I'm really tired of the news feeds lately.  There is a giant echo chamber out there right now about the $500k stolen story.

First of all, do we know that this is a legit story? How can we verify this? 

What are the details of it?

Just seems like the usual MO that since the media has something damning to run against it they are all parroting each other.  But none of these stories ever have any details... do the details exist?

On a side note, it is interesting to see the Economist do an about-face with their latest hit-piece.  One of their project mockingbird editors must have told someone to write that.