The curious case of a Ponzi schemer’s glowing profile in a Missouri newspaper

There was something strange about the glowing profile of convicted fraudster Siddharth Jawahar that appeared last month in the Jefferson City News Tribune. It was a News Tribune story. Except it really wasn’t. The byline belonged to Jake Kroesen, editor of The Missouri Times, another Scott Faughn-owned publication. Faughn bought the News Tribune late last […]
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