Sued this week in New Hampshire, a witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is the focus of a globe-spanning intrigue where the founder of BoraJet says his now-defunct Turkish airline was taken over through a campaign of violence, extortion and financial crime.
Read moreA federal judge in North Dakota dismissed a $900 million racketeering and defamation lawsuit against environmental group Greenpeace by the company that built a nearly 1,200-mile crude oil pipeline across four states.
Read moreTwo violent street gangs were targeted in early morning raids this week in what investigators called two separate criminal enterprises involved in drug and gun trafficking, extortion, illegal gambling, racketeering, attempted murder and assault across Los Angeles County.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Wednesday rejected a class action seeking to hold National Football League teams liable for conspiring to push painkillers on hurt athletes to get them back on the field, finding the claims time-barred.
Read moreFinding that the class improved allegations he had previously found wanting, a federal judge advanced a lawsuit that accuses Mercedes-Benz of misleading consumers about its line of clean diesel cars.
Read moreWhile he let the brother of Harvey Weinstein off the hook, a federal judge opted to advance civil claims Monday by “Marco Polo” producer Alexandra Canosa against the disgraced Hollywood mogul and his eponymous company.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The Ninth Circuit gave garlic exporter Harmoni International Spice another chance to prove it lost sales
Read moreEnvironmental groups on Tuesday defeated the bulk of a lawsuit claiming they conspired to smear a logging company with false statements, but Greenpeace must still face defamation claims for two statements it published.
Read moreAn immigration think tank with ties to Trump adviser Stephen Miller brought a federal complaint Wednesday over its designation as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Read moreA federal jury in Southern California on Friday ordered the notorious Mongols Nation Motorcycle Club to forfeit the trademarked insignia that bikers wear on their backs, culminating a decade long prosecution of an organization that federal prosecutors have described as “a beehive of pernicious criminal activity.”
Read moreA federal judge in Ohio refused Wednesday to dismiss racketeering claims against Purdue Pharma and other drug manufacturers, distributors and pharmacies in a massive collection of cases blaming them for the nation’s opioid epidemic.
Read moreA lawyer for six former National Football League players had a tough time convincing three Ninth Circuit judges on Wednesday to revive a lawsuit claiming the NFL and its teams illegally dispensed painkillers and pushed athletes to return to the field, bringing their careers to an untimely end.
Read moreGutting a federal class action accusing Alameda County and a private contractor of charging inmates on pre-trial detention exorbitant daily fees for ankle monitors, a federal judge on Friday dropped the county from the case and advanced just one racketeering claim.
Read moreSANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) — A federal jury Thursday convicted the Mongol Nation Motorcycle Club of racketeering and conspiracy to
Read moreAt an arraignment where Tekashi 6ix9ine pleaded not guilty to gang-related racketeering and gun charges, federal prosecutors lobbied Monday for a deep dive into the rapper’s social media accounts.
Read moreThe flamboyantly Brooklyn tattooed rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine will be presented to a federal judge Monday afternoon on criminal racketeering and firearms charges.
Read moreThe Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation accuse Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Neuma Healthcare Development and others in a federal RICO complaint of having conspired to use Medicaid dollars to profit off the tribe’s health care clinic.
Read moreThe Second Circuit upheld the 2016 conviction of fraudster Mikhail Zemlyansky after he unsuccessfully argued that double jeopardy applied to his Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case involving a multi-million dollar insurance and securities fraud scheme.
Read moreFour people rooked into a multilevel marketing scheme brought a federal class action Monday against the Trump Corporation, saying the president and three of his children made millions off a deliberate fraud.
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