Oliver Schmidt, a former senior manager at Volkswagen AG was sentenced to 84 months in prison and a $400,000 fine on Wednesday after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and...
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Volkswagen Senior Manager sentenced after guilty plea to conspiracy and fraud
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UN rights experts urge Bahrain to respect human rights of Shia cleric
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Supreme Court hears arguments on attorney’s fees, obstruction of justice
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DHS: attempted border crossings and deportation down in 2017
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California Department of Insurance seeks to revoke Wells Fargo’s license
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SEC freezes assets of PlexCorp during initial coin offering for PlexCoins cryptocurrency
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HRW: Ethiopia officials using spyware to monitor government critics
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DHS sued for not disclosing memo recommending detention center closing
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UN Human Rights Council condemns systematic abuse against Rohingya minority
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UN rights chief against proposed Mexico security legislation
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A group of UN human rights experts called Thursday for the Bahraini government to respect and guarantee Shia leader and cleric, Isa Qassim, his human rights. In June 2016 Qassim was stripped of his Bahraini citizenship, putting him...
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Wednesday morning. The first case involves award of attorney's fees in civil rights cases. In Murphy v. Smith , Chris Murphy, a prisoner at an Illinois correctional facility,...
The number of people stopped from illegally crossing the border and the number of deportations are down, but immigration arrests are up from previous years, according to end-of-year statistics released by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) [official...
The California Department of Insurance announced Wednesday that it has served Wells Fargo Bank and Wells Fargo Insurance with an accusation seeking to suspend or revoke the companies' licenses due to improper insurance sales...
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Cyber Unit announced Monday that it has obtained an emergency asset freeze against Dominic Lacroix, Lacroix's partner Sabrina Paradis-Royer, and his company, PlexCorps, after filing charges alleging...
Ethiopian officials have renewed their campaign of collecting intelligence against government critics abroad through the use of commercial spyware, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday. According to Citizen Lab , an independent research group in Toronto,...
Several immigration and civil rights organizations filed suit Wednesday against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) division for illegally withholding a memo recommending the closure of...
The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday approved a resolution condemning systematic human rights violations against the Rohingya minority and the acts of violence committed by Myanmar security forces, calling instead for a peaceful resolution. Thirty-three...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said on Tuesday that Mexico's proposed security legislation will not assist its armed forces in combating the war on drugs. The Law on Internal Security [text, PDF,...
