Three former Irish bankers were sentenced to prison on Friday for conspiring to defraud customers and investors during the 2008 banking crisis. In what was Ireland’s longest criminal trial ever (74 days), former CEO of Irish Life and Permanent plc, Denis Casey, and two former executives of Anglo Irish Bank Corp., John Bowe and Willie [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Friday refused to dismiss bribery and fraud charges levied against US Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey. Menendez, who is believed to have accepted gifts in exchange for political influence, claims his meetings with government officials were to discuss policy and not for the purpose [...]
Former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva filed a petition with the UN Human Rights Committee Thursday, claiming his corruption investigation has been riddled with impartiality and abuse of power by the judge. The petition , signed by da Silva’s lawyers and British human rights lawyer Georffrey Robertson, alleges that Judge Sergio Moro [...]
The Detroit News reported Friday that six state employees have been criminally indicted in relation to the Flint water crisis. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed the criminal charges against three employees of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and three Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) employees. The DHSS employees indicted were Nancy [...]
Indonesia implemented a firing squad to execute four individuals convicted of drug charges Friday, despite international outcry for the nation to cease the use of the death penalty in drug crimes. The four individuals comprised two Nigerians, one Senegalese and one Indonesian. As many as 10 other people may await the same fate, many of [...]
Following released footage showing indigenous children being abused while in detention in Australia’s Northern Territory, Amnesty International (AI) called upon the Australian government Thursday to alter its current juvenile detention policies. Among the abuses are use of tear gas, hooding the children and strapping them to restraint chairs, all of which AI Senior Research Adviser [...]
Jin Kyung-joon, a senior prosecutor in South Korea, was indicted on charges of bribery Friday. Jin has been accused of accepting more than USD $11 million from an executive at the online-game company Nexon during collusive stock transactions over a nine-year period. Jin is the highest ranking official in recent history to face a corruption [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Thursday that Chelsea Manning is being investigated for charges in relation to her recent attempt at suicide. Manning, the Army solider convicted of releasing classified and sensitive military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks , is currently facing a 35-year sentence and, if convicted of the “administrative offenses,” could [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas ruled Wednesday that an Arkansas law prohibiting political “robocalls” is unconstitutional. The judge stated that the law violates the First Amendment right to free speech, in particular political speech. The judge explained that as the law was a content-based restriction, strict scrutiny [...]
Russian and Syrian forces are using cluster bombs to target civilians and rebels in the northern portions of Syria, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Thursday. More than 46 attacks related to cluster munition have been documented since May, and it is estimated that dozens were injured or killed by their usage. HRW has long decried [...]
