LOS ANGELES – A federal grand jury today indicted the general manager of a La Puente garment factory on charges of offering to pay bribes to an investigator with the United States Department of Labor in exchange for the investigator closing an investigation into wage violations. Howard Quoc Trinh, 41, of Arcadia,
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King & Wood Mallesons – The OECD delivered a stinging assessment of Australia’s lack of enforcement of foreign bribery laws this week in its report on Australia’s implementation of the OECD anti-bribery convention. A lack of successful prosecutions and poor investigative performance by regulatory agencies came in for particular criticism. The report follows a month
Taking on the big guns in Silicon Valley – some of the most powerful businessmen and women in the world – is not necessarily for everyone. But for class action litigator Jay Edelson they are the people he has in his sights, having sued all the big names from “A” (Amazon and Apple) to “G”
It’s an ugly word and an even more ugly trend, but “jihadimania” is occurring in Britain with the risk of young Britons and others seeing the lure of ISIS as something akin to pop idol worship. The trend has been reported by one of Britain’s leading Muslim prosecutors, Nazir Afzal, who said that many more
Rolling Stone magazine is used to causing a ruckus with its stories but it’s latest “Rape on a Campus” article has created not just an uproar, but also a retraction and now a lawsuit from the University of Virginia chapter of Phi Kappa Psi. The fraternity house has said it will sue the magazine after
Facebook remains a key tool for any business’s online social media strategy. The full power of the network is frequently missed by many, however, through some basic “Facebook neglects”. Many lawyers remain uncertain – even untrusting – of the network. They are unsure about how to use it, how frequently to use it and what
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Office of Statewide Prosecution and the Federal Bureau of Investigation today arrested members of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Defendants, Thomas Jordan Driver, 25, David Elliot Moran, 47, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 42, all face one state count of conspiracy to commit murder for allegedly plotting
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CHICAGO–A dispute spanning 70 years of alleged usurpation, trespass, and illegal conversion of private property rights in Serbia came to a crossroads in a lawsuit filed today by the heirs of two prominent Serbian families. The lawsuit asserts that Minnesota-based Carlson has refused to recognize or even discuss the families’ claims of ownership of
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WASHINGTON – Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Jennifer Walsh has joined as director of public affairs in the Washington, D.C. office. In this role, Walsh will work closely with former U.S. Representative Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), for whom she served as chief of staff during his tenure in Congress, as well as
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LOS ANGELES – Seven defendants have been charged in a scheme to pay kickbacks to a procurement official at a subsidiary of the Boeing Company that supplies satellites and satellite parts to federal government entities, including NASA. A series of cases related to the kickback scheme were announced today after prosecutors learned that
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