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Jan. 6 panel could refer House members to Ethics Committee

WASHINGTON — A House select committee could take a rare step and vote Monday to refer fellow members of Congress for ethics investigations, as it wraps up a nearly 18-month investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service · Dec 17, 2022

Jan. 6 panel to weigh obstruction and fraud charges against Trump

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee will vote Monday on recommendations that former President Donald Trump be prosecuted for obstructing an official government proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the United States, according to a person familiar with the plans.

Tribune News Service · Dec 17, 2022

Jan. 6 panel eyes recommending 3 charges for Trump

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is considering recommending the Justice Department pursue three criminal charges against former President Donald Trump, including insurrection

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022

Capitol rioter who boasted about attacking ‘rookie cop’ jailed for 14 months

Sargent joins more than 280 individuals convicted for assualting or impeding police officers during the Capitol riot

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2022

Rep Adam Kinzinger says he believes Trump is ‘guilty of a crime’ ahead of Jan 6 criminal referrals

“If he is not guilty of some kind of a crime, I mean, what we’ve basically said is presidents are above the law,” says the Illinois Republican

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2022

Accused of illegally evicting Black and Latino renters, Southern California city, sheriff to pay $1 million

LOS ANGELES — A Mojave Desert community and sheriff’s department will be forced to spend nearly $1 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit alleging they discriminated against Black and Latino renters, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

Los Angeles Times · Dec 15, 2022

US charges 8 in social media 'pump-and-dump' stock scheme

The government has charged eight men of earning more than $100 million in illicit stock market profits by manipulating their novice-investor followers on social media

The Independent UK · Dec 14, 2022

Medicare Advantage health plans dodged auditors, overcharged taxpayers millions

A review of 90 government audits reveals the plans have repeatedly tried to get around mandates to document medical conditions the government paid them to treat.

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 14, 2022

Senate probe found some federal prison staff abused female inmates without discipline

A new Senate probe finds some men who work for federal prisons have systemically preyed on women in their custody, with few criminal or disciplinary consequences.

WEKU · Dec 14, 2022

Washington Defends ‘Lawfulness’ of Flying Lockerbie Bombing Accused from Tripoli

More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism. The extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Masud Kheir Al-Marimi…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 14, 2022