* Military veterans among those allegedly defrauded * Authorities say many water machines didn't exist * Jefferies ex-manager was victim, not villain, lawyer says By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A Washington state entrepreneur and a former Jefferies portfolio manager were criminally charged on Thursday over a Ponzi scheme and related fraud involving water vending machines that...

04:10 PM EDT, 08/14/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Amanda Mandy Gourbault, Chief Revenue Officer, on August 13, 2025, sold 85,365 shares in Composecure ( CMPO ) for $1,623,642. Following the Form 4 filing with the SEC, Gourbault has control over a total of 799,668 Class A common shares of the company, with 799,668 shares held directly. SEC Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1823144/000182314425000099/xslF345X05/wk-form4_1755201711.xml ...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

SAO PAULO, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Brazil Potash Corp ( GRO ) is in talks with banks and other lenders to secure between $1.7 billion and $1.8 billion in debt to fund its planned potash mine in Brazil's Amazonas state, Chief Executive Matt Simpson said in an interview. The underground mine, around 100 miles from Manaus, the capital of Amazonas,...