U.S. Prosecutor Masterminded $37 Billion Bank Penalty WinRelated Geoffrey Graber, the 41-year-old Justice Department attorney tasked with holding Wall Street accountable for the financial crisis, has a message for his prosecutors: Always be closing. In the past year, Graber has won almost $37 billion in penalties from some of the world’s largest banks, a record haul for prosecutors.
Everything We Have Been Taught About Our Origins Is A LieIn June 1936 Max Hahn and his wife Emma were on a walk beside a waterfall near to London, Texas, when they noticed a rock with wood protruding from its core. They decided to take the oddity home and later cracked it open with a hammer and a chisel.
The Most Ambitious Environmental Lawsuit EverIn Louisiana, the most common way to visualize the state’s existential crisis is through the metaphor of football fields. The formulation, repeated in nearly every local newspaper article about the subject, goes like this: Each hour, Louisiana loses about a football field’s worth of land.
Apple will face $350M trial over iPod DRMApple will soon have to face a trial over accusations it used digital rights management, or DRM, to unlawfully maintain a lead in the iPod market, a federal judge has ruled. The plaintiffs’ lawyers, representing a class of consumers who bought iPods between 2006 and 2009, are asking for $350 million.
Twitter sues US for right to disclose government requestsReuters / Eric Thayer Internet giant Twitter is suing the Department of Justice in hopes that the United States government will let the web company publish more details about requests made for user data. The complaint, filed in federal court on Tuesday this week, asks the Justice Dept.
The Government’s Entire Civil Anti-Fraud Arsenal On Display In Historic Settlement With Bank Of America | The National Law ReviewThe Government recently entered into a massive settlement with Bank of America and its affiliated entities related alleged wrongdoing by the bank in connection with the packaging and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities that contributed to the Great Recession of 2008.
Police violated constitutional rights of Ferguson protesters – federal judgeA Missouri federal judge has agreed with an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit claiming the First Amendment rights of Ferguson residents and their supporters were violated when law enforcement made arbitrary rules about them. Chief US District Judge Catherine D.
Why Phone and Cable Companies Want to Kill the Web’s Most Democratic RightNet Neutrality - the principle that protects Internet users’ free speech rights - is censorship. Did you get that? You did if you happened to be reading the Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages. Former Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell recently wrote a screed claiming that Net Neutrality supporters have taken a turn “toward undermining free speech.”
Guantanamo force feeding videos must be released – US judgeReuters / Brennan Linsley / Pool Video footage of American officials force feeding inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison complex in Cuba cannot be kept secret and must be released to the public, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
Full Show: Too Big to Jail? | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.comBILL MOYERS: This week on Moyers & Company, the crusading Bill Black. WILLIAM K. BLACK: No one can claim with a straight face that if we prosecuted bankers, as opposed to banks, that it would have any negative effect. It would have huge positive effects in sending the right message of accountability and the right message of deterrence.
Graham Legal Helps Another Family Remain in Their HomeMiami, Florida (PRWEB) October 03, 2014 The Law Firm of Graham Legal, P.A., who specializes in foreclosure defense in the South Florida market, recently celebrated another win on behalf of a client who can now remain in their home. “Victoriously representing a client who was wronged by their lender is a tremendous feeling.
Bank of America accused of trying to evict homeowner current on payments – Southeast Texas RecordA Hamshire man alleges his mortgage lender is trying to evict him after agreeing to allow him to bring the account current and maintain the loan. Travis Stark filed a lawsuit against Bank of America Aug. 22 in Jefferson County District Court.
Divorcing Mindful Meditation From Religion, with Sam Harris | Big ThinkIn the following clip , neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris advocates for a secular form of meditation as a method for making fundamental discoveries about the nature of the mind. This discussion relates directly to arguments made in his new book, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality …
The Fake Terror Threat Used To Justify Bombing Syria – The InterceptAs the Obama Administration prepared to bomb Syria without congressional or U.N. authorization, it faced two problems. The first was the difficulty of sustaining public support for a new years-long war against ISIS, a group that clearly posed no imminent threat to the “homeland.”
Cops sued for breaking into home, arresting woman for recording their actions (VIDEO)Screenshot from NBC10 A Pennsylvania couple is suing three Collingdale police officers for entering their home without permission in an effort to confiscate a cell phone legally used to record the officers during a February confrontation in front of their home.
US wants Guantanamo force-feeding hearing to stay secretReuters / Marc Serota Attorneys for the United States government say that an upcoming court hearing concerning the force-feeding practices used on a Guantanamo Bay detainee should be held almost entirely behind closed doors.
Wall Street Lawyer Arrested for Talking to Occupy Wall Street Protester: LawsuitStephen Kass, a 73-year-old lawyer and grandfather of seven, was walking to his cello lesson one day last September when cops arrested him. The charge? Talking to an Occupy Wall Street Protester, a new federal lawsuit alleges. Kass, an environmental lawyer who works on Wall Street, ambled by Zuccotti Park on his way to the train Sept.
Managing a Nightmare: How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb – The InterceptEighteen years after it was published, “Dark Alliance,” the San Jose Mercury News’ s bombshell investigation into links between the cocaine trade, Nicaragua’s Contra rebels, and African American neighborhoods in California, remains one of the most explosive and controversial exposés in American journalism.
Federal Appeals Court: No ‘Qualified Immunity’ Defense For Officers Who Engaged In Blatantly Unconstitutional RaidOne of the main reasons for the American Revolution was the arrogance of British officials who searched and raided people’s property at will. To keep that from recurring in the new United States, this language was included in the Fourth Amendment: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.”