EU Warns Hostile Countries Are 5G Risk, Avoids Naming Names
The European Union has warned that next-generation telecommunication networks face a range of cyber threats, including from hostile countries.
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Baltimore Prosecutor Wants 790 ‘Tainted’ Convictions Erased
Baltimore’s top prosecutor has begun asking judges to throw out nearly 800 convictions that she said were tainted by officers linked to a corruption scandal.
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Devin Nunes Sues Reporter, Hearst for Article About Family’s Iowa Dairy
California Representative Devin Nunes asked a federal court in Iowa Monday to award him $75 million in damages in a defamation and common law conspiracy suit against reporter Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines.
Read moreAlex Jones
Infowars personality Alex Jones claims in a federal complaint that hackers allied with The Young Turks LLC libeled him by trying to plant child pornography on his company’s computers, and falsely claiming that he “sent child porn to the victims of school shootings.”
Read moreFormer Texas Judge Gets 5 Years for Taking Attorney Bribes
A longtime Texas judge was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday in connection with a bribery scandal that brought down the once-prominent Democrat’s two-decade judicial career.
Read moreWater Racket
A federal judge refused to dismiss a RICO complaint that claims the chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission, et al., conspired to take bribes to allow water companies to raise their rates.
Read morePoultry Processors Accused of Fixing Worker Wages
Perdue, Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride and 15 other poultry-processing giants were hit with federal class action accusing the companies of conspiring to suppress wages.
Read moreAluminum Antitrust
The Second Circuit vacated and remanded a ruling denying antitrust claims alleging conspiracy to inflate prices in the primary aluminum market due to a post-financial crisis product glut.
Read moreCourt Has No Role in Woman’s Beef With Religion, Mormon Church Says
Is the Book of Mormon the word of God? That is not a question for an American court of law to answer, attorneys for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Tuesday in a motion to dismiss a federal conspiracy lawsuit against the church.
Read moreDNA Exoneration
Freddie Joe Lawrence accuses Ravalli, Jefferson, and Lewis and Clark counties in a federal complaint of fabricating evidence to convict him of murder. DNA evidence exonerated Lawrence after 23 years in prison, during which time his wife died and he lost contact with his three children, whom he still cannot locate.
Read moreOrthodontist Accused of Bribing Former Arkansas Lawmaker
A Florida-based orthodontist who operates several clinics in Arkansas was charged Monday in a bribery and fraud scheme involving disgraced former state Senator Jeremy Hutchinson, who pleaded guilty in June for his role in the conspiracy.
Read moreAntitrust
A federal judge dismissed without prejudice NSS Labs’ claim that Symantec conspired to suppress competition in the testing of cybersecurity products by adopting a standard to which NSS Labs refused to adhere.
Read moreEpstein Death Shifts Focus to Possible Conspirators
In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, federal prosecutors in New York have shifted their focus to possible charges against anyone who assisted or enabled him in his rampant sexual abuse of underage girls.
Read morePork Prices
Pork purchasers did not sufficiently plead their conspiracy claims against some of the nation’s leading pork producers, a federal court in Minnesota ruled. The plaintiffs claimed producers engaged in a conspiracy to control the price of pork by decreasing the total production of the animal products.
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Trumps Still on the Hook for Promoting Pyramid Scheme
They may not be able to prove racketeering, but victims of a purported multilevel-marketing scheme can sue President Donald Trump for luring them in without disclosing that he was being paid millions to do so.
Read moreGuilty Verdict in Scheme to Send Military Tech to China
A federal jury has found a Los Angeles electrical engineer guilty of conspiring to send computer parts used for missile guidance systems and other military applications to China and funneling the proceeds through a shell entertainment consulting company.
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Trial of Elizabeth Holmes Set for Summer 2020
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of the blood-testing company Theranos who is facing multiple fraud and conspiracy charges, appeared in court in San Jose on Friday for a hearing in which a federal judge established the date of what figures to be a sprawling three-month trial.
Read moreGuilty Verdict Returned in Corruption Trial of Former Honolulu Police Chief and Prosecutor Wife
Jurors returned a guilty verdict Thursday in a federal corruption trial of former Honolulu Police Chief Louis Kealoha and his wife, former deputy prosecutor Katherine Kealoha, stemming from their attempt to frame a family member with theft.
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Unsealed Emails Back Conspiracy Charge in Generic Drug Suit
Scrubbing some redactions from a suit that charged 20 generic drugmakers with a massive price-fixing conspiracy, a federal judge gave the public its first look Monday at evidence of the pharmaceutical executives emailing and texting each other to coordinate prices and placate Congress.
Read moreEgg Conspiracy
Denying summary judgment, a federal judge advanced antitrust claims from purchasers like Kroger and Nestle that Michael Foods, Rose Acre and other companies “conspired to reduce the supply of eggs and thereby increase the price of egg products.”
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