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On October 2, 2023, Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court granted a $360,000 reward to a whistleblower in a corruption case involving an attempted $6 million bribe—the biggest reported bribe attempt in Ukraine’s history. This reward marks the first payment to a whistleblower under the Law of Ukraine on the Prevention of Corruption, a major piece of [...]

The Enforcement Directorate of India (ED) stated Tuesday that it has filed a supplementary prosecution complaint incorporating allegations against Robert Vadra. Vadra is the spouse of Priyanka Gandhi, the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress, the largest opposition party in India. The ED press release stated that it has filed a Supplementary Prosecution Complaint [...]

In September 2023, the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched investigations into possible child labor violations by meat and chicken processors Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods. The investigation, which is to determine whether migrant children are working inside slaughterhouses owned by the poultry-processing giants, follows a New York Times magazine report of minors working at the facilities [...]

It is Thanksgiving Day. The aroma of turkey; of dressing; candied sweet potatoes; green bean casserole; cranberry sauce; freshly baked yeast rolls; giblet gravy, and of pies emanating from the kitchen fills our nostrils. Home is the place to be today. But have you ever given thought to the law of the gobbler? This Day in [...]

The International Centre for Justice for Palestinians’ (ICJP) Canadian legal working group on Thursday issued Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Minister of National Revenue Marie-Claude Bibeau and Minister of Justice and Arif Virani with a notice of intention to seek the prosecution of Canadian politicians if they are complicit in alleged Israeli [...]

The US Department of Treasury announced on Thursday a round of sanctions on 130 firms and people from Türkiye, China, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as it tries to restrict Russia’s access to essential tools and equipment that support its invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions are aimed at the production of technology, equipment and [...]

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court found Wednesday in two rulings that the state cannot enforce a regulation directed by executive order to make power plant owners pay for their planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions because it was created without legislative approval, dealing another setback to the centerpiece of former Governor Tom Wolf’s plan to fight global warming. [...]

The Attorney General for the District of Columbia (DC) Brian Schwalb announced on Wednesday a lawsuit against 14 of the city’s largest landlords. The complaint alleges that these landlords colluded with RealPage, a rental management software, to artificially inflate rental prices in the city. In a video statement published on his X (formerly Twitter) page, [...]

US Representative George Santos (R-NY) pleaded not guilty Friday to 23 federal crimes contained in a superseding indictment. Santos was accused of nine counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements, three counts of unlawful money transfers amounting to over $10,000, two counts of falsifying records or documents, two counts of aggravated identity [...]

Michelangelo Landgrave is an Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri’s Harry S. Truman School of Government and Public Affairs, where he focuses on state and local politics, legislative studies, and the politics of race, ethnicity, and immigration. JURIST Assistant Editor Pitasanna Shanmugathas spoke to Professor Landgrave about his thoughts on the creation of a [...]