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Courts & Law

Image courtesy of the New Jersey Office of Attorney General.
Down the Shore
New Jersey

5 more charged with Sandy fraud

New Jersey authorities charged criminally this week five more people with filing fraudulent applications for federal relief funds related ...

8 years ago

Down the Shore
New Jersey

Man accused of fatally beating female roommate in Seaside Heights motel room

Authorities say a man fatally beat his female roommate in the motel room they shared in a New Jersey shore community. Ocean County ...

8 years ago

Rick Gates, business partner of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort
NPR

Rick Gates, Paul Manafort’s business partner, expected to plead guilty

Rick Gates, the business partner of Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is expected to plead guilty to the charges brought against the two men this week.

8 years ago

Protesters Sammi LeMaster and Katherine Fuchs carry the top of an alarm clock display that reads
NPR
Politics
Technology

FCC takes another step toward repeal of net neutrality

The agency took the requisite formal step of publishing the rules on Thursday, opening the door for lawsuits from a number of state attorneys general and advocacy groups.

8 years ago

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his business partner Rick Gates are facing more charges from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
NPR
National
Politics

Mueller brings more charges against Manafort, Gates

Manafort and Gates already faced money laundering and other charges in federal court in Washington, D.C. They have pleaded not guilty.

8 years ago

In this April 2, 2015, file photo, Dr. Salomon Melgen arrives at the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Courthouse for his arraignment, in Newark, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo, File)
Health Care
New Jersey

Florida eye doctor gets 17 years for Medicare fraud

A prominent Florida eye doctor once accused of bribing Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey received a 17-year sentence Thursday for stealing $73 million from Medicare.

8 years ago

SCHOOL SHOOTING FLORIDA
Radio Times

Preventing gun violence

Guests: Scott Charles, Cassandra Crifasi After the school shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Doug ...

Air Date: February 22, 2018

Listen 49:26
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announces that the city’s prosecutors will no longer seek cash bail for nonviolent defendants while they await trial.(Bobby Allyn/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Philadelphia

New DA telling Philly prosecutors not to seek bail for defendants in low-level crimes

The policy shift is expected to affect defendants in thousands of cases, easing systemic bias against the poor and people of color.

8 years ago

Listen 2:18
Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski walks from the federal courthouse in Philadelphia after a pretrial hearing, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017.
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Politics

Indicted Allentown Mayor Pawlowski takes stand to ‘bare his soul’

Now serving his fourth term, Pawlowski is charged with 54 counts of corruption, including bribery, conspiracy, fraud, extortion, and lying to the FBI. He's pleaded not guilty.

8 years ago

Listen 4:28
A person wearing an ankle monitor. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo, file)
New Jersey

Federal appeals court hears challenge to New Jersey bail overhaul

Attorney claims his client has a constitutional right to be offered money bail instead of home detention.

8 years ago

High school students from Parkland, Fla., where a young man gunned down 17 people, react as the state's House of Representatives voted not to hear a bill banning assault rifles. (Mark Wallheiser/AP)
NPR
Government Accountability

Florida House declines debate on assault rifles, calls porn a ‘health risk’

The motion to debate the bill, introduced by a Democrat, required a two-thirds vote and failed. Thirty-six lawmakers supported it, while 71 voted no.

8 years ago

This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy. (Toby Talbot/AP Photo)
Addiction
New Jersey

Camden County sues drug makers to recoup the millions its spent fighting opioid crisis

The county is the latest local government in the Philadelphia area to sue drug makers for flooding the market with legal, but highly addictive painkillers in recent years.

8 years ago

Representatives from Common Cause Pennsylvania largely praised the new map, but noted they have concerns about how it will impact black voters' representation. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Elections
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

Some worry Pa. court’s congressional map dilutes black votes

The 2rd district now appears to have nearly 10 percent fewer black voters than the corresponding district did in the previous map.

8 years ago

The federal courthouse in Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Policing

Corruption trial of former Philly sheriff, associate underway

John Green will be taking the stand to testify in his defense. Also planning to testify is his successor who has been granted immunity in the case.

8 years ago

A device called a
PBS

Trump directs Justice Department to ban gun modifications like bump stocks used in Las Vegas shooting

8 years ago

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