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Zachary Joseph Horwitz of Los Angeles sentenced to 20 years for Ponzi scheme.

A Los Angeles man was sentenced this week to 240 months in federal prison for operating a Ponzi scheme that raised at least USD650 million with bogus claims that investor money would be used to acquire licensing rights to films that HBO and Netflix purportedly had agreed to distribute abroad.

FCRO Subsection: 
Financial Crime News

California goes it alone on gun control.

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The New Year sees a major overhaul of California's gun control laws. Is it just a flash in the pan?

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Five things California's Attorney General Becerra is supporting

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is very active in a wide range of litigation supporting a wide range of opinions. Here are five things he's supporting now.

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California sues Federal government over clean air

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As California suffers from forest fires that are now encroaching on some of its residential districts, the Attorney-General, Xavier Becerra, has issued proceedings against the Environmental Protection Agency, a Federal division, over its failure to implement various measures under the Clean Air Act. In particular, the suit says that the EPA has failed "to designate any areas of the country as having unhealthy levels of smog in excess of federal Clean Air Act requirements."

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Backpage alleged to have circumvented credit card refusals

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In her special brand of contorted English, California's District Attorney Kamala Harris, says that a website is "an online brothel" and she's determined to jail its operators. Amongst the allegations is money laundering, at least in part based on the fact that the website's owners set up other companies to front their sales so that banks, etc. would allow them to take credit card payments. But Harris is off-target. She should be looking at cloud services providers. Cloudflare is in her back-yard. That would be a good place to start.

BIScom Subsection: 
Credit cards

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A year after San Bernardino, still no proof it was a terrorist attack.

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It is unfortunate that, in the USA, the word terrorism is so easily bandied about that it has all but lost its meaning. A year ago, a mass killing occurred, but there remains no definitive evidence that the attack was, in fact, motivated by ideology which is a requirement for it to be classified as terrorism. Prosecutors and media must be more careful in their choice of words.

CoNet Section: 
Security and Society

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