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red Fugees Founder Pras Michél Convicted In Federal Foreign-Influence Trial
UPDATE: New Jersey-bred rapper and producer Pras Michél, best known as a founding member of the Fugees, was convicted by federal jurors in what the government called a "clandestine foreign influence campaign scheme." The Grammy-winning '90s hip-hop star was found guilty of 10 counts following an influence-peddling trial in Washington, DC, that featured high-profile witnesses such as Leonardo DiCaprio and former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The Justice Department accused Michél, 50, of collecting millions of dollars from Malaysian financier Low Taek Jho to launder money embezzled fro…
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Feds Raid Giuliani's Manhattan Apartment
Federal agents on Wednesday raided the Manhattan apartment of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as part of an investigation into his activities in Ukraine, according to multiple reports. Guiliani, who was ex-President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, didn’t immediately comment, nor did the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York in Manhattan. No charges had been filed against the 76-year-old former federal prosecutor as of Wednesday afternoon. Agents earlier in the day seized electronic devices during a warranted search as part of a months-long investigation, acco…
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NJ Congresswoman Sues Trump, Giuliani Over Capitol Riot
U.S. Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman of New Jersey, who had to shelter when Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, joined a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the former president of inciting the deadly riot. The lawsuit claims that Trump, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and two white supremacist organizations, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, violated the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act by preventing Congress from carrying out its constitutional duties and certifying Electoral College votes to make Democrat Joe Biden the next president. “We have to stand up for our democracy and o…
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Justice Department Accuses Walmart Of Fueling Opioid Crisis, Seeks Billions In Penalties
The Trump Administration sued Walmart on Tuesday for producing what it alleges is an illegal flow of pain killers that has fueled America’s opioid crisis. Ignoring “red flag” warnings against suspicious prescriptions from its own pharmacists, Walmart turned a network of 5,000 national in-store pharmacies into a pipeline of highly addictive painkillers, the Justice Department’s alleges in its lawsuit. Walmart understaffed those pharmacies while pressuring workers to fill prescriptions quickly – enabling widespread drug abuse -- in order to increase profits, the suit filed in US District Cour…
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Supreme Court Chief Justice Joins Liberal Minority In Upholding Abortion Rights
For the first time since President Trump’s new appointees took their seats, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pro-abortion decision on Monday. Chief Justice John Roberts, placing precedent over all else, joined the court's four minority liberals in striking down a Louisiana law that would have required doctors at abortion clinics to have hospital admitting privileges. The Louisiana Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, which never went into effect, required abortion doctors in the state to have admitting the privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of the clinics where they worked. The law was simi…
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Feds Approve $248M Food Benefits For 600K NJ Children
Nearly 600,000 New Jersey schoolchildren could quality for extra food benefits that otherwise would have been spent on free or reduced meals at school, officials said. Schools have been closed since mid-March due to the coronavirus outbreak. New Jersey requested assistance from the Trump Administration, which gave its OK on Monday for proximately $248 million in federal aid. Each student who currently quality for subsidized meals will get an extra $416.10, officials said. Families already receiving aid under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will have the money added to …