A Tokyo District Court denied former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn’s request to be released from detention Tuesday. Tokyo authorities arrested Ghosn in November for alleged financial fraud committed while Ghosn led Nissan. Ghosn has been detained since his arrest last year. Authorities claim that Ghosn, and his aide Greg Kelly, committed multiple acts of fraud while [...]
The Russian Federation formally charged US citizen Paul Whelan with espionage Thursday, according to Russian news agency Interfax. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested Whelan on December 28. Under Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, espionage is punishable by 10-20 years in prison. The family of Whelan, a retired US Marine, [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday against New York City’s Local Law 146, which would have required home-sharing sites, like Airbnb and HomeAway, to submit monthly reports detailing short-term rental transactions to the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement. The report would [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Thursday to reduce the scope of a nationwide preliminary injunction that had prevented the Trump Administration from enforcing rules that exempted employers from the contraceptive care requirement of the Affordable Care Act based on religious and moral grounds. The court agreed with the district court’s finding that the Departments [...]
The ACLU of Michigan on Wednesday filed a motion to dismiss criminal charges against a candidate in a political free speech. Prosecutors allege that Michigan State Senate candidate, Anuja Rajendra, violated MCL 168.944, false designation of incumbency. The charges stem from campaign mailers that officials claim include language that implied Rajendra was the incumbent for the district. [...]
Special Counsel Robert Mueller recommended in a memorandum filed Tuesday with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia that Michael Flynn receive no jail time for lying to the FBI. In December 2017 Flynn agreed to a plea deal stemming from allegations that he violated 18 USC § 1001 (making false statements). Flynn reportedly [...]
George Higginbotham, a former Senior Congressional Affairs Specialist in the US Department of Justice (DOJ), pleaded guilty Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to conspiracy to make false statements to a bank. The former DOJ employee admitted to facilitating the transfer of millions of dollars meant as payments to lobbyists who [...]
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday added the Vice President and First Lady of Nicaragua, Rosario Maria Murillo De Ortega, and top aide Nestor Moncada Lau to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List. The moves comes in response to an executive order issued by President Donald Trump authorizing sanctions against [...]
Alejandro Andrade, former national treasurer for the government of Venezuela, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday by Judge Robin Rosenberg of the US District Court Southern District of Florida for his role in a $1 billion bribery and money-laundering scheme. Andrade started his political career as a bodyguard to the former president of Venezuela, [...]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Sunday called for a 60-day period of martial law, which would curtail public demonstrations, suspend elections and potentially implement required military service. The decree comes amid escalating tensions with Russia. This past weekend the Ukrainian Navy reported that sailors from three of its ships had been arrested by Russian forces [...]
