EFF to Press for New Privacy Protections Against Hidden Video Surveillance in Senate Hearing Monday

On Monday, March 29, at 10 a.m., the Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing in the Philadelphia federal courthouse on whether the federal electronic privacy laws need to be updated to better regulate...

U.K. Firm Pleads Guilty to Illegally Exporting Boeing 747 Aircraft to Iran

Balli Aviation Ltd., a subsidiary of the United Kingdom-based Balli Group PLC, has pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a two-count criminal information in connection with its illegal export of commercial Boeing 747...

Former GSA Chief of Staff Sentenced for Obstruction of Justice And Making False Statements

Former General Services Administration (GSA) Chief of Staff David H. Safavian has been sentenced to one year in prison on charges of obstruction of justice and making false statements in connection with the investigation into the activities of former...

Indiana Man Sentenced to 80 Months in Prison on Child Pornography Charges

James M. Tanksley, 52, has pleaded guilty to two counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography and was sentenced to 80 months in prison. Tanksley, a resident of Indianapolis, was also sentenced by U.S. District...

Former NJ Firefighter Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion

Matthew Fox, a former Atlantic City, N.J., firefighter, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Jerome B. Simandle in Newark, N.J., the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have announced. Fox was also sentenced...

Subcontractor Employee Sentenced to 20 Months in Jail for Kickback And Fraud Scheme

An employee of a Sewell, N.J., sub-contractor that provided temporary electrical services has been sentenced to serve 20 months in jail for his role in a kickback and fraud scheme at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-designated Superfund site in...

Former Company Executive Pleads Guilty to Bid Rigging on Navy Contracts

The chief executive officer of a former Virginia marine products company has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a $100,000 criminal fine and serve time in jail for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids and allocate customers with respect to marine products...

A Federal Basis for Equal Rights

Having failed to make his case for same-sex couples before the California Supreme Court, California Attorney General Jerry Brown has decided, as the cliché goes, to “make a federal case out of it.” Last night Bob Egelko, Staff Writer...

After Nearly 13 Years As a Fugitive International Criminal Pleads Guilty to $138 Million Fuel Tax Scheme

After nearly 13 years as a fugitive, a former New Jersey resident has been returned to the United States, and pleaded guilty to conspiring to committing one of the nation’s largest known motor fuel excise tax schemes,. Aaron Misulovin a/k/a Albert Friedman,...