Madison, IL - The United States of America charged Dudley Hellenbrand and Cherie Hellenbrand with tax evasion.

Dudley Hellenbrand, 68, and Cherie Hellenbrand, 46, both of Middleton, Wisconsin, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to each serve six months in federal prison for filing a false income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service. The judge staggered ... More...   $0 (07-07-2020 - WI)

Stanford Vina Ranch Irrigation Company (Stanford Vina) sued the State Water
Resources Control Board (the Board), among other defendants, challenging the Board’s
issuance of certain temporary emergency regulations in 2014 and 2015, during the height
of one of the most severe droughts in California’s history. The challenged regulations
established minimum flow requirements on three t... More...   $0 (07-07-2020 - CA)

Washington, DC - The United States of America charged Vincent Slater with tax fraud.

A former official of the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR) pled guilty today for participating in corruption schemes in which he accepted at least $75,000 in exchange for fraudulently erasing tax liability, inflicting more than $3 million in losses upon the District of Columbia.

Vin... More...   $0 (07-03-2020 - DC)

Abingdon, VA - The United States of America charged former Indivior, P.C. chief executive officer Shaun Thaxter with introducing into interstates commerce the opioid drug Suoxone Film in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

Thaxter served as Indivior’s top executive since 2009 (including the time period prior to December 2014 when Indivior was known as Reckitt Benckiser P... More...   $0 (07-02-2020 - VA)

Boston, MA - The United States sued Novatris Pharmaceuticals Corporation claiming that it violated the False Claims Act by suing three foundations as conduits to pay the copayments of Medicare patients taking Gilenya and Afinitor.


Novartis agreed to pay $642 million to settle the claims being made against it. A second settlement resolved claims arising from the company’s alleged pay... More...   $642000000 (07-02-2020 - MA)

Boston, MA - The United States of America charged Jorge Rodriguez, a/k/a “King G,” age 32, with racketeering and conspiracy to possess and distribute drugs.

Defendant pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, more commonly referred to as RICO conspiracy, and conspiracy to distribute cocaine and cocaine base. U.S. Senior District... More...   $0 (07-01-2020 - MA)

In California, “[a]ll political power is inherent in the people,” who
retain “the right to alter or reform” government by voter initiative “when the
public good may require.” (Cal. Const., Art. II, § 1.)1 The question in this
case is whether the people of a city or county may exercise this initiative
power to adopt a special tax when a majority of voters concludes it would
serv... More...   $0 (07-01-2020 - CA)