Faced With Consequences of Climate Crisis, Low-Lying Delaware Sues 31 Fossil Fuel Companies
Joining the trend of city, county, and state governments trying to make polluters pay for their significant contributions to the...
Category: Crime
Another Sleazy Trump Crony Arrested
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon was arrested Thursday after being charged with defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors...
Filing by NY Prosecutors Indicates Broader Probe Into Alleged Trump Tax Fraud
Court filings by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. on Monday led to renewed speculation that prosecutors in New York have targeted...
Trump’s Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers
Donald Trump and his cohort of propagandists at Fox News would have us believe the major cities of the United States have...
‘Trump Death Clock’ Headed to DC
With Covid-19 pandemic surging in regions across the United States, progressive activists plan to spotlight the president’s “reckless and deadly”...
Minnesota Sues Exxon, Koch, American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) – The state of Minnesota on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the American Petroleum Institute, Exxon...
People of Ogoniland Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution
In 2011, a ground-breaking report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on oil pollution in Ogoniland highlighted the devastating impact of the...
Trump made the Secret Service ‘captive customers’ in transactions at his businesses
Last week in the Washington Post, journalists David A. Fahrenthold and Joshua Partlow reported that according to federal records the...
‘Criminal negligence’: Trump officials ignored company’s offer to make 7 million N95 masks per month
Progressives on Saturday denounced an “infuriating” report which detailed the Department of Health and Human Services’ refusal to take an American company...
Fox News Clan Is Preparing For Lawsuits Over Its Coronavirus Lies
Amid the mushrooming coronavirus crisis, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are girding for a pandemic of public-interest lawsuits over misinformation and conspiracy theories...
Trump Is Taking Bribes And Selling Access To The White House
Trump is pocketing money from donors and giving them access to the White House and the scam is being run...
Trump Busted For Bank And Tax Fraud In Newly Obtained Documents
Property documents reveal that Donald Trump has been listing higher values on his loan applications and lower values on his...
Trump Ordered to Pay $2 Million for Charity Fraud
A New York judge has ordered President Donald Trump to personally pay $2 million to settle the state attorney general’s...
Trump Breaks The Law Every Time Taxpayer Money Is Spent At One Of His Properties
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) explained that Trump is not allowed to take any money from the taxpayers beyond his salary,...
Crook Trump: Air Force Planes Diverted to Trump’s Scottish Golf Resort
There have been so many Trump scandals that it seems impossible to keep them straight without a scorecard, but the...
Drug makers flooded US with billions of opioid pills as epidemic surged, data shows
Drug makers and distributors flooded the US with more than 75bn opioid pills in the crucial years when the country’s epidemic...
Shell Oil Made Workers Attend Trump Event By Threatening Not To Pay Them
Shell officials in Beaver County, PA gave workers a choice, they could either attend Trump’s event or not be paid...
Warren Unveils Bill to Punish Criminal CEOs
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced legislation Wednesday that would make it easier to imprison corporate executives whose companies commit crimes...
Exxon’s Misinformation Campaign To Face Public Scrutiny As Legal Woes Mount
It’s been nearly four years since leaked documents revealed Exxon Mobil Corp. understood that fossil fuel emissions caused the planet...
One of America’s richest families made huge profits from the nation’s opioid crisis
A court ruling Monday in Massachusetts will expose details about one of America’s richest families and their connection to the...
The Special Counsel’s Russia Probe is Making Millions by Catching Serial Tax Cheats
The special counsel’s spending on the Russia probe has now exceeded $25 million, according to the Department of Justice, but...
U.S. Charges Four in ‘Panama Papers’ Tax Evasion Scheme
U.S. prosecutors announced Tuesday that they have charged four people with taking part in a decades-long scheme to evade U.S....
Trump’s Panama tower used for money laundering, reports say
The Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower soars over Panama City bay, a 70-storey skyscraper shaped like a sail. Donald...
Fossil Fuel Companies Kill With Impunity. Why Are Their Leaders Not In Jail?
Over the course of 2018, I have started emphasizing how the extraction and sale of fossil fuels is like a...
Trump’s acting attorney general involved in outfit that scammed veterans out of life savings
Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general, Matthew Whitaker, was involved in a company that scammed US military veterans out of their...
Human Rights Group Calls For Investigation Of Giuliani, Trump Money-Laundering
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston is now reporting that an international human rights organization has requested that prosecutors in The Netherlands open...
Trump Sued for Scamming Struggling Investors Through Endorsement Deals
In 2014, a financially struggling hospice caregiver in California decided to invest in a video phone marketing company by the...
CEO Pleads Guilty To Fraud After Dispensing Millions of Opioid Painkillers
A wealthy CEO might actually be heading to prison – a rare occurrence in America today. Mashiyat Rashid, the CEO of...
The Trump Family’s Pump and Dump Scam
A massive new investigation by Pro Publica reveals President Donald Trump and his children engage in systematic deceit to lure investors to its...
NY Times Unmasks Donald Trump: Built Empire on Father’s Money, Tax Dodging and Fraud
President Donald Trump built his personal brand and presidential candidacy on the claim that he was a self-made billionaire whose...
Corrupt Trump Sued For Illegally Taking Gifts From Foreign Governments
On Friday evening, just as he was dealing with a setback to his Supreme Court nomination, President Donald Trump got a fresh...
The Trump Archives: A Trail of Money Laundering
Donald Trump has a long history of doing what he thinks is best for Donald Trump. If he needs to...
Trump’s Lawyer Warned His Lies Could End Up Putting Him in an ‘Orange Jump Suit’
Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” includes an astonishing alleged quote from John Dowd, a former...
Trump’s History of Laundering Russian Mafia Money Through His Properties
Author Craig Unger has been following Donald Trump’s dealings in Russia since his 1987 visit–at the behest of the Russian...
Russian Mob ‘Made its Move’ on Trump After a String of Trump Bankruptcies: Documentary Filmmaker
A documentary filmmaker appeared on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Thursday to talk about what he’s found while researching “Active Measures,”...
Trump’s DOJ Has Almost Completely Stopped Prosecuting White Collar Criminals
White collar criminal prosecutions and fines are not just plummeting under the Trump administration – they appear to be disappearing...
Wells Fargo Ordered To Pay $97 Million For Violating Labor Laws
Wells Fargo was ordered to pay California employees $97 million for violating the state’s labor laws. Judge Percy Anderson handed...
Entire Trump Family Named In Massive Charity Fraud Lawsuit
The entire Trump family has been named in a lawsuit regarding charitable fraud by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood...
Adam Schiff Says Trump Broke The Law With $500 Million Illegal Chinese Kickback
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump committed a certain Emoluments Clause...
American Traitor Oliver North Will Become the New NRA President
Oliver North, for you youthful types, was a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, a Reagan administration scheme to smuggle...
Alt-Right Maine Governor Paul LePage Sued Over Denying Medicaid
Maine is a very interesting state, politically. On the one hand they have perhaps the most right-wing governor in the...
Republican Report May Provide Proof of Trump Treason
When Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a report on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, we learned more information...
Senator Bernie Sanders’ Bill Would Send Big Pharma Execs Behind Opioid Crisis to Jail
While President Donald Trump attempts to place blame for the enduring opioid addiction crisis on immigrants, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)...
One of the Trump Swamp’s Biggest Swindlers, Scott Pruitt, Under Fire
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting pressure to resign amid ballooning scandals over his spending habits and a...
Saudi Crown Prince Visit to White House Tied to Unresolved 9/11 Questions
In light of President Donald Trump’s meeting with the Saudi crown prince Tuesday, it bears remembering that the Saudi royal...
Jared Kushner Made Millions By Breaking New York Housing Laws
The Associated Press reported that Jared Kushner’s real estate business in New York City was partially built on illegally kicking...
