Foursquare CEO Admits to Wife's Boston Marathon Fraud

UPDATE, April 25, 7:40 p.m. ET: After Friday's blowback, Crowley posted these thoughts to Medium, writing: "It’s clear that both Chelsa and I lost perspective on how our actions could be hurtful to others. What we did was wrong and we’re sorry."

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Controversy enveloped this year's Boston Marathon — the first since last year's deadly bomb attack — when it was discovered that some runners had participated while wearing fake bibs

Wearing a fake bib to run in a race others paid for, trained for, and had to run faster than a given time to enter in the first place might be difficult to explain at the best of times. But it's even harder to justify in a race with extreme symbolic and emotional resonance a grieving city and nation. (For the uninitiated, a bib is what you receive when you register for a race; it's basically your ticket.) Read more...