A federal judge in Detroit ruled Wednesday that sweetheart deals motor conglomerate Fiat Chrysler got from the United Auto Workers by bribing their leaders hurt workers first and competitors second, dismissing a suit brought against the company by General Motors.
Read moreA nationwide RICO class action in federal court claims that Global Tel*Link, Securus Technologies and 3CInteractive conspired “to fix inflated prices for calls between incarcerated individuals and their family members, friends, attorneys, and others, while also repeatedly lying to local governments and their own customers about the costs of those calls.”
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The ongoing corruption probe at Los Angeles City Hall has resulted in the arrest of Councilman Jose Huizar on Tuesday, nearly two years after his home and City Council office were raided by FBI agents.
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A former city staffer and current aide to a California assemblywoman pleaded guilty Wednesday to racketeering charges, the latest person to admit to an ongoing money-making scheme at Los Angeles City Hall.
Read moreAn ongoing federal corruption probe at Los Angeles City Hall has resulted in several arrests in the last few months and on Wednesday a real estate consultant pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in a scheme to bribe an unnamed councilmember.
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A federal judge on Wednesday barred anti-abortion activist David Daleiden and his associates from ever entering another Planned Parenthood conference.
Read moreA federal court in New York dismissed racketeering claims brought by a Spanish art collector who lost two valuable paintings he owned – including a Picasso — after consigning them to an art gallery. The collector, who claims the gallery owner — who was convicted of fraud — and other parties engaged in a pattern of selling art they had no legal right to sell, failed to plead his RICO claims but may pursue some of his state-law fraud, conversion and replevin claims.
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A St. Croix-based financial services and consulting company is facing a class action racketeering suit that claims it is using a North Dakota-based Indian tribe as a legal shield for a nationwide usury operation.
Read moreA federal RICO class action accuses Vervent fka First Associates Loan Servicing, Deutsche Bank, et al. of defrauding student borrowers in the PEAKS program developed by now-bankrupt ITT Education Services.
Read moreA court cannot decide the validity of a religion’s beliefs, a federal judge said Tuesday in dismissing a lawsuit against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from a disenchanted former church member.
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R. Kelly took a swing Friday at the top count of his federal indictment, accusing the government of trying to push sexual assault allegations that are too old to prosecute.
Read moreA class of individuals who claim they were overcharged when they purchased airplane tickets may pursue two RICO claims against Boeing and Southwest Airlines, a federal court in Texas ruled. The case stems from defects in Boeing’s 737 MAX 8, which allegedly caused the crashes of a Lion Air flight in 2018 and an Ethiopian Airlines flight in 302.
Read moreA collector claims in a superior court RICO class action that Collector’s Universe dba Professionals Sports Authenticator knowingly upgrades altered baseball cards to jack up their prices on the market.
Read moreEighteen franchisees filed a federal RICO complaint against Curves International, claiming it provided “misleading and fraudulent franchise disclosure documents” to disguise the company’s tottering financial condition.
Read moreA federal RICO class action claims that Green Pogo, Natural Beauty Line, Vegan Beauty, et al., conspired in a scam to use fake celebrity endorsements to trick consumers into signing up for “free trials” for cosmetics, then billing them for services and subscriptions they never signed up for.
Read moreA federal RICO class action claims that Safespeed and its agents, the City of Oakbrook Terrace, and public officials in Northern Illinois conspired to “corruptly use[] red-light cameras” to “generate millions of dollars in revenue … and thereafter used bribes to protect the money machine from calls for legislation” to ban red-light cameras.
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A federal judge gave Tekashi 6ix9ine a two-year sentence Wednesday for his involvement with the Brooklyn set of the Bloods gang whose members the gangster rapper spent days on the stand fingering as a government cooperator.
Read moreGlaxoSmithKline must defend itself against racketeering and consumer fraud claims that it falsely marketed its diabetes drug Avandia as reducing heart problems when the drug actually increased the risk of heart attack, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday.
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