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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said Wednesday it’s “disgraceful and dangerous” for Republicans to meddle in a complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board. I’m not here to judge the merits of the case,” Reid said on the Senate floor. “In fact, I’m here to do the exact opposite: to remind the Senate that prejudging the case is not our job. That would overstep long-established boundaries and weaken our system of checks and balances.” South Carolina has had a similar fight years ago and the company ended up paying so this may not be a slam dunk against Unions as some would think. Continue reading
WASHINGTON –Midwest BankCentre will open a full-service branch in an African-American neighborhood and invest approximately $1.45 million in majority African-American areas of the St. Louis metropolitan area as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that they engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of race and color. Continue reading
WASHINGTON – A group of five tax return preparers were indicted in the Middle District of Alabama on tax fraud charges, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Continue reading
WASHINGTON – Dimitrios Grifakis, 57, of Kallithea, Greece, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis to six months in prison. In a related case, Cardiff Marine Inc., the Liberian-registered shipping company and operator of the Capitola previously pleaded guilty to obstructing a Coast Guard examination and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. Continue reading
Court Finds “HedgeLoan” Transactions Were Taxable Stock Sales Disguised as Loans
WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred HedgeLender LLC from promoting a stock-loan tax scheme. Continue reading
HOUSTON—Jacqueline Lebaron, 46, the last of several members of the LeBaron family and “Lamb of God” religious sect charged for their involvement in a series of murders in 1988 in Houston and elsewhere, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct religious beliefs… Continue reading
TAMPA, FL—United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Kevin L. White (46, Riverview) and George Hondrellis (45, Tampa) with the following charges Continue reading
MINNEAPOLIS—United States Attorneys B. Todd Jones, of the District of Minnesota, and Rod J. Rosenstein, of the District of Maryland, announced that earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, Minnesota, a 26-year-old Texas man was sentenced for hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and at NASA. Continue reading
Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Tyrone Townsend (45, New York, New York) to 320 months in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking by force, threats of force and fraud; transporting women across state lines for prostitution… Continue reading
The charge alleges that from June 2008 to October 2008, STEVE HAROLD LOGA devised a scheme to defraud Fidelity Bank of $1,229,745.21 by using fraudulent invoices to obtain credit advances from the bank. Continue reading
Americans for Prosperity I guess have nothing better to do than sending out Fake eviction notices. But then they were founded and funded by David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch, with David H. Koch. serving as Chairman. Continue reading
Case Marks Largest Human Trafficking Case in U.S. History. Bruce Schwartz, 53, Sam Wongsesanit, 40, and Shane Germann, 42, have pleaded guilty to human trafficking violations involving the Los Angeles based recruiting company Global Horizons, the Justice Department announced today.
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Christopher Pettengill was charged, via an Information, with lending credibility to and ultimately persuading others to invest in a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Trevor Cook and knowingly concealing information from investors concerning the foreign currency program. Continue reading
WASHINGTON – No later than 2004, Edward Killmer Jr, hired unlicensed sleep technicians to perform sleep tests at one or more of their facilities. Continue reading
WASHINGTON — A former vice president of an Illinois refuse disposal container repair company was sentenced today to serve 16 months in prison and to pay a $40,000 criminal fine for his role in a conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with bids on a contract with the city of Chicago, the Department of Justice announced. Continue reading
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