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May 13 2015
News
IRS Criminal Investigation: A unit that targets financial crimes in Utah
The Internal Revenue Service's intelligence unit honed its reputation by providing the evidence to convict Public Enemy No. 1 Al Capone of tax evasion in 1931.
Long after the Chicago gangster went to prison and almost a century after the unit's founding, the little-known division — now called IRS Criminal Investigation, or IRS C.I. — is still going strong. Other high-profile defendants
May 11 2015
News
In Republican Utah, big laws taking effect Tuesday have liberal bent
Something a bit strange is happening Tuesday in heavily Republican Utah.
Major new laws take effect that may seem more likely in a liberal, blue state: gay-rights protection, giving many drug offenders treatment instead of a prison cell and toughening seat-belt enforcement that conservatives fought for years.
And there's more: Tax hikes take effect later in July for
Aug 23 2013
News
Advocates for gay, immigrant rights march in footsteps of blacks
Organizers are turning the 50th anniversary celebration of the March on Washington into far more than a history lesson, vowing to use the commemoration to push for voting rights, immigration reform, and gay rights, and underscoring just how much the civil rights movement has transformed.
Washington Times
Apr 15 2023
Headline Roundup
Why Many Taxpayers Are Receiving Smaller Refunds This Year
Many taxpayers are receiving smaller tax refunds this year than in previous years.
The Details: Tax professionals and the IRS have attributed the smaller refunds to the expiration of several pandemic-related boosts to tax credits and deductions." A recent Bank of America analysis reportedly showed that many wealthier taxpayers are actually receiving larger tax refunds this year.
New York Post (News)


Aug 27 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Terrorism Isn’t Enough to Bring Us Together
From the CenterThis view is from an author rated as Center.
There was once a time when America put aside its differences in the face of crisis. During wartime, during natural disasters, and after acts of unconscionable terrorism, all but the most virulent partisans and outliers would be able to put aside their ideological differences (at least temporarily) to come together toward a
Dan Schnur
Feb 19 2020
News
Who got pardoned, who got shorter prison sentences under Trump's clemency spree?
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump granted clemency on Tuesday to 11 people who served prison sentences for crimes in high-profile cases ranging from gambling fraud to tax evasion to drug-related charges.
Trump, who has broad clemency powers granted by the Constitution, granted full pardons – a full legal forgiveness for a crime – to seven people and commuted, or shortened, the
USA TODAY
Dec 14 2018
News
Michael Cohen Says Trump Almost Certainly Committed a Crime
After he was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for tax fraud, lying to Congress, and campaign-finance violations he said he committed at the president’s direction, Michael Cohen is going full John Dean. In an interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos that aired Friday, the lawyer and fixer who was once so loyal to Donald Trump that he claimed he’d “take a bullet” for him,
Vanity Fair
Feb 18 2021
Headline Roundup
Biden and Congressional Democrats Introduce Immigration Bill
On Thursday, President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats will unveil an immigration bill, known as the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021, that would offer an eight-year pathway to citizenship to an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status.
Proponents say the bill would increase legal immigration levels and cancel penalties for future unauthorized immigrants.
Washington Times


Jul 11 2015
News
Greek parliament approves capitulation to European creditors
The full text of the Greek government's proposal to its European creditors is now publicly available, and the Financial Times has a helpful rundown showing that the new Greek proposal is extremely similar to the reform package Greek voters rejected so decisively on Sunday.
The Greeks have agreed to virtually all of the European creditors' major demands. The remaining d
Vox
Feb 18 2020
News
Trump commutes sentence of Rod Blagojevich, pardons Bernie Kerik
President Trump on Tuesday said he pardoned former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik and commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was convicted of trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat following the 2008 election.
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New York Post (News)