This illustration photograph taken on September 26, 2022 in Los Angeles, exhibits an individual checking data on-line for the now completely closed Paulsboro, New Jersey’s Hometown Deli in entrance of a display screen displaying the facade of the restaurant. – US officers introduced fraud expenses September 26 in opposition to three males who orchestrated a $100 million scheme to inflate the market worth of an organization whose solely income supply was a small-town New Jersey delicatessen. It’s the newest twist within the odd saga of a Paulsboro, New Jersey deli owned by Hometown Worldwide, which noticed its inventory valuation soar in 2021 regardless of annual deli revenues of lower than $40,000.
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