Robert Newland, who was the only other person charged alongside dethroned dealer Inigo Philbrick in the massive art fraud scheme the two perpetuated, was sentenced to 20 months incarceration followed by two years of supervised release today in New York. Newland, a U.K. citizen, was present in New York for the sentencing; he was remanded…
Friends, America is in the midst of the biggest surge in labor activity in a quarter century. The United Auto Workers, the Writers Guild of America, the actors’ union known as SAG-AFTRA, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, the Teamsters and UPS, flight attendants. The list goes on. Over 4 million workdays were lost to stoppages last month, according…
As her first day of school under Taliban rule approached, Sajida Hussaini was hopeful. Her father, a teacher for 17 years, and her mother had instilled in her and her siblings the value of education, and now she was one year away from graduating high school. Even though the Taliban had taken over the country…
Rick Jaenisch went through treatment six times before his hepatitis C was cured in 2017. Each time his doctors recommended a different combination of drugs, his insurer denied the initial request before eventually approving it. This sometimes delayed his care for months, even after he developed end-stage liver disease and was awaiting a liver transplant….
Sidney Powell, an ex-attorney for former President Donald Trump, is getting roasted. Powell faces seven charges for her alleged involvement to undermine the 2020 presidential election, among them a violation of Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, but filed a motion to dismiss Friday with a brazen complaint. “Ms. Powell’s longstanding trusted traveler status has…