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A North Carolina indictment says a couple’s fraud scheme funded a “gluttonous, social media-marketed lifestyle — one filled with private jets, penthouses and luxury resorts.”
The Justice Department is dropping its investigations into controversial stock trades made by Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, but a probe of Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) is ongoing.
A judge scheduled an August hearing on plea deals offered to “Full House” star Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, for paying half a million dollars to get their two daughters into the University of Southern California.
Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, will serve prison terms for paying bribes to have their two daughters admitted to the University of Southern California.
The Justice Department has decided to handle potential prosecutions of lawmakers in insider-trading cases related to COVID-19 in Washington, not New York City or other locations.
Rampant price gouging and fraud has provoked dozens of lawsuits and hundreds of cease-and-desist orders, from major manufacturers and state attorneys general. While profiteers and crooks make fortunes, medical workers ration masks.
The attackers, possibly from Nigeria, have used detailed information about U.S. citizens, such as Social Security numbers, to file claims on behalf of people who have not been laid off.
The Justice Department has launched an inquiry into stock sales by Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr (R-NC), and Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), their spouses or advisers around the time lawmakers received briefings about the severity of the coronavirus.
A Homeland Security Department crackdown during the pandemic has opened over 370 cases and so far arrested 11 people so far.
“If U.S. Attorneys could prosecute as property fraud every lie a state or local official tells in making such a decision, the result would be … ’a sweeping expansion of federal criminal jurisdiction,’” wrote Justice Elena Kagan for a unanimous court.