The US Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that former CEO of a Missouri charity, Marilyn Nolan, pleaded guilty on Friday to crimes related to bribery and unlawful campaign contributions for elected public officials in Missouri and Arkansas. Nolan admitted to conspiring “to misapply millions of dollars of the charity’s funds for substantial, undisclosed payments to lobbying [...]
Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said Sunday that authorities have arrested former Minister of Welfare and Social Security Parviz Kazemi for financial fraud. Kazemi resigned in 2006 after serving nearly one year under former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. He then served on the board of directors of Capital Bank and was a member of the Board of Trustees of [...]
The US Court of Appeals for Tenth Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a whistleblower lawsuit, holding that the False Claims Act (FCA) does not protect whistleblowers from retaliation once they are no longer employees. Debbi Potts was a campus director at “CollegeAmerica Denver, Inc. (CollegeAmerica), a predecessor of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education, Inc.” [...]
Senior Judge Roslyn Silver of the US District Court for the District of Arizona on Wednesday sentenced Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah to life plus 30 years in prison for crimes committed in 2011 related to bomb construction. Alahmedalabdaloklah, a.k.a. Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, was convicted by a federal jury in March for seeking “to harm American soldiers by conspiring with [...]
Georgia voters filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia , seeking to halt Georgia’s Republican candidate for governor and current Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, from overseeing the election in which he is a candidate. The lawsuit alleges that allowing Kemp to oversee the election and effect [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in two cases: the first concerning alternative methods of capital punishment for an inmate suffering from a rare illness, and the second concerning employment taxes under the Railroad Retirement Tax Act (RRTA). The first, Bucklew v. Precythe, asks the court to consider whether a Missouri death row [...]
Austria announced Wednesday that it will not sign the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, following suit with the US and Hungary. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that Austria fears the compact will lead to “a human right to migration.” The Compact’s human rights purpose states: “we ensure effective respect, protection and fulfillment of the [...]
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday overturned the 2010 blasphemy conviction and death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman, for failure to proffer enough evidence that Bibi indeed committed the crime. The court’s decision rested on Pakistan’s Constitution and a 2016 decision in which the court emphasized that the state is “to ensure that [...]
The US Supreme Court continued the November term, hearing oral arguments in one case concerning Indian tribal rights and a second regarding a criminal defendant’s right to appeal after guilty plea. The first case, Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den Inc., asks the court to determine whether a 2006 state tax imposed on fuel [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Chevron has agreed to settle with the federal government and Mississippi for claims regarding violations of the Clean Air Act. The settlement will require safety improvements at all of its petroleum refineries across the US to prevent “accidental releases of hazardous chemicals that can have serious [...]
