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 [...]
Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Senatorial candidate in last week’s 2018 midterm elections, filed lawsuits over the weekend regarding the ballot-accounting debacle that has surrounded the election. Scott sued Susan M. Bucher, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, alleging that she “continues to store election equipment and ballots in an unsecured facility outside the view [...]
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on Tuesday overturned the president’s decision to dissolve parliament and called for a halt in preparations for a snap election on January 5. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena dissolved parliament because he lacked the support to install the prime minister of his choice, Mahinda Rajapaksa, after firing the previous [...]
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered that mail-in absentee ballots in Gwinnett County, Georgia, should be counted after they were originally rejected for an omitted or incorrect birth year. Under Georgia law, an eligible voter can request an absentee ballot by completing an application 180 days before the election date. Once the application is received, [...]
North Carolina’s Democratic Party, voting rights group Common Cause and individual voters filed suit against the state government Tuesday claiming excessive partisan gerrymandering of legislative maps. In their complaint, filed in the Wake County Superior Court, plaintiffs that the 2017 state House and Senate redistricting maps were construed in favor of the Republican party. Common Clause claims [...]
The European Court of Justice ruled Tuesday against Dutch company Levola in its attempt to copyright the taste of a spreadable cheese product it produces, finding that the taste of a food product is not eligible for copyright protection. The case began over a decade ago when a Dutch food retailer created the spreadable dip Heksenkaas (commonly referred [...]
Two Egyptian police officers were sentenced by the South Cairo Criminal Court on Monday to three years and six months in prison for the wrongful death of a detainee, a popular painter known as “Afroto.” Egyptian news agency Mada Masr reports that Afroto was allegedly killed in prison on January 5, 2018, and eyewitnesses told [...]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently launched an investigation into the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. The central focus of the inquiry seeks to determine whether there have been violations of federal child sex-crimes and related crimes among Church leaders. This investigation raises a number of critical issues, including the potential impacts on American law and [...]
The US Supreme Court added two cases to its docket Tuesday, including a Virginia gerrymandering case. Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill is racial gerrymandering case in which 12 state legislative districts in Virginia are being challenged. The court wants briefs on whether the parties have standing to bring this appeal. The lower court ruled [...]
