The two Buffalo police officers who were seen in a viral video pushing an elderly man to the ground during a black lives matter protest in June have been cleared of charges after a grand jury declined to indict them. The two officers, Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe, made national... Read More »
Five individuals with associations to the Proud Boys organization have been arrested on conspiracy charges. The charges are the latest from the FBI’s aggressive efforts to identify individuals responsible for the January Six invasion of the Capitol building. The five individuals have been identified as William Chrestman, Louis Enrique Colon,... Read More »
A New York couple has filed a lawsuit against the city of Buffalo, its police commissioner, and other agencies after they were victims of a home raid carried out by armed bounty hunters. The raid happened last month at a property owned by the victim, Jake Reinhardt. The property is... Read More »
A New York money manager is facing charges of conspiracy and fraud. Authorities say he was running a 1.8 billion dollar fraud operation in which he defrauded investors in what they have called a Ponzi-like scheme. David Gentile, 54, of New York was the chief executive of GPB Capital Holdings... Read More »
One of the nation's largest student loan servicers has settled a lawsuit that was filed by Massachusetts' attorney general Maura Healey. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 against Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA). This semi-federal agency services roughly $355 billion in federal student loans. However, the servicer has been... Read More »
Popular trading app Robinhood is under scrutiny yet again after the family of a 20-year-old who committed suicide last June filed a lawsuit against the trading platform. Alexander Kearns was a college student who used money he had saved from his lifeguarding job to trade on the stock market by... Read More »
Fani Willis, the District Attorney of Georgia’s Fulton County, has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of election fraud in the state. Willis has shared a letter with state officials that explains the investigation will probe into the details of attempts made to influence the 2020 Georgia elections. Although the... Read More »
Republican lawmakers in Georgia are looking to change how votes are cast in the state by introducing a collection of bills that would essentially roll back voter access. The GOP insists that the voter access rollbacks are an effort to combat voter fraud, a widely held belief by conservatives both... Read More »
Employees of a Whole Foods grocery store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who filed a class-action lawsuit against the company have been hit with a blow as a federal judge has dismissed nearly every claim made in the lawsuit against the grocery store chain. The conflict surrounding Whole Foods started soon after... Read More »
Amazon has settled with the Federal Trade Commission, agreeing to pay back $61.7 million after an investigation uncovered that Amazon was withholding tips from its Flex drivers. Flex drivers are not direct employees of the Amazon Flex Program; rather they are independent contractors who often depend on the tips for... Read More »
Three teens have been identified as the arsonists behind a house fire that killed five family members on August 5, 2020. Two of the teenagers have been identified as 16-year-olds, Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour. Both are being charged as adults. The third suspect, who is 15 years old, has... Read More »
Last week, volatility in the stock market involving securities such as GameStop and AMC made national headlines. Soon after, popular investment app Robinhood found itself under public scrutiny because of the role it played in the controversial GameStop scandal. The market volatility has caught the attention of lawmakers so much... Read More »
The Department of Justice is investigating Elon Musk's company, SpaceX, for possible discriminatory hiring practices against non-U.S. citizens. The investigation was prompted by a complaint that was sent to the Department of Justice’s Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER). The initial complaint that prompted the investigation comes from Fabian Hutter,... Read More »
Lawmakers in New York are working on passing legislation that would ban police from using chemical irritants such as pepper spray on minors. The push for this legislation comes after an incident in which a Rochester police officer pepper-sprayed a nine-year-old girl. The incident which took place on January 29th... Read More »
An inconspicuous voting technology company has filed a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Network. The $2.75 billion defamation lawsuit targets popular news anchors Lou Dobbs, Maria Bartiromo, and Jeanine Pirro as well as Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and attorney Sidney Powell. The lawsuit was filed by the technology... Read More »
