A federal grand jury in the US District Court for the Western District of Missouri indicted Walter Lee Hoornstra Wednesday for threatening an Arizona election official. The indictment asserts that Hoornstra left a threatening voicemail on the personal cell phone of an election official in Arizona. The alleged voicemail threatened the election worker that they [...]

A group of journalists and lawyers sued the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Monday for illegally spying on them and violating their Fourth Amendment rights under the US Constitution while visiting Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The Fourth Amendment protects US citizens from unreasonable search and seizure. The group filed the lawsuit in the US District Court [...]

The US House of Representatives has passed HR 5376, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to send it to President Joe Biden for signing into law. The bill addresses climate change, drug pricing and corporate taxes. The House voted 220-207 to pass the bill. Last Sunday, the US Senate narrowly passed the bill during a 27-hour [...]

US District Judge Charles Breyer ruled Wednesday that the nationwide pharmacy chain Walgreens contributed to and is liable for the opioid epidemic in San Francisco. This decision results from a month-long bench trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sued Walgreens for public nuisance [...]

US President Joe Biden Tuesday signed the CHIPS Act of 2022, which provides $52 billion to boost the US domestic semiconductor industry. The act authorizes the expenditure of more than $200 billion to promote domestic semiconductor production. However, only $52 billion is immediately appropriated as a result of Biden signing the bill. The act also [...]

US District Judge Paul Engelmayer has vacated former Deutsche Bank AG trader Timothy Parietti’s conviction of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. The case was in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. In 2016, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Parietti with conspiracy to commit wire fraud [...]

A US federal judge has granted a request by prosecutors to dismiss wire fraud charges against former Uber Chief Security Officer Joseph Sullivan. Judge James Donato signed the dismissal, and the case is in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, San Francisco Division. A federal grand jury charged Sullivan for his [...]

The US House of Representatives has passed by a 217-213 vote H.R. 1808, a bill that, if enacted, would ban assault-style rifles. Sponsor Rep. David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, introduced the bill in the House in March 2021. The bill will amend 18 U.S.C. § 921 to add definitions of “semiautomatic pistol,” “semiautomatic shotgun” [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday that Trident Mortgage Company agreed to pay over $22 million to settle federal charges that its lending practices intentionally discriminated against minorities in the Greater Philadelphia Area. Trident is one of the largest realtor-affiliated mortgage lenders in the US and is a subsidiary of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. [...]

A federal jury has convicted Steve Bannon of two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena from the January 6 House Committee. The case is in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Bannon was Chief Strategist and Counselor to former President Donald Trump for around seven months in [...]