What’s Trending Today: DeSantis Campaign Announcement, Lottery Scam, Celtics Stay in Playoffs
Welcome to Social Buzz, a daily column looking at what’s trending on social media platforms. I’m Caitlin Fichtel, an editor on Bloomberg’s Breaking News team, which monitors everything from company statements to tweets from some of the most prominent people in the financial world. Here’s your daily look at what the internet is talking about.
A father and son in Massachusetts were sentenced in federal court for illegally claiming more than $20 million in lottery winnings and lying on their tax returns to avoid more than $6 million in federal taxes, CNN reported, citing prosecutors. The father and son were sentenced to five years and 50 months in prison, respectively, and ordered to pay over $6 million in restitution and forfeit their profit from the scam.