The Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida opened a Grand Jury indictment on October 10, 2014 and made a new arrest in the Rothstein scam. A now “former” regional vice president of TD Bank, Mr. Frank Spinosa, age 53, was charged in Federal Court…
BuzzFeed, a social media “gadfly” page, reports that the DEA created a fake Facebook account, filled the page with statements that evoked a response, and made criminal cases. Using personal photographs and information (drawn from the personal information of a woman arrested on Cocaine charges) the DEA tricked her “associates”…
The Securities Exchange Commission Office of Investor Education has issued a recent bulletin concerning financial advisors. The SEC and FINRA have been under a great deal of pressure. Both Congress and consumer groups are looking for evildoers. So, the politically easy reaction is to attack financial advisors. Financial advisors are…
As recently as August 6, 2014, the New York Times reported that Justice Ruth Bade Ginsberg has commented on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, saying that while gay and lesbian rights move ahead, women’s rights have moved off the Court’s radar. Her comments were that she sees “inconsistency.” Source: huffingtonpost.com Now, no…
Yesterday, the government made public the set of internal rules that are used to compile the list of names on the infamous No-Fly list. Now, the right of U.S. citizens to move among and between the States has its roots in the U.S. Constitution. The Commerce Clause, the Comity Clause,…
Source: www.newsweek.com Unfortunately, the firing of a missile at Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 is not the first, but one many of such incidents. Here is a list: Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114, a Boeing 727, was shot down on February 21, 1973 when it strayed over Israeli territory, refused to…
The news of July 9, 2014 from Iraq is that 90 pounds of uranium compounds have come into possession of the Islamic State In Iraq and Levant (ISIS). The uranium was obtained from a university laboratory in Mosul, a city in Northern Iraq that is occupied by ISIS and is…
The FBI announced changes to its interrogation protocol when investigations concern national security. Newer rules would allow profiling techniques, such as, mapping of certain ethnic groups. In past years, civil rights concerns were raised about the use of racial profiling. The FBI changed its interrogation policies as a result of…
Obama Care (the Affordable Health Care Act) requires health insurance provide birth control benefits. The Hobby Lobby case tells us you don’t have to if you are a closely held corporation (4 or fewer stockholders) and you have bona fide religious objections to birth control. Source: http://www.popsugar.com/Hobby-Lobby-Birth-Control-34447944 The decision is…
The U.S. Supreme Court accepted and will rule on the Anthony Elonis case in the Court’s upcoming Fall term. The Elonis case involves a man who was found guilty and sentenced to over three years in prison for posting threats to his wife on Facebook. Because of the Supreme Court’s recent…