How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
"Jerome Jacobson and his network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and drug traffickers won almost every prize for 12 years, until the FBI launched Operation ‘Final Answer.’"
Amazon Facial Recognition Confuses Members of Congress with Criminals
"Only 20 percent of the members of Congress are racial minorities. But 39 percent of the members of Congress who were mistaken for criminals were racial minorities."
Sergeant fired in response to charging mayor, police chief with corruption
"The New Holland Police Department has fired a police sergeant just mere seconds after he served charges on the mayor and police chief. A GoFundMe account has been set up as a result."
Family of Australian woman killed by US police for calling 911 sues for $50M
"The family of an Australian woman who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer last year after she called 911 to report a possible assault filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the officer conspired with his partner to hide what really happened."
Two giant US pension funds admit there’s a BIG problem
"People depending on a pension not only likely won’t get the money owed to them in the future… but they’ll also get stuck paying more into the system today. It’s a true lose/lose."
Ethereum web wallet hit by attack after Hola VPN extension gets hacked
"The situation recalls a similar incident in February when MEW was affected by a DNS attack that saw at least $365,000 of crypto stolen from users."
China’s Central Bank Spars With Its Ministry of Finance
"In China the fingerpointing over who is responsible for China's economic mess has begun."
Question the ‘National-Defense’ Exception to Free Trade
"Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?"
Keeping Cops’ Hands Out of Your Pockets
"Federal agencies seized over $5 billion in 2014, which was more than the amount of property burglarized that same year, $3.9 billion."
Egypt grants diplomatic immunity to military officers who led bloody 2013 crackdown
"The officers will be given the benefits and rights of a sitting government minister, and will enjoy diplomatic immunity when travelling abroad. They also will be protected from prosecution for any offences committed in the course of duty between 3 July 2013 - the day Mr Sisi led the military's overthrow of Morsi following mass protests against his rule - and 10 January 2016 - when the Egyptian parliament was reconvened. That period featured one of the bloodiest episodes in Egypt's modern history."
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