Podcasts about new york state attorney general

The mayor's race got a jolt this week when three unions and the New York State Attorney General backed Adrienne Adams for mayor. Unions for municipal and hospitality workers endorsed the City Council Speaker, whose campaign had failed to gain momentum so far. The endorsements come as Andrew Cuomo has continued to lay low, perhaps resting on his lead in the polls. NY1 investigative reporter Courtney Gross, and political reporters Bobby Cuza and Dan Rivoli break down the latest developments in the race for mayor. After that, the ”Off Topic” team continues its weekly series of profiles on Democratic mayoral candidates. This week, they discuss Scott Stringer — the former city comptroller now making a second run at the city's top job. Leave a message: 212-379-3440 Email: yourstoryny1@charter.com

36:20- New Jersey State Senator Jon Bramnick, Republican representing New Jersey’s 21st legislative districtTopic: Drones in New Jersey51:16- Liz Peek, Fox News contributor, columnist for Fox News and The Hill, and former partner of major bracket Wall Street firm Wertheim & CompanyTopic: "Trump just outfoxed Biden and his corrupt family. Again" (Fox News op ed)1:01:49- Richard Brescher, Township of Edison Council MemberTopic: Controversy surrounding "prop" ban1:12:33- Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, Representative for New York's 11th Topic: Closure of the Floyd Bennett Field migrant shelter1:26:41- Gordon Chang, Asia expert, columnist and author of "Plan Red: China's Project to Destroy America"Topic: Chinese military deployment around Taiwan1:37:20- Michael McCutchan, Detective with the New York State Attorney General’s OfficeTopic: Tunnel to Towers' Season of Hope1:48:02- Gregg Jarrett, Legal and political analyst for Fox News Channel and the author of "The Trial Of The Century"Topic: Suspect charged in murder of Brian Thompson, Daniel Penny2:02:47- Izzy Ezagui, a decorated squad commander in the Israel Defense Forces and the only soldier to lose an arm in combat and return to the battlefield, and the author of "Disarmed"Topic: Israeli strike on Syria, latest in Israel-Hamas conflict2:11:24- Michael Goodwin, Chief Political Columnist for the New York PostTopic: "Gov. Hochul’s $500 ‘inflation refund’ plan is just fool’s gold for votes" (New York Post op ed)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens when the very system meant to protect our elderly becomes a tool for kidnapping and exploitation? In this shocking episode of The Brian Nichols Show, Jonathan Farley shares the haunting story of how his 84-year-old mother was forcibly removed from her own home, drugged against her will, and isolated from her family - all while police and legal authorities stood by and watched. Studio Sponsor: Cardio Miracle - "Unlock the secret to a healthier heart, increased energy levels, and transform your cardiovascular fitness like never before.": https://www.briannicholsshow.com/heart Jonathan reveals the disturbing details of how his brother, armed with only a power of attorney document, orchestrated what he calls a "granny napping" - a scheme involving isolation, medication, and liquidation of assets. The footage, which has been viewed over a million times, shows his mother being physically restrained and removed from her home while screaming in pain, despite no court order or medical declaration of incompetence. The investigation uncovers a troubling pattern of asset depletion, with his mother's bank account dropping from $197,000 to just $6,100 in her final days. Through his mother's story, Farley exposes how elderly Americans can be stripped of their basic constitutional rights without due process. Most chilling is the manner in which the system failed: police refused to investigate, the New York State Attorney General declined to look into obvious misconduct, and his mother was given drugs that the FDA specifically warned against for her demographic. The facility where she was held even documented her daily recounting of how she was taken from her home, while staff reportedly laughed at her pleas. This episode raises urgent questions about elder rights, police accountability, and the shocking ease with which someone can be stripped of their fundamental freedoms in modern America. Farley's call to action includes reaching out to NY Attorney General Letitia James to investigate this case, which stands as a stark warning about the vulnerabilities in our elder care system and the potential for abuse of power by both family members and authorities. ❤️ Order Cardio Miracle (https://www.briannicholsshow.com/heart) with code TBNS at checkout for 15% off and take a step towards better heart health and overall well-being! ☕ Elevate your morning routine with Colockum Craft Coffee (https://www.colockumcraft.coffee)! Use code BNS10 at checkout for an exclusive 10% off and experience the difference of small-batch, artisanal roasts.

Episode Summary: Insights with Jon Molik on The Above The Bar Podcast In this enlightening episode of The Above The Bar Podcast, we were joined by Jon Molik, a seasoned intelligence professional with extensive experience spanning nearly three decades in various high-stakes environments. As a Senior Intelligence Warrant Officer in the New York Army National Guard and a former Organized Crime Investigator with the New York State Attorney General's Office, Jon brought a wealth of knowledge and firsthand insights into the intricate world of intelligence and investigations. During our discussion, Jon provided an in-depth analysis of the presence and impact of gangs in the Capital Region of NY. While emphasizing that gang activity is not as predominant in this area as it might be in larger urban centers, he acknowledged their existence and the subtle influences they have in the region. Jon also shared how his extensive military service has been instrumental in shaping his role in civilian law enforcement, particularly in his work with the Attorney General's Office. His military background not only equipped him with unique skills in intelligence gathering and analysis but also helped him bring a disciplined, strategic approach to tackling organized crime. Listeners gained a comprehensive understanding of how historical contexts and Jon's military experience influence today's law enforcement tactics and strategies, especially in dealing with complex issues like organized crime and gang activity. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the crossover between military intelligence operations and civilian law enforcement, as well as those curious about the realities of combating crime in the Capital Region. Catch this episode for a deep dive into military intelligence, leadership, and how historical events continue to shape the security landscape today, only on The Above The Bar Podcast.

In this episode of the Above Board podcast, hosts Scott Lesmes and Haima Marlier speak with Morrison Foerster partners Carrie H. Cohen, former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York and former Chief of the Public Integrity Bureau as well as serving as an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office, and Andrew Turnbull, co-head of the firm's Employment + Labor Group and DEI Strategy + Defense Task Force, about developments in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) litigation and enforcement. Carrie and Andrew provide their expertise on, among other topics, the increasing attacks on corporate DEI initiatives following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action in college admissions and the implications of anti-DEI activists claims and state attorneys general letters urging Fortune 100 companies to reassess their DEI policies. The podcast also provides practical guidance on conducting thorough audits of DEI initiatives and maintaining compliance with evolving legal standards as well as best practices for managing corporate DEI programs amidst legal challenges and ensuring consistency in DEI communications and disclosures.

Extreme heat can be dangerous for workers, both outdoors and inside. Terri Gerstein, director of the N.Y.U. Wagner Labor Initiative, former labor bureau chief in the New York State Attorney General's Office and a deputy commissioner in the New York State Department of Labor, discusses efforts to protect workers from extreme heat, both on the federal and state levels.

Melinda Katz became the District Attorney for Queens County in January 2020, making history as the first woman to hold the office.Under her leadership, the District Attorney's office ensures that all defendants are treated fairly and in a non-discriminatory manner, while protecting the communities it serves in the most diverse county in America. District Attorney Katz restructured the office with new bureaus and mandates to manage challenges including taking guns off the street, empowering victims of domestic violence and human trafficking and seeking justice even in the oldest of cold cases.Shanon LaCorte has extensive work experience in the legal field. Shanon is currently working as the Bureau Chief of the Crime Strategies & Intelligence Bureau at the Queens District Attorney's Office since July 2023. Prior to this, they held the role of Director of the Crime Strategies & Intelligence Unit from May 2021 to July 2023.Before joining the Queens District Attorney's Office, Shanon worked at the Office of the New York State Attorney General. Shanon served as the Special Counsel for the Statewide Organized Crime Task Force from April 2016 to May 2021. Prior to that, they were an Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Enforcement & Financial Crimes Bureau from October 2014 to March 2016.Shanon's earlier work experience includes working as an Assistant District Attorney at the Nassau County District Attorney's Office from January 2011 to October 2014. Prior to that, they worked as an Associate in the Litigation Department at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP from September 2007 to August 2010.Shanon LaCorte obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Government from Union College between 2000 and 2004. Subsequently, they attended American University Washington College of Law from 2004 to 2007 and earned a Doctor of Law degree (JD). What are ghost guns and why should you be concerned?The United States ranks first in the world when it comes to firearms ownership with 400 million guns that we know of. Guns Incorporated is big business in the United States valued at almost 21 billion dollars with more than five percent annual growth. This will be disrupted by 3D printed guns imminently.2024 has already seen a more than 1000 percent increase in 3D printed firearm recoveries in New York City. Queens County leads New York City in ghost gun recoveries. Their impressive leadership has implemented forward looking techniques to limit the flow of 3D printed machine guns, assault weapons, mines, bombs, and bullets in New York City. In this episode, District Attorney Melinda Katz and Bureau Chief Shanon LaCorte join us to talk about the growing of ghost guns and 3D printed firearms and they are working toward keeping these guns of the street.Sign up for the Some Future Day Newsletter here: https://marcbeckman.substack.com/Episode Links:Melinda KatzLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melindakatz/Website: https://www.katzforny.com/Shanon LaCorteLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanon-lacorte-921324210/To join the conversation follow Marc Beckman here:YoutubeLinkedInTwitterInstagram

Is it possible to decarbonize agriculture and make the food system more resilient to climate change? Today, I'm speaking with agricultural policy expert Peter Lehner about his climate neutral agriculture ideas and the science, law and policy needed to achieve these ambitious goals. Lehner is an environmental lawyer at Earthjustice and directs the organization's Sustainable Food and Farming Program. Transcript How does agriculture impact the climate? And I guess as important as that question is why don't more people know about this? It's unfortunate that more people don't know about it because Congress and other policy makers only really respond to public pressure. And there isn't enough public pressure now to address agriculture's contribution to climate change. Where does it come from? Most people think about climate change as a result of burning fossil fuels, coal and oil, and the release of carbon dioxide. And there's some of that in agriculture. Think about tractors and ventilation fans and electricity used for pumps for irrigation. But most of agriculture's contribution to climate change comes from other processes that are not in the fossil fuel or the power sector. Where are those? The first is nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide is a greenhouse gas about 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide. And it comes because most farmers around the world and in the U.S. put about twice as much nitrogen fertilizer on their crops, on the land, as the plants can absorb. That extra nitrogen goes somewhere. Some of it goes off into the water. I'm sure your listeners have heard about harmful algae outbreaks or eutrophication of areas like the Chesapeake Bay and other bays where you just get too many nutrients and too much algae and very sick ecosystem. A lot of that nitrogen, though, also goes into the atmosphere as nitrous oxide. About 80% of nitrous oxide emissions in the U.S. come from agriculture. Excess fertilization of our hundreds of millions of acres of crop land. Quick question. Why would, because the farmers have to pay money for this, why do they apply twice as much as the plants can absorb? Great question. It's because of several different factors. Partly it is essentially technical or mechanical. A farmer may want to have the fertilizer on the land right at the spring when the crops are growing but the land may be a little muddy then. So they may have put it on in the fall, which is unfortunate because in the United States, in our temperate area, no plants are taking up fertilizers in the fall. Also, a plant is like you or me. They want to eat continually but a farmer may not want to apply fertilizer continuous. Every time you apply it, it takes tractor time and effort and it is more difficult. So they'll put a ton of fertilizer on at one point and then hope it lasts for a while, knowing that some of it will run off, but hopeful that some will remain to satisfy the plant. There's a lot of effort now to try to improve fertilizer application. To make sure it's applied in ways just the right amount at the right time. And perhaps with these what's called extended release fertilizers where you put it on and it will continue to release the nutrients to the plant over the next couple of weeks and not run off. But we have a long way to go. Okay, thanks. I appreciate that discussion and I'm sorry I diverted you from the track you were on talking about the overall impact of agriculture on the climate. I think what's so exciting about this area is that everyone cares about our food. We eat it three times a day or more and yet we know very little about where it comes from and its impacts on the world around us. It's wonderful to be talking about this. The second major source of climate change impact in agriculture is methane. Methane is another greenhouse gas much more powerful than carbon dioxide. About 30 times more powerful over a hundred years and about 85 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over 20 years. Which is I think the policy relevant time period that we're looking at because we're all trying to achieve climate stability by 2050. And where does methane come from? A little bit comes from rice, but the vast majority of it comes from cows and from manure. Cows are different than you and me. They can eat grass, and their stomachs are different, and release methane. Every time they breathe out, they are essentially breathing out this potent greenhouse gas methane. This is called enteric methane and it's the largest single source of methane in the United States. Bigger than the gas industry or the oil industry. The other major source of methane is manure. Our animals are raised in what are called concentrated animal feeding operations. They're not grazing bucolically on the pasture, they are crammed into buildings where there may be thousands, or tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of these animals. Those hundreds of thousands of animals produce a vast amount of manure, whether it be say pigs in North Carolina or dairies in many States, or cattle or chicken. All our meat nowadays is grown in these concentrated areas where you get concentrated manure and that is often stored in these lagoons. These big pits of poop basically. And that, as it decomposes in this liquid environment, what's called anaerobically , releases a tremendous amount of methane. That's the second largest source of methane in the country after the cows belching. So you have nitrous oxide and you have methane. And then the third way agriculture contributes to climate change, which is different say than the fossil fuel sector, is by changing the land itself. Agriculture uses a tremendous amount of land. Think about it. When you go around, what do you see? You see agriculture uses about 62% of the contiguous United States; 800 million acres of land for grazing; or almost 400 million acres of land for cropland. Healthy land before it's been used for agriculture has a tremendous amount of carbon in the soil and in the plants. Just think about a forest with all the rich soil and the rich vegetation. When that is cleared to be a cornfield, all that carbon is lost and essentially it goes into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. And that soil after that can't absorb any more carbon. Healthy soil is absorbing carbon all the time and most agricultural soils are not. So that release of carbon when you convert land to agriculture and that continuing inability to sequester carbon is another major way that agriculture contributes to climate change. So these three ways: nitrous oxide, methane and carbon from soil are all important contributors to climate change that don't really fit most people's model of what drives climate change - burning coal or oil and releasing carbon dioxide. But the bottom line is if we don't address agriculture's contribution to climate change, no matter how successful we are in reducing our fossil fuel use, we are very likely to face catastrophic climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is so significant. Far more than the indicated by many figures. We can't achieve climate stability without addressing agriculture as well. Agriculture drives about a quarter or a third total green climate change. Given how important this is, why don't people know more about it? And does industry play a role in that? Industry plays a big role, as does politics. Industry - and by industry we mean the food industry. And you've covered this before. It's very concentrated industry where usually two or three or four firms control the market, whether it be for seeds or retail or beef or chicken or pesticides. It's a very, very concentrated industry with tremendous political power. They have done their best to ensure, first of all, the agriculture industry doesn't even have to report their greenhouse gas emissions. Every other industry has to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The big polluters have to report. On the other hand, agriculture was able to obtain a rider in Congress. That's an extra provision on a budget bill starting about a decade ago that prohibits EPA from requiring agricultural facilities to report greenhouse gas emissions. So unlike most areas, agriculture doesn't even have to report their emissions and industry certainly wants to keep it that way. Also, as I was explaining, agriculture contributes to climate change in a way that is different than what we normally think about. I think that added complexity has just meant it is harder for people to understand. And third, there's a tremendous amount of mythology in agriculture. People think or would like to think that their food comes from this nice family farm with a few animals and a few diversified crops on the hillside. And that in some sense was the reality 50 or 100 years ago, but now it's not the reality. While there's still lots of small farms like that by number, those produce very little of our food. Most of our food is produced in these gigantic animal factories that I mentioned earlier or in gigantic monoculture chemical-dependent agricultural operations. So, we have this disconnect between what is the mythology of agriculture and where our food comes from and the reality of it. People really don't want their myths disrupted. Given the importance of these issues, what are some of the main ways that the impact of agriculture on climate can be changed? That's another exciting part of this. That there's a lot of things that can be done to reduce the impact of agriculture's contribution to climate change. And we know this because there are a lot of producers who have piloted these programs, who've implemented these programs and these practices on their own operations to reduce the climate impact. And they've been successful. So these can be, for example, rotating crops instead of having the same crop year after year after year, which really depletes the soil. You can have different crops in different years and each crop puts a little different in the soil and takes a little different from the soil. As a result, very often you end up needing less artificial pesticide and fertilizer, both of which contribute to climate change. You can manage your animals different. You can manage your manure differently. For example, if manure is treated and handled dry, as opposed to in these wet manure lagoons, it produces very, very little methane. Instead of producing tremendous amounts of methane, it produces almost none. So, if we manage manure differently, we can significantly reduce methane emissions. And of course, there's what we think of as the demand side. In the same way that we think about LED light bulbs or more efficient cars as part of our energy transformation, we can use our land and food more efficiently. We waste a tremendous amount of food. Maybe 30-40% of the food we produce is wasted. That's crazy. It's all the effort and the greenhouse gases from producing the food are wasted if the food is wasted. Even worse, the food is dumped into a landfill for the most part where it releases more methane. And it's inefficient. We have a system that very heavily subsidizes meat production, but meat uses, particularly beef, a tremendous amount of land because cows need a lot of land the way their biology requires land and time. So we have almost 800 million or 700 million acres of land devoted to cattle grazing that could be storing carbon. Then it takes about 15 pounds of grain to get a pound of beef where people can eat the grain directly much more efficiently. So there's a lot of practices that we can do at every stage of the process to reduce the climate impact of agriculture. The challenge is that it's only on a couple percent of American cropland or very little portion of our food is produced that way. So Peter, let me ask you a question about that very point you're on. We've recorded a series of podcasts on regenerative agriculture. Some of the most interesting podcasts we've done from my point of view. And they've included scientists who've studied it, policy people who look into it, but also farmers who have done this. I'm thinking particularly, well, three names pop into mind, but there are more. So Nancy Ranney, who ran a ranch in New Mexico for cattle, Gabe Brown, a regenerative farmer in North Dakota, and Will Harris from Georgia were all people we spoke to. I got the sense in each of those cases that these people were converting to this new model of farming because of what they cared about. It was their own passions that led them to do this and belief that a different system of agriculture was going to be important for the future. They were doing it for that reason, rather than any incentives from the government or policies that were encouraging, things like that. So there will be a small number of such people who would do it because they're passionate about it. I'm assuming that number will grow, but never fast enough to really do anything to scale like we really need it. So I'm ultimately you're going to need policies in place to ensure these things happen in more and more farms. Are there particular policies that are oriented this way that you think might be especially helpful? Kelly, you are spot on. I know Nancy and Gabe and Will, and they're terrific. They are pioneers and they are showing that we know this works. We're not looking at ideas that might work. We are looking at practices that we know work because of what they and others like them have done. As you said, they're doing it because they believe it's the right thing. We'll get some farmers that way, but we need policy to move from 2% of American crop land to 92% of American crop land. So, how do we do that? One is the current farm bill is very important. The farm bill is the most important environmental law nobody's ever heard of. It dates back to the depression. It's renewed every five years. Congress is debating it right now. It was supposed to be renewed last year, but they couldn't get their act together. So they may or may not be able to reauthorize it this year. But the farm bill in one section provides a tremendous amount of money for nutrition assistance. And you've probably talked about that, what we call the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. In another part of it, it provides tremendous amounts of subsidies to farmers, about $20 billion a year of subsidies to farmers. Right now, those subsidies really are not designed to encourage farmers to adopt the practices that you talked to Nancy or Gabe or Will about. These practices that I was talking about earlier and that sometimes are called regenerative, sometimes agroecological, organic farming is often a part of that. These $20 billion of subsidies though, could be redirected, reshaped somewhat and not necessarily radically, but reshaped and focused on encouraging farmers to adopt these practices that can help mitigate climate change. And importantly, the same practices, and as I'm sure the folks you've talked to said, also help them be more resilient to climate change. They can better help the producer better withstand floods and droughts and temperature extremes. So there is a tremendous upside from this. We are already spending $20 billion a year on farm subsidies. Let's start spending it more intelligently in a way that really addresses our needs. Do you see signs that things are moving in that direction? I wish I did. There are some signs that we're moving in the right direction. The Inflation Reduction Act, which Congress passed a couple of years ago, was the first time Congress ever linked agriculture and climate change. In the 2018 Farm Bill, there's no mention of climate change. And when we were working on that with members on the Hill, there was really no overt conversations about climate change. Fortunately, things have changed. So, a step forward is that we're talking about climate change. And in the Inflation Reduction Act, Congress provided $20 billion to go to programs that are established under the Farm Bill. So, 20 extra billion dollars to these Farm Bill conservation programs and required that that money be spent on practices that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, essentially help us mitigate climate change. And that, again, was the first time Congress linked agriculture and climate change. Super important. Part of what's going on now on the Hill is a fight to ensure that money that the Inflation Reduction Act provided stays. There are those in Congress that would like to raid those funds and put them to other purposes, which we think would be a big step backwards. So that was really great opportunity. As to the Farm Bill money itself, there's definitely some conversations, particularly among the Democrats, to ensure that all of the Farm Bill programs are a bit more climate-focused. But we're far from consensus on that. So, we're making a bit of progress, but right now Congress is, I think it's fair to say, not at its most functional. And so the type of policy discussions we need, and an honest discussion of how can we help American farmers shift to practices that are better for them, for the communities, upwind and downwind and around them, better for climate change resilience and climate change mitigation. We're really not yet having that conversation as robustly as we need. Hopefully we'll be able to get to a place where the politics will allow us to have that. And frankly, this podcast and other conversations are really important to educating people so we can have that conversation. When you're trying to make policy advances, having public support for it can be a real asset. Do you see signs that the public is becoming more aware of this, that they're urging their political leaders to move on this front? For sure. The public is very much concerned about climate change. Every poll shows that. And people are concerned about it both as citizens and as consumers. So, if you follow the food marketing world, what you see is that many surveys show that consumers are very interested in the climate impact of their food choices. And far more than was the case a couple of years ago. And they want to know how can I buy food? How can I eat food that is climate friendly, that helps us stabilize the climate? And industry is responding to that. Now, some industry is responding to that by deceptive advertising. You may have seen that the New York Attorney General recently sued JBS, the world's largest beef company, for misleading statements about the climate-friendliness of their beef. So some companies are talking more than they're doing, but others are trying to respond to consumers' interest in more climate-friendly food. You see a growth in plant-based foods, plant-based milks, because plant-based foods have a much, much lower climate impact than meats, particularly beef. And so consumers are interested in that, and that market is responding. And I think you'll see more of that in governmental procurement as well. Governments that are trying to think about how can we, say New York City, reduce our climate footprint while a big part of a city's climate footprint is the food it purchases, say for New York City schools. And a city can take action by trying to buy lower climate impact foods. And that would be foods produced in a way that you've talked about with regenerative practices and also lower climate impact, such as more plant based. So, I think we're seeing a lot of progress on that for sure. So Peter, related to this, what would you think about some kind of labeling system on food products that gives an environmental score, let's say? I personally like the idea of labels. I'm not an expert by any stretch. I do remember that not too long ago, New York City required restaurants to label or have on the menus the calorie content of food. And that provision was later adopted by the Affordable Care Act and now is required of chain restaurants. And Trump tried to roll that back. So we litigated to try to preserve that and get that requirement reinstated in the Affordable Care Act successfully. And during that, I learned that labels really make a difference. Calorie labeling on menus does in fact help people make more informed choices and often better choices. And there's no question, again, I'm not an expert. You probably know much more, but for example, the added sugar labels make a difference and others. So I think as a whole, labels can make a big difference. Now, environmental footprint is a complicated multifaceted issue because something may create harm to water. It may create harm through toxic, say pesticide residue, or it may have a big climate footprint. How do you put all of that into a simple label? It's a complicated question. But I do think there's interest in having particularly climate, the climate impact food be identified on the label. And perhaps we will move in that direction.   Bio Based in New York, Peter Lehner is the managing attorney of Earthjustice's Sustainable Food & Farming Program, developing litigation, administrative, and legislative strategies to promote a more just and environmentally sound agricultural system and to reduce health, environmental, and climate harms from production of our food. Peter is one of the leading experts on the impact of agriculture on climate change and is the author of Farming for Our Future; the Science, Law, and Policy of Climate-Neutral Agriculture. From 2007–2015, Peter was the executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the NRDC Action Fund. Among other new initiatives, Peter shaped a clean food program with food waste, antibiotic-free meat, regional food, and climate mitigation projects. From 1999–2006, Peter served as chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's office. He supervised all environmental litigation by and against the state. He developed innovative multi-state strategies targeting global warming and air pollution emissions from the nation's largest electric utilities, spearheaded novel watershed enforcement programs, and led cases addressing invasive species, wildlife protection, and public health. Peter previously served at NRDC for five years directing the clean water program where he brought important attention to stormwater pollution. Before that, he created and led the environmental prosecution unit for New York City. Peter holds an AB in philosophy and mathematics from Harvard College and is an honors graduate of Columbia University Law School. Peter is on the boards of the Rainforest Alliance and Environmental Advocates of New York and a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. He helps manage two mid-sized farms and teaches a course on agriculture and environmental law at Columbia Law School.

In the shadows of corporate greed and exploitation lies a sinister crime that is silently perpetrated, leaving countless victims in its wake—a crime that affects millions of hardworking Americans every year and sucks billions out of our economy —Wage Theft. No industry is immune to this insidious crime, from restaurant workers to construction laborers. On this episode of Pitchfork Economics, we are joined by Terri Gerstein, Director of the Labor Initiative at NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, to unpack the chilling truth behind these workplace crimes, learn who the perpetrators are, and uncover how they get away with it. Most importantly, what can be done to stop them? Terri Gerstein is the Director of the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative, at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, which explores and helps activate the often-untapped potential of government in safeguarding and advancing workers' rights. Previously, Terri enforced labor laws in New York for 17 years, including as Labor Bureau Chief in the New York State Attorney General's Office. Crime music bed by Power Music Factory News clips from CBS News, CBS Miami, and CBS Philadelphia Twitter: @TerriGerstein  NYU Wagner Labor Initiative Further reading:  Prosecute Bad Bosses: More district attorneys are cracking down on abusive employers. It's about time Report mentioned in the episode from the National Coalition Against Insurance Fraud: The Costly Crime and Impact of Workers' Comp Premium Fraud The Role of State Attorneys General in Protecting Workers' Rights Report: How district attorneys and state attorneys general are fighting workplace abuses More states should follow new Colorado policy on wage theft Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick's twitter: @NickHanauer

Top NYPD officials say the New York City subway is generally safe, despite a recent spate of high-profile shootings and an uptick in overall transit crime. Plus, the New York State Attorney General's office has a hotline dedicated to helping voters who encounter problems casting ballots during the upcoming presidential primary election. Also, advocates in New Jersey are trying to help solve the state's housing crisis but there's a struggle getting officials in Millburn on board. And finally, WNYC's Ryan Kailath visits a storefront in Sunset Park that's become a popular training ground for competitive gamers.

Hello, and welcome to episode 93 of the Financial Crime Weekly Podcast, I'm Chris Kirkbride. It is yet another busy week for financial crime. A range of stories across the whole of financial crime, with sanctions, fraud, and money laundering all vying for top spot. Also this week, Transparency International has published its annual Corruption Perceptions Index. We'll also review this week's cyber-attack news, with a huge story out of the US. Lots to get into, so let's crack on. As usual, I have linked the main stories flagged in the podcast in the description. These are: British and Irish Legal Information Institute, R v Gross [2024] EWCA Crim 21.Council of the European Union, Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine: Council renews economic sanctions for a further 6 months.Council of the European Union, Cyber: Statement by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union, expressing solidarity with Australia on the impact of cyber-attacks against its health sector.Department of Justice, Three Individuals Charged for Roles in $1.89B Cryptocurrency Fraud Scheme.Elspeth Berry, Why We Still Don't Know Who Controls British Firms, and Why it Matters (Oxford Business Law Blog).European Parliament, Anti-corruption: MEPs to push for stricter EU-wide measures and penalties.Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN Finds Iraq-based Al-Huda Bank to be of Primary Money Laundering Concern and Proposes a Rule to Combat Terrorist Financing.Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Proposal of Special Measure regarding Al-Huda Bank, as a Foreign Financial Institution of Primary Money Laundering Concern.FT Adviser, Financial data from 53mn individuals involved in data breaches.National Crime Agency, $150m cryptocurrency seizure following US-UK cooperation.National Crime Agency, SARs in Action (Issue 24).Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Financial Sanctions Notice: Iran.Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Guidance: Who is subject to financial sanctions in the UK?Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Statutory guidance – Russia sanctions: guidance.Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Financial Sanctions Notice: Russia.Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Price Cap Coalition - Oil Price Cap (OPC) Compliance and Enforcement Alert.Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Financial Sanctions Notice: Myanmar.Office of Foreign Assets Control, The United States and United Kingdom Target Iranian Transnational Assassinations Network.Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Treasury Takes Action to Protect Iraqi Financial System From Abuse.Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury Designates ISIS Cyber Facilitators and Trainers.Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury Sanctions Military Cronies and Companies in Burma Three Years after Military Coup.Office of the New York State Attorney General, Attorney General James Sues Citibank for Failing to Protect and Reimburse Victims of Electronic Fraud.Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Charges Founder of $1.7 Billion “HyperFund” Crypto Pyramid Scheme and Top Promoter with Fraud.Transparency International, CPI 2023: Corruption and (In)Justice (press release).Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index.United States District Court for the Southern District Of New York, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, by LETITIA JAMES, Attorney General of the State of New York v Citibank N.A.US Department of Justice, Lexington Woman Sentenced for Wire Fraud and Money Laundering Related to COVID-19 Relief.US Department of Justice, U.S. Government Disrupts Botnet People's Republic of China Used to Conceal Hacking of Critical Infrastructure.

The New York State Attorney General is suing SiriusXM, saying the satellite radio company makes the cancellation process long and difficult. But there are plenty of companies that make it hard for customers to get out of subscriptions, so we rounded up some advice on how to get through it. Also: A monthly drop in inflation in November and “serious scrutiny” for the purchase of U.S. Steel.

The New York State Attorney General is suing SiriusXM, saying the satellite radio company makes the cancellation process long and difficult. But there are plenty of companies that make it hard for customers to get out of subscriptions, so we rounded up some advice on how to get through it. Also: A monthly drop in inflation in November and “serious scrutiny” for the purchase of U.S. Steel.

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: The FBI says they've raided the Crown Heights home of a fundraiser to Mayor Adams, whose company received roughly $150,000 from Adams' mayoral campaign and a related political action committee. Also, the New York City Council has passed a bill to promote sickle cell disease screening education. Plus, the New York State Attorney General is investigating the NYPD's deadly shooting of a man suspected of killing two people in Brooklyn.

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist renowned for his work on motivation and unlocking human potential. He's a professor at Wharton, host of the podcast ReThinking, and author of five New York Times-bestsellers. He joins Preet to discuss his new book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things, and how we can overcome obstacles and thrive in work and life.  Plus, a judge fined Donald Trump twice for violating a gag order and former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen testified in the New York State Attorney General's civil fraud case. Don't miss the Insider bonus, where Preet and Grant discuss the research behind audio-only conversations for podcast hosts and remote workers. To listen, become a member of CAFE Insider for $1 for the first month. Head to cafe.com/insider. For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/achieving-greatness-adam-grant/  Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

R ecently, Donald Trump, the former U.S. President, voiced his displeasure toward Arthur Engoron, a Manhattan Judge currently presiding over his civil fraud trial. The cause of his chagrin was Engoron's decision to summon some of Trump's progeny to the witness stand. Using his Truth Social platform, Trump expressed his discontent, clearly indicating wrongful actions taken by New York State Attorney General, Letitia James, and Judge Engoron. He relayed that information inaccurately reported by Michael Cohen, his embattled ex-attorney, was unfairly propelling the trial. Trump pressed the point that Cohen had confessed to perjury during the previous week's testimony, confessing to untrue statements. He also clarified that neither he or anyone from the Trump Organization gave instructions to Cohen to alter values on financial records. It was Cohen's initial allegations to the Attorney General that set forth the current trial. As per Trump, the very fact that Cohen confessed to lying should be more than ample evidence to terminate the proceedings of this illegitimate lawsuit. He emphasized that the allegations levied against him have been unfounded and should be nullified. He assured that the financial statements were, in fact, conservative, erring on the side of understatement rather than exaggeration. Furthermore, the former President substantiated his claims by explaining the real market value of his prized asset, Mar-a-Lago, was substantially more than the recorded $18,000,000. To further fortify his legitimacy, Trump detailed that the financial statements contained a 100% disclaimer clause clearly stated on the opening page, allowing for any discretional adjustments.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Richard Haass is a veteran diplomat and president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, following a 20-year tenure leading the non-partisan think tank. He is also the author of many books, including his most recent The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens, and a weekly Substack titled "Home & Away." Haass joins Preet to discuss the Israel-Hamas War and how the situation could evolve.  Plus, a judge fined Donald Trump for violating a gag order in the New York State Attorney General's civil fraud case and another gag order was put on pause in DOJ's election interference criminal case against Trump. Don't miss the Insider bonus, where Preet and Haass discuss the biggest national security threat facing the US. To listen, become a member of CAFE Insider for $1 for the first month. Head to cafe.com/insider. For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/stay-tuned/looking-ahead-in-israel-hamas-war-with-richard-haass/  Have a question for Preet? Ask @PreetBharara on Threads, or Twitter with the hashtag #AskPreet. Email us at staytuned@cafe.com, or call 669-247-7338 to leave a voicemail. Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Republican representatives Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan confirm runs for House speaker. President Joe Biden says his administration has approved 9 billion dollars in student debt relief—an action he says will provide aid for 125-thousand Americans. It's part of what is so far nearly 127-billion dollars the Biden administration has provided as it seeks to make college more affordable and to put it in reach of more people. In his remarks at the White House, Biden also took aim at what he calls MAGA extremism in Congress, opposition to Ukraine aid, and a “poisonous atmosphere” and dysfunction in Congress. The New York State Attorney General criticized former President Donald Trump's comments regarding his civil fraud trial, deeming them offensive and groundless. The Attorney General also labeled Trump's appearance in the early days of the trial as nothing more than a political stunt. As a major conservative policy-writing group celebrates its 50th anniversary, a coalition of pro-democracy groups held an “unbirthday” for the organization, calling out the American Legislative Exchange Council's long record of undemocratic activity. Mourners gathered at San Francisco City Hall to pay their final respects to the late Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein as she lay in state. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – Wednesday, October 4, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Republican representatives Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan confirm runs for House speaker. President Joe Biden says his administration has approved 9 billion dollars in student debt relief—an action he says will provide aid for 125-thousand Americans. It's part of what is so far nearly 127-billion dollars the Biden administration has provided as it seeks to make college more affordable and to put it in reach of more people. In his remarks at the White House, Biden also took aim at what he calls MAGA extremism in Congress, opposition to Ukraine aid, and a “poisonous atmosphere” and dysfunction in Congress. The New York State Attorney General criticized former President Donald Trump's comments regarding his civil fraud trial, deeming them offensive and groundless. The Attorney General also labeled Trump's appearance in the early days of the trial as nothing more than a political stunt. As a major conservative policy-writing group celebrates its 50th anniversary, a coalition of pro-democracy groups held an “unbirthday” for the organization, calling out the American Legislative Exchange Council's long record of undemocratic activity. Mourners gathered at San Francisco City Hall to pay their final respects to the late Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein as she lay in state. The post The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays – Wednesday, October 4, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine: We begin with a look at the anti-Proud Boys rally in Saratoga on August 5th with Mark Dunlea talking with Linda LeTendre. Then, we discuss the medical challenges of hypertension, or high blood pressure, with Vernessa Mitchell from the nonprofit Chasing Health, and her organization's services available through partnerships with community programs including our People's Health Sanctuary. Later on, Moses Nagel brings us to the August 7th Roundtable session sponsored by the group All of Us where Jamaica Miles and others discussed the meaning of Black August. After that, Elizabeth “EP” Press covers the push by Harbour Point residents to have the New York State Attorney General's office legally apply pressure on the owner of the apartment complex where some residents have been displaced since June 22nd. Finally, we end with our weekly discussion with retired meteorologist Hugh Johnson for a look at climate and weather. This time we explore the horrendous Hawaiian wildfires, the role of winds from a tropical storm in spreading those fires, and the recent prediction of above-normal hurricanes in the Atlantic.

04/05/23: Joel is joined by Jerry Goldfeder to talk about the indictment of Donald Trump. The Manhattan district attorney's office unveiled an indictment charging former President  Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.  Jerry is currently Special Counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, and serves as Director of the Fordham Law School Voting Rights and Democracy Project.  Previously, he served as Special Counsel for Public Integrity to the New York State Attorney General.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the first episode of 2023, I called my friend, Terri Gerstein to discuss the issue of wage theft, the importance of prosecuting employers who steal from their workers, and the next frontier for worker protections. Terri Gerstein is the Director of the State and Local Enforcement Project at the Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program, and also a Fellow in the Program. She recently completed an Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government fellowship. Previously, she worked for over 17 years enforcing labor laws in New York State, including as the Labor Bureau Chief for the New York State Attorney General's Office, and as a Deputy Commissioner in the New York State Department of Labor. Before her government service, Terri was a nonprofit lawyer in Miami, Florida, where she represented immigrant workers and also co-hosted a Spanish language radio show on workers' rights. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Guardian, and The Hill, among others; a complete listing can be found here. She has also appeared on Democracy Now, Univision and Telemundo. She's a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Follow Terri on Twitter: @TerriGerstein Visit Terri's website: https://www.terrigerstein.com Please rate, subscribe, and share the show. Follow us on social media: Twitter @AGEllison, Facebook @AGEllison, Instagram @agkellison, and TikTok @agkeithellison

New York State Attorney General has filed suit against Donald Trump and his children. Mary Jo and John look at what this means.

This week's conversation is with Judith Enck, a former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator, the founder of Beyond Plastics, and a visiting professor at Bennington College. In 2009, Judith was appointed by President Barack Obama as the Regional Administrator of the EPA, where she oversaw environmental protections in New York, New Jersey, eight Indian Nations, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands – in addition to managing a staff of 800 and a $700M budget.Judith has also served as Deputy Secretary for the Environment in the New York Governor's Office, and Policy Advisor to the New York State Attorney General.Now, Judith is the founder and president of Beyond Plastics, an organization based out of Bennington College that is on a mission to end plastic pollution through education, advocacy, and institutional change. I can't think of many more pressing and important topics in today's society than the environmental crisis – and I was shocked to hear some of the grim statistics and information Judith shared about where we're at and where we're heading if we don't turn this thing around. However, as you'll hear Judith share, there is still hope – and it starts with all of us “doing what we can, where we are, with what we have”. -----Please support our partners!We're able to keep growing and creating content for YOU because of their support. We believe in their mission and would appreciate you supporting them in return!!To take advantage of deals from our partners, head to http://www.findingmastery.net/partners where you'll find all discount links and codes mentioned in the podcast.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today we’re joined by Amita Singh, the Assistant Attorney General at the Office of the New York State Attorney General. She enforces the Martin Act: a New York state law that gives her the power to investigate publicly-held companies for financial fraud. Amita earned her BA in International Relations and Economics from Emory University and then earned her law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law. Before working for the state of New York, Amita was an Assistant Attorney General in Massachusetts and an associate at a private law firm. Both of us are intrigued by the world of finance, and we’re especially excited to learn how the law applies to financial matters!

What is next after revelations that the Supreme Court is set to strike down abortion rights previously protected by Roe vs. Wade? President Joe Bide fears the right to privacy could come under attack by the right. While the opinion says it applies only to abortion, there are concerns over the future of contraception and same-sex marriage. There are also concerns about those seeking pill-induced abortions. More than half of all abortions are done with pills rather than surgery, and at least six GOP-led states have tried to curtail access. Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks in the East even as heavy fighting continues at a steel plant in Mariupol. Donald Trump Jr. has spoken to the Jan. 6 committee, according to sources. His sister, Ivanka Trump, has previously spoken with the committee. As inflation rages, the Federal Reserve decided to raise its benchmark short-term interest rate by a half-percentage point. The hike in the Fed's key rate is its largest since 2000. Russia bombarded railroad stations and other supply line targets in response to the West supplying Ukraine with weapons, although officials downplay the escalation due to the Russians inability to target with precision. The European Union also proposed a ban on oil imports to further punish Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Democrats are bracing for attacks on abortion laws in various states following reports that the Supreme Court is poised to striked down Roe vs. Wade, which has protected a woman's right to the procedure for a half century. Isaiah Lee is being held in Los Angeles, accused of tackling comedian Dave Chapelle during a performance at the Hollywood Bowl Tuesday night during the “Netflix Is a Joke” festival.  President Biden welcomed U.S. athletes from the past two Olympics at the White House. The athletes had competed during turbulent times, including the postponement of the Tokyo games and circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will induct country music legend Dolly Parton along with Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Lionel Richie and Carly Simon. The number of people going hungry hit a new high in 2021 and it's expected to remain problematic this year as war rages in Ukraine and the pandemic continues. Intuit will pay millions in restitution to TurboTax users in a settlement with the New York State Attorney General's office. A student at a Texas high school north of Austin died following a stabbing on campus Tuesday. —The Associated Press See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

James Seigal, Senior Fellow at Kaboom!, talks about solving playspace inequity, his changing definition of success, and crypto philanthropy. Guest Biography James Siegal is Senior Fellow for KABOOM!, the organization dedicated to ending playspace inequity. Siegal served as KABOOM! CEO for five years, during which time he accelerated the organization's work through public-private partnerships, extended its reach with philanthropy, drove innovation in playspace design, and sharpened its focus on racial equity. Prior to KABOOM!, James served as Chief of Staff for the Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that supports citizen engagement to address community challenges through AmeriCorps, the Social Innovation Fund and other programs. James has broad experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors, including serving as Vice President of Nonprofit Programs and Practice at the leading non-profit coalition, Independent Sector. He also served as Registration Section Chief and Assistant Attorney General at the New York State Attorney General's Charities Bureau and associate at the global law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. James and his wife enjoy spending time playing with their three kids. In this episode, you'll learn: How spaces for play can spark change in a community Why MacKenzie Scott's gifts are different from many of her fellow philanthropists Crypto philanthropy, the intersection of web3, and social impact Show notes: http://www.inspiredmoney.fm/228 Find more from our guest: Twitter LinkedIn Kaboom! www.kaboom.org YouTube Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest Mentioned in this episode: Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP KABOOM! Launches 25 in 5 Initiative to raise $250 Million towards Mission to End Playspace Inequity; Receives $14 Million Donation from MacKenzie Scott The Giving Block BBB GiveSafely DoinGud NFT Money Reimagined Podcast with Michael Casey - CoinDesk Future Foundation // Dave Kim Thanks for Listening and Watching! To share your thoughts: Leave a note in the comment section below. Share this show on Twitter or Facebook. Join us at the Inspired Money Makers groups at facebook and LinkedIn To help out the show: Leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser.com, or wherever you listen. Your ratings and reviews really help, and I read each one. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and YouTube.

Jennifer Mondino is Director of Legal Programs, TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund. Immediately prior to joining the National Women's Law Center in August 2018, Jennifer spent eight years as a Senior Trial Attorney with the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where her practice focused on pattern-or-practice investigations of police departments and other law enforcement agencies, including litigating and negotiating settlement agreements to resolve investigative findings. She played a leading role in the DOJ's investigation of the Baltimore Police Department, litigation against Sheriff Joseph Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, the investigation of law enforcement in Missoula, Montana, the DOJ Civil Rights Division's first pattern-or-pattern investigation to focus on the collective law enforcement response to allegations of sexual assault, and in drafting the DOJ guidance released in 2015 on preventing gender bias in the law enforcement response to sexual assault and domestic violence. During her tenure with the DOJ, she also spent a year on detail as an Attorney Advisor with the DOJ's Office of Violence Against Women (OVW), where she provided policy advice to the Department and legal counsel to OVW and its grantees. Ms. Mondino's legal career has been focused on civil rights and women's rights issues, with a particular emphasis on legal advocacy on behalf of undocumented women and survivors of sexual and domestic violence. Her previous experience includes working for the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office, the Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Law Project in New York City, and the international law firm Mayer Brown LLP. She received her J.D. from the New York University School of Law and B.S. from the University of Virginia. Learn More: TIME'S UP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND nwlc.org/

Jennifer Mondino is Director of Legal Programs, TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund. Immediately prior to joining the National Women's Law Center in August 2018, Jennifer spent eight years as a Senior Trial Attorney with the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where her practice focused on pattern-or-practice investigations of police departments and other law enforcement agencies, including litigating and negotiating settlement agreements to resolve investigative findings. She played a leading role in the DOJ's investigation of the Baltimore Police Department, litigation against Sheriff Joseph Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, the investigation of law enforcement in Missoula, Montana, the DOJ Civil Rights Division's first pattern-or-pattern investigation to focus on the collective law enforcement response to allegations of sexual assault, and in drafting the DOJ guidance released in 2015 on preventing gender bias in the law enforcement response to sexual assault and domestic violence. During her tenure with the DOJ, she also spent a year on detail as an Attorney Advisor with the DOJ's Office of Violence Against Women (OVW), where she provided policy advice to the Department and legal counsel to OVW and its grantees. Ms. Mondino's legal career has been focused on civil rights and women's rights issues, with a particular emphasis on legal advocacy on behalf of undocumented women and survivors of sexual and domestic violence. Her previous experience includes working for the Center for Reproductive Rights, the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General's Office, the Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Law Project in New York City, and the international law firm Mayer Brown LLP. She received her J.D. from the New York University School of Law and B.S. from the University of Virginia. Learn More: https://nwlc.org/times-up-legal-defense-fund https://nwlc.org

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, WPHT Oost Rich Zeoli fills in for Mark. Smash and grab looters are robbing stores with impunity in big liberal cities across the US. Some professors have suggested that calling this activity "looting" is somehow racist, arguing that these crimes are being committed as an act of social justice (organized robbery) because the system failed urban communities of color. Then, Chris Cuomo has been suspended by CNN for new revelations from the New York State Attorney General that he used his influence as a TV host to gather information on the accusers of his brother, then-Governor Andrew Cuomo. This is just another example of how the media covers for Democrats. Later, Omicron hasn't even arrived in the U.S and the Governor of New York has already suspended elective surgeries. Anthony Fauci, the megalomaniac hero of the left, doubles down on the Omicron variant and claims that he represents "science" as he attacks Sen. Ted Cruz and Republicans in the process. Afterward, it could be the end of Roe v. Wade as the Supreme Court of the United States weighs a case that might seriously limit abortions. Finally, Miranda Devine joins the show to discuss her new book "Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What we know on the Omicron variant after the World Health Organization labeled it a COVID "variant of concern." The latest on the new confirmed cases, including some in Canada. The New York State Attorney General's office releases over nine hours of testimony in the investigation of sexual harassment allegations against the state's former governor, Andrew Cuomo. The first witness testifies in the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, the friend and alleged accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, accused of recruiting underage girls for Epstein. And Tiger Woods speaks publicly for the first time following his rollover SUV crash in California earlier this year and when he expects to play again.

Another engaging news show today where we discussed a very busy week of news in fintech. There was big news from Plaid, the SEC, Facebook, PayPal, New York State Attorney General, PIMCO, FTX, N26 and more.Connect with Fintech One-on-One: Tweet me @PeterRenton Connect with me on LinkedIn Find previous Fintech One-on-One episodes

Zalma's Insurance Fraud Letter Volume 25, Number 20 https://zalma.com/blog Criminal Caused Suit on Policy to Drag on for More than Six Years Court Finally Stopped an Unconscionable Level of Overlitigation United States District Judge Gary R. Brown was faced with a legal dispute that, perhaps because the defendant was a criminal, went on for years without a final disposition. In Principal Life Insurance Company v. Jason P. Brand, No. CV 15-CV-3804, United States District Court, E.D. New York (September 29, 2021) the case was reduced to seven years on disputes that appeared to be relatively straightforward: defendant Brand obtained a disability policy in early 2012 from plaintiff Principal Life, after being less than forthcoming about his health history. In June 2014 – prior to the submission of Defendant's disability claim on November 14, 2014 – the New York State Attorney General's office raided Defendant's offices, seizing his computers and physical files, leading to indictment on October 16, 2014 of Defendant and his businesses, DASO Development Corp. and Narco Freedom, Inc., for insurance fraud in the first degree and grand larceny in the second degree, charges to which defendant would plead guilty. Defendant filed a disability claim based upon anxiety; Principal Life, for its part, acted quickly and rescinded the policy and Filed a declaratory relief action. Proactive Insurer Has to Fight to Renew Judgment Against Convicted Fraudster Insurer's $7,870,557.89 Judgment Against Fraudster Stands Insurer May Collect on Default Judgment Against Fraudster In People of The State of California, ex rel. Interinsurance Exchange of The Automobile Club of Southern California v. Alex Semyon Mirsky, B297321, California Court of Appeals, Second District, Seventh Division (September 21, 2021) Alex Semyon Mirsky appealed from the superior court's denial of a motion to vacate a 2013 renewal of a default judgment and the underlying default judgment. In 2003 the superior court entered a default judgment of over $7.8 million against Mirsky. Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club of Southern California (Interinsurance Exchange) renewed the judgment in 2013, and in 2018 it mailed notice of the renewal to Mirsky at an address Interinsurance Exchange claimed was Mirsky's last known address. Mirsky filed a motion to vacate the renewal of judgment, or, in the alterative, vacate the default judgment under Code of Civil Procedure section 473, subdivision (d). The trial court denied the motion, concluding Mirsky's motion to vacate the renewal of judgment was untimely and Mirsky failed to meet his burden to show the default judgment was void. ClaimSchool, Inc. – Insurance Education Insurance Education from Barry Zalma Barry Zalma Presents What Your Insurance Organization Needs. The Excellence in Claims Handling Program Good News From the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud Health Insurance Fraud Convictions Videos on YouTube and Rumble.com of Zalma on Insurance Other Insurance Fraud Convictions © 2021 – Barry Zalma --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/barry-zalma/support

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more On Today's show I recap the last 24 hours in news for the first 30 minutes or so.  at 36 mins in I start my latest talk with Dr Arthur Caplan is currently the Drs. William F and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU School of Medicine in New York City. Prior to coming to NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Caplan was the Sidney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, where he created the Center for Bioethics and the Department of Medical Ethics. Caplan has also taught at the University of Minnesota, where he founded the Center for Biomedical Ethics, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University.  He received his PhD from Columbia University Follow Dr Caplan on Twitter and let him know you heard him here! 1:07 Judith Enck founded Beyond Plastics in 2019 to end plastic pollution through education, advocacy, and institutional change. Passionate about protecting public health and the environment, she teaches classes on plastic pollution as a Senior Fellow and visiting faculty member at Bennington College, and was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Judith has held top influential positions in state and federal government. Appointed by President Obama, she served as the Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, overseeing environmental protections in NY, NJ, eight Indian Nations, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands – in addition to managing a staff of 800 and a $700M budget. Previously, Judith served as Deputy Secretary for the Environment in the New York Governor's Office, and Policy Advisor to the New York State Attorney General. She was Senior Environmental Associate with the New York Public Interest Research Group, served as Executive Director for Environmental Advocates of New York and the Non-Profit Resource Center, and is a past President of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Judith appears on a weekly public affairs radio show on a local NPR affiliate, the Roundtable on WAMC in Albany, NY. Judith lives in upstate New York with her husband, where they built their passive solar home with their own hands and with lots of support from friends and family.  She designed her town's rural recycling program. She is a proud parent and enjoys reading and following the news in her spare time. Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page

New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned from office following allegations of sexual harassment and scathing report from the New York State Attorney General. Cuomo addressed the allegations, adding: "This situation by its current trajectory will generate months of political and legal controversy. That is what is going to happen. That is how the political wind is blowing. It will consume government. It will cost taxpayers millions of dollars". The governor once again denied the sexual harassment allegations brought on by current and former staff. Replacing Cuomo is Lt. Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul. The replacement move makes Hochul the first female governor of New York. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clockingoutpodcast/message

Embattled Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced he will resign, a week after a damning report from the New York State Attorney General laying out sexual harassment allegations from 11 women. What does this say about where we are in the post me-too era? CNN's Dana bash joins to discuss this latest development. The Senate passes a landmark 1.2 trillion-dollar infrastructure bill by a bipartisan majority of 69-30, but there's a long way to go before the President signs infrastructure bill, if it reaches his desk. CNN's David Axelrod and Ron Brownstein join to discuss the likelihood of the bill being passed. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki calls out Governor Ron Desantis, repeating The President's message, "if he doesn't want to help in the fight, get out of the way", as the Governor risks a brutal Covid-19 outbreak, putting children at risk with a ban on mask mandates in Florida schools. Will Florida children pay the price for his political posturing? CNN's Jonathan Reiner and Amanda Carpenter join to give their perspectives. The delta variant is raising new concerns about kids and Coronavirus, with the American Academy of Pediatrics urging The FDA to speed up authorization of vaccines for kids under 12 who cannot get the shot. Dr. Lee Beers, President of the Academy of Pediatrics joins to discuss the urgency of the situation. Finally, The Republican Legislature attempted to pass six bills that would make it harder to vote. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoed them all. The Governor joins to discuss his calling out of these efforts to limit access to voting, and the Americans who would have been affected. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Bestselling author Brian Ridolfi joins the program to discuss his new dystopian novel, Chains of Slavery (https://www.brianridolfi.com/chains-of-slavery) that predicts, through allegory, the future of America if our country continues its current trajectory.  We also analyze the New York State Attorney General's sexual harassment findings against NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo that may result in his eventual impeachment, and discuss why the Democratic Party may be orchestrating his removal from power.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this free episode of CAFE Insider, Preet and Joyce react to the resignation of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and break down the report on Cuomo's alleged sexual harassment issued by the Office of the New York State Attorney General. They also discuss reporting from the New Yorker's Ronan Farrow that details a previously-undisclosed 2014 phone call that Cuomo made to the Obama White House regarding Preet and SDNY's investigation into corruption in Albany. To listen to future episodes of CAFE Insider and get access to all exclusive CAFE Insider content, try the membership free for two weeks: www.cafe.com/insider Use special code JOYCE for 50% off on the annual membership price.  Sign up to receive the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter: www.cafe.com/brief This podcast is brought to you by CAFE Studios and Vox Media Podcast Network.  Tamara Sepper – Executive Producer; Adam Waller – Senior Editorial Producer; Matthew Billy – Audio Producer; Jake Kaplan – Editorial Producer REFERENCES & SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:  “Report of Investigation Into Allegations of Sexual Harassment by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo,” NY Attorney General report, 8/3/21 “Response to Special Investigators' Report,” Executive Chamber attorney Paul Fishman letter, 8/4/21 “Andrew Cuomo's War Against a Federal Prosecutor,” The New Yorker, 8/10/21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's top aide Melissa DeRosa has resigned. Her resignation comes at a time when the embattled governor is facing potential impeachment. Her name appears throughout the New York State Attorney General's report released August 3 that found Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Michael takes a deep dive into the politics of sex; examining the damning report from the New York State Attorney General accusing Governor Andrew Cuomo of serial, sexual harassment (11 separate witnesses came forward). Plus an exclusive audio recording of the Governor seriously creeping on Charlotte Bennett; serenading her over the phone. Finally, Professor Jennifer Taub joins Mea Culpa to discuss Cuomo's legal exposure, as in, might he go to jail?

Frank Congemi began his career on Wall Street. A self-proclaimed “whistleblower,” Congemi helped the New York State Attorney General's Office and the Securities Exchange Commission in an investigation that resulted in the convictions of multiple individuals, including junk bond billionaire Michael Mann & Michael Robert Milken who is an American convicted felon, financier and philanthropist. He is noted for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds, and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for violating U.S. securities laws. Frank is currently an independent financial advisor with one of the largest independent broker-dealers in the world. In addition to his work as a financial advisor, Frank has served on the Advisory Committee of the Financial Services Institute in Washington, D.C. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/philip-bell/support

An investigation by the New York State Attorney General has found New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, and violated federal And state law. The report reveals the New York Governor's office was a toxic environment for women. Frank Ucciardo reports from New York.

The New York State Attorney General's sexual harassment and misconduct inquiry of Andrew Cuomo concludes that he did, in fact, sexual harass multiple women but Andy says it is his culture to behave that way and he meant no disrespect, okay oh! I got an email from a listener who is in a 3 years relationship but her boyfriend has not proposed and wants to know what to do... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beingmrss/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beingmrss/support

*) Explosions rock Afghan capital Multiple explosions and gunfire have rocked Afghanistan's capital Kabul, killing at least six people. The first explosion was near the home of a minister while the second occurred a short time later. Govt forces are battling Taliban insurgents across the country as they try to seize control of major cities. *) Hot weather hampers firefighting efforts in Turkey Eleven fires are still burning out of control in southern Turkey. Firefighters and volunteers have been struggling as strong winds and hot temperatures stall their progress. The EU has sent three firefighting planes, as support from the international community continues. *) No justice a year after Beirut port blast Today marks a year since a massive explosion killed 218 people and destroyed nearly half of Lebanon's capital. Over 7,000 people were injured and many were left without limbs. With political corruption rife, civilians don't know if justice will ever be served by the courts. *) Inquiry finds NY Gov Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women An investigation by the New York State Attorney General has found that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and violated federal and state law. The report reveals his office was a toxic environment for women. Cuomo refuted the findings of the report and maintained his innocence. And finally ... *) McLaughlin sets new world record in women's 400m hurdles Sydney McLaughlin of Team USA smashed her own world record as she stormed to victory in the Olympic women's 400m hurdles final. McLaughlin powered home in 51.46s, with Dalilah Muhammad claiming silver and Femke Bol taking bronze. The 21-year-old's blistering time bettered her world record set in Oregon in June, when she ran in 51.90s.

Dan Lazare, investigative journalist and author of "America's Undeclared War," joins us to discuss the Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment scandal. The New York State Attorney General's office has released a report that alleges a pattern of sexual harassment by the governor of the state. As a result, President Biden has called for his resignation.Linwood Tauheed, associate professor of economics at the University of Missouri- Kansas City joins us to discuss the eviction moratorium. As a result of pressure from the left flank of the Democatic party, President Biden has agreed to institute a limited moratorium on evictions. Also, the governor of Missouri has pardoned a couple who made international news by pointing weapons at protesters last summer.Niko House, political activist, independent journalist and podcaster, joins us to discuss Nina Turner's loss in Ohio. Democratic hopeful Nina Turner lost her bid for an Ohio congressional seat yesterday. The firebrand progressive blamed her loss on "evil money" as huge sums poured in from Israeli lobby groups and pro-corporate dark money entities.Caleb Maupin, journalist and political analyst, joins us to discuss Iran's new president. Dignitaries from around the world are arriving in Tehran to congratulate the new President of Iran. Ebrahim Raeisi will take the reins at a time when the nation is facing a possible military confrontation with Israel and stalled negotiations with a recalcitrant hegemonic power.Dr. Yolandra Hancock, board certified pediatrician and obesity medicine specialist, joins us to discuss the Delta variant. The Delta variant of the coronavirus is wreaking havoc around the world. We discuss the current state of affairs in the fight to deal with the latest version of the deadly pathogen at the root of the worldwide pandemic.Scott Ritter, Former UN weapon inspector in Iraq" joins us to discuss US Marine Corp Major General Smedley Butler. Smedley Darlington Butler was the son of a Quaker and a decorated military leader who wrote a book called "War is a Racket." Butler was involved in a number of US imperial wars and invasions, and later came out to argue that he was fighting for US corporations.Ted Rall, political cartoonist and syndicated columnist, joins us to discuss social media censorship. Prominent Russia-gate proponent Keith Olbermann has caused a stir by arguing that popular firebrand YouTube host and comedian Jimmy Dore should be banned from all social media. We talk about censorship and whether Olbermann is an outlier or a harbinger of future online authoritarianism.Gerald Horne, professor of history at the University of Houston, author, historian, and researcher, joins us to discuss the neocon ideology called "liberal internationalism." Our guest elaborates on the foundational ideology behind the neocon argument for "liberal internationalism." Is this an ideology intended to bring peace and stability or simply a self-serving racket?

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, the New York State Attorney General's independent investigation found that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed women who are both current and former state employees. NY AG Letitia James reported that Cuomo violated both federal and state laws yet she did not announce any charges against him for groping or any other charge. Why not? What kind of Attorney General's office is this? Where is the US Attorney if there were violations of federal law? Then, Rep. Lee Zeldin, a candidate for governor in New York, calls in to comment on Cuomo's fiasco and the punting of responsibility by AG James. Zeldin questioned whether or not Cuomo would be held accountable for anything else he's done, including his deadly mishandling of nursing homes during the height of the pandemic. Later, all citizens that get COVID because the federal government brought the disease to you through a COVID positive migrant or to your neighborhood or school district you must determine causation and sue them. It's a violation of one's civil rights when the government doesn't do its job and it's time we flood the system with their own mess. Meanwhile, Tamyra Mensa-Stock won the gold medal for Team USA in wrestling at the Tokyo games. She is the first African-American woman to achieve this honor and she couldn't be prouder to compete on behalf of her country. Afterward, Ben Shapiro, calls in to discuss his new book, "The Authoritarian Moment: How the left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent."

On Tuesday's Mark Levin Show, the New York State Attorney General's independent investigation found that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed women who are both current and former state employees. NY AG Letitia James reported that Cuomo violated both federal and state laws yet she did not announce any charges against him for groping or any other charge. Why not? What kind of Attorney General's office is this? Where is the US Attorney if there were violations of federal law? Then, Rep. Lee Zeldin, a candidate for governor in New York, calls in to comment on Cuomo's fiasco and the punting of responsibility by AG James. Zeldin questioned whether or not Cuomo would be held accountable for anything else he's done, including his deadly mishandling of nursing homes during the height of the pandemic. Later, all citizens that get COVID because the federal government brought the disease to you through a COVID positive migrant or to your neighborhood or school district you must determine causation and sue them. It's a violation of one's civil rights when the government doesn't do its job and it's time we flood the system with their own mess. Meanwhile, Tamyra Mensa-Stock won the gold medal for Team USA in wrestling at the Tokyo games. She is the first African-American woman to achieve this honor and she couldn't be prouder to compete on behalf of her country. Afterward, Ben Shapiro, calls in to discuss his new book, "The Authoritarian Moment: How the left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent."

Noreen McKee, Board Member of the Rensselaer County League of Women Voters spoke to HMM's Melissa Bromley about the latest in the New York State Attorney General's lawsuit against Rensselaer County Board of Elections for failing to provide voters in Rensselaer County with adequate and equitable access to early voting poll sites, specifically in communities of color. On Wednesday, 6/9, the Board of Elections filed an appeal to Friday's decision from Judge Adam W. Silverman that the BOE must select a location in Troy's city central.

Noreen McKee, Board Member of the Rensselaer County League of Women Voters spoke to HMM's Melissa Bromley about the ruling of the New York State Attorney General's lawsuit against Rensselaer County Board of Elections for failing to provide voters in Rensselaer County with adequate and equitable access to early voting poll sites, specifically in communities of color. On Friday, 6/5, Judge Adam W. Silverman of the Rensselaer County Supreme Court ruled that the Board of Election's decision not to place a site in a centrally located area within Troy is arbitrary and capricious, and must be annulled. You can read the full press release here: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-wins-lawsuit-forcing-rensselaer-county-increase-access

Democrats who lead the New York State legislature are moving ahead with several criminal justice reforms in the remaining weeks of the 2021 session. But Republicans are pushing back saying the measures go too far and will contribute to the rising crime rates across the state. Our political observer Dr. Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the proposed reforms. Also, the New York State Attorney General’s Office is suing the Rensselaer County Board of Elections over its early voting program.

Mike, Peter and Jon roll into the long weekend with you! Will ex-president Trump spend time in the slammer after the New York State Attorney General announced a criminal probe into his organization? Will Warner Brothers' new Batman and Superman cartoons live up to their predecessors in the animated pantheon of classics? Will Amazon's purchase of MGM Studios lead to even more megacorp consolidation? Also, Mike maybe ends up on a watchlist with a 'great' business idea. Strap in and push play!

This Episode includes a Scathing Review of Donald Trump's Feeble attempt to begin a Blog. In addition the Episode discusses Donald Trump's Legal issues with the New York State Attorney General and New York City District Attorney, as well as Legal problems in Georgia.

On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- as America moves closer to normal with the return of "full capacity" at New York City's restaurants and bars, the latest on the lingering mask confusion around the country and what Dr. Fauci is saying about COVID booster shots. Also -- the latest on the probe of the Trump Organization by the New York State Attorney General's Office, and why it's considered a criminal investigation.

Katy Steele and Jack Prince are both off today, so Darren flew solo as he discussed these topics:A judge threw out the bankruptcy filing of the National Rifle Association, opening the door for the New York State Attorney General to potentially shut down the group.A ransomware attack on a large pipeline disrupted gas delivery on the east coast of the U.S.A Marine colonel is accused of assaulting police during the January 6 treasonous storming of the U.S. Capitol.Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock (R) introduced legislation requiring media organizations that "fact check" to be licensed and bonded. This is a clear-cut violation of the First Amendment protections for free speech and free press.An Arkansas McDonald's employee allegedly shot a customer's finger after a dispute over change.A Florida Dunkin' Donuts employee faces second-degree manslaughter charges after he allegedly punched a customer in the face, causing fatal head injuries, for using a racial slur.And the Chicago Police Department is using asset forfeiture proceeds to purchase drones to spy on people.Hammer Time: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) may face ethics charges for verbally assaulting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).Off The Cuff: A Michigan man was lucky to avoid jail after his vulgar screen name appeared on screen during an online court hearing.

Tanya Selvaratnam’s new book, Assume Nothing: A Story of Intimate Violence, speaks truth to power by exploring her journey through an abusive relationship with the very powerful politician, former NY Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, who was forced to resign based on Tanya's revelations. Covered extensively in Time Magazine, The New Yorker and beyond, Tanya's narrative has created profound conversations about violence against women and the next phase of the #MeToo movement. Tanya is a writer, artist, and Emmy-nominated and multiple Webby-winning producer with more than twenty-five years of experience in the arts & social justice. Selvaratnam’s producing range includes films, branded content, live events, large-scale convenings, and exhibitions. Her films have played on HBO, PBS, Showtime, Vice, the Sundance Channel and more. Born in Sri Lanka and raised in the States, she is a cofounder w the artist Laurie Anderson and the producer Laura Michalchyshyn, of The Federation: a coalition of artists, organizations, and allies committed to keeping cultural borders open and showing how art unites us. She has also been an advisor and producer for For Freedoms. “My Swan Dive was writing this book, because it helped me write my way out of the darkness which I found myself in after I had come forward against the former New York State Attorney General in 2018. And, I was inspired to write the book because I had so many people reaching out to me sharing their own stories of intimate violence, and I decided I would write this book for them and also for the millions of people that experience it ... to take the reader along my journey from victim to survivor and thriver and, hopefully, help others find their light.” says Tanya.

This is Blurred Laws & Life with Richard Busch & he is here to discuss: standing corrected, a basketball announcer calls girls' basketball teamthe N-word after kneeling for the anthem, Senator Ron Johnson publicly states that those who stormed the US capitol didn't worry him but that he might have been concerned if it was supporters of the BLM movement, the Kentucky Senatepasses bill making it a crime to provoke an officer verbally to the point it can provoke a violent response, a man who refuses to wear his mask and urinates on a plane, a woman charged with pepper spraying an Uber driver, a lawyer and Italianmafia who extort lottery winner out of 70 million dollars, the New York State Attorney General's office winning a significant victory in securing Trump's tax returns & so much more. This episode is not to be missed! Produced by www.DBPodcasts.com Music Provided by www.FreePlayMusic.com

An activist from the North Country brings her fight for justice for Black Lives to Albany. Jennifer Baxtron is a well known Black Lives Matter activist in Potsdam, NY. On a recent trip to Albany, she held a multi-day, solo protest to shed light on her fight for justice in Potsdam and called for the New York State Attorney General to intervene - specifically around her son Terron Evans Jr's death. She spoke with Hudson Mohawk Magazine producer Elizabeth Press.

#Nzambi Matee, Brick Creator, owner of manufacturer company Genje Makers in Nairobi, Kenya, creates bricks made from plastic waste that are more than 5 time stronger than concrete. #Ife Thompson, a Barrister [Lawyer] gets Black History taught 12 months in Schools in Brixton Area of Lamberth, South London. Myanmar President #Aung San Suu Kyi, military walkie-talkie Coup d'tait. Chaos: Russia Controller expels Germany, Poland, Sweden Diplomats, and gets same done to it. US #Letitia James, New York State Attorney General arrests 2 Ponzi-Criminals in $1.8 Billion Dollars Scam. Across 3 Kontinents Copyright2021 Charshee Links Sea4 Ep10 February 8. All Rights Reserved.

The New York State Attorney General’s Office report released Thursday, which found the state Department of Health may have underreported nursing home COVID-19 deaths by 50% , makes plenty of mentions about Western New York nursing homes’ struggle to provide personal protective equipment and follow infection protocols during the pandemic.

Tax fraud is serious business and the IRS is looking for help to crack down on it. Paying IRS whistleblowers a reward is one of the tools the government uses to find and prosecute those cheating on their taxes. And it can be a lucrative business for both the IRS and the whistleblowers as they helped the government recover more than $6 billion in 2020. Becoming an IRS whistleblower On this episode of the Taxgirl podcast, Kelly is joined by Gregory Krakower. Gregory is a former senior advisor and counselor for the New York State Attorney General’s office, as well as an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School where he teaches whistleblower statutes and corporate fraud. Listen to Kelly and Gregory talk about IRS whistleblowers: What is a whistleblower? Are whistleblowers protected and rewarded? The reward for IRS whistleblowers Whistleblowers don’t have to prove fraud but do need information What type of information do whistleblowers need to have? The motivation behind IRS whistleblowers The False Claims Act / Lincoln’s Law Qui tam Can a whistleblower bring a lawsuit separately? One of New York’s biggest whistleblower cases Can you sue an accountant for helping a client avoid taxes? How long do whistleblower cases take? How well has the IRS whistleblower provision worked What should potential whistleblowers keep in mind? More about Kelly Phillips Erb: Kelly is the creator and host of the new Taxgirl podcast series. Kelly is a practicing tax attorney with considerable experience and knowledge. She works with taxpayers like you every day. One of the things that she does is help folks out of tax jams, and hopefully, keep others from getting into them. Links mentioned: Kelly’s Website – Taxgirl Gregory Krakower - LinkedIn

In this episode of the We Can Do Better Podcast we welcome guest Rodney W. Jacobs for a discussion on how policing needs to change in the aftermath of the racial upheval of the summer of 2020. The death of George Floyd sparked conversations on defunding the Police, Mr. Jacobs sheds some light on how to make policing better. Sen. Adam Hollier (D–Detroit) represents citizens of the 2nd District in Wayne County that includes the cities of Detroit, Grosse Pointe, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe Park, Grosse Pointe Woods, Hamtramck, Harper Woods and Highland Park, and the Village of Grosse Pointe Shores. He is an avid problem solver and is leading Michigan to do better. Rodney W. Jacobs, Jr. is the Assistant Director for the City of Miami Civilian Investigative Panel (CIP). The Civil Investigative Panel is a civilian oversight city department tasked with investigating abusive police practices within the City of Miami. Some of his responsibilities include overseeing investigations and community relations/policing initiatives. Mr. Jacobs is also a military intelligence lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve. Mr. Jacobs has worked for the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission where he assisted in litigating class action discrimination cases against Chipotle, Bloomberg and Bank of America. Further, he has worked for New York State Attorney General's office, the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General, and served as judicial intern for the Honorable Walter H. Rice on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

New York State is pursuing criminal + civil investigations against Trump + his family.    

For the past few years, the current administration has gone above and beyond in its attempt to terminate the Obama-era program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which shields undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation. On November 14, 2020, New York Attorney General, Letitia James ruled that Chad Wolf was not lawfully serving as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security when he signed rules that limited the number of applications and renewals for DACA, therefore invalidating his suspension to the program. Across the nation, Dreamers, immigration and social justice advocates celebrated this ruling. But what does this ruling really mean particularly taking into account the results of the recent elections? List of guests: Natalie Vargas, Dreamer, and former LCLAA Intern Karen Reyes, Dreamer and AFT member Shannon Lederer, AFL-CIO Director of Immigration Policy Letitia James, New York State Attorney General

His revelation nearly three years ago of sexual abuse by a priest within the Diocese of Buffalo touched off a wave of further complaints, which soon led to the departure of former diocesan leaders. Michael Whalen, when asked about the lawsuit filed against the diocese Monday by the New York State Attorney General, called the action "a big stepping stone" toward justice.

Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: More and more Republicans are breaking with Donald Trump over his need to concede. His campaign lost a big court ruling in Pennsylvania over the weekend. Meanwhile, Joe Biden is getting ready to announce some staff and cabinet picks. One key adviser has a complicated relationship with the tech industry. And lastly, Trump’s legal problems are piling up as his White House exit nears. Between the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and the Internal Revenue Service, he’s in for a long slog. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: Donald Trump is increasingly isolated in his refusal to acknowledge reality. Several prominent Republicans said over the weekend that Trump’s legal arguments have run their course, the Washington Post reports. They called on him to concede to President-elect Joe Biden, or at least allow the transition process to begin. Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie said yesterday on ABC that the conduct of Trump’s legal team has been QUOTE a national embarrassment ENDQUOTE. Also yesterday, Maryland Governor Larry Hogan told Trump to QUOTE stop golfing and concede ENDQUOTE. And Saturday night, after a federal judge threw out Trump’s legal attempt to invalidate all of Pennsylvania’s votes, Republican Senator Pat Toomey congratulated Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris on their victory. Toomey encouraged Trump to accept that result, saying that Trump has exhausted all plausible legal options. Toomey also noted that the judge who ruled against Trump, Matthew Brann, is a longtime conservative Republican. In a scathing ruling late Saturday, Judge Brann compared the campaign’s legal arguments to Frankenstein’s Monster, the Associated Press reports. Brann concluded that Trump offered only speculative accusations, not proof of rampant corruption. Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani is now appealing the ruling to the federal Third Circuit Court. Michigan Republican Fred Upton also expressed that the election is over for Trump, at least in his state, CBS News reports. Upton said there is no evidence of mass fraud, and Biden’s lead of one hundred and fifty four thousand votes is too large to overcome. For the most part, the Post reports, local and state officials have either remained silent or moved forward with the process of certifying election results. In Maricopa County, Arizona, the Republican-led Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Friday to certify the county’s results. The board chairman declared there was no evidence of fraud or misconduct, and QUOTE that is with a big zero ENDQUOTE. Sounds like a lot of people aren’t getting Trump’s memos anymore! BIDEN NAMING CABINET TOMORROW Joe Biden’s transition team will announce its first cabinet appointments on Tuesday. Jennifer Psaki, a senior adviser to the team, told CNN that Biden’s cabinet and team will look like America in terms of ideology and background. Some key personnel are already known. Reuters reports that Biden’s top technology adviser helped craft California’s landmark online privacy law and recently condemned a controversial federal statute that protects internet companies from liability. These are indicators of how the Biden administration may come down on key tech policy issues. Bruce Reed, a former Biden chief of staff, is expected to take a major role in the new administration. Reuters says Reed helped negotiate with the tech industry and legislators on behalf of backers of a ballot initiative that led to the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act. Privacy advocates see that law as a possible model for a national law. Reed also co-authored a chapter in a book published last month denouncing the federal law known as Section 230, which makes it impossible to sue internet companies over the content of user postings. Reed and his co-author, Stanford University lecturer James Steyer, wrote that if tech companies sell ads that run alongside harmful content, they should be considered complicit in the harm. And QUOTE in the long run, the only real way to moderate content is to moderate the business model ENDQUOTE. Silicon Valley isn’t going to like that. Reed, a veteran political operative, was chief of staff for Biden from 2011 to 2013 when Biden was vice president, Reuters reports. In that role he succeeded Ron Klain, who was recently named incoming White House chief of staff. How cozy! TRUMP'S LEGAL TROUBLES MOUNT Here’s something fun to think about: Donald Trump’s enormous looming legal headaches. The Washington Post reports that the swirl of criminal investigations and civil complaints stemming from Trump’s business activities and personal conduct could prove serious once he departs the White House. As it stands, Trump faces several lawsuits and at least two active investigations by state or local authorities in New York alone. The Manhattan district attorney's ongoing investigation into Trump and his family-run business appears to be the most significant problem he faces, per the Post. Were Trump to be charged and convicted, he could face the prospect of incarceration. Separately, the New York State Attorney General's Office is conducting a wide- reaching civil fraud investigation, including into whether Trump and the Trump Organization sought to minimize tax liability by misrepresenting to lenders the value of certain assets. Then there's the Internal Revenue Service. As the New York Times has reported, Trump could owe the government as much as $100 million. Trump also will have to face a pair of high- profile defamation lawsuits in New York, stemming from accusations of personal misconduct. Trump's lawyers are likely to be most focused on minimizing the risk of criminal prosecution, the Post says. He could attempt to achieve this on his own at the federal level by preemptively pardoning himself and members of his inner circle. There is no consensus among constitutional law experts on whether a president can pardon himself. And, importantly, any pardons would not be binding on state and local authorities, whom experts view as his biggest threat. Please, tell me, where do I buy tickets? AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks, Reuters reports. It’s the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the moon since the 1970s. Good luck! The Guardian reports that Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull, the former Labor and Liberal leaders of Australia, are to appear as joint star witnesses at an upcoming parliamentary inquiry into Rupert Murdoch’s media dominance. Murdoch owns major newspapers across that country as well as Sky News Australia, a network modeled on Fox News. Here’s hoping that the inquiry proves, if nothing else, expensive for Murdoch. Ethiopia’s military is warning civilians in the besieged regional capital of Tigray that there will be QUOTE no mercy ENDQUOTE in a threatened offensive, the AP reports. Human Rights Watch says the threat could violate international law. Communications and transport to Tigray are almost completely severed, and the United Nations says about two million people there urgently need food, fuel, medical and other supplies. Protests erupted in Omaha, Nebraska over the weekend after city police fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop on Thursday night. NBC News reports Omaha police killed Kenneth Jones, 35, after yelling at him to show his hands. One protest organizer told the Obama World-Herald that QUOTE until police prove that they didn’t murder a Black man, we’re not shutting up – not one bit ENDQUOTE. Seems only reasonable. That’s all for the AM Quickie. Join us this afternoon on the Majority Report. NOV 23, 2020 - AM QUICKIE HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Corey Pein PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn

Monopolies are Anti-Democratic A monopoly is a company that has the power to set the terms of interactions, from the pricing of consumer goods to interactions with suppliers and resolving disputes. The most insidious and anti-democratic example is private arbitration, a judicial system where the parties to the suit pay the judges. Large companies force employees and even customers to litigate all grievances through arbitration courts, making a mockery of justice and infringing upon our civil rights. In essence, monopolies exert a form of private governing power and control over citizens within our democracy. US History of Trust-Busting America has a long history of trust-busting, dating back to the late 19th century. At that time, thousands of antitrust leagues around the country verified that companies were not controlling large market shares. Anti-monopolism was once a vital facet of American political activism, and it could be again. US antitrust law still exists; it just isn't being enforced—and hasn't been since Reagan's administration. The Biden-Harris administration could start enforcing existing laws, which would create a sea-change in the antitrust landscape. We have the tools to break up monopolies, but we lack the political and organizational will-power. Chickenization Chickenization refers to the ways large poultry distributors subjugate independent chicken farmers who depend on them to bring their chickens to market. These regional monopolies exercise immense control over these farmers by forcing them to use their feed, abide by their coup house specifications, and accept the equivalent of poverty wages. They also require arbitration contracts, ban communication between farmers, and retaliate against farmers who break the rules. Other sectors of the economy are following suit: delivery apps control restaurants and ride-share apps control taxi drivers. Find out more: Zephyr Teachout is an Associate Law Professor and has taught at Fordham Law School since 2009. In addition to Break ‘Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money, she published Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens’ United and has written dozens of law review articles and essays. Teachout was a death penalty defense lawyer at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation in North Carolina. She co-founded a non-profit dedicated to providing trial experience to new law school graduates. She is known for her pioneering work in internet organizing and was the Sunlight Foundation's first National Director. She grew up in Vermont and received her BA from Yale in English and then graduated summa cum laude from Duke Law School, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. She also received an MA in Political Science from Duke. She clerked for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She ran unsuccessfully for New York State Attorney General in 2018, for Congress's 19th Congressional District in 2016, and for the Democratic nomination of the Governor of New York in 2014. You can follow her on Twitter @ZephyrTeachout. We've started a referral program! Refer us to your friends to get a free button or Moleskine notebook. Please use this link to get your personal referral code: https://refer.glow.fm/future-hindsight, which you can then forward to your friends.

Date: Sept 30, 2020 Episode #158 Subject: De-escalation Vs. De-escalation? Host: Al Martinino aka Alpha Mike Word Of The Week: Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:1,2,3 Intro: Alpha Mike welcomes the Nation to episode # 158. Alpha advised the audience on a new program #RaiderCop is starting called, "Wisdom by the Numbers." Raider-Cop Nation's social media profiles will commence sending out a YouTube interview of Mr. Thomas Sowell. Thomas Sowell is an American economist and social theorist who is currently a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. There is no doubt that our social media audience will truly enjoy and learn from this knowledge. Alpha gives he's a view on Breonna Taylor's next issue. New York State Attorney General, says NYPD should stop making traffic stops, Alpha explains. Miami Police Department to start a program that lets cops and citizens discuss complaints, Alpha explains the good, bad, and ugly. We are almost at 30 days out from the presidential election, Alpha gives he's political forecast. Lastly Alpha reminds the Nation of Test Everything 1521, numbers of listeners have increased. Want to join the ranks of the USCCA, just like 350,000 other Americans have, well it’s easy by texting, Raider to 87222, or click on the USCCA link below. As an affiliate of the USCCA, we get a small portion that help’s us providing new content and equipment. 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The family of Daniel Prude is filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Rochester. Prude died on March 30, one week after he was arrested by Rochester police officers who held him to the ground with a knee to his back as he was experiencing a mental health crisis. The Monroe County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide caused by "asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint." Attorney Elliot Shields is representing the Prude family. He said an ongoing criminal investigation by the New York State Attorney General's office does not preclude the city of Rochester from conducting its own investigation, firing the officers who were at the scene of Prude's arrest, or placing them on desk duty. "That's one of the things my clients are most upset about, that these officers are still on the streets interacting with the public," Shields said. "I think that should outrage everybody in the city of Rochester. They should not be out there making arrests and interacting with

The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His new show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET. Brad is first joined by John Nichols, the National Political Correspondent for 'The Nation,' and Author of the new book, "The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party." (Available for purchase here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48624170-the-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-democratic-party) John's Twitter handle is @NicholsUprising. Brad and John analyze the possible candidates that Democratic nominee Joe Biden appears to be weighing for his choice of a running mate. They also discuss Trump's new attempt to defund social security and Medicare through his recent executive order disguised as a 'payroll tax cut.' During the second half of the show, Brad leads a political round-table with Bina Venkataraman and Mark Grimaldi. The roundtable discusses the 2020 presidential election, what type of challenges that Joe Biden would be faced with as President if he wins in November, the New York State Attorney General's lawsuit against the NRA, and more. Bina Venkataraman is the Editorial Page editor for 'the Boston Globe.' She is an MIT lecturer, a fellow at New America and the director of Global Policy Initiatives at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Bina previously was a journalist for The New York Times and The Boston Globe, and served as senior adviser for climate change innovation in the Obama White House. She is the author of "The Optimist's Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age." Her Twitter handle is @binajv. Mark Grimaldi has been a progressive political activist for the past 12 years. He volunteered for the campaigns of President Obama (2008 and 2012), Senator Bernie Sanders (2016), and Secretary Hillary Clinton (2016). Mark is also involved in campaign finance reform efforts around the country, and philanthropic efforts for Cancer research. His Twitter handle is @MarkJGrimaldi. Brad writes a column every Sunday on the 2020 Presidential race for 'The Hill.' He's on the National Journal's panel of political insiders and is a national political analyst for WGN TV and Radio in Chicago and KNX Radio in Los Angeles. You can read Brad's columns at www.MuckRack.com/Brad-Bannon. His Twitter handle is @BradBannon. Watch a video broadcast of the show here: https://www.pscp.tv/w/1YpKkNqyQWPxj

On Episode 005 we discuss how shows like Top Shot helped expand the 2A community, go over the New York State Attorney General's fight to dissolve the NRA, check out Portland's continued riots, and read the 5th Amendment in English and Spanish.

On the heels of FingerLakes1.com's ongoing investigation into the Ontario Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare in Canandaigua, State Senator Pam Helming [R-54] has announced yesterday on Wednesday, July 1st that she shall co-sponsor legislation to establish an independent and bipartisan commission to investigate the deaths of New Yorkers who passed away from COVID-19 while residing in state-regulated nursing homes. Senator Helming burdens some of the blame upon the shoulders of Governor Andrew Cuomo and Commissioner of Health for New York State Howard Zucker for the lack accountability and transparency, which was partly sparked by confusion with the reporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths at nursing homes and long-term facilities. "They've got to stop trying to point the fingers and to deflect blame, and they've got to stop issuing directives from the comfort of the Capitol," Helming told FingerLakes1.com. Rather than fully playing into state politics, she's far more concerned with ensuring a greater quality of life for residents – and hence why she sought to create a commission on this subject. "We've got to put their quality of life above politics," she continued. Keeping her promise of bipartisanship and independency, her proposed commission would consist of five members: one each appointed by the Senate Majority and Minority leaders, the Assembly Speaker, as well as the Assembly Minority Leader, and chaired by an appointee of the New York State Attorney General. This commission would also possess the power to subpoena as a part of their investigations, all of which would be funded through the existing state budget. Instead of pampering to party politics and affiliations, Helming insists that she is in the pursuit of the truth, obtaining answers, and ensuring future oversight for these facilities, and especially its residents. "So, we need to hold this independent investigation to figure out what went wrong, what we can do better going forward to prevent a similar situation," she explained. Ideally, Helming suggests that conversations should occur among nursing home providers and local health agencies to strategize better care options and treatments of residents, especially with the looming resurgence of a second wave of COVID-19 lurking around sometime this upcoming fall. "Really what needs to be happening is a conversation with the providers, with a local Department of Health employees to develop better strategies to provide better care and a better quality of life to folks who are living in nursing homes and assisted-living residents," she stated. For Helming, she hopes that by creating this commission, the committee would be able to accomplish her goal in collecting data, facts, and information to assist public officials and policymakers in crafting sounder health protocols and procedures at nursing homes while simultaneously taking stock of the initial costly and fatal lessons learned from the pandemic here in New York State. In the meantime, however, constituents have continued raising concerns to her office in the past and present regarding Ontario Center and she has reached-out to the state Department of Health on numerous occasions by sending letters and making phone calls even dating back "pre-COVID," notifying them about the complicated situations that she is all too familiar with, especially as a Canandaigua resident. In response to FingerLakes1.com's ongoing investigation about Ontario Center, Helming has publicly commented on the situation, encouraging residents and concerned citizens alike to contact the state's nursing home complaint hotline to relay their comments. On today's Daily Debrief, we ask, what a bipartisan and independent commission do to investigate the death of COVID-19 residents in nursing homes, and why it matter?

BLACK LIVES MATTER.   How do we change the culture?   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by three remarkable guests to discuss the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, police brutality and accountability, the murder of George Floyd, white supremacy and privilege, our country’s systematic and systemic racist structure, and more. Joining Aaron for today’s critically important conversation is Alvin Bragg, a law professor and most recently the Chief Deputy Attorney General in the New York State Office of the Attorney General, Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Victoria Davis, a Community Activist and Leader who lost her brother, Delrawn Small, to senseless police violence in 2016.   Like Delrawn, George Floyd was a son, a father, a brother, and a friend. Floyd is the most recent name on a far too-long list of people stolen away from their families, friends and communities. In today’s episode, Aaron, Victoria, Kristen, and Alvin delve into the deep-seated roots of racism in our country, the issues of police abuse, brutality, militarization and accountability, the importance of solidarity, education, honesty and understanding, as well as how we move forward. How do we talk about racism? How do we dismantle white supremacy? How do we make change? What fills the silence if we don’t speak out and stand up?    Alvin Bragg has spent the better part of two decades in the courtroom, standing up to the powerful and fighting to get justice. A graduate from Harvard Law, Alvin joined New York Law School in 2019 as a Visiting Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Racial Justice Project. Professor Bragg’s research focuses on the intersection of criminal law and civil rights, prosecutorial discretion and accountability, and the functions of state Attorneys General. Most recently, Alvin served as Chief Deputy Attorney General in the New York State Office of the Attorney General. In that role, he reported directly to the Attorney General, helped set the office’s investigation and litigation priorities, and oversaw the work of the Criminal Justice and Social Justice Divisions.   Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, leads one of the country’s most important national civil rights organizations in the pursuit of equal justice for all. Throughout her career, Ms. Clarke has focused on work that seeks to strengthen our democracy by combating discrimination faced by African Americans and other marginalized communities. Kristen formerly served as the head of the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s office, where she led broad civil rights enforcement on matters including criminal justice issues, education and housing discrimination, fair lending, barriers to reentry, voting rights, immigrant’s rights, general inequality, disability rights, reproductive access and LGBT issues.   On July 4, 2016 Delrawn Small was killed on Atlantic Avenue in East New York. His sister, Victoria Davis, is a staunch community activist and leader for police accountability in New York and continues to share her brother’s memory and story with the world in the hopes of demanding accountability, and maybe one day justice.     To learn more about Alvin Bragg, please visit his website here. You can also find his bio page at New York Law School here.   To learn more about Kristen Clarke, please visit her bio page here. To find out more about the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, please visit their website here.   To learn more about Delrawn Small, Victoria Davis’ brother, and their family’s story, please reference the attached 2017 New York Times article here.   For resources and to learn more about the BLACK LIVES MATTER movement, as well as how you can help, please click here.    Host: Aaron Freiwald Guests: Alvin Bragg, Kristen Clarke, and Victoria Davis     Follow Good Law | Bad Law: YouTube: Good Law | Bad Law Facebook: @GOODLAWBADLAW Instagram: @GoodLawBadLaw Website: https://www.law-podcast.com

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Hello Capital Region! This is the Hudson Mohawk Magazine on WOOC-LP 105.3 FM Troy, WOOS-LP 98.9 FM Schenectady, WOOA-LP 106.9 FM Albany, and WCAA-LP 107.3 FM Albany., broadcasting from the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY. On today’s show: Fifty organizations have urged New York State Attorney General to sue the EPA over environmental deregulation. HMM’s Mark Dunlea reports. Then, part two of our conversation with Stephen Zunes (Zoon - ez) on conflict in the middle east and coronavirus After that, part two of our story on the Tiny Urban Regenerative Farm in Troy We’ll have part two of HMM’s Aileen Javier’s conversation with psychotherapist and trauma specialist, Dr. Laurie Nadel (Nah - dell) We wrap up the show with the Rensselaer County Historical Society and a project on archiving COVID-19

Episode 29: Thanks for joining us this week on PI Perspectives. Matt gets back to regular show content with Lacey Keller from Gryphon Strategies. Lacey joins us to discuss Big Data. What is Big Data? Your about to find out. Your also about to find out how you can add this type of due diligence to your investigator’s toolbox. Lacey has a strong computer program background and used those skills for many years working for the New York State Attorney General. This episode is brought to you by  CROSStrax, Delve Point and Kelmar Global       Links:    Matt’s email: MatthewS@Satellitepi.com  Linkedin: Matthew Spaier   Laceys email:LKeller@Gryphon-strategies.com Linkedin: Lacey Keller Websites:   https://www.laceykeller.com/   https://gryphon-strategies.com/ Sponsors:         CROSStrax offer code: https://apps.crosstrax.co/signup/index/refcd/LY3R7VUW69 https://www.delvepoint.com/ https://www.kelmarglobal.com/

RadioPublic|LibSyn|YouTube|Patreon|Square Cash (Share code: Send $5, get $5!) It's a day away from the microphone, during which we bring you back in time to our March 20, 2019 episode. With Greg Dworkin’s help, we finally got around to the hilarious-but-equally-insane story of the Devin Nunes lawsuit. Bernie Sanders’ latest hires roil the social media waters. Rod Rosenstein will be staying put for the time being, as we await the Mueller… whatever thingy. Daniel Dale presents another of his trademark catalogs of a particular genre of Trump lie. Trump and George Conway are going at it on Twitter again. But at least Conway is alive, unlike Trump’s other favorite target, John McCain. About which, Sen. Johnny Isakson says he just might get riled up over that, soon. The Electoral College is under scrutiny again, and being “defended” by some of the Republicans’ worst rhetoricians. Germans may love David Hasselhoff, but they’re not exactly loving 5G. The New York State Attorney General says everything is just fine at the Trump Foundation. Trump inserts himself into the life-and-death decision-making at the FAA after the latest Boeing crash, which is fine because he has a private jet. So, you know. There you go. Are we set to deregulate Wall Street again? Republicans have a real problem with democracy.

In this week's episode we cover all the latest tech news including: -Acuva Technologies’ CAD $5.4mm Series B round led by undisclosed investors -Volaris Group’s acquisition of public library software developer BiblioCommons -Square’s acquisition of machine learning startup Dessa -Facebook’s rumored $40m acquisition of Scape Technologies -The dismissal of the New York State Attorney General’s challenge to the T-Mobile and Sprint merger -Xerox’s raised offer for HP from $22/share to $24/share We hope you enjoy the show and please subscribe for future updates!

We celebrate 100 episodes of #SundayCivics with another installment of our #WhoWeElect series focusing on the elected position of state attorney general. The state attorney general is the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer. We are joined by New York State Attorney General Letitia James who shares how she serves "the people". The state attorney general is the chief legal advisor to the state government and the state's chief law enforcement officer. The state attorney general is an elected position in 43 states and majority serve 4 year terms. In Alaska, Hawaii, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Wyoming, the attorney general is appointed by the governor. For those of you listening in Tennessee, your state supreme court appoints the attorney general for an 8 year term and in Maine the state legislature votes for the attorney general for a 2 year term. The National Association of Attorneys General describe the typical duties of the state attorney general; ...to issue formal opinions to state agencies; act as public advocates in areas such as child support enforcement, consumer protections, antitrust and utility regulation; propose legislation; enforce federal and state environmental laws; represent the state and state agencies before the state and federal courts; handle criminal appeals and serious statewide criminal prosecutions; institute civil suits on behalf of the state; represent the public's interests in charitable trust and solicitations; and operate victim compensation programs. Our Guest NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 12: Attorney General Letitia James interviews with L. Joy Williams on SiriusXM Urban View's Sunday Civics at SiriusXM Studios on February 12, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Bonnie Biess/Getty Images for SiriusXM) Letitia “Tish” James is the 67th Attorney General for the State of New York. With decades of work, she is an experienced attorney and public servant with a long record of accomplishments. She is the first woman of color to hold statewide office in New York and the first woman to be elected Attorney General. In 2013, Ms. James was elected Public Advocate for the City of New York and became the first woman of color to hold citywide office. As Public Advocate, Ms. James served as a watchdog over New York City government agencies and as an advocate for the City’s most vulnerable communities. She transformed the Public Advocate’s office to be a formidable engine for change. Prior to serving as Public Advocate, Tish James represented the 35th Council District in Brooklyn in the New York City Council for ten years. As a Council Member, she passed the Safe Housing Act, legislation that forced landlords to improve living conditions for tenants in New York City’s worst buildings. She helped uncover the corruption behind the Office of Payroll Administration’s CityTime contract, a scheme that cost New York City over $600 million. She also pushed through a revolutionary recycling package that included expanding plastic recycling, a new clothing and textile recycling program, and increased access to recycling in public spaces. Before her election to the City Council, Tish James served as head of the Brooklyn Regional Office of the New York State Attorney General’s Office. She resolved hundreds of consumer complaints and investigated predatory lenders who preyed on first-time homebuyers. She assisted the Civil Rights Bureau in its investigation of the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy and cracked down on firms engaged in deceptive business practices including violations of human rights, environmental laws, and scams targeting immigrants. Tish James began her career as a public defender at the Legal Aid Society. A proud Brooklynite, she is a graduate of Lehman College and Howard University School of Law.

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When Angela first started working at a debt collection agency, she says she barely understood what her job was. "I was so completely awestruck that people didn't pay their bills," she told me. "I thought this was going to be really easy. Honestly, I don't even know how I kept the job the first couple of weeks."  It wasn't easy. But Angela finally did start getting consumers to pay, and worked her way up in the industry. And then, 15 years into her career, she and several colleagues were sued for illegal debt collection practices by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York State Attorney General. Angela eventually settled, and as part of the agreement was banned from the industry for life and ordered to pay $4.4 million⁠. She says she's not sure she'll ever pay that off.  Now, Angela also has medical debt that's gone to collections. At first, she says she would pick up the phone when collectors called, just to critique them. "Now I just block the number and move on," she told me. "I will eventually get them paid off and until I can, there is no point in wasting their time."  If you're getting calls from debt collectors who you think might be breaking the law, find out how to contact your state's consumer protection office here. 

How can the law be used to hold perpetrators of racial violence and hate crimes accountable?   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to address the recent rise in hate crimes, discrimination and the intensifying activities of white-supremacist and other hate groups responsible. In today’s episode, Aaron and Kristen also talk about the ground-breaking case Kristen won recently in which she took on a neo-Nazi group for violently targeting a college student in Washington, D.C.   After being elected American University’s first African American female student body president, Taylor Dumpson was met with extreme racism, specifically from a neo-Nazi group and its website, the Daily Stormer.  Students were encouraged and incited to target and harass Taylor. She was sent threatening and racist messages online and she was harassed on campus.  For example, led on by the neo-Nazi group, students hung bananas with racist messages from nooses around the campus.   Taylor suffered PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) but persevered, graduated and now attends law school.  She also fought back, bringing in Kristen and the Lawyers’ Committee to file suit in D.C. against the neo-Nazi group and two students who were found to have committed hate crimes.  The Lawyers’ Committee and Kristen recently won a precedent-setting victory in court, along with an award of $725,000.  Kristen explains the novel way in which she used the law to argue on Taylor’s behalf and the impact that Taylor’s win has had and likely will continue to have as other, similar cases are brought in other jurisdictions.   A nonpartisan, nonprofit national civil rights organization, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law pursues equal justice for all through the rule of law, targeting in particular the inequities confronting African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities. Formed at the request of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, the Committee seeks to promote fair housing and community development, economic justice, voting rights, equal educational opportunity, criminal justice, judicial diversity and more. Formerly serving as the head of the Civil Rights Bureau for the New York State Attorney General’s Office, as well as a leader at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc., Ms. Clarke’s career has focused on work that seeks to strengthen democracy by combating discrimination faced by African Americans and others.     Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law   Check out this incredibly important and interesting conversation, as Aaron and Kristen talk about racism, inequality, white-supremacy and the role of law, as well as an empowering story of triumph over hate. Be sure to listen to the entire episode as this week we have a fascinating P.S. from Aaron and Kristen.   To learn more about Kristen, please visit the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law website here.   Mentioned throughout the episode are other campaigns sponsored by the Lawyers’ Committee, including the No Hate Project.  You can find more information on that here. You can also find a full list of other issues and campaigns on the Committee’s homepage by clicking here.   Host: Aaron Freiwald Guest: Kristen Clarke   Follow Good Law | Bad Law: YouTube: Good Law | Bad Law Instagram: @GoodLawBadLaw Website: https://www.law-podcast.com

An audio version of the Times Review Media Group editorial for April 18, 2019. "Never mind the death toll, they had money to make" was written in response to the New York State Attorney General filing what has been billed as the nation’s most extensive lawsuit against the manufacturers and distributors of opioids. The editorial is read by Times Review executive editor Steve Wick.

Jose Nieves has dedicated his life to public service as a career prosecutor, army combat veteran and community leader for more than twenty years.  On March 18, he stopped by The Wave to state his case to be the next Queens District Attorney

Should gun makers be held accountable for shootings?   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Professor Dan Feldman, from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, to discuss gun maker immunity.   Last year, the United States saw over 35,000 gun deaths, over 85,000 gun related injuries, and not a single case brought against the makers of these weapons -- thanks to the “Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act”, a 2005 law that grants near total immunity to firearm manufacturers.  Amazingly, no other industry in our country enjoys the broad federal protection. On today’s episode, Professor Feldman, who is intimately familiar with this issue from his many years in the New York State Legislature and the New York State Attorney General’s office, explains the history of the PLCAA, what exactly it protects the firearm manufacturers from and what they can still be held liable for, and why he believes we must press Congress to reconsider this law.   To learn more about the PLCAA we’ve provided some resources below: The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act: An Overview of Limiting Tort Liability of Gun Manufacturers  - https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42871.pdf Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_in_Arms_Act Brady Campaign - http://www.bradycampaign.org/the-protection-of-lawful-commerce-in-arms-act-plcaa Cornell Law School - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/chapter-105   You can learn more about Dan, by visiting his bio at: https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/faculty/daniel-l-feldman.   Host: Aaron Freiwald Guest: Dan Feldman   Follow Good Law | Bad Law: YouTube: Good Law | Bad Law Instagram: @GoodLawBadLaw Website: https://www.law-podcast.com

The New York State Attorney General has placed debt collector Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC under strict guidelines when attempting to collect debts from state residents. The company, located in Norfolk, VA, has been the subject of thousands of consumer complaints nationwide and has filed 66,000 debt collection actions in New York courts alone between 2007 and 2012. Among the thousands of judgments filed, Portfolio Recovery Associates has filed over 2,000 judgments on time-barred actions between Dec. 2008 and April 2012 and in some instances continued to collect on those judgments despite being time-barred. Under the assurance the state made with Portfolio Recovery Associates, the company can no longer commence or cause to be commenced any lawsuit against a time-barred debt. New York’s statute of limitation’s is six years, however, some contracts, particularly credit card agreements, state that their place of incorporation serves as the location. Many companies incorporate in Delaware, which time-bars debts after three years. The settlement requires Portfolio Recovery Associates to vacate the improper judgments with the court and cease any further collection activities on the judgments, make key enhancements to their debt collection practices, and pay civil penalties and costs to the state in the amounts of $300,000. PRA must also train its employees as to the collection practices they must follow in New York. Portfolio Recovery Associates, like other collection agencies, buys bad debts for pennies on the dollar. They then attempt to collect on those debts, even those that are time-barred.  For consumers unaware of collection laws, they pay the bill or have judgments placed against them. Some consumers have had their bank accounts frozen or their wages garnisheed for debts that are either time-barred or weren’t theirs to begin with. Court papers are filed with little, if any, verification of debt and many don’t specify whether the debt is time-barred. Beginning in March, any debt collector wishing to file a judgment in a New York State court will have to provide much more information about the debt and the filer must include the debtors address so the court can send out notice to confirm the court papers have been received by the person being sued. The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act lists the laws that govern credit reporting. Each state has its own laws, many of which offer additional protection.

Our latest pop-up podcast is with New York State Attorney General candidate Zephyr Teachout, one of four people looking to win the Democratic nod this coming Thursday.   Teachout, touting her independence, says she will investigate some of the blurred lines she sees in the Cuomo administration between official government work and politics.  She also touches on the recent back and forths with fellow candidate Sean Patrick Maloney and her reaction to being referred to as "professor" by her opponents.  Don't forget to tune in this weekend when we wrap up Primary Day.

The ACLU‘s Director the Racial Justice Program, Dennis Parker, reflects with host Vikrum Aiyer, on the 64th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the progress we’ve made in racial inclusion, and the setbacks we confront…Guest bio: Dennis Parker (@DennisDParker) is director of the ACLU Racial Justice Program, leading its efforts in combating discrimination and addressing other issues with a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Parker oversees work to combat the “School-to-Prison” pipeline, the profiling of airline passengers subjected to searches and wrongfully placed on watch lists and the racial bias in the criminal justice system. Prior to joining the ACLU, Parker was the chief of the Civil Rights Bureau in the Office of New York State Attorney General under Eliot Spitzer. He previously spent 14 years at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Parker has also worked with the New York Legal Aid Society. He teaches Race, Poverty and Constitutional Law at New York Law School. He graduated from Harvard Law School and Middlebury College. _________________________________________________________There’s a lot going on in America (and the world) and Vikrum Aiyer — Former White House Senior Economic Policy Advisor (Obama Administration) and Former Chief of Staff of the United States Patent and Trademark Office — has something to say about it all and about what it takes these days to be American enough. “American Enough™ with Vikrum Aiyer”, is a weekly, town hall-style podcast discussing your questions and comments about current events, politics, and American ideals. As events unfold, Vikrum will share timely commentary wherever he is, as he travels, between meetings, and even en route to the office.  

Lis Wiehl speaks with former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci about the latest on the Michael Cohen scandal and Donald Trump’s reaction to it. Wiehl also explores the scandal surrounding New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman. Can he get a fair investigation? Can the women who accuse him? Will any real charges be […]

Recorded in December 2016 - Hon. Doris Ling-Cohan ’79 is a sitting judge on the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department. She is the first woman of Asian descent to be appointed to an appellate panel in New York State. Before becoming a judge, she worked in the New York State Attorney General’s consumer fraud protection unit and has also served as an attorney for various New York Legal Services agencies representing indigent people. She earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Brooklyn College and a JD from NYU School of Law.

The Labor Department recently announced regulation changes pertaining to overtime pay for employees and their employers. Under these new rules, those who earn salaries of less than $47,476 a year will automatically qualify for overtime pay of time-and-a-half if they work more than 40 hours a week. Once the new rules go into effect on December 1, 2016, they will impact 4.2 million workers in the United States.  So what does this mean for business owners and their employees? In this episode of Lawyer 2 Lawyer, hosts J. Craig Williams and Bob Ambrogi join Jane Lauer Barker, a partner at the New York labor and employment firm Pitta & Giblin LLP and Thomas Wassel, a labor and employment partner with the New York firm Cullen and Dykman, as they take a look at these recent overtime rule changes and the impact, pros and cons, and reaction from business owners and the workforce. Jane Lauer Barker is a partner at the New York labor and employment firm Pitta & Giblin LLP.  Jane concentrates in labor, employment, and employee benefits law and litigation and labor union representation.  Previously, Barker headed up New York State Attorney General's Labor Bureau where she oversaw civil and criminal enforcement of state labor laws and handled appellate litigation. Thomas Wassel is a labor and employment partner with the New York firm Cullen and Dykman. Tom has been advising employers on a wide range of labor and employment law matters since 1983.

DNA: it's the genetic information that makes plants and animals what we are. Most of the time when you hear about it in the context of food, it's to do with breeding. But in this short episode, we bring you two DNA detective stories that show how genetic analysis can rewrite the history of agriculture and fight food fraud—at least some of the time. Listen now to hear how preserved DNA from an underwater site off the coast of Britain is helping paint a picture of how hunter gatherers in Northern Europe might first have experienced the wonders of agriculture, by trading kernels of exotic, domesticated Near Eastern wheat over long distances. We'll also explore DNA's role in some controversial accusations of food fraud and introduce you to the mysterious publication that defines the official standards of identity for food ingredients. And, finally, we squeeze in a short trip to Dublin's Science Gallery, to talk to chef Clare Anne O'Keefe about a dish that was entirely inspired by Gastropod! EPISODE NOTES“Britain Imported Wheat 2,000 Years before Growing It” Listen to Cynthia's mini-podcast for Scientific American on the surprising results from DNA testing of an underwater archaeological site in the English Channel, as reported in the paper “Sedimentary DNA from a submerged site reveals wheat in the British Isles 8000 years ago,” published in the journal Science. In a blog post reviewing the findings, archaeobotanist Dorian Fuller speculates that these early grains “would have been symbolically charged as exotica much like spices in much later times.”“Waiter, I'll have the Gastropod special!” To accompany Nicky's recent public event—a conversation with Ross Golden-Bannon at the Science Gallery, Dublin, called “A Plateful of Food Culture”—chef Clare Anne O'Keefe created a special dish to serve in the Science Gallery cafeteria, incorporating a variety of ideas and foods we've featured on Gastropod! She used potatoes, seaweed, and subnatural foods, and mixed history and science on the plate. Listen to our episode to hear Clare Anne describe the meal. The Gastropod special, photographed by its creator, Chef Clare Anne O'Keefe.“How Not to Test a Dietary Supplement” Check out Nicky's piece for The New Yorker‘s Elements blog for more on the New York State Attorney General's attempt to crack down on alleged dietary supplement fraud, the International Barcode of Life database, the United States Pharmacopeial Convention, and why this particular case of DNA detective work is likely to be an ongoing story… The post DNA Detectives appeared first on Gastropod. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"The New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV) and the School of Public Affairs (SPA) co-sponsored a forum with the candidates for New York State Attorney General on October 3, 2006 at Baruch College. The event was co-hosted by Marcia Bystryn, Executive Director of the NYLCV, and Professor Doug Muzzio at SPA, and organized by Barbara Fife, Director of External Affairs for SPA. Candidate Jeanine Pirro gave a detailed recital of her environmental record as Westchester County District Attorney, and voiced her commitment to “advancing federal issues” in New York State, and shared her environmental vision for the State. Candidate Andrew Cuomo, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Clinton, argued that the old dichotomy ‘between protecting the environment and growing the economy” was false and obsolete and that a progressive government could do both. This video covers Cuomo's speech."

"The New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV) and the School of Public Affairs (SPA) co-sponsored a forum with the candidates for New York State Attorney General on October 3, 2006 at Baruch College. The event was co-hosted by Marcia Bystryn, Executive Director of the NYLCV, and Professor Doug Muzzio at SPA, and organized by Barbara Fife, Director of External Affairs for SPA. Candidate Jeanine Pirro gave a detailed recital of her environmental record as Westchester County District Attorney, and voiced her commitment to “advancing federal issues” in New York State, and shared her environmental vision for the State. Candidate Andrew Cuomo, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Clinton, argued that the old dichotomy ‘between protecting the environment and growing the economy” was false and obsolete and that a progressive government could do both. This video covers Pirro's speech."