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The House committee on ways and means has asked the Department of Justice and Office of the Ombudsman to conduct an investigation for the filing of possible criminal and administrative charges against former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon and 47 other Bureau of Customs men and private individuals. In an 82-page committee report, the House panel chaired by Quirino Rep. Dakila Carlo Cua has revealed that estimates have indicated that government lost P43.8 billion in revenues from July 2016 to July 2017, a period of just one year, due to massive graft and corrupt activities in the BOC.
When I first heard the University of Louisville basketball program was involved in some recruiting scandal, I was shocked-shocked!-because an ethical cloud hangs around its coach Rick Pitino like Pig-Pen of Peanuts fame. Then I heard that the FBI had been investigating multiple schools for similar violations and I thought two things: I'm again shocked-shocked!-that shamateurism prevails in the NCAA, and why does any law enforcement agency care? Here's what allegedly happened: An executive at sportswear manufacturer Adidas named James Gatto funneled significant sums of money to high school basketball players who then committed to Louisville.
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly invited Historic City News to attend a press conference Friday morning with members of ATF, FDLE, Northeast Florida HIDTA, the Bunnell Police Department, the US Attorney's Office, and State Attorney for the 7th Judicial Circuit, R. J. Larizza, to announce the outcome of Operation Heat Seeker.
As DOJ rolls back monitoring of police conduct, more prosecutors should be like Baltimore's Mosby Attorneys can and must do more to curb questionable behavior from bad cops Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2kcLloJ On Tuesday, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced her office's decision to dismiss a large number of drug cases in response to troubling police body-camera footage - bringing the total to 213 cases that have been or will be dropped since this issue first emerged over the summer. Mosby's decision should be neither surprising nor controversial.
In this April, 20, 2017 file, photo, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke who is charged in the 2014 shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald appears at a hearing in his case at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in Chicago. Van Dyke is scheduled to return to court in September, once for a hearing involving the attorneys prosecuting him and the other involving attorneys helping to determine which evidence the prosecutors can use at trial.
A federal appeals panel on Monday said part of Texas' law banning sanctuary city policies may going into effect while the court awaits arguments scheduled for November. The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Texas law enforcement agencies must comply with federal detainers for undocumented immigrants, part of Senate Bill 4. The three-judge panel left in place a lower court ruling blocking the part of the law that threatens fines, imprisonment and removal from office for any state, county or city official who interferes with enforcement of the state law.
Witnesses and police described a chaotic scene as a masked attacker armed with two guns shot seven people, killing one, in a Tennessee church before he was subdued. Witnesses and police described a chaotic scene as a masked attacker armed with two guns shot seven people, killing one, in a Tennessee church before he was subdued.
President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, used his personal email account on dozens of occasions to communicate with colleagues in the White House, his lawyer said Sunday. Between January and August, Kushner either received or responded to fewer than 100 emails from White House officials from his private account, attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement that confirmed Kushner's use of a personal address in the first months of the administration.
President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, used his personal email account on dozens of occasions to communicate with colleagues in the White House, his lawyer said Sunday.
Weiner is to be sentenced Mon... . FILE - In this July 24, 2013, file photo, former Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner leaves his apartment building in New York.
President Donald Trump has nominated an ethics and compliance director at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to be the next U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas. Duane A. Kees, known as "Dak," currently focuses on corporate investigations for the Bentonville-based retailer, according to a news release the White House sent out Friday.
Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks to an audience as a guest of Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at the University of Louisville, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, in Louisville, Ky.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions stepped up the Trump administration's critique of so-called sanctuary cities on Tuesday, saying local and state policies to limit cooperation with immigration enforcement are a criminal's "best friend." Sessions' remarks, at a gathering of law enforcement authorities in Portland, Oregon, came days after repudiation of his stance against the sanctuary movement in separate actions by a federal judge in Chicago and the California legislature.
In a televised interview with the McClatchy News Service on June 25, 1969, Earl Warren, the legendary 14th chief justice of the United States, was asked to single out the most important case of his tenure on the bench, which began in 1953. Warren, who had retired from the high tribunal just two days earlier, could have named any number of high-profile rulings: Brown v.
Taking the reverse route of Texas , California lawmakers have passed a law restricting the ability of state and local police to cooperate with federal immigration officials. The bill, SB 54, has been watered down since it was first introduced .
Silicon Valley has long argued that any change to the law would hamper free speech and destroy the internet as we know it. Now, outrage over sex trafficking, mixed with growing unease about Silicon Valley's economic and political clout, may be pushing tech companies to loosen their grip on the shield.
Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the massive data breach at Equifax , which potentially exposed the personal information of up to 143 million Americans, including their Social Security and driver's license numbers. United States Attorney John A. Horn, the federal prosecutor in Atlanta, said in a statement that his office was working with the F.B.I. to investigate the cyberattack.