Here's What A Heinz Ketchup Counterfeiting Operation Looks Like
Someone was allegedly trying to counterfeit Heinz Tomato Ketchup inside a privately owned 7,000 square foot warehouse in New Jersey, reports Dan Goldberg at The Star-Ledger. Officials from Heinz...
View ArticleFraudsters Named Their Fund '.44 Magnum' Because Clients Would 'Shoot...
The SEC unsealed civil charges today against a trio of individuals who ran a phony investment program called ".44 Magnum." Why did they call it that? Because, “when people found out they’d been ripped...
View ArticleFACT: White College Applicants Get More Preferential Treatment Than Minorities
While affirmative action is about to get torn apart by the Supreme Court, other preferential treatment in college admissions goes uncontested. You know, the kind that favors white kids. This...
View ArticleJerry Sandusky Asks Court To Overturn Child Sex Abuse Convictions
BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky asked a judge on Thursday to overturn his child sexual abuse convictions and grant him a new trial, claiming his lawyers...
View ArticleThe Late BBC Star In A Sex Abuse Scandal Admitted He'd Be Seen As 'Crooked'...
Jimmy Savile confessed to a reporter that his reputation would collapse after his death and he would come to be regarded as “crooked”, it has emerged. In a previously unpublished interview given by...
View ArticleBillionaire Bahraini Prince Tossed Off Flight After Drunken Rant In Cockpit
An Arab prince was marched off a passenger jet at Heathrow by police officers armed with Taser guns after he drunkenly stormed the cockpit to complain about the poor service. Mubarak Hamad, 29, a...
View ArticleHow Dietmar Machold Allegedly Became 'The Bernie Madoff Of Violins'
The world's biggest violin dealer, Dietmar Machold, is facing the music in court, accused of fiddling millions from investors. News of the arrest last year of the international violin dealer Dietmar...
View ArticleThe Scope Of Corruption In Nigerian Oil Is Truly Horrifying
Goodluck Jonathan says he wants to reform the oil industry. Really? IN AUGUST Nigeria announced that oil production had reached a record 2.7m barrels a day but few experts believed it. Oil is also...
View ArticleMexico's Drug Lords Are Dropping Like Flies
The most wanted men in Mexico are tumbling. Will crime follow suit? IN MARCH 2009 the Mexican government published a list of 37 men believed to be running drug gangs. The alleged bandits were named and...
View ArticleHow US Ambassador Chris Stevens May Have Been Linked To Jihadist Rebels In Syria
The official position is that the US has refused to allow heavy weapons into Syria. But there's growing evidence that U.S. agents—particularly murdered ambassador Chris Stevens—were at least aware of...
View ArticleThe US Government May Lock Up This Whistleblower To Protect The CIA's 'Prime...
It's hard to tell which is more astounding: that the U.S. government is preparing to jail a CIA whistleblower for "outing" a covert CIA agent — a felony — or that the outed agent is "well known" to be...
View ArticleThis News Could Mean The End Of Altruistic Lawyers
The salaries of government and nonprofit lawyers have hardly grown at all since 2004 – when they were already pretty paltry, a new report from the legal group NALP has found. Public defenders usually...
View ArticleTwitter Agrees To Censor Posts For The Second Time This Week
PARIS (AP) — A French Jewish group that threatened a lawsuit against Twitter says the social network has agreed to pull tweets under a pair of hash tags that spawned more than a week of racist and...
View ArticleCeasefire In Dish v. AMC War Is Either A 'Possible Settlement' Or A 'Mistake'
On Thursday, a note on the New York State Supreme Court’s website stated that there may be a "possible settlement" in AMC and Cablevision's $2.4 billion breach of contract suit against the Dish Network...
View ArticleFamily Dollar In Trouble After Alleged Prank Involving 25 Laxatives And Two...
An employee prank gone horribly wrong has landed Family Dollar in court. An assistant manager at Kansas branch allegedly stuffed 25 laxative pills into two bottles of Coke and then planted them in an...
View ArticleCorporate Lawyer Says He Got Axed For Not Conforming To Male Stereotypes
An attorney is claiming big-league firm Dechert fired him to get back at him for taking time off to care for his mentally ill wife and their newborn, the National Law Journal reports. This week, a...
View Article25 Adorable Pictures Of Inmates Training Shelter Dogs
Paws on Parole lets inmates at Florida's Gainesville Correctional Work Camp train shelter dogs so they're ready for their "forever homes." And, according to its coordinator Hilary Hynes, the...
View ArticleUber-Agent Ari Emanuel Suing Ex-Clothing Store Partner For $2M Over 'Misused'...
William Morris Endeavor talent superagent Ari Emanuel and his wife, Sarah, filed a $2 million lawsuit Thursday against Mark and Jill Freeman—owners of upscale Los Angeles boutiques, Jill Roberts—after...
View ArticleCIA Requests More Of Those Drones That It Refuses To Acknowledge
The CIA is "urging the White House to approve a significant expansion of the agency’s fleet of armed drones," according to U.S. officials and reported by Greg Miller of the Washington Post. What's odd...
View ArticleA Jury Will Likely Scrutinize Trayvon Martin's Deleted Facebook And Twitter...
George Zimmerman's lawyer can subpoena Facebook and Twitter for the deleted acounts of Trayvon Martin, a judge ruled Friday. Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder for the shooting of...
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