"A federal judge has ruled that Albuquerque's civil asset forfeiture program violated residents' due process rights by forcing them to prove their innocence to retrieve their cars. Under civil forfeiture laws, police can seize property suspected of being connected to criminal activity, even if the owner isn't charged with a crime."
"The possibility of a lawsuit increased the intensity of health care that patients received in the hospital by about 5 percent — and those patients who got the extra care were no better off."
"A California DMV employee went to sleep at her desk for three or more hours every day for nearly four years, according to a new state audit."
"The fraudulent calls came suddenly and frequently while the scam was active from 2012 to 2016, according to court documents. A person posing as an Internal Revenue Service or immigration official was on the phone, threatening arrest, deportation or other penalties if the victims did not immediately pay their debts with prepaid cards or wire transfers."
"The company has said the tariffs will add $30 million to $45 million to its expenses for the rest of the year, costs which Harley-Davidson has said it will absorb as it plans to move operations overseas."
"In 1935, USMC Major General Smedley Butler warned the world that 'War is a racket. It always has been...'"
"By contrast, institutional investors and hedge funds have been net sellers of stocks in 2018."
"The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, 'I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'"
"According to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, TSA officials have sovereign immunity while working in their official functions as screeners and security agents under the Federal Tort Claims Act."
"Taxpaying families are paying more for public school employees but getting less public education for their children in return."