LEGAL NEWSLINE

Attorney General Moody Files Criminal Charges Against Two Men Operating Crypto Money Laundering Scheme Transferring Millions to Colombia

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Businesses have received a measure of relief from the California Supreme Court, which has rejected a call for penalties against a company that thought it was complying with state law.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - Tennessee educators will get to move forward with their challenge to the state's Prohibited Concepts Ban, which they argue will open them to disciplinary proceedings started by disgruntled students and parents.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is pointing at addiction statistics as he tries to hold together a state law targeting youth usage of social media websites.

TAMPA, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Parents of a 17-year-old daughter who worked at a Florida Wendy's say her wrongful firing caused her to be missing for five days.

A federal grand jury in Memphis, Tennessee returned an eight-count indictment today, charging former Memphis Police Officer Patric J. Ferguson with federal civil rights, kidnapping and weapons offenses related to the fatal shooting of a victim identified as R.H. The indictment also implicates Ferguson and a civilian, Joshua M. Rogers, in federal offenses for allegedly conspiring to cover up the fatal shooting and destroying evidence of the crimes. Additionally, Rogers is charged with being an accessory after the fact for purportedly assisting Ferguson in concealing his crimes.

DALLAS (Legal Newsline) - Groups challenging the Department of Labor's new rules concerning who can be considered a "fiduciary" and held liable for the loss of retirement funds say courts have already rejected this effort.

An indictment was unsealed today in the Eastern District of Virginia, charging seven men with racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations (RICO) conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. The charges are related to their alleged involvement in a large-scale gas pump skimming device organization.

The Justice Department disclosed today that Hyundai Capital America has consented to pay $333,941 to settle allegations of violating the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) through the illegal repossession of 26 vehicles owned by servicemembers.

America First Legal Sues IBM Subsidiary “Red Hat” for Alleged Anti-White, Anti-Male Discrimination

The Buckeye Institute, along with the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), filed an amicus brief in Hile v. Michigan, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule Michigan's anti-religion Blaine amendment unconstitutional.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating an officer involved death in the City of Beloit, Wis. that occurred on the morning of Sunday, April 28, 2024.

On Tuesday, The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Government Oversight Committee on the policies in Ohio House Bill 331, which ensures that village governments that are unable to provide core services to their residents are held accountable. The bill also makes it easier for village residents to vote on whether to dissolve their local government.

The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act (FCA) against Study Across the Pond LLC (SATP) and its principal, John Borhaug. SATP, which is organized under the laws of Massachusetts, recruits American students to attend foreign schools in the U.K., as well as other countries. The complaint, filed in the District of Massachusetts, alleges that SATP and Borhaug knowingly caused UK schools to submit false claims to the Department of Education for federal student aid by demanding that the foreign schools enter into arrangements...

Attorney General Ashley Moody filed suit against Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over the administration’s attempt to force Florida to violate its own law and fund drugs and surgeries for “gender transition” for children. Moody stated, “Florida passed a law to protect our children from dangerous, irreversible gender-transition drugs and surgeries. Now, Biden and his federal bureaucrats are trying to go around our child-protection law to force the state to pay for puberty blockers and gender-transition surgery...

WASHINGTON DC (May 7, 2024) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond testified before a U.S. House subcommittee this morning, expressing concerns over a revised rule by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that he believes will have severe consequences for Oklahoma and other states. The House Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials invited Drummond to speak at a hearing titled “EPA’s RMP Rule: Failures to Protect the American People and American Manufacturing.” This subcommittee is part of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

The U.S. Justice Department has charged a Russian national with creating and running the LockBit ransomware group, which has targeted over 2,000 victims and extorted more than $100 million in ransom payments. Dimitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, also known as LockBitSupp, faces a 26-count indictment in the District of New Jersey.

A federal jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted a former U.S. Army soldier yesterday for the murder of a pregnant, 19-year-old fellow soldier on a U.S. Army base in Germany more than 22 years ago. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, on Nov. 3, 2001, Shannon L. Wilkerson, 43, beat and strangled Amanda Gonzales to death in her barracks room at Fliegerhorst Kaserne, then a U.S. Army base in Hanau, Germany. Wilkerson was a member of the U.S. Armed Forces at the time of the offense but was later discharged.

Attorney General Moody Demands Congress Permanently Defund Hamas-Tied United Nations Relief and Works Agency

Benjamin Naftalis, a legal representative for Changpeng Zhao, the former CEO of Binance, stated that there is an absence of precedent for defendants sentenced to prison time for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). This statement was made in a court filing ahead of Zhao's sentencing hearing on April 30, where he received a four-month prison sentence.