December 9, 2023
Margarito Flores and his twin brother Pedro anxiously huddled in a lavish bathroom in South Zapopan, Mexico, as they prepared to call Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to discuss a shipment of heroin they had just received. As Margarito paced, Pedro pressed the record button on his audiotape device and placed the call. Within minutes, the
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Enforcement action against crypto firms may have peaked after last month’s $4.3 billion settlement with Binance, as such cases provide companies with a “template” for how they should be governed, a senior U.S. regulator said on Tuesday. Binance’s settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Treasury Department, negotiated by the Justice Department, was
READ MOREThe Supreme Court on Monday adopted its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices, but the code lacks a means of enforcement. The policy, agreed to by all nine justices, does not appear to impose any significant new requirements and leaves
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Iranian teenager is now declared “brain dead” by Iranian state media after slipping into a coma earlier this month during a reported incident with officers regarding the country’s hijab law violation. ADVERTISEMENT An Iranian high school student who fell into a coma in controversial circumstances on the Tehran metro in early December, is not brain
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The government is likely to come out with a graded timeline for the implementation of rules to be framed under Digital Personal Data Protection Law, a senior government official said. Under the graded plan, while bigger companies such as Meta, Google and others may be given a shorter time for the implementation of the rules,
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LISTENING to the various media interviews and watching the Congressional hearings conducted on the maritime accidents that have happened one after the other in the past three months, one indisputable conclusion could be had …. there is a failure in compliance monitoring and enforcement. Compliance monitoring is the process by which a regulatory agency, as
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After years of litigation to hold the pharmaceutical industry accountable for the deadly abuse of prescription painkillers, payments from what could amount to more than $50 billion in court settlements have started to flow to states and communities to address the nation’s continuing opioid crisis. But though the payments come with stacks of guidance outlining
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Capital markets regulator Sebi is betting big on technology, as it plans to implement a Geotagging solution in the current financial year to strengthen the process of its enforcement activities. While focussing on technology, Sebi said it plans to undertake various projects to boost its information technology (IT) capacity and build a “fault-tolerant” architecture. The
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Mexican marines found 110 pounds of dynamite hidden in a methamphetamine laboratory run by a drug cartel, the navy said Thursday. The navy said the explosives may have been intended for use in “mines and explosive artifacts” of the kind that cartels have been increasingly using to attack law enforcement personnel in Mexico. “It could
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One of the final decisions of the US Supreme Court in this period was USA vs. Texas, a dispute between the executive branch and two US states — Louisiana and Texas — over whether President Biden had the authority to set priorities for how his administration handles immigration controls. In other words, the states have
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