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Showing posts with label settlement. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Amway and affiliates agree to pay $225 million to settle lawsuit over alleged deception of workers
In its complaint, the FTC said workers, whom Amway refers to as "Independent Business Owners," or IBOs, were falsely told they could expect to earn substantial income, exceeding $40,000 a year, or enough income to replace their full time job and retire early, when most who joined after 2020 spent more money on Amway products and training than they received from Amway.
"Amway and its affiliates misled prospective workers with false earnings claims and then pressured them to buy Amway products they were unlikely to be able to sell," said Christopher Mufarrige, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection…
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
UK government bans trade with Israeli settlements and accuses settlers of 'ethnic cleansing' | PBS News
The United Kingdom on Tuesday banned trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where it says "settler terrorists" are carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians, in a significant toughening of Britain's stance toward a longtime ally…
Friday, September 4, 2026
Israelis shoot dead two Palestinian teenagers after settlers encircle village
The teenagers were killed soon after sunset, when a group of settlers entered the village under police and military escort to steal dozens of sheep from a Palestinian home, village residents and Israeli activists said.…
Friday, August 28, 2026
Police Are Spending Opioid Settlement Funds on Flock Cameras – Mother Jones
“Whatever funds you’re spending on a camera, you’re not spending on getting someone into treatment.”…
Thursday, August 27, 2026
Michigan set to get at least $171 million in proposed settlement with Meta
The settlement calls for Meta to:
Take addition steps to prevent kids under the age of 13 from using its apps.
Create a default “Night Access Mode” for teen accounts that disables push notifications from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. and limits access to the app after midnight.
Limit teen accounts to a maximum of two hours on its apps per day, and institute “productive pause” notifications to alert users after 15 minutes of continuous scrolling, and after 60 and 90 minutes of total daily usage.
Disable "like" counts on teen posts..
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Supreme Court won’t save Trump from paying E. Jean Carroll $5M - POLITICO
Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll, said: “Today’s Supreme Court decision affirms once and for all the jury’s unanimous verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jean Carroll. His multiple efforts to appeal that verdict have all failed and today’s ruling ends his quest to avoid accountability for his actions.”…
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/29/e-jean-carroll-donald-trump-supreme-court-00979728
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Trump’s $300 BILLION Iran Deal?! Americans Footing the Bill Again?
Trump agreed to give Iran $300 BILLION dollars for reconstruction cost after Trump bombed Iran.
Are you kidding me? What an embarrassment!
Americans are getting screwed again!!
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Friday, June 5, 2026
Monday, June 1, 2026
Judge reopens Trump’s IRS suit to examine $1.8bn settlement with justice department
A federal judge has reopened Donald Trump’s $10bn case against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), after receiving a third-party motion asserting that the settlement, which lacks detail, “is a product of collusion and is itself a fraud on the court”...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/30/trump-irs-suit-reopened
Monday, May 25, 2026
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Trump IRS settlement: Why $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund lacks legal precedent - PolitiFact
In announcing a new $1.776 billion fund to compensate people the Trump administration says were victims of judicial "weaponization," the Justice Department said a 2011 legal settlement involving Native American farmers provides precedent.
The 2011 settlement differs from the new fund in at least four ways: It had more specific standards for receiving compensation; significant judicial oversight; a smaller dollar amount for a potentially larger group of beneficiaries; and a more standard process for creating the fund...
Officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6 sue to block payouts from $1.8B 'anti-weaponization' fund | PBS News
The lawsuit claims the government's "Anti-Weaponization Fund" is an illegal slush fund that Trump will use to "finance the insurrectionists and paramilitary groups that commit violence in his name." It describes the fund's creation as "the most brazen act of presidential corruption this century" and calls for dissolving it…
A Tennessee man was jailed over his Charlie Kirk social media comments. Now he's won a $835,000 settlement | PBS News
The 61-year-old retired police officer spent 37 days behind bars before authorities dropped the felony charge against him in October...
Trump’s new ‘slush fund’ for his pals
This week, Donald Trump dropped a personal $10bn lawsuit he had against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for a so-called anti-weaponisation fund. The $1.8bn fund will be used to compensate those who think they have been unfairly investigated by the government in the past. Jonathan Freedland speaks to the legal analyst Kristy Greenberg about why critics are calling this fund ‘corruption on steroids’…
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