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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder at Press Conference on BP Criminal Charges New Orleans US-Attorney General Eric Holder was in New Orleans yesterday to announce a $4.5 billion settlement with British Petroleum on criminal charges. It isn’t easy in this country to convict corporations of criminality, all evidence to the contrary, so having them plead [...] March in Mexico of individuals who had family members who were murdered or disappeared in the drug war New Orleans Sitting in the jury pool in Orleans Parish Criminal Court and watching each case tainted by a touch with drugs and the huge waste of police and court resources and being force to think for hours [...] Hawala in Minneapolis, St. Paul New Orleans ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign has begun to pick up steam. A private member’s bill to cap rates has now been introduced in Queen’s Park for the Ontario provincial government. Similar efforts are being pushed in British Columbia and later this year legislators have committed to introducing [...] ACORN members Amadeo Flores, left, regularly sends money to his elderly parents in Spain, while Rohan Jagroo has been wiring money to friends and family in Trinidad for 17 years. New Orleans After a year of stirring the pot in one country after another about the crime of predatory price gouging of migrant and immigrant [...] New Orleans It still doesn’t mean that Walmart won’t walk away scot-free from its $24 million Mexican bribery scandal (and who knows how much more might have been spent in other countries like India?), but at least some directors may lose their soft perches and have their hands pried loose from the rubberstamps they have [...] |
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