfriend, co-star Leah Gibson.
"Arctic Air" follows the lives of a group of bush pilots in Yellowknife who work at a company called, well, Arctic Air. Beach stars as Bobby Martin, the son of one of Arctic Air's co-founders who moved to Vancouver to become a venture capitalist after his father died. The show chronicles Bobby's return to Yellowknife, and his relationships with Arctic Air's other co-founder Mel Ivarson (Kevin McNulty), and Mel's ace-pilot daughter Krista (Pascale Hutton).
We spoke with Beach from his Vancouver base...
"Arctic Air" follows the lives of a group of bush pilots in Yellowknife who work at a company called, well, Arctic Air. Beach stars as Bobby Martin, the son of one of Arctic Air's co-founders who moved to Vancouver to become a venture capitalist after his father died. The show chronicles Bobby's return to Yellowknife, and his relationships with Arctic Air's other co-founder Mel Ivarson (Kevin McNulty), and Mel's ace-pilot daughter Krista (Pascale Hutton).
We spoke with Beach from his Vancouver base...
- 1/9/2012
- by The Huffington Post TV Canada
- Aol TV.
Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) are on a hunt. Dean uses a stun gun on the Rawhead, who preys on bad children and electrocutes himself when he crawls into some water. Sam uses a fake credit card to pay for the hospital bill. Dean under the alias of Joe, found some children in the basement. The doctor tells them electrocution triggered a heart attack and his heart is damaged. The most he has is a few weeks or months. They can only keep him comfortable, they can't work miracles. Which is what this episode is mostly about. So already they were playing havoc with our guys and putting their lives at risk and the death that stalks them with hunting is made even more real for Dean now. Dean: "You don't actually watch Daytime TV, it's terrible." Yeah as we know that's an in joke since Jensen was in a Daytime soap,...
- 9/22/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
What is more scary a violent slasher, or a film that feeds paranoia about big companies and corrupt governments? Toxic Skies has a premise that incorporates capitalist deception and a disease that is brought about by chem trails. Chem trails are the deliberate release of chemicals at high altitudes to detoxify, or toxify the general public below. Toxic Skies deftly utilizes the public's fear of the potential of this phenomenon and provides, what looks like, an entertaining piece of cinema. The film stars Anne Heche (Spread), Daniel Bacon (39 Steps), and Barclay Hope (Cruel Intentions 2). The DVD date for the release is March 23, with Image Entertainment helping with distribution. More info' below.
A synopsis for Toxic Skies:
"A mysterious disease is spreading across the country, killing people with alarming speed in this pulse-pounding, action-filled thriller. Toxic Skies co-stars Anne Heche and James Tupper. These two reignite their chemistry as...
A synopsis for Toxic Skies:
"A mysterious disease is spreading across the country, killing people with alarming speed in this pulse-pounding, action-filled thriller. Toxic Skies co-stars Anne Heche and James Tupper. These two reignite their chemistry as...
- 2/16/2010
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
The Vancouver International Film Festival (Viff) will be held October 1-16, 2009. Founded in 1982, Viff's mandate is "...to encourage the understanding of other nations through the art of cinema, to foster the art of cinema, to facilitate the meeting in British Columbia of cinema professionals from around the world and to stimulate the motion picture industry in British Columbia and Canada..." Here is a partial confirmed guest list guest of actors, producers and directors attending the October 1 Opening Night Gala Screening of A Shine Of Rainbows: Vic Sarin, director "A Shine Of Rainbows" Connie Nielsen, actress - "A Shine of Rainbows" Ryan Robbins . "Leslie, My Name is Evil" Christine Solomon, actress, Ahmad Abdella, director . "Heliopolis" Camille Sullivan + Jimmy Sigmund Fiona Forbes Emmauelle Vaugier - ("Two and a Half Men", "CSI NY") Byron Lawson ("Bloodletting") Sonja Bennet Chad Willett Richard de Klerk Agam Darshi Kevin McNulty Gabrielle Rose Paul Skrudland Kristine Cofsky Casey Manderson Bill Guttentag,...
- 9/30/2009
- HollywoodNorthReport.com
Movie Info: Writers: Craig Rosenberg, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard Directors: Charles Guard, Thomas Guard Cast: Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Massar, Kevin McNulty, Jesse Moss, Dean Paul Gibson Rating: PG-13 Studio: Dreamworks Release Info: Theatrical Release: January 30, 2009 DVD Release Date: April 28, 2009 Online Availability: Amazon for $17.99 From the very first previews I saw for The Uninvited I [...]...
- 5/7/2009
- by Dominick
PARK CITY, Utah -- Fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, two parties, twice the angst and generational foolishness. With such an agenda, Canadian writer-director Gary Burns ("The Suburbanators") delivers a watchable-but-uninvolving, low-budget independent comedy-drama that served as the opening-night fare at the Slamdance Film Festival.
"Kitchen Party" has a few memorably chaotic moments, but it's marred by uneven performances by an ensemble cast of veterans and newcomers as well as an unwieldy scenario that unfolds in one afternoon and evening. Its theatrical prospects are lackluster at best.
While some issues raised are pertinent, most of the subjects -- particularly the adults -- are caricatures with one or two defining aspects, resulting in predictable confrontations and complications that could have been funnier and more insightful.
On his way to college if he can stay out of trouble, Scott Scott Speedman) is the busy host of a beer-and-babes party when his parents go to an overnight gathering of their own. With bud Wayne (Tygh Runyan) and new flame Tammy (Laura Harris), Scott and others chat over brews in the kitchen, with the immaculately cleaned and arranged living room strictly off-limits.
Also taboo is any contact with Scott's loser older brother Steve Jason Wiles), who resides in the basement consuming drugs and listening to loud, abrasive music. In an ongoing series of encounters, while Scott is busy running errands and dealing with crises, Tammy gets chummy with Steve offscreen and eventually they leave together.
At the other party, the parents drink and gab, and it gets ugly. Scott's blowhard father (Kevin McNulty) insults macho host Lester (Jerry Wasserman) when he makes an offhand joke. Lester's supposedly well-raised son keeps a collection of pubic hairs from his conquests, and the mere suggestion they might not be female sends his dad into a righteous fit of anger.
The mothers, including Scott's tolerant, combative crusader-mom (Gillian Barber), are the least satisfying ingredient in the brew, and the younger female characters are whiny, devious or drunk. Vehicular mishaps and deliberate destruction of property and establishment symbols (golf courses, vintage cars, living rooms) ensue courtesy of unpredictable Steve and brooding Lester Jr. (Dave Cox). Cops and a gun are worked into the plot, but thankfully there's no escalation to serious violence.
As a dysfunctional community demolition derby, "Kitchen Party" shows the ups and downs of rebellious acts in a stifling suburban environment, but it's not so darkly comic that it makes a lasting impression or breaks new ground.
KITCHEN PARTY
Cadence Entertainment
and Nine Iron Films Ltd.
a Sub Urban Film Co. production
Writer-director: Gary Burns
Producers: Christine Haebler, John Hazlett
Executive producers: James Head, Scott Kennedy
Editors: Mark Lemmon, Reginald Harkema
Director of photography: Robert Aschmann
Production designer: Douglas Hardwick
Music: Schaun Tozer
Color/stereo
Cast:
Scott: Scott Speedman
Tammy: Laura Harris
Barb: Gillian Barber
Brent: Kevin McNulty
Wayne: Tygh Runyan
Steve: Jason Wiles
Lester Sr.: Jerry Wasserman
Lester Jr.: Dave Cox
Running time -- 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
"Kitchen Party" has a few memorably chaotic moments, but it's marred by uneven performances by an ensemble cast of veterans and newcomers as well as an unwieldy scenario that unfolds in one afternoon and evening. Its theatrical prospects are lackluster at best.
While some issues raised are pertinent, most of the subjects -- particularly the adults -- are caricatures with one or two defining aspects, resulting in predictable confrontations and complications that could have been funnier and more insightful.
On his way to college if he can stay out of trouble, Scott Scott Speedman) is the busy host of a beer-and-babes party when his parents go to an overnight gathering of their own. With bud Wayne (Tygh Runyan) and new flame Tammy (Laura Harris), Scott and others chat over brews in the kitchen, with the immaculately cleaned and arranged living room strictly off-limits.
Also taboo is any contact with Scott's loser older brother Steve Jason Wiles), who resides in the basement consuming drugs and listening to loud, abrasive music. In an ongoing series of encounters, while Scott is busy running errands and dealing with crises, Tammy gets chummy with Steve offscreen and eventually they leave together.
At the other party, the parents drink and gab, and it gets ugly. Scott's blowhard father (Kevin McNulty) insults macho host Lester (Jerry Wasserman) when he makes an offhand joke. Lester's supposedly well-raised son keeps a collection of pubic hairs from his conquests, and the mere suggestion they might not be female sends his dad into a righteous fit of anger.
The mothers, including Scott's tolerant, combative crusader-mom (Gillian Barber), are the least satisfying ingredient in the brew, and the younger female characters are whiny, devious or drunk. Vehicular mishaps and deliberate destruction of property and establishment symbols (golf courses, vintage cars, living rooms) ensue courtesy of unpredictable Steve and brooding Lester Jr. (Dave Cox). Cops and a gun are worked into the plot, but thankfully there's no escalation to serious violence.
As a dysfunctional community demolition derby, "Kitchen Party" shows the ups and downs of rebellious acts in a stifling suburban environment, but it's not so darkly comic that it makes a lasting impression or breaks new ground.
KITCHEN PARTY
Cadence Entertainment
and Nine Iron Films Ltd.
a Sub Urban Film Co. production
Writer-director: Gary Burns
Producers: Christine Haebler, John Hazlett
Executive producers: James Head, Scott Kennedy
Editors: Mark Lemmon, Reginald Harkema
Director of photography: Robert Aschmann
Production designer: Douglas Hardwick
Music: Schaun Tozer
Color/stereo
Cast:
Scott: Scott Speedman
Tammy: Laura Harris
Barb: Gillian Barber
Brent: Kevin McNulty
Wayne: Tygh Runyan
Steve: Jason Wiles
Lester Sr.: Jerry Wasserman
Lester Jr.: Dave Cox
Running time -- 86 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 1/21/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
As the "Titanic" leaves port for its four-hour minicruise on CBS, it's loaded with the usual baggage for our television disasters.
Oddly enough, considering that 800 people lived and 1,500 died, it's not a very eventful journey.
This isn't a special effects bonanza -- as we expect from director James Cameron's big-screen interpretation of the same events now being shot. There are enough effects to make the point but, essentially, this version is packed with stock characters from writers Ross LaManna and Joyce Eliason and jam-packed with the ironies of the unsinkable ship unthinkably sinking the night of April 12, 1912.
It is, of course, one of the hideous stories of the century, the historic ship five blocks long carrying its own library and 75,000 pounds of meat and not all those unnecessary lifeboats that it wouldn't need anyway.
Director Robert Lieberman shuffles about a dozen stories of fact and fiction, some interesting, some not, ranging from rape and pillaging to love and tenderness. And don't forget stupidity and then panic and pathos.
Among the characters: wise old Capt. Smith (George C. Scott), evilly arrogant shipline director Ismay (Roger Rees), star-crossed lovers Wynn (Peter Gallagher) and Isabella (Catherine Zeta Jones), devious ship attendant Doonan (Tim Curry), reforming petty thief Jamie (Mike Doyle), boisterous Molly Brown (Marilu Henner), snooty Mrs. Foley Eva Marie Saint), zillionaire John Jacob Astor (Scott Hylands) and, well, enough of a cast to populate the Titanic.
It's a curious enough trip, just by the size of the calamity, but there's nothing much to recommend the performances here, with some brief exceptions by some lesser cast members. And, in a zany way, the Titanic survives; this wasn't the first re-enactment -- and won't be the last.
TITANIC
CBS
Konigsberg/Sanitsky Co. in association with
American Zoetrope and Hallmark Entertainment
Executive producers:Fred Fuchs, Frank Konigsberg, Larry Sanitsky
Producers:Rocky Lang, Harold Tichenor
Director:Robert Lieberman
Writers:Ross LaManna, Joyce Eliason
Director of photography:David Hennings
Visual effects supervisor:Janet Muswell
Production designer:Christiaan Wagener
Editor:Tod Feuerman
Music:Lennie Niehaus
Cast: Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger Rees, Harley Jane Kozad, Marilu Henner, Mike Doyle, Sonsee Ahray, Felicity Waterman, Scott Hylands, Janne Mortil, Malcolm Stewart, Kevin McNulty, Matthew Walker.
Airdates: Sunday, Nov. 17, 9-11 p.m., and Tuesday, Nov. 19, 9-11 p.m.
Oddly enough, considering that 800 people lived and 1,500 died, it's not a very eventful journey.
This isn't a special effects bonanza -- as we expect from director James Cameron's big-screen interpretation of the same events now being shot. There are enough effects to make the point but, essentially, this version is packed with stock characters from writers Ross LaManna and Joyce Eliason and jam-packed with the ironies of the unsinkable ship unthinkably sinking the night of April 12, 1912.
It is, of course, one of the hideous stories of the century, the historic ship five blocks long carrying its own library and 75,000 pounds of meat and not all those unnecessary lifeboats that it wouldn't need anyway.
Director Robert Lieberman shuffles about a dozen stories of fact and fiction, some interesting, some not, ranging from rape and pillaging to love and tenderness. And don't forget stupidity and then panic and pathos.
Among the characters: wise old Capt. Smith (George C. Scott), evilly arrogant shipline director Ismay (Roger Rees), star-crossed lovers Wynn (Peter Gallagher) and Isabella (Catherine Zeta Jones), devious ship attendant Doonan (Tim Curry), reforming petty thief Jamie (Mike Doyle), boisterous Molly Brown (Marilu Henner), snooty Mrs. Foley Eva Marie Saint), zillionaire John Jacob Astor (Scott Hylands) and, well, enough of a cast to populate the Titanic.
It's a curious enough trip, just by the size of the calamity, but there's nothing much to recommend the performances here, with some brief exceptions by some lesser cast members. And, in a zany way, the Titanic survives; this wasn't the first re-enactment -- and won't be the last.
TITANIC
CBS
Konigsberg/Sanitsky Co. in association with
American Zoetrope and Hallmark Entertainment
Executive producers:Fred Fuchs, Frank Konigsberg, Larry Sanitsky
Producers:Rocky Lang, Harold Tichenor
Director:Robert Lieberman
Writers:Ross LaManna, Joyce Eliason
Director of photography:David Hennings
Visual effects supervisor:Janet Muswell
Production designer:Christiaan Wagener
Editor:Tod Feuerman
Music:Lennie Niehaus
Cast: Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Catherine Zeta Jones, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry, Roger Rees, Harley Jane Kozad, Marilu Henner, Mike Doyle, Sonsee Ahray, Felicity Waterman, Scott Hylands, Janne Mortil, Malcolm Stewart, Kevin McNulty, Matthew Walker.
Airdates: Sunday, Nov. 17, 9-11 p.m., and Tuesday, Nov. 19, 9-11 p.m.
- 11/14/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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