Federal Government to Ban Hemp Derived and THC-Infused Products As we have previously covered, there has been some controversy since the passage of the 2018 federal farm bill that helped legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp for farmers. Although it passed by...
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Border Patrol’s Nationwide Crackdown and Its Legal Implications
Massive Surveillance Network of Drivers Revealed In a shocking revelation, an investigation by the Associated Press has found that the United States Customs and Border Patrol has been monitoring drivers through automatic license plate readers and studying drivers for...
Federal Authorities Remain Focused on Criminal Elements of Cryptocurrency Use
Money Laundering Charges Announced Against Chicago Area Crypto Firm As we have previously covered, the Trump Administration previously disbanded the Department of Justice’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team and has generally expressed a desire to work with...
Ever Expanding Surveillance Could Violate Personal Rights
Law Enforcement Could Expand Surveillance Capabilities Through Private Companies There is a growing trend of private companies working with law enforcement or creating work arounds to collect privately recorded data and sharing it with them for investigative purposes,...
Professional Athletes Arrested for Rigging Bets
Two MLB Players Arrested on Federal Charges Federal criminal indictments were unsealed Sunday against two Cleveland Guardian pitchers, Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz, alleging that the two accepted bribes in order to “rig bets on pitches thrown” during MLB games. Both...
Charges for Online Threats Show Growing Problem
Federal Charges for Online Threats Against President and Law Enforcement Recently, a suburban Chicago man, Trent Schneiger of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, was charged in the Northern District of Illinois with making a threat against President Trump after he uploaded a...
Ex-Officer Found Guilty in Fatal Shooting of Sonya Massey
Downstate Jury Finds Sean Grayson Guilty of Second-Degree Murder After nearly 12 hours of deliberations, a jury in Sangamon County, Illinois found former Sheriff Deputy Sean Grayson guilty of the charge of second-degree murder in the 2024 killing of Sonya Massey, a...
Sean “Diddy” Combs Gets Release Date for Federal Sentence
What Diddy’s Experience Says About the Federal Penal System Recently, Sean “Diddy” Combs had a release date calculated and entered onto the Bureau of Prison’s (“BOP”) website, currently set for May 8, 2028. Earlier this year, Mr. Combs was sentenced to 50 months...
Recent Charges Against Police Officers Shows Prosecutors Believe No One Above the Law
Police Charged with Illegally Selling Guns In was recently revealed in several indictments that four former and current Campton Hills law enforcement officials, including the former Police Chief, are accused of illegally selling guns taken from the evidence room of...
Supreme Court May Review Forfeiture Limits
Alaska Pilot Appeals States Seizure of Plane Over Cases of Beer In 2012 an Alaskan pilot, Ken Jouppi, was arrested and charged with knowingly transporting alcohol into the town of Beaver, Alaska, a remote community not accessible by car which prohibits alcohol. One of...


