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The Founder Gazette
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Filed under: fraud

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Startup news

CaaStle founder Christine Hunsicker sentenced to five years for fraud

The clothing rental company's founder was sentenced after a scheme that prosecutors put at $300m, built on false financial statements and invented growth.

127 · 23 August 2026
Startup news

$250m exit collapses into fraud and forged-signature claims

VideoVerse's investors are still waiting to be paid a year after the deal was announced. Its founder is now a defendant in a cluster of Delaware cases.

71 · 13 August 2026
Security tips

Cloned voices hit money managers: one check stopped them

Cheap voice cloning has made impersonation calls easy to run at scale. The defence reported by Inc. is unglamorous: verify every sensitive request through a separate channel.

14 · 8 August 2026