Justice Department’s No. 3 attorney stepping down
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The acting associate attorney general at the U.S. Justice Department, Stuart Delery, will be leaving his job on April 14, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Tuesday.
PayPal pulls North Carolina plan after transgender bathroom law
CHICAGO (Reuters) – PayPal Holdings Inc on Tuesday canceled plans to open a global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina and invest $3.6 million in the area after the state passed a controversial law targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transg…
Justice Dept launches corporate foreign bribery disclosure program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday unveiled a pilot program designed to encourage companies to self-report violations of foreign bribery laws in return for reduced penalties.
U.S. court upholds prosecutors’ role in deferred prosecution deals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld the ability of federal prosecutors to broker deals allowing corporate defendants to avoid criminal convictions in a case involving a Dutch company accused of illegally shipping aircraft part…
United flight attendant leaves packed plane in Houston on emergency slide
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A United Airlines flight attendant deployed an emergency evacuation slide on an airplane after it arrived in Houston and used it to exit a plane packed with passengers, an airline official said on Tuesday.
Former U.S. tax judge charged with cheating on her tax returns
(Reuters) – A retired U.S. tax judge and her husband have been charged in Minnesota with cheating the government of $400,000 in taxes in a scheme that treated personal spending such as jewelry, pilates classes and overseas vacations as business expense…
Cosby allowed to delay providing evidence in Massachusetts defamation case
(Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby won the right on Monday to delay providing evidence in a lawsuit in Massachusetts, in which he is accused of defaming women with public assertions that they fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against him.
Judge orders U.S. to address climate threat to wolverines
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday rejected a decision by U.S. wildlife managers to deny wolverines Endangered Species Act protection, ruling the government erred in discounting the threat posed by climate change to the weasel-like pre…
California lawmakers delay ‘tampon tax’ exemption bill
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – A California Assembly panel delayed action on Monday on a bill to end sales taxes on tampons and sanitary napkins, an exemption already enacted in five other states in a growing movement against what sponsors say is a tax…
U.S. court orders UBS to pay $4.7 million in Puerto Rico divorce flap
(Reuters) – A UBS AG unit must pay more than $4.7 million to a customer’s former spouse who alleged that the firm improperly released accounts worth $12 million to her ex-husband despite a court order freezing those assets, a U.S. federal judge has rul…
