Tag: doj
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Feds Charge More Than 100 Individuals, Including Doctors, In $452 Million Medicare Fraud Sweep
The government-run healthcare programs Medicare and Medicaid are wrought with fraud, a fact that was once again made apparent in the latest string of busts carried out by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). According to Reuters, 107 individuals — many of whom are doctors and nurses — were recently arrested and charged for roughly…
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#DataDump: #SuperMoon, Snooping, Sidesteps and more
#Supermoon Saturday: May’s Full Moon coincides with Perigee, first of 6 Celestial events this month // 7M Birds Die in US and Canada a Year because of Communication Towers // Justice Department Clears Google In Wi-Fi Sniffing Scandal // Equipment Maker Caught Installing Backdoor Vows to Fix Following Public Pressure // How Apple Sidesteps Billions…
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Agricultural Markets Still Unbalanced and Unfair, Farmers Say
A handful of companies still control huge portions of livestock, dairy, and poultry markets, they said, and farmers continue to face abusive and unfair treatment.
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Dancing With the Devil: Google/NSA Partnership
The Department of Justice will ask a federal court to uphold the secrecy that surrounds the working relationship between Google and the National Security Agency in a hearing that is scheduled for next week.
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#Obamessiah Fights to Retain Warrantless Wiretapping
The Obama administration is urging the Supreme Court to halt a legal challenge weighing the constitutionality of a once-secret warrantless surveillance program targeting Americans’ communications that Congress eventually legalized in 2008.
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1/19 Defcon: Megatakedown, Koobfaced & More
Feds Shutter Megaupload, Arrest Executives // Anonymous Takes Down DoJ, UMG in Retaliation // Judge Orders Search of ‘News of the World’ Computers // Online Protest Against Obama’s Drone War Flops // Zappos Hacked, Tells 24m Customers to Change Passwords // US to Launch Space Arms-Control Initiative
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west virginia mine owner to pay record fine
video: feds unveil $210m settlement in US mine blast* from wvrecord: The Justice Department on Tuesday announced an agreement with Alpha Natural Resources totaling nearly $210 million in payments connected to the 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster. An explosion on April 5, 2010, claimed the lives of 29 miners at the site, which was…
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corbett report: episode210 – hunting the octopus
listen to corbett report on @RBNlive weeknights at midnight from corbett report: In Episode 209 we looked at the mysterious death of Danny Casolaro, the journalist who was about to crack the political conspiracy of the century, a plot that he called “the octopus.” This week we go in search of the octopus that Casolaro…
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corbett report: episode209 – requiem for the suicided: danny casolaro
listen to corbett report on @RBNlive weeknights at midnight from corbett report: Danny Casolaro was a freelance journalist who told his friends and family that he was close to cracking a story he called The Octopus, which he referred to as the political conspiracy of the century. In August of 1991 he packed his notes…
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#FastAndFurious gun-running scandal could bring down obama admin
new documents released by white house from blacklisted news: Could Fast and Furious be the scandal that brings down the Obama administration? With the full knowledge of the Department of Justice, ATF agents facilitated the sale of thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels and dropped all surveillance of those weapons once they crossed the…
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DHS/ICE Start Another Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures
US authorities have resumed “Operation In Our Sites” and have seized several domain names associated with copyright infringement or counterfeit related crimes. Among the new targets are two sites that linked to copyrighted films hosted on third party streaming sites such as megavideo.com and veoh.com.
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5/19 Defcon: Blockage, Bills, Threats & Storms
Obama DOJ tries to block unclassified info from NSA leaker trial* new yorker mag sheds new light on nsa’s warrantless wiretapping & data mining* senate bill requires warrant for email, cloud content* senate bill makes illegal internet streaming a felony* bill clinton: create internet agency* US secret service questions 13yr-old over facebook ‘threat’* twitter feed…
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domestic surveillance court approved all 1,506 warrants in 2010
from threat level: The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected “agents” of a foreign power or terrorists on U.S. soil last year, according to a Justice Department report released under the Freedom of Information Act. The two-page report, which shows about a 13 percent increase in the…
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5/5 defcon: re-entry & removal
video: Spacecraft re-entry over Wash. & Oregon on may3?* Department of Justice: FBI Too Focused On Child Porn* Feds Demand Firefox Remove Add-On That Redirects Seized Domains* Mozilla Refuses to Block Extension for dhs – As Government’s ICE Effort Continues to Look Silly* flashback: ‘mafiaa fire’: firefox add-on to reverse US govt domain censorship Gabrielle…