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[ December 1, 2022 ]
A federal judge has ordered former top Trump White House lawyers to provide additional grand jury testimony, rejecting former President Donald Trump’s privilege claims in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of his effort to overturn the 2020 election, people briefed on the matter said. Pat Cipollone, the Trump White House counsel, and his deputy, Patrick Philbin, appeared in September before the grand jury in Washington, DC, as part of the Justice Department probe, which is now being overseen by newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith.Cipollone and
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in 2020 -‘The more you submit, the more we get paid’‘The more you submit, the more we get paid’: How fintech fueled covid aid fraud – “The faster the better,” the workers were told at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as the little-known financial technology company Blueacorn raced to review small businesses that sought federal loans.Speeding through applications, Blueacorn employees and contractors allegedly began to overlook possible signs of fraud, according to interviews and communications later amassed by investigators on Capitol Hill.
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
CNN’s sister news station HLN will stop producing live programming starting next week as part of the cable network’s plan to cut costs. Longtime HLN anchor Robin Meade will be leaving amid the shake-up. “I want to take a moment to thank Robin Meade,” Chris Licht, chief executive at CNN, wrote in a memo to staff Thursday that was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. “She is not only an exceptionally popular anchor but also one of the longest-running morning hosts in history. I know the HLN audience will miss her and the other HLN talent.”Mr. Licht warned staff on Wednesday
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
LastPass, a major password manager, says it has suffered its second breach in three months by the same unauthorized party.LastPass CEO Karim Toubba announced Wednesday that the company detected “unusual activity” within a third-party cloud storage service but that customers’ passwords remain safely encrypted.”We immediately launched an investigation, engaged Mandiant, a leading security firm, and alerted law enforcement,” Toubba wrote in a statement. An unauthorized party gained access to parts of the LastPass development environment during a four-day
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
The Senate reached an agreement Thursday to hold votes aimed at avoiding an economically catastrophic rail strike, one day after the House approved such a measure. The chamber decided to hold three votes in succession, all requiring 60 votes for approval. The Senate typically takes days of procedural votes to pass a bill, but lawmakers reached a unanimous agreement, in this case, to vote within minutes. The first vote was an amendment by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, that would extend the “cooling off period” giving the relevant parties an extra 60 days beyond the Dec. 8 deadline to
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to decide whether the Biden administration can cancel student-loan debt for millions of Americans, putting the matter on a fast-track timeline that should produce a final ruling by the end of June. The court, in an unsigned order, didn’t act on the administration’s emergency request that it be allowed to move forward with the debt relief immediately. But the justices set arguments on the matter for this winter, agreeing to the White House’s alternative request that the court takes up the case now to decide whether the debt forgiveness is a
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has pulled a whopping $2billion worth of its assets from woke manager BlackRock, Inc. — the largest such divestment by a state opposed to the asset manager’s environmental, social and corporate governance policies state’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis announced on Thursday that the state’s Treasury, which he oversees, would remove BlackRock as a manager of about $600million in short-term investments, and have its custodian freeze another $1.43billion in long-term securities with the firm.The goal, he says, is to reallocate
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
Spanish security forces are investigating a spate of letter bombs sent to political, military, and diplomatic targets. Devices were sent to the U.S. embassy and the prime minister’s office, as well as four other destinations, triggering a security alert. On Thursday, security personnel at the U.S. embassy in central Madrid discovered an incendiary device sent by mail. The surrounding area was cordoned off as police entered the building. Nobody was hurt as the device was deactivated. That was only the latest in five similar cases, which included the Ukrainian embassy, the Spanish prime
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
Salvadoran digital newspaper El Faro’s employees filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday against NSO Group, alleging the Israeli firm’s controversial Pegasus software was used to spy on them. The lawsuit was filed in California by 13 El Faro journalists and two administrative staff, represented by lawyers from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Pegasus was used to breach the phones of at least 22 people associated with El Faro, including the plaintiffs, compromising their communications and data, according to the complaint — a copy of which was
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
Antonio Brown is wanted for battery in Florida, where an arrest warrant has been issued for the former NFL star. Details of the allegations against Brown have not been disclosed, and Tampa police have not responded to DailyMail. for further information. It is not clear if Brown has legal representation at this time. Likewise, Brown’s current whereabouts remain unknown as Florida police seek to detain the 34-year-old. Brown has previously been accused of sexual assault, ultimately settling with his accuser last year for an undisclosed amount. He was also arrested
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
Joel Greenberg, a former Florida tax collector who sources say agreed to cooperate in the federal probe into his one-time close associate, Rep. Matt Gaetz, was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to crimes ranging from wire fraud to sex trafficking a minor. Greenberg pleaded guilty last May to six of the 33 federal charges he was facing, including charges of stalking, identity theft, wire fraud, and conspiracy to bribe a public official, as well as one charge of sex trafficking.The case grabbed national attention in the spring of 2021 after news broke that the
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
A doctor in Florida who was accused of drugging and raping his patients has been found dead, according to local authorities. Investigators could not immediately determine how Eric Salata, 54, died when his body was discovered in woodland on Monday. But they said he had a gunshot wound to the head, was lying next to a pistol, and that they did not suspect he had been the victim of a crime. Police in the city of Naples had arrested Salata on 21 November on allegations that he raped two patients at his cosmetic surgery clinic after incapacitating them with laughing, the anti
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
President Biden will host a joint press conference with Emmanuel Macron on Thursday as a part of the French president’s three-day state visit. The joint press conference is set to begin at 11:45 a.m. ET. Watch it live: Traditionally leaders have answered two questions each at joint press conferences; topics that could come up include trade issues — especially as they relate to electric car provisions in the infrastructure legislation — as well as China, Russia’s war with Ukraine; and lingering concerns about AUKUS, a new defense partnership with the U.K., U.S., and Australia. That
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
Tesla is poised to deliver its first all-electric semitrailer truck Thursday, marking the company’s long-delayed expansion beyond the passenger vehicle market. Food and beverage maker PepsiCo Inc. PEP 0.84%increase; green up pointing triangle is expected to take delivery of the Semi, five years after Elon Musk revealed the model. The Semi, originally due out in 2019, would be the first new model Tesla is putting in customers’ hands since early 2020 when the company began delivering its Model Y crossover. Tesla is slated to host an event to mark the occasion in the Reno, Nev.,
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[ December 1, 2022 ]
Closing statements are beginning Thursday in the criminal tax fraud trial of former President Donald Trump’s family business, the outcome of which could turn on the vagaries and nuances of a part of New York criminal law that even the presiding judge has called “confusing.”The Trump Organization is accused of partially compensating certain executives by paying their rent, covering their car lease payments, and providing other under-the-table perks never declared on their income taxes.Prosecutors plan to remind the jury about the August guilty plea of Allen Weisselberg,
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