Tax Time
LOS ANGELES - The USA wants John Trunzo aka Your Taxman John Truzno barred from doing tax returns for anyone but himself and his wife, in Federal Court.
View ArticlePunished for Hiring an Attorney
BEAVER, Pa. (CN) - A champion dirt-racing driver sued the World Racing Group, claiming it indefinitely suspended him for the "offense" of hiring an attorney to appeal a race disqualification....
View ArticlePonzi Scam
DALLAS - Delsa U. Thomas ran a $2.3 million Ponzi scam through her companies, D. Christopher Capital Management Group and a "purported hedge fund," The Solomon Fund, the SEC claims in Federal Court.
View Article3 Guilty Pleas in $485 Million Ponzi Scam
DALLAS (CN) - Three Texas oil executives pleaded guilty in a $485 million oil and gas Ponzi scheme that swindled 7,700 investors nationwide. Pleading guilty were Brendan W. Coughlin, 46; Henry...
View ArticleThe VA Now May Report Prescription Drug Use
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Department of Veterans Affairs has authorized the sharing of patient information with state Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP). The PDMP is an electronic,...
View ArticleGreens Say Hatchery Threatens Native Fish
EUREKA, Calif. (CN) - Steelhead trout from a Northern California fish hatchery prey upon and interbreed with threatened native fish, in violation of the Endangered Species Act, an environmental...
View ArticleAgency Plans to Change School Lunch Standards
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has announced proposed amendments to the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Breakfast Program in...
View ArticleChicago in an Uproar Over Privatized Parking
CHICAGO (CN) - Chicago illegally privatized four downtown parking garages in a 99-year lease to a private company - which is demanding $200 million because the city approved another parking...
View ArticleDisability Research Priorities Proposed
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (SERS) has proposed priorities for research to improve rehabilitation outcomes and to assist in...
View Article14 Arrested in $30 Million Stock Scams
LOS ANGELES (CN) - Fourteen people were arrested this week - including a former L.A. County deputy district attorney - and accused of defrauding 20,000 investors of $30 million through stock...
View ArticleBulk of FBI Agents Have Age Bias Claims Tossed
WASHINGTON (CN) - A federal judge threw out all but four of the 45 FBI agents fighting a policy that limits how long agents can serve as squad supervisors. The 45 agents - all GS-14 squad...
View ArticleInvestor Sues Former MIT Prof for $800K
BOSTON (CN) - An investor claims in court that a former vice dean at MIT's Sloan School of Management cost him $800,000 by touting, and misrepresenting, his proprietary trading algorithm. Lead...
View ArticleSurgeon Can't Nip Mock Commandments Suit
(CN) - A Catholic woman who disapproved of work ID badges that set out an office version of the Ten Commandments must amend her claims, a federal judge ruled. Cynthia Ambrose claimed that she...
View ArticleRapper Accused of Vicious Assault
ATLANTA (CN) - Hip-hop artist Spodee beat a recording studio worker, held him gunpoint and had his posse hold him for 12 hours because of some missing bling that had just been misplaced, the man...
View ArticleFeds Ordered to Divulge Oil and Gas Inquiries
DENVER (CN) - The Bureau of Land Management must identify those that seek to develop oil and gas reserves on public land in Colorado, a federal judge ruled. Claiming that private interests...
View ArticleSierra Club Fights Growth at Lake Tahoe
SACRAMENTO (CN) - The Sierra Club sued the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, claiming its new rules for Lake Tahoe would open more than 300 acres of undeveloped land to "resort recreation" on the...
View ArticleSix Months for Foray Into Illegal Rhino Horn Trade
MANHATTAN (CN) - A New York antiques dealer will serve six months for trading in black market rhinoceros horn while purporting to help wildlife authorities end the practice. David Hausman...
View ArticleMuslims Claim Christian Group Defamed Them
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (CN) - The Muslims of America asked a federal judge to silence and punish the Christian Action Network and its founder, who allegedly defamed the group as terrorists, and their...
View ArticleKuwait Crash May Leave Army Contractor Liable
(CN) - A military contractor must face negligence claims over its employment of a K-9 handler who crashed into a police car in Kuwait, killing a veteran, a federal judge ruled. David Morgan,...
View ArticleHarlem's Lenox Lounge Landlord Is Aghast
MANHATTAN (CN) - The owner of Harlem's historic Lenox Lounge, which hosted Billie Holiday, John Coltrane and other jazz greats, disobeyed police orders by stripping the building's Art Deco...
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