Proposed Legislation Would Make It a Felony to Run from Police Under the current law in Illinois, anyone who flees from the police after an attempted traffic stop can only be charged with a misdemeanor for fleeing in their vehicle unless they meet certain aggravating...
Arizona Woman Arrested for Assisting North Korea Infiltrate Major US Companies The Justice Department recently unsealed an indictment against a U.S. citizen and three North Koreans using aliases that engaged in a complex fraud to secure remote employment as software...
States Seek to Block Closing of So-Called “Gun Show Loophole” As we’ve discussed in an earlier blog, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF”) previously sought to close the “gun show loophole” by requiring background checks and/or a license to...
Illinois State Senator Introduces Legislation to Legalize Psilocybin Earlier this year, Illinois State Senator Rachel Ventura introduced a bill that would legalize psilocybin, often referred to as “magic mushrooms” for adults over the age of 21 in a supervised...
DEA Signals Intent to Reclassify Marijuana as a Less Dangerous Drug In an update to a previous blog, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced that it will proceed with the plan to reclassify Marijuana from a “Schedule I” Controlled Substance to the less tightly...
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Over Government’s Ability to Regulate Ghost Guns This past week the United States Supreme Court agreed to review a lower court’s ruling concerning the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearm (commonly referred to as the A.T.F.) in the...
DOJ Announces AI-focused Initiatives In a recent speech, Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced an artificial intelligence (“AI”) initiative that will see the government seek stricter sentences for crimes perpetuated by individuals using...
Tipsters Could Receive Payment for Reporting Criminal Misconduct on Corporations The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a pilot program to launch later this year that would see non-culpable whistleblowers receive monetary payments in exchange for information of...
Prosecutors Dismisses Charges Against Three Men Accused of Stealing Hand Written Notes Containing Hotel California Lyrics Earlier this week, prosecutors abruptly dismissed a case, in the middle of trial, against three men accused of stealing the hand written notes of...
Retired Veteran Accused of Leaking Sensitive Information to Ukrainian Woman A retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, David Franklin Slater, 63, was recently arrested and is accused of leaking highly sensitive information to a purportedly Ukrainian woman he had met online...
