A sweeping bill to decriminalize marijuana was passed on December 4 as the Democrat-led US House of Representatives voted 228-164 to approve the ‘Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act’ (MORE Act). The new law would reschedule cannabis and remove it from the long list of federally controlled substances while also... Read More »
Five New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) employees have been charged with extensive overtime fraud for filling out timesheets, stating they worked longer hours than they actually did. The four employees who worked for the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) included Thomas Caputo, 56, Joseph Ruzzo, 56, John Nugent, 50,... Read More »
The Trump administration is putting more pressure on China by banning cotton imports from the country's Western region, Xinjiang. The move comes after suspicions that the region is using slave labor to make textile goods. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency shared last Wednesday that the ban would be... Read More »
Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its finalized environmental impact statement (EIS) that recommends new rollbacks on protections for migratory birds. This final step of publishing its proposal in the federal registrar could mean that the new regulations will be in effect before the end of December,... Read More »
Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign, has brought a $75 million lawsuit against the Department of Justice, the FBI, former FBI director James B. Comey, former Assistant Director Andrew McCabe, ex-bureau lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, form FBI agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa... Read More »
On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against Facebook alleging that the company used unfair hiring practices that favored temporary visa holders over qualified U.S. workers. The lawsuit comes as part of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division’s Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative, an initiative that was born... Read More »
The Office of Inspector General for the United States Department of Health and Human Services announced a special fraud alert last month. Special fraud alerts serve as a warning on particular practices that the agency plans on investigating further. In this first warning issued in six years, pharmaceutical companies are... Read More »
Over 400 different lawmakers across 34 countries are in support of a new initiative called the Make Amazon Pay campaign. This campaign has released a list of "common demands for Amazon," in which signatories have outlined the negative impact Amazon has had on workers, communities, and the world as a... Read More »
With a story juicy enough to be a hit movie, the secret identity of the infamous “Con Queen of Hollywood” was revealed in a London courtroom to be an Indonesian man, Hargobind Tahilramani, 41. Nicknamed the “Con Queen of Hollywood” because of his alleged scheme to steal hundreds of thousands... Read More »
At a news conference on the steps of the federal courthouse in Central Islip on Wednesday, December 2, Seth DuCharme, acting United States Attorney in Brooklyn, announced the indictment of six individuals in connection with a “birth tourism” scheme in Long Island, New York. DuCharme stated, “the indictment unsealed today... Read More »
Two American citizens who were the subject of a lawsuit filed in 2019 against the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol have reached a settlement deal. The lawsuit was filed by the Immigrants' Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Ana Suda and Martha Hernandez. The two... Read More »
The Cheesecake Factory was served something off the menu by the Feds on December 4: a whopping $125,000 fine. The California-based company with 300 national restaurants in the US and Canada allegedly was caught hiding cash that the dining chain was losing in the early days of the COVID-19 Pandemic.... Read More »
A Mesa, Arizona, man pled guilty to running an illegal adoption ring that involved three states and two countries. Paul Petersen is a former Maricopa County Assessor who was charged with running an illegal adoption ring through his Mesa law office. Investigators looking into Petersen's criminal activity alleged that along... Read More »
Last Wednesday, a New York City man pleaded not guilty in a U.S. District Court on federal charges brought against him for threatening Biden supporters during the U.S. Presidential election. The indictment also lists the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Brian Maiorana is... Read More »
California Governor Gavin Newsom lost ground in a new US Supreme Court ruling yesterday that sided with a church that had defied the governor’s temporary order to restrict religious services. The justices tossed out the order from the federal trial court in the Central District of California, which had previously... Read More »
