Taxi medallion lender bought glowing news stories to pump up its stock price, SEC alleges – CNN

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CNN’s Matt Egan reports.”,”descriptionText”:”The Federal Reserve will wrap up its pandemic-era stimulus program faster and expects to raise interest rates in 2022. 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