Category Archives: Legal

Emergency Room Doctors’ Lobbyist Admits to Large-Scale Medicare Billing Fraud by Members, Criminal Corporate Practice of Medicine by PE Firms

Private equtiy stealing from babies…um, oldsters….um, Medicare. Who’d have thunk it?

Wall Street Journal Provides New Evidence of Facebook Politically-Driven Intervention in Content

Some Facebook internal chats reveal its censorship, um, moderation to be a hot mess.

Brexit: David Frost’s Bluster Can’t Wish Away the Northern Ireland Protocol

Many Brexiters see Article 16 as a ‘get out of jail free’ card for the Northern Ireland protocol. Here’s why they’re wrong

Microsoft Endorses Right to Repair; Apple Doubles Down on Opposition

Microsoft responds to a shareholder resolution by supporting the right to repair, at least in theory; Apple remains opposed.

‘Waive the Patents’: Moderna Still Refuses to Share Covid-19 Vaccine Recipe

Modern refuses to share vaccine recipe and acts as if they have absolutely no responsibility beyond maximizing their return on investment.

Never Mind the Pandora Papers: Why Secrecy Still Rules in the UK

Thanks to poor drafting and a lack of enforcement, anti-secrecy legislation intended to make it clearer who owns UK companies isn’t working

European Investment Scammers Allegedly Laundered Their Money through Scotland

Investigations by European and Ukrainian prosecutors revealed an alleged investment fraud with funds laundered via UK corporate entities

Ralph Nader: While Americans Sleep, Our Corporate Overlords Make Progress Impossible

Politicians from both parties do the bidding of their corporate overlords rather than act on behalf of voters.

Six-Month Sentence for Lawyer Who Took on Chevron Denounced as ‘International Outrage’

Conviction of Steven Donziger, said one critic, “perfectly encapsulates how corporate power has twisted the U.S. justice system to protect corporate interests and punish their enemies.”