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Techdirt Podcast Episode 357: Red Team Blues, Part One

2 years 7 months ago
If you’re a Techdirt reader, you’re surely familiar with Cory Doctorow: we’ve written about him often, he’s appeared on the podcast several times and, of course, he’s a prolific science fiction author whose books brilliantly engage with many of the subjects we cover. Next week, if all goes according to plan, Cory will be joining […]
Leigh Beadon

Illinois woman sentenced for mail and wire fraud

2 years 7 months ago
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) - A former Maui Jim employee was sentenced to a year in federal prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud and wire fraud. After pleading guilty in March, Erica L. Hornof, of Bradford was ordered by a federal judge sitting in Peoria to pay $125,472.48 in restitution to Maui Jim. While employed [...]
Kate Stevens

Need to improve your racial profiling image? Just issue a bunch of fake tickets to white people.

2 years 7 months ago
Well, this is weird. A few years ago police investigators found out that four state troopers in Connecticut had been entering fake traffic tickets into an internal police database: Four troopers had collectively entered at least 636 fake tickets into the state police computer system over a nine-month stretch to make it appear they were ...continue reading "Need to improve your racial profiling image? Just issue a bunch of fake tickets to white people."
Kevin Drum

Charges issued one year after St. Louis County sex tape scandal

2 years 7 months ago
An acquaintance of a former St. Louis County chief of staff was charged in connection with the dissemination of a sex tape involving the man and an unidentified woman last year. Calvin Harris was St. Louis County Executive Sam Page’s chief of staff. The boyfriend of the mother of Harris' child was charged in connection to the incident, allegedly sharing the tape with Page’s political enemy in 2022. Rodney Leger, 51, of Glen Ellyn, Ill. was charged with three counts of nonconsensual dissemination…
Christine Byers