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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

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

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

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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.

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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

TikTok security deal’s prospects are clouded by FBI’s doubts, state bans

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is facing new roadblocks in its effort to address the national security concerns around TikTok after the FBI warned about the dangers of the Chinese-owned video-sharing app and five states banned it from employee phones.

Tribune News Service

Prisons chief: Official who beat inmates deserves 2nd chance

The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons is defending her decision to rally behind a high-ranking agency official who climbed the ranks after beating Black inmates, saying Tuesday that she feels he’s shown contrition and deserves a second chance

The Independent UK

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Ex-Venezuelan treasurer, husband convicted of corruption in first trial of its kind in Florida

MIAMI — A former Venezuelan national treasurer and her husband were found guilty Tuesday of accepting tens of millions of dollars in bribes and moving their tainted money to Miami in the first foreign corruption case of its kind to go to trial in South Florida.

Miami Herald

FBI report shows high hate crime levels, but data missing

Hate crimes in the U.S. remained relatively high last year after a surge not seen in nearly two decades, according to a new FBI report that experts say is actually an undercount because thousands of police departments didn’t report their data

The Independent UK

House Jan. 6 panel to vote next week on potential prosecutions for Capitol attack

WASHINGTON — The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol assault will vote Monday to approve its final report and whether to refer any individuals for prosecution by the Justice Department or other sanctions.

Tribune News Service

DOJ opens new front in Trump probes

Jack Smith is "moving forward quickly and aggressively," NBC News reports

Salon

U.S. charges five Russians, two Americans with conspiracy on behalf of Russian government

The U.S. Justice Department said a 16-count indictment was unsealed Tuesday in Brooklyn charging five Russian nationals and two U.S. nationals with conspiracy related to a global procurement and money laundering scheme on behalf of the Russian government.

Reuters

Leaked Meadows texts show GOP Jan 6 plot

Talking Points Memo publishes massive trove of Meadows' texts with at least 34 Republican lawmakers

Salon

Senate Investigation Finds Federal Prisons Fail to Prevent or Investigate Rapes

Long delays and management failures "allowed serious, repeated sexual abuse in at least four facilities to go undetected."

Reason

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Lockerbie bombing suspect appears in US court, will not face death penalty

The Independent UK

Senators want answers in wake of AP’s prison investigations

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he plans to question the director of the federal Bureau of Prisons this week about why the agency continues to stand by a high-ranking official who beat Black inmates in the 1990s

Fortune

Federal prosecutors can't decide whether to hit Binance and its execs with indictments after 4 years of investigating

The U.S. began looking at the company in 2018 after reports that criminals were among users of the exchange.

Miami Herald

Florida judge officially dumps Trump lawsuit over Mar-a-Lago document seizure

MIAMI — Former president Donald Trump’s legal effort to thwart a Justice Department investigation into classified documents seized from his palatial Palm Beach estate was officially tossed out Monday.

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The Independent UK

Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing to appear in US court

A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 is to appear in federal court in Washington to face charges

The Guardian - US

Biden faces growing pressure to drop charges against Julian Assange

Biden faces a renewed push, domestically and internationally, to drop charges against Assange, who is languishing in a UK jail

The Independent UK

Trump news – live: Trump fails in key Mar-a-Lago lawsuit as Schiff confirms evidence of Jan 6 criminality

Former president Donald Trump has inserted himself into row over Brittney Griner’s return to US as his own lawsuit is tossed

The Independent UK

2nd Oath Keepers Jan. 6 sedition trial to get underway

Opening statements are expected Monday in the second seditious conspiracy trial against members of the far-right Oath Keepers group charged in the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021

Tribune News Service

Jan. 6 panel members say criminal referrals would be important marker

Members of a House panel on Sunday discussed urging criminal prosecutions against aides and allies of former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and adjourned without announcing any decisions.

Tribune News Service

Lockerbie suspect in US custody for plane bombing that killed 270

A man charged in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Boeing 747 airliner that killed 270 people is in U.S. custody, a Justice Department spokesperson said.

Salon

Jan. 6 panel to decide referrals to DOJ

The committee is reportedly considering criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump and four associates

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