A former Fullerton, California, police sergeant charged with lying in a police report about an investigation into a DUI accident involving former Fullerton City Manager Joe Felz in 2016 was sentenced to pre-trial diversion in Orange County Superior Court. Prosecutors objected to the offer, saying law enforcement officers should be held accountable when they “abuse” their power and “engage in cover-ups.”
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For the first time, a clergy sex abuse trial opened Wednesday in the Vatican’s criminal tribunal, with one priest accused of molesting an altar boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary and another priest accused of covering it up.
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A federal class action claims Central Valley Meat Co. hid an April outbreak at its meat-processing plant in Hanford, Calif., “while actively pressuring sick employees to report to work, infecting others,” so that by early May its “single facility internally reported at least 161 cases of the county’s reported 158 cases … more than100% of the total reported cases in the entire county.”
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Accused of turning a blind eye to suspicious cash withdrawals and legal settlements conducted on behalf of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Deutsche Bank reached a $150 million settlement with New York regulators on Tuesday.
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A workers’ rights group took to the streets in downtown Oakland on Thursday, accusing automaker Tesla of covering up a coronavirus outbreak at its assembly plant in nearby Fremont.
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Fallout from a bungled Houston police raid that left a married couple dead deepened Wednesday as prosecutors charged several retired officers with felony records tampering, and the police department released an audit detailing corruption that led to the raid.
Read moreThe family of an Army soldier who went missing from a Central Texas base in April asked Congress to investigate what they say is a cover-up by Army officials after a suspect in her disappearance shot himself as police closed in on him early Wednesday.
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Pennsylvania Democratic legislators are calling for an investigation after a Republican member of the state tested positive for the Covid-19 but waited a week to inform them.
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German chemicals and pharmaceutical giant Bayer has settled a court case involving its weed-killer Roundup, a flagship product of its U.S. subsidiary Monsanto, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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A senior member of the main U.S. union that represents opera performers resigned Monday, accusing the leadership of a cover-up in its investigation of sexual harassment accusations against superstar Plácido Domingo.
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A French appeals court on Thursday acquitted a French cardinal of covering up the sexual abuse of minors in his flock, a decision culminating a drama that has produced angst for the Roman Catholic Church and reawakened a past of pain and shame for some victims seeking justice.
Read moreRuis Racing, whose horse Bolt d’Oro finished second to eventual Triple Crown winner Justify in the 2018 Santa Anita Derby, sued the California Racing Board in superior court, claiming it covered up that Justify tested positive for an illegal substance after the Santa Anita Derby.
Read moreFederal prosecutors brought charges Tuesday against two prison guards accused of falsifying records to cover up their failure to check on Jeffrey Epstein before the high-profile inmate was found dead in his cell this summer.
Read moreAccused of obstructing an investigation and possible prosecution, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is facing a wrongful-death lawsuit from a woman whose son was killed in a gang-related shooting she says is linked to the mayor’s grandson.
Read moreThe family of a motorcyclist killed in a crash involving the wife of an American diplomat has announced it is planning to sue U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration over an alleged cover-up.
Read morePope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-up by their superiors to church authorities, in a new effort to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks.
Read moreA Texas federal judge on Thursday ordered the Pepper Hamilton law firm to hand over documents compiled during its sweeping investigation into the sexual assault cover-up scandal at Baylor University.
Read moreA judge on Thursday acquitted three Chicago police officers of trying to cover up the 2014 police shooting of Laquan McDonald to protect the white officer seen pulling the trigger on dashcam video that showed the black teen getting hit with 16 bullets.
Read moreA Justice Department attorney said in opening statements of a federal grand jury trial Tuesday that a former Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy intentionally covered for his fellow officers when he lied to federal investigators about a 2011 beating in LA’s central jail.
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