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Former Volkswagen Exec Charged With Conspiracy To Defraud US

Oliver Schmidt, who used to serve as the top emissions compliance manager for Volkswagen AG in the U.S., was arrested by the FBI on Saturday, charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States over the company’s diesel emissions cheating scandal. The former executive will appear U.S. District Court in Miami on Monday afternoon.

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KIMT News 3 – An immigration bill backed by some of Iowa’s U.S. lawmakers is meant to honor the memory of an Iowa woman who was killed in a car accident last year in the state. The man who hit the SUV she was riding in was in the country illegally.

UK law firm seeks compensation for VW drivers over diesel scandal

The German company is involved in lawsuits in several countries and is racing to resolve criminal and civil allegations with the United States’ Department of Justice after admitting it cheated diesel emissions tests. Separately on Monday, the New York Times reported the Federal Bureau of Investigation had arrested a Volkswagen executive on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, underscoring how the company is still struggling to move on from the scandal 16 months after it erupted.

Trump’s team examines records of undocumented immigrants

United States President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly taken the first step towards confirming one of the worst fears of undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants who have taken advantage of a programme that grants them temporary stay in the US. According to New York’s Vice News , a US Department of Homeland Security memo, the president-elect’s team is “poking around the agency” for information about recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA.

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RT, a state-run Russian television network that broadcasts around the world in English, was implicated in a recently declassified United States intelligence report that accused the Russia government of meddling in the American presidential election to tip the vote in favor of Donald J. Trump. The Russians are accused of hacking the email systems of the Democratic National Committee and conducting a widespread disinformation campaign that included the propagation of fake news stories on the internet and the airwaves.

9 things Obama will be remembered for

As Barack Obama prepares to leave office on January 20, here are nine things his presidency may be remembered for: U.S. President Barack Obama applauds active military personnel after speaking about counter-terrorism during his visit to MacDill Air Force Base, home to U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command, in Tampa, Florida, U.S. December 6, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque WASHINGTON DC: As Barack Obama prepares to leave office on January 20, here are nine things his presidency may be remembered for: If historians were to write only one thing about Barack Hussein Obama, they would likely note that — 143 years after slavery was abolished – a young Illinois senator became the first black president of the United States.

Iowa, Nebraska senators re-introduce immigration hold bill

Senators from Nebraska and Iowa have re-introduced a bill requiring immigration officials to hold in custody anyone who has entered the country illegally and charged with a crime resulting in injury or death of another person. Sens. Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Deb Fisher and Ben Sasse of Nebraska introduced Sarah’s Law in June but it failed to advance.

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Public agencies across Northern California are bracing for a weekend of epic rain and snow after meeting with hydrologists from the National Weather Service who warned them that the incoming atmospheric river packs a punch not seen in at least a decade. “People are definitely in a state of panic right now,” said El Dorado County sheriff’s Sgt.

U.S. Transfers Four Guantanamo Detainees To Saudi Arabia, Says More Likely

Four Yemeni detainees from Guantanamo Bay arrived in Saudi Arabia on January 5, news agencies reported, with the White House saying additional transfers are likely before President Barack Obama leaves office later this month. Reuters and AFP reported that the detainees arrived at a Riyadh airport after being released from the U.S. naval base in Cuba that Obama vowed to close when he came into office.

‘There was no intent to murder. There was no violence.’ But he’s been locked up 32 years.

NORMAN BRYANT was just 15 on Jan. 29, 1985, when he joined older brother Kenneth and a 14-year-old friend in a burglary of what they believed was an empty house in West Philadelphia. When Kenneth Bryant went upstairs, he found himself face to face with the occupant, Gertrude Jones, 82. He shoved her, then went back downstairs, never mentioning the run-in to the others.

Trump wants the US taxpayer and NOT Mexico to pay for the wall:…

Meryl Streep, Gwyneth Paltrow and Meg Ryan among the stars to turn out for Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher’s memorial service ‘His father had been touching him down there’: The Menendez Brothers’ cousin breaks her silence to claim the boys WERE being molested before they murdered their parents Charles Manson had OVER 100 behavioral violations in prison before he was hospitalized: Serial killer spat at guards, made voodoo dolls and had saw blades in the soles of his shoes Trump now wants US taxpayer and NOT Mexico to pay for the wall: Republican official say Congress could foot bill for President-elect’s border plans in dramatic pledge reversal Sears to close 150 stores and sell its famous Craftsman tool brand for $900M in a bid to keep the company afloat Could REDDIT help you stop drinking in 2017? Research finds the website is helping more than 50,000 recovering alcoholics find … (more)

Urban League of Louisiana annual Holiday Awards Luncheon honors 4 leaders

The Urban League of Louisiana hosted its fourth annual Holiday Awards Luncheon on Dec. 28 to honor four people for their leadership and contributions to New Orleans and the state. Held at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, the party was hosted by former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial , who is now the National Urban League President and CEO, and Urban League of Louisiana President and CEO Erika McConduit .

US transfers more Guantanamo prisoners

The Pentagon announced Thursday that four inmates were transferred from the Guantanamo Bay prison to Saudi Arabia, dropping the prison’s population to 55. “The United States is grateful to the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for its humanitarian gesture and willingness to support ongoing US efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility,” the Pentagon said in a statement. The news comes amid reports President Barack Obama is attempting to empty the facility as much as possible prior to Inauguration Day.

a Guccifer,a Clinton-tied hacker, doubts FBIa s claims concerning Russian cyber campaign: Report

A self-taught computer hacker convicted of compromising the emails of one of Hillary Clinton’s closest advisers said the White House’s allegations of a Russian-led cyber campaign aimed at the recent U.S. presidential race are overblown. Marcel Lehel Lazar, a Romanian national better known by the alias “Guccifer,” doubts the Obama administration’s claims with respect to Russia’s widely believed meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Fox News reported Wednesday.

Hunt for Prison Escapee Pivots to Bank Robbery Attempt

The FBI says a man who generally fits the description of an escaped inmate attempted to rob a bank in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Thursday morning. The suspect is described as a husky 5’10” man with a mustache and a tattoo on his neck, matching the description of James Walker Morales, who escaped from the high-security Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, Rhode Island on New Year’s Eve.

Professor Obama FINALLY Publishes A Piece Of Scholarship

REUTERS/Carlos Barria President Barack Obama, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review and senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School, has finally published a piece of legal scholarship. The president’s first journal article appeared Thursday in the Harvard Law Review and concerned the role of the executive branch in advancing criminal justice reform.

Obama Pens Law Review Article on Criminal Justice

President Barack Obama walks down the White House Colonnade from the main residence to the Oval Office, in Washington, Nov. 9, 2016. President Barack Obama returns to his roots at the Harvard Law Review on Thursday, penning an article about progress his administration made in reforming the criminal justice system – and the challenges that remain for the next administration.

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Four Gitmo detainees are slated to be transferred to Saudi Arabia in the next 24 hours, the first of the final wave of up to 20 transfers expected before Inauguration Day, two U.S. officials tell Fox News. The identities of the four detainees are not immediately known.

Pentagon Chief: Trump Needs to Keep Alliances, Hold Russia Accountable in Syria

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says President-elect Donald Trump’s administration should maintain partnerships with NATO and allies in the Asia-Pacific, while also holding Russia accountable to its stated mission of battling terrorists in Syria and help end the war. The recommendations came in a memo that Carter, like the other Cabinet secretaries, prepared to highlight what their departments achieved during the eight-year presidency of Barack Obama.

Strike group deployed to tension-fraught Pacific region

The USS Carl Vinson is bound for the tension-fraught Western Pacific. The San Diego-based carrier and its strike group of helicopters, fighter jets and ships – including the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain and the destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer – were due to depart Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., Thursday and Friday, a Navy statement said.

Strike group deployed to tension-fraught Pacific region

The USS Carl Vinson is bound for the tension-fraught Western Pacific. The San Diego-based carrier and its strike group of helicopters, fighter jets and ships – including the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain and the destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer – were due to depart Naval Air Station North Island, Calif., Thursday and Friday, a Navy statement said.

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Later this month, Barack Obama will become the first president in at least 40 years to leave the office with a smaller federal prison system than he started with. In 2015, the total incarceration rate – including state prisons, federal prisons and local jails – fell to 670 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents.

Your Jan. 4 Pre-Trip: UberFreight takes on trucking

Uber recently unveiled a new website for its delivery service called UberFreight . According to a Futurism report, details about the new service are sparse, “but it’s likely the plan is to use test runs of the technology to gather real-life data that will ‘educate’ the self-driving algorithms.”

.com | California gets ready to protect foreigners from Trump

California, home to many foreigners without residence papers, is girding to fight any attempt by President-elect Donald Trump to expel them. Trump, who takes office on January 20, has vowed to deport from the country as many as three million immigrants with criminal records and build a wall along the border with Mexico.

DHS chief: Don’t use ‘Dreamer’ info to deport them

Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson is warning lawmakers that personal information collected by his agency for applications for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival, or so-called Dreamers, should not be used in the future to deport them. Johnson’s veiled warning to incoming President Donald Trump and his administration could be useful in upcoming court cases if Trump revokes an executive order signed by President Barack Obama.

French corruption trial of African leader’s son postponed

Amid reports that Charles Manson has been taken from his California prison cell to a hospital, a state corrections official would confirm only that the 82-year-old killer and cult leader was still alive. Amid reports that Charles Manson has been taken from his California prison cell to a hospital, a state corrections official would confirm only that the 82-year-old killer and cult leader was still alive.

Obama, Pence to Capitol as health care overhaul fight begins

President Barack Obama heads to the Capitol on Jan. 4, to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat th… Amid reports that Charles Manson has been taken from his California prison cell to a hospital, a state corrections official would confirm only that the 82-year-old killer and cult leader was still alive. Amid reports that Charles Manson has been taken from his California prison cell to a hospital, a state corrections official would confirm only that the 82-year-old killer and cult leader was still alive.

Police end NAACP sit-in against attorney general nominee

The national president of the NAACP and five others were arrested after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil rights group said. The organization held the demonstration to protest Sessions’ nomination by President-elect Donald Trump, criticizing Sessions’ record and views on civil rights, immigration, criminal justice reform, and voting rights enforcement.

Under 3 weeks left: Obama in closing stretch of presidency

His last vacation behind him, President Barack Obama is entering the closing stretch of his presidency, an eleventh-hour push to tie up loose ends and put finishing touches on his legacy before handing the reins to President-elect Donald Trump. Obama returned to Washington midday Monday from Hawaii with less than three weeks left.