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Halliburton In Settlement Talks To Control Its Macondo Cement Liabilities

Susan Buchanan | Posted 04.27.2013 | Green
Read More: Sanctions, Timothy Quirk, Judge Carl Barbier, Cement, Bp, Broussard Lab, President Barack Obama, Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, Kodiak Well, Halliburton, Donald Godwin, John Guide, Dave Lesar, Smith Stag LLC, Eastern District of Louisiana, Clean Water Act, U.S. Justice Department, Offshore Drilling, United States District Court in New Orleans, Transocean, Jesse Gagliano, Mark McCollum, Manslaughter, U.S. Congress, Deepwater Horizon, Gross Negligence, Bill Ambrose, Macondo Well, Centralizers, Gulf Coast, Stuart Smith, Green News
Susan Buchanan

(This article is published in "The Louisiana Weekly" in the April 29, 2013 edition.) Houston-based Halliburton Co. is in talks to settle private clai...

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Report: State's School Discipline Disproportionately Harsh On Students

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 03.19.2013 | Home
Read More: Aclu, School Punishment, School Discipline, Mississippi Schools, Black Students, Minority Students, Mississippi Harsh School Discipline, Naacp, U.S. Justice Department, American Civil Liberties Union, Minority Students Discipline, Black Student Discipline, School Suspensions, School Suspension, Mississippi School Discipline, Mississippi School Punishment, Home News

JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights advocates say harsh disciplinary practices at many Mississippi schools lead to children being expelled and even in...

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Aaron Swartz and the Questions That None Dare Ask Obama

Will Bunch | Posted 03.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: Drone Attacks, Whistleblowers, Internet Freedom, President Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Gun Control, Freedom of Information Act, Carmen Ortiz, Lawrence Lessig, Aaron Swartz, U.S. Justice Department, Politics News
Will Bunch

Swartz's persecution can't be passed off as an isolated incident. Instead, it feels more like the exclamation point on an administration whose commitment to maintaining secrecy, blocking transparency, limiting the flow of information and squelching dissent has been both unexpected and shocking.

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Money Launderers and Corporate Bribers Must Be Brought to Justice

Frank Vogl | Posted 02.26.2013 | Crime
Read More: Corruption, Iran, Wal-Mart, Mexico, Standard Chartered Bank, Money Laundering, Bribery, Hsbc, US Justice Department, Walmart, Walmart Bribery, HSBC Money Laundering, Crime News
Frank Vogl

The punishment needs to fit the crime, but are some giant multinational corporations now so large that they no longer can be punished effectively?

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Justice Department Targets Tax Refund Thiefs

Reuters | Posted 11.18.2012 | Business
Read More: Taxes, Video, Justice Department Tax Division, ID Theft, Tax Refunds, Identity Theft, Internal Revenue Service, Reuters, Tax Dodgers, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Tax Evasion, US Justice Department, Business News

* Federal prosecutors gain new authority for criminal tax cases * Effort focuses on ID theft for tax refunds WASHINGTON...

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Bank Pays Big Time To Settle Claims It Violated Sanctions

Reuters | Posted 08.12.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, Dutch Banks, Credit Suisse, Manhattan District Attorney, Reuters, Bank Transactions, ING Bank, Wire Transfers, US Justice Department, Lloyds Bank, Business News

* ING moved $1.6 bln illegally through U.S. bank system * Bank is the 4th to settle probe of sanctions violations * Sett...

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Mortgage Company To Pay Millions To Settle Bias Lending Claims

AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 07.31.2012 | Business
Read More: Video, Civil Rights Division, Suntrust Mortgage, Mortgage Crisis, SunTrust Mortgage Inc., Mortgage Loans, Department of Justice, US Justice Department, Business News

RICHMOND, Va. — SunTrust Mortgage Inc. agreed Thursday to pay $21 million to settle a federal lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in its lend...

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Judge Rules Billionaire Can't Blame Bank For His Own Tax Evasion

Reuters | Posted 06.10.2012 | Business
Read More: Fraud, Ubs, Video, Judge Andrew Guilford, Internal Revenue Service, Swiss Bank Accounts, Reuters, Swiss Banks, Property Developer, Tax Dodging, Tax Evasion, Forbes, Offshore Accounts, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

* Judge dismisses case a month before trial * Former client tried to blame Swiss bank By Lynnley Browning ...

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Swiss Bank Charged By U.S. For Helping Americans Evade Taxes

AP | Posted 02.03.2012 | Business
Read More: St. Gallen, Taxes, Wegelin & Co., Video, Tax Evasion, Tax Fraud, Raiffeisen Group, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Justice Department says it has indicted Switzerland's oldest private bank, claiming it conspired with Americans and others to h...

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DOJ Taps NY Firm To Audit Billions Of Dollars In Claims From BP Spill

AP | Posted 12.22.2011 | Business
Read More: Bp Oil Spill Claims, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Video, BP Compensation, Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Claims Facility, Thomas Perrelli, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Bp-Oil-Spill, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The U.S. Justice Department has tapped New York-based BDO Consulting to audit the handling of billions of dollars in damage claims...

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America's Justice System Has Failed Us All

Conrad Black | Posted 01.24.2012 | Crime
Read More: Supreme Court, US Justice System, Libel, US Justice Department, Plea Bargains, America's Justice System, Crime News
Conrad Black

The unfairness, hypocrisy, and barbarism of the American criminal justice system is increasingly the subject of serious comment. Indeed, almost everything about the American system is wrong.

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Alabama Attorney General Rebuffs Fed's "Express Authority" In School Immigrant Probe

Posted 01.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Luther Strange, Assistant-US-Attorney-General-Thomas-Perez, Alabama Public Schools, Public School Enrollment, Undocumented Immigrants, School Enrollment, Undocumented Students, Equal Access to Public Education, Alabama Schools, Alabama Undocumented Students, US Justice Department, Alabama Immigration, Video, US Department of Justice, Equal Access, Alabama Immigration Law, Thomas Perez, Home News

In the latest of a series of sparring letters between the U.S. Justice Department and Alabama over educational issues surrounding the state's new immi...

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Suburban School District To Pay Back Muslim Teacher Denied Hajj Leave

Posted 12.14.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Muslim Teacher Hajj Lawsuit, Islam, Safoorah Khan Lawsuit, Saudi Arabia Hajj, Muslim Teacher, Rush Limbaugh, McArthur Middle School, Muslim Americans, Hajj, Berkeley School District 87 Lawsuit, Lindsey Graham, Muslim, Berkeley School District 87, Safoorah Khan, Safoorah Khan Teacher, U.S. Justice Department, Chicago News

A suburban Chicago school district sued by the U.S. Justice Department over their previous refusal to allow a Muslim teacher to take a pilgrimage to M...

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Swiss Bank Chair Regrets Taking On U.S. Clients After Tax Spat

AP | By FRANK JORDANS | Posted 11.14.2011 | Business
Read More: Bank Regulation, Video, Swiss Bank, Credit Suisse Group, Basler Zeitung, Asset Manager, Zurich, Tax Evasion, Basler Kantonalbank, UBS AG, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

GENEVA -- The chairman of a Swiss regional bank caught up in a fresh tax evasion spat between the United States and Switzerland says he regrets taking...

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S&P Facing Justice Department Probe Over Improper Mortgage Ratings

AP | Posted 10.18.2011 | Business
Read More: Video, Ratings Agency, u.s. Downgrade, Mortgage-Abuses, Mortgage Securities, Standard and Poors, Business News, Mortgage Crisis, Standard & Poor's, Financial Crisis, Business, Standard and Poors Investigiation, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department is investigating whether the Standard & Poor's credit ratings agency improperly rated dozens of mortgage securiti...

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Ex-Banker Charged With Helping Wealthy Americans Evade Taxes

Posted 10.02.2011 | Business
Read More: Ubs, Martin Lack, Credit Suisse AG, Lack & Partner AG, Basler Kantonalbank, Tax Evasion, Corporate Fraud, Raoul Weil, Keusch & Merlo Invest AG, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

FAIRFIELD, Conn. (Lynnley Browning) - A former senior UBS private banker was indicted by the United States Tuesday for selling offshore tax-evasio...

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Credit Suisse Targeted In U.S. Tax Evasion Probe

AP | FRANK JORDANS | Posted 09.14.2011 | Business
Read More: Switzerland, Credit Suisse Group, Credit Suisse, US Authorities, Swiss Banks, Tax Evaders, Swiss Taxes, Tax Evasion, US Justice Department, Offshort Business, Business News

GENEVA — The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Credit Suisse Group's offshore business with wealthy American clients as part of a larger ...

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Arizona Sues U.S. Justice Department Over Medical Marijuana Law

AP | By PAUL DAVENPORT | Posted 07.27.2011 | Politics
Read More: Lincoln Chafee, Marijuana, Chris Gregoire, Medical Marijuana, Rhode Island, Arizona, Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Justice Department, US Justice Department, Arizona Medical Marijuana, Jan Brewer, Washington, Tom Horne, Dennis Burke, Marijuana Policy Project, Politics News

PHOENIX -- Arizona officials are taking the state's own medical marijuana law to court. Attorney General Tom Horne late Friday sued the U.S. Justice ...

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Shell, Panalpina Near Settlement In Bribery Case, Sources Say

Wall Street Journal | Kara Scannell And Thomas Catan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Shell, US Justice Department, Schlumberger, Settlements, Royal Dutch Shell, Bribery Case Panalpina, Business News

A big Swiss shipping and logistics company and Royal Dutch Shell PLC, one of its customers, are close to settling foreign-bribery charges stemming fr...

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How the Broken Public Defense System Exacerbates Racial Disparities

Elizabeth Renter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Indigent Defense System, Racial Disparities, 6th Amendment, Criminal Justice, Public Defense, Prison, Institutional Racism, U.S. Justice Department, Politics News
Elizabeth Renter

It seems that under the current disjointed system, equal protection under the law and due process are only accessible to those who can afford a private attorney.

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Karzai Seeks To Limit Role Of U.S. Corruption Investigators

washingtonpost.com | Rajiv Chandrasekaran | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Bribery, Anti-Corruption Investigations, Afghan War, US Anti-Corruption Investigations, Afghanistan, Corruption, US Justice Department, World News

Afghan President Hamid Karzai intends to impose rules restricting international involvement in anti-corruption investigations, a move that U.S. offici...

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Cochlear Manufacturer

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Cochlear Implant, Denver Colorado, U.S. Justice Department, Denver News

DENVER — A manufacturer of Cochlear implants has agreed to pay $880,000 to the U.S. government to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to ...

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Hutaree Militia Case: Judge Agrees To Delay Release Of Militia Members

AP | ED WHITE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Judge Victoria Roberts, Hutaree, Michigan Militia, US Justice Department, Michigan Militia Case, Hutaree Militia, Detroit, Domestic Terrorism, Chicago News

DETROIT — Federal authorities touted the arrests of nine members of a Michigan militia as a pre-emptive strike against homegrown terrorists, dec...

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Mr. President, Protect the Rights of Children

J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Juvenile Justice, Education Reform, Southern Poverty Law Center, Children's Rights, Children, Civil Rights, US Justice Department, Politics News
J. Richard Cohen

I'd like to remind the president of one area that often gets overlooked - the responsibility to protect the rights of our most vulnerable children.

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SEC In Settlement Talks With BofA, UBS: report

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Bank of America, Ubs, Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Settlement Talks, CDR Financial Products Inc, Municipal Investment Contracts, U.S. Justice Department, Business News

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission is in settlement talks with several large financial institutions to resolve investigations...

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