Tag Archives: enforcement

DEA chief tells House committee she can’t fire agents involved in sex parties

WASHINGTON – With the Secret Service still smarting from its 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, another federal law agency is in hot water over an even more salacious sex scandal – in the same country. The Administrator of the…

UN peacekeeping and rape: getting better—or worse?

United Nations headquarters in New York. (Reuters) Even as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon claims victory in the battle against sexual abuse by members of U.N. peacekeeping missions, a leaked U.N. internal report charges that peacekeepers are likely under-reporting…

DOJ accused of blocking legal gun shops, other businesses from banking

Mike Schuetz operates a small gun shop in northern Wisconsin called Hawkins Guns. In November, just before one of his peak selling times, his local credit union notified him his account needed to be closed. ; “The bank manager said…

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death: The face of heroin abuse is changing

After Philip Seymour Hoffman’s tragic death last week of an apparent drug overdose, a media spotlight has been placed on heroin abuse. ; According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, heroin abuse has increased 75 percent from…

Cybergambling returns — and this time it’s legal

(Virgin Casino) Congress banned online gambling in 2006. But new laws across the nation are rolling the rules back — and lawmakers think they’re holding a royal flush. Mega-entrepreneur Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is the latest entry in online gambling,…

Infomercial Legend Matthew Lesko Subject of Documentary, Still Laughing at Government

Over 30 years ago, Matthew Lesko, a retired Naval officer equipped with an MBA in Computer Information Systems, launched a consulting career educating Fortune 500 executives on how to take advantage of little-known government programs. Later, he decided his true…