According to court documents, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has agreed to plead guilty to two criminal counts in the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Manafort pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy against the United States and one count of conspiracy to obstruct … [Read more...]
Utah Woman Who Helped Abduct Elizabeth Smart To Be Released
(Reuters) - A street preacher’s wife who helped abduct 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002 will walk out of a Utah prison next week after serving 15 years for her part in a kidnapping that focused national attention on the issue of crime against children. Wanda Barzee appears in court, April 22, 2003, in Salt Lake City to face charges in the … [Read more...]
Colorado Catholic Priest Implicated in Sexual Abuse Report
Stephen Edward Jeselnick, a former Pennsylvania Catholic Priest, was accused of child sexual abuse by a grand jury in August. The jury’s findings were the result of a two-year investigation which uncovered not only the abuse committed by Jeselnick, but also the abuse of over a thousand other children across six Catholic Dioceses. Delayed Abuse … [Read more...]
If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…Let ‘em Shoot Up?
Medical and recreational marijuana, sanctuary cities, net neutrality, and climate change. These are just a few examples of the many issues pitting state and local governments against the federal government. We can now add supervised injection sites (SIS), also known as supervised consumption services or overdose prevention centers, to that list. … [Read more...]
Good Samaritan Act Gone Bad
How The Foundation of the Modern Internet Is Drawing Scrutiny and Raising Hard Questions in the Age of Online Harassment Organized harassment campaigns have targeted prominent journalists and others who have less access to publicity and other resources with which to fight back, and there's no reason to expect these campaigns will stop. The … [Read more...]
Guilty or Not Guilty? Must We All Agree?
Opinion In April of this year, the Senate in Louisiana approved, in a 27-10 vote, a constitutional amendment that would require a unanimous jury verdict in felony cases. The vote count is significant because it was approved by one single vote more than required. The Senate needed to approve the amendment by a two-thirds majority. That means that … [Read more...]
Manafort Convictions: No Reasonable Doubt on 8 Charges
Unless you’ve been away on a vacation somewhere with no access to the outside world, you’re probably aware that President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was just recently found guilty on eight of the 18 fraud charges. Manafort was found guilty of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud, and one count of hiding … [Read more...]
Colorado Man Charged With Killing Whole Family
Chris Watts faces nine charges, including several counts of first-degree murder of his wife and his two young daughters. According to court filings, the body of his wife, Shanann, was found in a shallow grave. The bodies of their two daughters, Bella and Celeste, were found in nearby oil tanks at a company where Watts had worked. CNN also … [Read more...]
New Rule Would Make it Harder for Students Defrauded by For-Profit Colleges to Find Loan Forgiveness
During the Barack Obama administration, the Department of Education proposed regulations giving certain students aid – including forgiveness of student loan debt – if they had been the victim of fraud from for-profit colleges. The rules, proposed in the aftermath of the collapse of Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute, made it easier … [Read more...]
USC Officials under Fire for “Doing Nothing,” Sex Abuse Suit Alleges
Over the last several months, we’ve been hearing from numerous victims of sexual abuse and sexual assault who have come forward to name the perpetrators in hopes of getting justice for the heinous acts they suffered. In addition to alleged sexual predators like Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein, we all have heard the name, Dr. Larry Nassar, the … [Read more...]
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