Are Domestic Violence Rates Increasing
Whether looking at domestic violence rates in a specific geographic area or across the United States, there is no denying domestic violence is a serious issue today. And while many...
The Potential Criminal Charges That Could Come Out From Johnny Depp And Amber Heard’s Legal Battle
The current defamation case in Virginia between previously married actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard has gained worldwide attention. The case is live-streamed daily through several outlets for the public...
Justice Department Announces Over $476 Million in Grants to Commemorate the National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
United States Department of Justice commemorates the National Domestic Violence Awareness Month by announcing more than $476 million in grants to address the rampant increase in the number of dating...
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Companies Agreed to Civil Settlement Amounting to $400 Million in Restitution for Fix-Pricing Schemes of Generic Drugs
Over $400 million is to be paid by three generic pharmaceutical manufacturers to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act. Taro Pharmaceutical USA, Inc., Sandoz Inc., and Apotex Corporation...
Department of Justice Announces $1.4 Billion in Alleged Losses Reported from the National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action Charges
A press release made by the United States Department of Justice on September 17, 2021, revealed the results of the strategically coordinated, six-week-long, nationwide federal health care law enforcement action....
United States Files A Complaint in Intervention under False Claims Act Against Health Insurers Involved In Nine-Year Medicare Program Fraud
On September 13, 2021, the United States of America has filed a complaint in intervention under the False Claims Act in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of...
Arbor Hills Energy LLC Agrees to a Settlement Addressing Clean Air Act Violations
Michigan landfill gas company, Arbor Hills Energy LLC (AHE), has agreed to operate its adjacent landfill in accordance with the Clean Air Act, and significantly reduce – if not virtually...
Business Bankruptcy Due to COVID-19
The COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing pandemic has wreaked havoc on the global economy for more than a year, and U.S. businesses across all sectors are still feeling the squeeze, while...
Embezzlement Victims of Tom Girardi Can Collect Payments from Estranged Wife, Erika Girardi, Judge Rules
Erika Jayne Girardi is being held accountable over her estranged husband’s embezzlement scheme. A new ruling on July 6, 2021, was made in favor of the Ruigomez family, who has...
Milwaukee Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Fraud for COVID-19 Relief Fraudulent Scheme
A Milwaukee man has been indicted for taking part in a fraudulent scheme that was put together to defraud the government and illegally obtain proceeds from the Paycheck Protection Program,...
Florida Man Charged with COVID-19 Relief Fraud
A Delray Beach man faces four charges after being involved in a complex COVID-19 scheme designed to fraudulently obtain millions in Paycheck Protection Program loans, as specified in an announcement...
Kenji Price Steps Down from the U.S. Attorney Office for the District of Hawaii
On February 16, 2021, United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii, Kenji M. Price, announced his resignation from his post as a Chief Federal Law Enforcement Officer of the...
Tip from Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office Led to Capitol Riot Arrest
The FBI has announced that a tip coming from the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office led to the arrest and criminal charging of a Maryland man connected to the storming...
New York Man Charged for Multiple Fraudulent PPP Loan Applications
A new announcement was made to report yet another case of a fraudulent scheme targeting the COVID-19 Relief Program. A man from the City of Buffalo in the State of...
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca to Serve as Acting U.S. Attorney for Southern District of Mississippi
Incumbent United States Attorney David Michael Hurst, Jr. of the Southern District of Mississippi announced the changes to be made in the Office in line with his upcoming resignation. Darren...
U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox Names Prerak Shah as the Second in Command of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas
On January 10, 2021, Prerak Shah was named the new Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, six months after Former Chief Federal Law Enforcement Officer of...
Justice Department Orders Jeffrey Lowe, Tiger King LLC to Surrender Tiger Cubs Amid Reports of Animal Abuse
Jeffrey Lowe, current owner of the exotic animal park featured in the infamous “Tiger King” Netflix documentary, has been ordered to relinquish his tigers to the government based on alleged...
Second Draw PPP Loans included in the Newly Approved COVID19 Stimulus Bill
A newly approved coronavirus stimulus bill that has been approved by Congress on the night of December 21, 2020, was signed into law by President Donald Trump on the night...
PPP Reopened in New COVID19 Relief Package
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) reopens its doors to small business applicants for a second draw of PPP loans as the new coronavirus stimulus bill was approved and signed into...
Presidential Appointee U.S. Attorney Byung J.Pak for Northern Georgia Submits Resignation Due To Unnamed Cause
United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia – Byung J. “BJay” Pak has announced his resignation effective January 4, 2021. Byung Pak was appointed as the chief federal...
Second Round of PPP Loans Approved by Congress in New COVID-19 Stimulus Bill
Congress has approved a $900 billion package designated to aid American households and small businesses currently struggling with the pandemic’s economic effects on the night of December 21, 2020. Several...
Attorney Tom Girardi Faces Lawsuits Involving Embezzlement and PPP Loan
The United States Small Business Administration has released data showing that embattled attorney Tom Girardi has managed to receive funding through the United States government’s Paycheck Protection Program during the...
$8.4 Million in Coronavirus Relief Funds Seized from Bogus Florida Ministry
A fake family-run ministry in Orlando, Florida fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in coronavirus relief funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), and the family behind the ministry planned to...
Decriminalization of Marijuana is Approved by the House of Representatives
A first in the history of the United States, the House of Representatives has approved a bill that would decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level. The bill was...
How Does the United States Electoral College Work?
Once every four years, citizens of the United States who are legal adults bear the great responsibility of taking part in the election of the United States President and Vice...
Democratic Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Wins Second Term
Democratic Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly M. Foxx is to serve her second term in the Office of the Cook County State’s Attorney, as Foxx took a reelection victory lap...
NFL Player Charged for Co-Conspiracy in Multi-Million Dollar Fraud
United States Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan of the Southern District of Florida, along with Acting Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbit of the Department of Justice – Criminal Division, announced...
Aviron Pictures Executive Faces Charges for Allegedly Pocketing PPP Funds
Previous Chief Executive of a Hollywood company has been arrested subsequent to being served with a federal criminal complaint for allegedly pocketing relief funds that he received from the United...
Hawaii State’s Attorney’s Office Pursuing Charges Against Honolulu CEO for PPP Fraud
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii, Kenji Price, has announced that his office will pursue criminal charges against Martin Kao, the chief executive officer of Martin Defense Group,...
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx Withdraws from Upcoming Debate, Citing Opponent’s “Trump-like” Conduct
Incumbent Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly M. Foxx has opted out of an upcoming debate in the Cook County state’s attorney’s race, accusing rival Patrick W. O’Brien of resorting to...
U.S. Attorney David DeVillers Announces Progress in Ohio’s Battle Against Opioid Crisis
Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched Operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (SOS), a program aimed at restricting the supply of dangerous synthetic opioids in high-impact areas across the...
U.S. Attorney David J. Freed Reveals Early Findings of Investigation into Discarded Mail-in Ballots
The initial findings of a federal investigation into problems with mail-in ballots for the 2020 presidential election at the Luzerne County Bureau of Elections in Pennsylvania uncovered at least nine...
Illinois Agencies Receive $15.9 Million to Fight Domestic Violence During COVID-19
The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded $15.9 million to 19 community agencies in Illinois under the Violence Against Women Act, which is intended to “prevent, combat, and investigate sexual...
Notorious RBG, Ruth Bader Ginsburg – US Supreme Court Judge, dies at 87
The demure fire band, champion of the race and gender equality, civil rights hero, and overall, a legal, cultural, and feminist symbol – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, dubbed as the...
Cost of a Domestic Violence Lawyer
If you have been the victim of domestic violence, it may be difficult to know where to turn for help. Whether the abuse was physical, sexual or psychological, you are...
COVID-19 and Divorce: What to Expect Going Forward
For most divorcing spouses, whether the split is amicable or not, getting the divorce finalized and moving on with their lives is something they want done as quickly and efficiently...
Transition Pay and the COVID-19 Health Crisis
The ongoing coronavirus health crisis has left people all over the world without work, many of whom may be entitled to transition pay, a type of severance payment meant to...
7 Ways Coronavirus Can Affect Your Divorce
Over the past several months, we have seen the widespread devastation caused by COVID-19 and witnessed how the ripple effect of the ongoing crisis has had an impact on what...
5 Things You are Doing Right Now That Are Considered Domestic Violence During COVID-19
“People are losing these pockets of rest, places where they can regroup and recharge.” Domestic violence is a pervasive public health issue, one that is taken extremely seriously by law...
25 COVID-19 Domestic Violence Resources
The coronavirus pandemic and global lockdown has been a time of great uncertainty and fear for everyone. As COVID-19 continues to sweep the nation and the death toll rises, cities...
Domestic Violence Rates During COVID-19
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has had an adverse impact on vulnerable groups all over the country, one of the lesser recognized groups being victims of domestic violence. Mass...
Divorce Rates and COVID-19
The coronavirus pandemic, in its magnitude, duration and unpredictability, is different from anything we have experienced in our lifetime and people all over the country are being affected by COVID-19...
Cook County State’s Attorney
Email Inquiries Please direct all e-mail inquiries to: [email protected] Kim Foxx is an American politician and Cook County State’s Attorney. Kim took office in December 1st, 2017 and has championed...
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