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12 Jan 2024, 3:00 am
Judges have ordered prison time for nearly every defendant convicted of a felony and some jail time to about half of those convicted of misdemeanors. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 4:00 am
Super PACs Raise Millions as Concerns About Illegal Campaign Coordination Raise Questions OpenSecrets – Maia Cook | Published: 8/18/2023 Super PACs, now a staple in modern presidential campaigns, are already gearing up to spend unlimited sums to support and oppose candidates for the 2024 election and many of those groups have a cozy relationship with the candidates they support. [read post]
23 Jun 2023, 4:00 am
Hunter Biden Reaches Deal to Plead Guilty in Tax, Gun Case MSN – Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein (Washington Post) | Published: 6/20/2023 President Biden’s son Hunter reached a tentative agreement with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to two minor tax crimes and admit to the facts of a gun charge under terms that would likely keep him out of jail. [read post]
5 May 2023, 4:00 am
Corruption Scandal: Here’s the latest prominent figure to plead guilty MSN – Mallory Moench (San Francisco Chronicle) | Published: 5/2/2023 John Porter, a former executive at the Recology trash-hauling company, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit fraud, admitting he paid more than $55,000 in bribes to disgraced former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who was at the center of a web of corruption in multimillion-dollar contracts for… [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 3:00 am
Scandal-Hit EU Assembly Set to Move on Anti-Corruption Plan Yahoo News – Lorne Cook (Associated Press) | Published: 1/11/2023 Spurred into action by a major corruption scandal, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola wants to prevent former lawmakers from lobbying on behalf of businesses or governments soon after they leave office and to make public the names of current members who break assembly rules. [read post]
28 Oct 2022, 4:00 am
Department of Justice, as well as a threatening email sent to the state elections director. [read post]
7 Oct 2022, 4:00 am
“Americans can be put in jail for poking fun at the government? [read post]
15 Jul 2022, 4:00 am
The most prominent was in Colorado, where a county clerk was indicted for her role in facilitating unauthorized access to voting machines. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 4:00 am
Canada Canada – Conservatives Ask If Trudeau Used ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card’ Before 2016 Aga Khan Vacation CBC – Staff | Published: 4/25/2022 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) examined the possibility of charging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with fraud after investigating his 2016 family vacation on the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas. [read post]
24 Dec 2021, 3:00 am
Public Works Director Nuru Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charge MSN – Michael Cabanatuan (Sam Francisco Chronicle) | Published: 12/17/2021 Mohammed Nuru, San Francisco’s former public works director whose tenure was ended by a federal corruption probe that snowballed into numerous prosecutions against city officials and contractors, pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraud. [read post]
29 Oct 2021, 12:30 pm
Despite knowing his history of seizures, Cook County, Ill. jail officers assign man to top bunk, from which he falls, breaking his ankle. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 4:00 am
Gore has the public perception of the court’s legitimacy seemed so seriously threatened,” Georgetown Supreme Court Institute Executive Director Irv Gornstein said. [read post]
30 Jul 2021, 4:00 am
National/Federal As Coronavirus Surges, GOP Lawmakers Are Moving to Limit Public Health Powers MSN – Frances Stead Sellers and Isaac Stanley-Becker (Washington Post) | Published: 7/25/2021 Republican lawmakers are rallying around the cause of individual freedom to counter community-based disease mitigation methods, moves experts say leave the country ill-equipped to counter the resurgent coronavirus and a future outbreak. [read post]
16 Apr 2021, 4:00 am
National/Federal Asian American Super PAC Launches Operation to Improve Understanding of Fastest-Growing Electorate MSN – Colby Itkowitz and Amy Wang (Washington Post) | Published: 4/11/2021 The AAPI Victory Fund super PAC, the top political organization representing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, announced the creation of a new nonprofit group aimed at developing a greater understanding of the nuanced population that has long been excluded from conversations about issues such… [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 3:00 am
District Court Judge Marcia Cooke described Rivera’s actions as “egregious,” adding that there was a chance his conduct would continue, noting he continued to run for office after the scheme. [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 12:30 pm
Back to the Circuit Court of Cook County you go. [read post]
11 Dec 2020, 4:20 am
” “A couple of weeks ago the County Health Director issues this Executive Order 117A. [read post]
13 Nov 2020, 3:00 am
“I’m going to the Los Angeles County Registrar’s Office in Norwalk today to audit the vote counting procedures,” Webber wrote. [read post]
23 Oct 2020, 3:00 am
The disclosure by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe at a hastily called news conference marked the first time this election cycle that a foreign adversary has been accused of targeting specific voters in a bid to undermine democratic confidence. [read post]
2 Oct 2020, 3:00 am
National/Federal Amy Coney Barrett, a Disciple of Justice Scalia, Is Poised to Push the Supreme Court Further Right Washington Post – Michael Kranish, Robert Barnes, Shawn Boburg, and Ann Marimow | Published: 9/26/2020 The declarations of political war started coming fast as President Trump announced his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. [read post]
