House Democrats shelve net neutrality proposal

Cuccinelli rips presidential moves
JAMES CITY — Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli was hailed as the brightest public servant star in Virginia when he was introduction Thursday afternoon at the Virginia Manufacturers Association conference at Kingsmill Resort. In his introduction of Cuccinelli, Brett Vassey, president and chief executive of the association, said the Republican attorney general is "wicked smart." A grinning Cuccinelli took the podium and corrected Vassey, drawing laughs when he said some people tend to emphasiz...

Before Muslim Group, Holder Defends FBI Techniques
Click here to cancel reply. Track leadership changes in the 93 U.S. Attorney offices, with Bush holdovers and Obama Candidates. "Those who characterize the FBI's activities in this case as 'entrapment' simply do not have their facts straight." - Attorney General Eric Holder on the arrest of Mohamed Osman Mohamud for allegedly attempting to blow up a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in Oregon. Former CEO of the Morgan Crucible Co. Sentenced to Serve 18 Months in Prison for Role in Conspiracy to ...

Nev. panel sends audit on state contractors to AG
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A legislative panel voted Wednesday to forward concerns about State Employees being paid as consultants to the Nevada Attorney General's office for review of any criminal wrongdoing. State Sen. Sheila Leslie, D-Reno, said the audit being sent to the attorney general shows abuses at best and, at worst, possible criminal action involving the use of contractors. Leslie is chairwoman of the Legislative Commission's audit subcommittee. During a meeting in Carson City, the p...

14-year-old cartel assassins mom arrested in San Diego
The mother of the suspected 14-year-old cartel assassin responsible for at least four beheadings has been Arrested and charged with being in the United States illegally. Border Patrol agents Arrested Yolanda Lugo Jimenez, 43, at her San Diego apartment on Monday according to a federal complaint. Court documents show Lugo was deported in September of 1997 and admitted that she possessed no legal documentation to be living inside America. It was Lugo’s son, Edgar Jimenez Lugo, who was arrest...

Bank complaints soar even after law changes - Business - MiamiHerald.com
NEW YORK -- Complaints against banks are soaring, suggesting that new laws and regulations put in place since the Financial Crisis two years ago aren't dampening Americans' anger over overdraft fees and Foreclosure practices they view as unfair. If the trend continues, experts say, it will set banks on a collision course with their customers and lead to tougher rules that will hurt their earnings. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency estimates that complaints from customers of the 1,...

Cuomo Lives in Westchester but Pays Taxes as N.Y.C. Resident
Andrew M. Cuomo lives much of the time in Mount Kisco, in suburban Westchester County, sharing a house with his companion, the cooking celebrity Sandra Lee, and voting there on Election Day. But as far as the Internal Revenue Service is concerned, Mr. Cuomo, the Governor-elect, lives in Manhattan. According to tax returns that his transition staff released on Thursday, Mr. Cuomo claims a rented apartment in Lower Manhattan as his residence for tax purposes. The Mount Kisco house is owned by M...

Holder Pushes Back Against News Reports on Prosecutorial Misconduct
Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday defended the work of Justice Department lawyers after a stinging USA Today investigation into prosecutorial misconduct. Holder said an “overwhelming majority” of DOJ lawyers handle themselves appropriately. The newspaper reported that the DOJ frequently categorizes misconduct that brought overturned convictions as mistakes. The newspaper’s investigation found that the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility probed 756 misconduct compla...

My legal hero: Robert F Kennedy | Patricia Scotland
Robert Kennedy addresses an election rally in 1968. Photograph: Harry Benson/Getty Images I was warned by friends that, for a Catholic, holding a senior legal position in government ought to come with a health warning. Perhaps it was only partly in jest. On the one hand is the weight of expectation: the last Catholic lord chancellor, after all, was Thomas More, whose fascinating, Controversial writings influenced the entire history of Christian and Socialist thinking. On the other hand is th...

WikiLeaks Cable: Pfizer Pharmaceutical Tried To Blackmail Nigerian Attorney General Into Dropping Expensive Case Against Them
This is the third story I've seen this week about criminal activity by major pharmaceutical companies. (See here and here.) Aren't you glad that our new Healthcare Bill will permit them to stay profitable? The world's biggest pharmaceutical company hired investigators to unearth evidence of Corruption against the Nigerian Attorney General in order to persuade him to drop legal action over a Controversial drug trial involving Children with Meningitis, according to a leaked US Embassy cable. Pfize...

Homeowners Wrongfully Foreclosed Upon Go Through Legal Wringer
Christopher Marconi was in the shower when he heard a loud banging on his door. By the time he grabbed a towel and hustled to his front step, a U.S. marshal's sedan was peeling out of his driveway. Nailed to Marconi's front door was a Foreclosure summons from Wells Fargo, naming him as a defendant. But the notice was for a house Marconi had never seen – on a Mortgage he never had. Tom Williams was in his kitchen thumbing through the mail when he opened a letter from GMAC. It informed him...

Holder: drop ban on U.S. trials for Guantanamo prisoners
Attorney General Holder is urging the Senate to drop a provision in a spending bill that passed the House on Wednesday that would ban transfers of Guantanamo Bay Prisoners to the U.S. — effectively scuttling the prospects for a Civilian Trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged Al Qaeda operatives currently at the island Prison run by the U.S. Military. In a letter to Senate leaders, Holder called the provision "an extreme and risky encroachment on the authority of the Execut...

AG Holder criticizes proposed Gitmo transfers ban (AP)
WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder says Congress would be setting a dangerous precedent if it prohibited the transfer of Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States where they could stand trial. At a news conference Thursday, the attorney general criticized the proposed ban which is contained in a broad measure that would freeze the budgets of most Cabinet departments and fund the War in Afghanistan for another year. Holder says the Executive Branch must have every lawful i...

AG Holder criticizes proposed Gitmo transfers ban
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says Congress would be setting a dangerous precedent if it prohibited the transfer of Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the United States where they could stand trial. At a news conference Thursday, the attorney general criticized the proposed ban which is contained in a broad measure that would freeze the budgets of most Cabinet departments and fund the War in Afghanistan for another year. Holder says the Executive Branch must have every lawfu...

Cuomo tabs four members of his AG's staff for top posts
ALBANY - Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo didn't go far to begin filling out his administration. Cuomo, who takes office Jan. 1, announced his first job appointments Thursday, tabbing four key members of his Attorney General's staff for top spots in the Governor's office. The nine appointments include one Hispanic and two blacks - among them Mylan Denerstein, who was considered for FDNY commissioner. "I am privileged to welcome such a diverse group of extraordinary talent to help our administration tak...

Alamo announces deal with promoter
The Alamo has announced an agreement with an internationally known firm to promote the Texas shrine. In a release, the Alamo said Friday that the popular battle site and its custodians, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, are "partnering with" WME to promote the Alamo "through various entertainment platforms." It includes live entertainment, television, films, theater, Video Games and books, according to the release. The deal with WME, or William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, has stirred tr...

US cable: Kenya risks new violence without reforms
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The U.S. ambassador to Kenya says in a confidential cable that if Kenya's government doesn't implement significant reforms the nation could be hit by a wave of violence worse than the country's 2007-08 postelection riots in which more than 1,000 people perished. In a cable posted by the website Wikileaks, U.S. Ambassador Michael Ranneberger wrote that Kenya's "old guard" continues to resist change and that key reforms are yet to be carried out. The cable says Kenya's pres...

AG to examine legality of rabbis' letter forbidding rental of homes to Arabs
In response to a petition against the signatories of the rabbis' letter, Attorney General's office says rabbis' statements were 'inappropriate for public officials.'...

Vermont Attorney General Writes Arkansas Carry About Open Carry Laws
Arkansas Carry received a letter from the Vermont Attorney General's office after we inquired as to their open carry laws and whether they have had many problems with it. We will forward it to every legislator in Arkansas. Click "Read More" to read the letter, and here to discuss it in the forum.  I respond to your email of today’s date concerning Vermont’s Firearms laws. With limited exceptions, Vermont law allows the carrying of Concealed Weapons with...

WikiLeaks: Pfizer Sought Dirt on Nigerian AG
Umma Hassan, right, stands outside her home in Kano, Nigeria, June 6, 2007, with her 14-year-old daughter Hajara Hassan, a Victim of the illegal Meningitis Drug Test allegedly run by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in 1996. Hajara Hassan lost her hearing. (Credit: AFP/Getty Images) Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer hired investigators to dig up evidence of Corruption against a Nigerian Attorney General in order to force him to drop federal cases alleging that the company conducted an illegal drug trial...

Man jailed for girlfriend attack
A man given a Suspended Sentence for repeatedly kicking his pregnant girlfriend in the head has been jailed for four years after an appeal. The Court of Appeal ruled the sentence imposed on Matthias Dawson, 29, was "significantly unduly lenient". The woman had a miscarriage soon after the attack at Kings College Hospital in South London in June 2006. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, ordered Dawson, who was not in court, to surrender to a Police Station. 'Justice done' The appeal co...

Investment Fraud
Comments are closed. Track leadership changes in the 93 U.S. Attorney offices, with Bush holdovers and Obama Candidates. "Votes on this nomination usually proceed quickly." - Eight former Deputy Attorneys General in a letter to Senate leaders urging action on Jim Cole. EPA and the Commonwealth of Kentucky Reach Agreement with Logan Aluminum Inc. to Resolve Allegations of Clean Air Act Violations...

Alamo announces deal with promoter
The Alamo has announced an agreement with an internationally known firm to promote the Texas shrine. In a release, the Alamo said Friday that the popular battle site and its custodians, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, are "partnering with" WME to promote the Alamo "through various entertainment platforms." It includes live entertainment, television, films, theater, Video Games and books, according to the release. The deal with WME, or William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, has stirred tr...

What Should the 50 State Attorneys General Investigating the Mortgage Crisis Do?
I hope readers will give their comments and ideas on the inquiry underway by the attorneys general of all 50 states into Foreclosure “improprieties”, to use the term of art, and other Mortgage market abuses. Given that Real Estate is a state law matter, and some State Governments are less captured that Washington DC, this seems to be one of the best avenues for effecting change. Some groups are considering writing an Open Letter to this group. What do you think it should stress? W...

AG Holder: Wikileaks investigation intensifying
Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that a Criminal Investigation into the disclosure of classified information by the website Wikileaks was intensifying, calling the latest leak a threat to National Security. Holder said he "condemned" the disclosure of sensitive U.S. installation sites worldwide that include factories, fuel repositories, pipelines, communication hubs and other critical pieces of the U.S. infrastructure. "The national security of the U.S. has been put at risk," Holder s...

Holder: Black Farmer and Indian Settlements Have Safeguards Against Fraud
Attorney General Eric Holder and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Wednesday said the government has taken steps to prevent Fraud in recent major settlements with black farmers and American Indians. Congress last month passed Legislation to pay $1.15 billion to settle a case known as Pigford II, in which African-American farmers alleged Discrimination in Agriculture Department loan programs; and $3.4 billion to resolve Cobell v. Salazar, in which American Indians alleged they had b...