A wealthy California couple were sentenced to prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to paying $250,000 to fraudulently help their daughter gain admission to the University of Southern California as a volleyball recruit. Diane Blake, the co-founder of a retail merchandising company, and Todd Blake, an entrepreneur and investor, were sentenced by US District Judge Nathaniel [...]
Joe Biden has won states worth 306 Electoral College votes, 36 more than the 270 needed to win, and received in excess of 5 million more popular votes than Donald Trump. Yet Trump insists the election was stolen from him and he is the victor. Trump started attacking the election months before it happened. He [...]
The United States, long a bastion of law, has a moment. That moment is its “return to the fold”, so to speak, regarding the rule of law and supporting human rights. Elihu Root, a former Secretary of State under Theodore Roosevelt, stated that at the heart of US foreign policy “our conscience must be our [...]
Plaintiffs represented by the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic and co-counsel at Jenner & Block announced Wednesday they had reached a settlement agreement with the US Army in a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of more than 50,000 veterans who received less-than-Honorable discharges. Steve Kennedy and Alicia Carson served in Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively, [...]
Peru swore in another interim president on Tuesday after Manuel Merino resigned barely a week after entering into office. Fransisco Sagasti is the fourth president to ascend to power in Peru within a period of four years. In 2016, Peru voters elected Pedro Pablo, who went on to resign in 2018 following accusations of corruption. [...]
The Solomon Islands government announced a plan on Monday to temporarily ban residents from using Facebook. Prime minister Manasseh Sogavare and communication and civil aviation minister Peter Agovaka said the ban intends to curtail “abusive language” and “character assassination” of government officials. In 2019 residents used Facebook to organize protests against Sogavare’s election. Agovaka also cited [...]
Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Navdeep Bains, introduced a new bill in the Canadian House of Commons Tuesday that will bring about significant privacy reforms to comply with Canada’s Digital Charter, such as increased personal control over digital information and stricter fines. The bill, entitled the Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2020, comes after Bains [...]
GM executive and former United Auto Workers (UAW) Vice President Joe Ashton was sentenced Tuesday to 30 months in prison for accepting illegal kickbacks. In 2019 the US Attorney officially charged Ashton with conspiring to commit honest services wire fraud and conspiring to commit money laundering in connection with the kickbacks taken in pursuit of an [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Tuesday dismissed part of the charges against Fiat Chrysler engineer Emanuele Palma in a criminal case brought for Palma’s role in defrauding federal emission tests during his tenure at Fiat Chrysler. The court found that the dismissed charges of wire fraud [...]
The lower house of Russia’s Parliament, the Duma, passed the first reading of a draft law granting “guarantees to the President of the Russian Federation who has terminated the exercise of his powers.” These guarantees are to be extended to the former president’s family members as well. According to the Explanatory Note to the draft law, [...]
