news2019-09-19
DALLAS — An Indian management consulting firm based in Chicago agreed in August to a $2.5 million global settlement for visa fraud and inducing aliens to enter and remain in the U.S. This investigation was conducted by members of the Dallas Document and Benefit Fraud Task Force, including U.S. Im....Read more
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Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge on Wednesday to take the unusual step of temporarily halting lawsuits against the Sackler family. Without that protection, the family may back out of contributing to a settlement agreement Purdue reached with multiple states. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrim....Read more
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Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke wants the federal government to provide “Drug War Justice Grants” to people formerly incarcerated for nonviolent marijuana offenses.. The grants would be funded by a federal tax on the industry. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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Jonathan Hayes of the Office of Refugee Resettlement told a congressional committee that the Homestead facility in Florida was staffed to hold 1,200 children, though none are housed there now. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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A federal judge denied bail on Wednesday to a former American Airlines mechanic accused of sabotaging a plane carrying 150 people in Miami, saying the mechanic may be “sympathetic to terrorists." Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors recently decided to study the feasibility of a “Civil Defense Justice Unit” to protect the rights of justice-involved in civil proceedings. They should expand that to protect victims’ rights as well, writes the president of LA’s Association of Depu....Read more
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Programs on changing the culture in Connecticut prisons, helping incarcerated Ohio women with mental health problems, educating Virginia students on human trafficking, and offering pretrial diversion to San Francisco defendants won recognition this week at the annual National Forum on Criminal Justi....Read more
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The Debbie Smith Act, which provided funding to eliminate the backlog on DNA testing of rape victims, expires Sept. 30. Congressional wrangling is holding up reauthorization of the Act, and that could spell tragedy for thousands of survivors, the woman whose case inspired the 2004 law tells TCR. So....Read more
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Mayor Bill de Blasio attributed the rise to increased activity by the Civilian Complaint Review Board. He rejected the idea that the public is more dissatisfied with the police. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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A bill awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom's signature would add automatic sentence enhancements for people convicted of recommitting a felony for which they had already served time. More than 11,000 inmates are serving such longer terms. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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