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Ridgewood NJ, in a ruling handed down fittingly on the Fourth of July, a federal judge Terry Doughty ordered a litany of Biden administration officials to stop encouraging social media companies to block or remove content they disliked.
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Ridgewood NJ, when a company makes a promise, you expect them to keep their word, right? According to the FTC, Amazon promised to delete children’s personal information and Alexa users’ voice and geolocation information but broke the law instead. In an announcement today, the FTC and the Department of Justice said Amazon violated children’s privacy law by keeping kids’ Alexa voice recordings forever to feed its voice-related algorithms.
Continue reading FTC and DOJ Charge Amazon with Violating Children’s Privacy
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Ridgewood NJ, Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, capping the rapid downfall of one of crypto’s wealthiest and most influential moguls and his collection of high-flying ventures, including crypto exchanges and a massive trading operation.
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Ridgewood NJ, Bird flu is driving egg prices higher and the egg shortage has people scrambling . Nationally, the poultry industry lost around 36 million hens from February through September from the avian flu. Both demand and retail prices are higher than in previous years because of inflation, said Egg-News.com. Unseasonably high prices are expected to continue through fall and decline as flocks are restocked.
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Los Angeles Ca, a California advisor and frequent CNBC commentator is on the run after being charged with defrauding clients of millions, according to the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Continue reading Ex-CNBC Guest Analyst and Advisor, Currently on the Lam , Charged With Fraud
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Mercer County NJ, Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Leader was arrested today for illegally possessing a firearm, According to acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig , Keith Richter, aka “Conan,” 62, of Bay Shore, New York, is charged by criminal complaint with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He is scheduled to appear by videoconference this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael A. Hammer.
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Washington DC, a federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.
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Washington DC, The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey today announced that they believe the Cumberland County Jail failed to take measures to prevent inmate suicides and provide adequate mental health care.
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Washington DC, Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen Regarding the Overrunning of the U.S. Capitol Building.
Continue reading Department of Justice Investigating U.S. Capitol Breach
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Washington DC, The Department of Justice announced today that it filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. for discriminating against U.S. workers.
The lawsuit alleges that Facebook refused to recruit, consider, or hire qualified and available U.S. workers for over 2,600 positions that Facebook, instead, reserved for temporary visa holders it sponsored for permanent work authorization (or “green cards”) in connection with the permanent labor certification process (PERM). The positions that were the subject of Facebook’s alleged discrimination against U.S. workers offered an average salary of approximately $156,000. According to the lawsuit, and based on the department’s nearly two-year investigation, Facebook intentionally created a hiring system in which it denied qualified U.S. workers a fair opportunity to learn about and apply for jobs that Facebook instead sought to channel to temporary visa holders Facebook wanted to sponsor for green cards.
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Washington DC, Disputing President Donald Trump’s claims, Attorney General William Barr declared Tuesday the U.S. Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.
Continue reading US Department of Justice Drops the Ball on US Election Fraud, well Maybe Not
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Paramus NJ, Senator Joe Pennacchio today welcomed word that the United States Department of Justice is actively investigating the COVID tragedies inside state-run veterans’ homes, and emphasized the need for the Senate to conduct its own inquiry.
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Newark NJ, A member of the Newark Municipal Council and Board of Directors of the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation (NCEDC) was charged today with scheming to obtain bribes and kickbacks, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
Continue reading Fed’s Charge Newark City Council Democrat in Bribery and Kickback Scheme
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Washington DC, the Department of Justice has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google Tuesday, focusing on the tech giant’s dominance in online search. Eleven Republican state attorneys general joined the DOJ as plaintiffs in the case: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina and Texas, according to an open docket of the case filed Tuesday morning.
Continue reading Department of Justice files Antitrust lawsuit against Google
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Paramus NJ, the Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing.
For example, on March 25, 2020, New York ordered: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to [a nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. [Nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 prior to admission or readmission.”
