News from the Department of Justice:
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Delivers Remarks at the National Association of Attorneys General Annual Winter Conference
Four Pennsylvania-Based Companies and Two Individuals Agree to Pay $3 Million to Settle False Claims Act Suit Alleging Evaded Customs Duties
Justice Department Sues to Shut Down Houston Tax Preparer
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brent Snyder Delivers Remarks at the Yale Global Antitrust Enforcement Conference
Head of the Civil Rights Division Vanita Gupta Delivers Remarks at the Symposium on the Criminalization of Poverty at University of Michigan Law School
FROM THE FBI FILES:
Counterfeit Cabs Auto Broker Who Used Salvage Vehicles as Taxis Sentenced
Egg Donation and Surrogacy Scam California Woman Robbed Would-Be Parents of Money and Hope
Former Executive Director of Charity Sentenced to 21 Months In Prison for Stealing Over $1 Million From Employer and Laundering Over $220,000 of Proceeds
Atlanta Executives and an Internet-Based Promoter Charged with Scheme to Defraud Investors
Two Chinese Nationals Arrested and Charged with Defrauding Goodyear
INTERPOL: INTERPOL and Europol take steps against organized crime behind migrant smuggling
In other law and justice news...
Details only deepen mystery surrounding Kalamazoo shootings (AP)
4 arrested in Spain, Morocco for IS armed group ties (AP)
Meerkat expert cleared of assault in zoo love triangle spat (AP)
Cosby's wife deposed in sexual-assault defamation case (AP)
ADVOCACY NOTEBOOK:
Fight For Promotion Spurs Disability Rights Debate---DISABILITY SCOOP
Schools Doing Little To Ease Special Ed Paperwork Burden---DISABILITY SCOOP
Aging and ailing, homeless fear dying on the street
Hundreds die every year in the kind of squalor that is more commonly the hallmark of war zones and developing nations.---Boston Globe/STAT
Oregonians with disabilities sue state over failure to install sidewalk ramps--THE OREGONIAN
FLUOROSIS CRIPPLES LIFE IN MAYURBHANJ VILLAGES (FAO)
DAILY DEVOTIONAL
Do they not go astray who devise evil? But mercy and truth belong to those who devise good.
Proverbs 14:22 NKJV
