Trump orders targeted in TikTok employee's GoFundMe legal fight
"We disagree with the Executive Order, as we expressed in a recent blog post," A spokesperson for TikTok said. "That said, We have no involvement with and are not coordinating on the initiative of employees that has been undertaken in their personal capacity outside of work. We respect the rights of employees to engage in concerted activity to seek due process of law."
Environmental groups sue TVA over long-term power agreements
TVA is the nation’s largest public utility, providing power to more than 10 million people in parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Virginia.
California to probe investment complaints tied to former CalPERS CIO
California’s Fair Political Practices Commission has said it would investigate complaints regarding Yu Ben Meng, former chief investment officer of CalPERS, the largest public U.S. pension fund.
Epic Games: Apple to end developer accounts, remove company from iOS and Mac tools on Aug. 28
Epic has filed a motion to restrain Apple from "removing, de-listing, refusing to list or otherwise making unavailable the app Fortnite, including any Fortnite update, from the App Store because it provides Fortnite users choice and lower prices on in-app purchases."
American Airlines seeks to toss COVID-19 class-action suit seeking ticket refunds
American Airlines has asked a judge to throw out a class-action lawsuit seeking air-fare refunds for trips that were canceled amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Ex-McDonald's CEO responds, seeks to dismiss lawsuit claiming he hid employee relationships
Disgraced former McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook is fighting back against the company's lawsuit attempting to roll back his multimillion-dollar golden parachute.
Robocalls back on the rise, smaller telecom carriers leave door open to major fraud, report says
Although dozens of little-known carriers serve as key conduits in America’s telecom system, they can also open the door to scams, a new report released Saturday suggests.
FBI team arrives this weekend to take part in Beirut probe
The cause of the fire that ignited nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate at Beirut’s port remains unclear.
Ponzi king Madoff's brother released from home confinement
Peter Madoff had pleaded guilty to falsifying documents and lying to regulators as part of his brother’s Ponzi scheme
CA appeals court rules Amazon is legally liable for defective products sold by third parties on its site
A California appeals court ruled Thursday that tech giant Amazon is legally liable for defective products sold on its site by third parties.
Hollywood producer emerges as key figure in alleged NRA financial abuses
An Emmy-award winning Hollywood producer with longtime ties to the NRA has emerged as a major figure in the New York attorney general's case/
Alleged mastermind behind biggest fraud case in Vermont history pleads guilty
A Miami businessman accused of being the mastermind behind the largest fraud case in Vermont's history pleaded guilty on Friday over a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant using tens of millions of dollars in foreign investors' money.
Apple and Google go to war with Epic Games over Fortnite
A battle that would rival any played on an Xbox or Play Station is underway, featuring the maker of one of the world’s most popular video games and tech titans Apple and Google.
College admissions scheme tipster sentenced to 1 year behind bars
A Los Angeles financier who tipped off investigators to the college admissions scandal was sentenced to a year behind bars for a different scheme.
Airbnb takes action against guest for party
The San Francisco-based home sharing company said Wednesday it is initiating legal proceedings against a guest who held an unauthorized party at a home in Sacramento County, California.
DoorDash faces injunction to reclassify some workers as employees
San Francisco’s district attorney on Wednesday filed a preliminary injunction against food delivery firm DoorDash to reclassify its contractors as employees, days after a judge granted a similar request in a case against ride-hailing firms Uber and Lyft.
ValueWise CEO pleads guilty to $100M fraud that left companies, workers on the hook
ValueWise CEO Michael Mann pled guilty Wednesday to orchestrating a years-long fraud that caused more than $100 million in losses to banks, financing companies and other businesses, according to the Justice Department.
CEO in scheme that left workers without paychecks pleads guilty
Michael Mann admitted in federal court in Albany that from 2013 to September 2019, he engaged in a fraudulent scheme to deceive banks and financing companies into loaning his companies tens of millions of dollars.
McDonald's found nude photos of employees sent by former CEO on company servers: lawsuit
McDonald's accused ousted CEO Steve Easterbrook of sending nude photos of employees from his company email account to a personal email, in a lawsuit attempting to recover Easterbrook's multimillion-dollar golden parachute.
California debt fund manager charged by prosecutors with fraud
Brendan Ross, 47, who once oversaw more than $1 billion of assets at Direct Lending Investments LLC, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with 10 counts of wire fraud,



















