Oral Roberts University will pay $300K in settlement with DOJ

Oral Roberts University has agreed to pay $303,502 in a settlement with the Justice Department over allegations it used students' tuition to pay a recruiter. The small evangelical school is alleged to have violated a federal ban on incentive-based compensation by paying a recruiting company “in part with a share of the tuition that ORU received from the enrollment of recruited students,” according to a Justice Department press release.

Maurice Shoe, co-owner of Joined Inc., filed the lawsuit under federal whistleblower provisions in the law that allow private parties to sue on behalf of the government for false claims and receive some of the money recovered. Shoe will receive about $45,000 from the settlement.

ORU admits no wrongdoing in the settlement and denied the allegations. “The allegations in Shoe’s complaint are without factual or legal merit,” the university said in a statement. “ORU assures its students, faculty, staff, alumni, stakeholders, and the public that at no time did it submit a 'false claim' to the government nor misuse federal taxpayer funds.” Shoe said he sued after he learned his company had illegal relationships with North Greenville University in South Carolina. North Greenville University settled in February for $2.5 million. Shoe was awarded $375,000 from that settlement.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/oral-roberts-university-will-pay-300k-in-settlement-with-doj

UN official calls US abortion policy ‘extremist hate’ and ‘torture’

The U.N. deputy high commissioner for human rights, Kate Gilmore, said the increasingly stringent abortion laws and provisions in the U.S. are “deeply distressing” and equated them to torture. “We have not called it out in the same way we have other forms of extremist hate, but this is gender-based violence against women, no question,” Gilmore, 61, told the Guardian. “It’s clear it’s torture – it’s a deprivation of a right to health.”

She also blasted U.S. interest groups behind the push for stricter laws, saying that the groups, which are largely conservative and religious, are well organized and ignoring science in favor of pushing an ideological point. “It’s an assault on truth, science and universal values and norms,” she said. “You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts.”

There is a growing slate of Republican-led states across the country passing strict abortion laws, with Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signing a bill that bans abortion in almost every situation. Louisiana and Georgia have also passed strict bills in recent weeks. There has been pushback from pro-abortion supporters, with Hollywood threatening to withdraw from filming in Georgia over the stringent rules.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/un-official-calls-us-abortion-policy-extremist-hate-and-torture

No resolution on Mexico tariffs at White House meeting

The U.S. and Mexico failed to reach an agreement Wednesday to avert tariffs after a meeting between officials of the two countries. President Trump said progress is being made, but if no agreement is reached, 5% tariffs on Mexican goods will be instituted Monday. "The higher the Tariffs go, the higher the number of companies that will move back to the USA!" he tweeted.

The talks held at the White House were an attempt to reach a deal over the impending tariffs, which would increase an additional 5% each month until Mexico addresses illegal immigration at the U.S. border. The news comes the day after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he believed a deal to be close that would end the administration's threat to impose tariffs on Mexico in response to illegal immigration. Trump has said he wants Mexico to stop the flow of immigrants from Central America through the country and to the U.S. border.

Speaking from Ireland on Wednesday, Trump expressed confidence that Mexico would beef up its immigration policies in order to prevent the economic squeeze the tariffs would entail. “Mexico can stop it. They have to stop it. Otherwise, we just won’t be able to do business. It’s a very simple thing,” Trump said Wednesday. “And I think they will stop it. I think they want to do something. I think they want to make a deal. And they sent their top people to try.”

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/no-resolution-on-mexico-tariffs-at-white-house-meeting

>>6681206

Not sure, not easy on the eyes so I didn't stare, kek

>>6681221

Which one anon..the last one I see has already been dug.

>>6681229

Already dug yesterday.

Walmart against monopolies: The retail giant is filing a price-fixing lawsuit against a shady Brazilian meatpacker

In late May, Walmart filed an antitrust lawsuit against over a dozen poultry producers, including Pilgrim's Pride, a subsidiary of the Brazilian-owned meatpacking conglomerate, JBS USA. The company is currently receiving over $64 million as part of the agriculture bailout while its parent company, J&F Investimentos, is reportedly under investigation by the Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission. The lawsuit alleges that Pilgrim's Pride, headquartered in Greeley, Colo., participated in a conspiracy to manipulate the prices of chicken meat by "coordinating their output and reducing the supply of broiler chickens into the market" creating a "supra-competitive" environment. According to court documents, chicken suppliers destroyed breeder hens to reduce supply, resulting in a 50% price hike in wholesale chicken between 2008 to 2016. JBS USA purchased a majority stake in Pilgrim's Pride in September 2009.

In April, Kraft, Conagra, and Nestle filed a lawsuit against a number of poultry producers, including Pilgrim's Pride, for price-fixing as well. In February, Pilgrim's Pride was sued by two watchdog groups for false marketing practices, alleging they advertised foods as "natural," "organic," or "humane" while raising chickens in crowded, unsanitary warehouses where they were abused by their employees. The New York Daily News reported in May that JBS USA not only has been bringing in millions of taxpayer dollars, but also has been fined for underpaying farmers for livestock since early 2017 in addition to announcing at least five recalls for tainted meat with contaminants such as E. coli or salmonella bacteria.

Last week, nine Democratic senators co-signed a letter urging Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to keep commodity purchases for American farmers only and "not the business interests of foreign corporations." The letter also stated that it is "unacceptable that American taxpayers have been subsidizing our competitors through trade assistance."

The lawsuit adds just another legal episode for the troubled billionaire Batista brothers. In 2017, Joesley and Wesley Batista admitted to police to bribing hundreds of officials in the Brazilian government. In May, Wesley Batista was indicted by a Brazilian federal court for insider trading. The brothers are also linked to Diosdado Cabello, the president of the Nicolás Maduro-backed Venezuelan National Assembly, who was reportedly behind an assassination plot against Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/walmart-against-monopolies-the-retail-giant-is-filing-a-price-fixing-lawsuit-against-a-shady-brazilian-meatpacker

>>6681261

Anything is possible, I do see what you mean by it!

>>6681243

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>>6681316

CASA for Children

https://casaforchildren.org/

Former Vatican treasurer appeals against abuse convictions

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell appeared in an Australian court on Wednesday for an appeal hearing to overturn convictions for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s. Pell, who has maintained his innocence throughout, wore a black suit with a clerical collar in his first public appearance since March, shortly after becoming the most senior Catholic worldwide to be convicted for child sex offences. The 77-year-old was jailed for six years after he was found guilty on five charges of abusing two 13-year-old boys at St Patrick’s Cathedral while he was archbishop of Melbourne more than 20 years ago.

The appeal is being held over two days in the state of Victoria’s Supreme Court, although a ruling could take several weeks. Pell could be released or face a retrial if the court rules in his favor. The court was packed with lawyers, journalists and members of the public while a few protesters outside the building carried placards denouncing the Catholic Church. Pell’s original trial judge in March said that because of his age, the former Vatican treasurer could die in jail. His fate now rests in the hands of three judges presiding over the appeal.

Pell is appealing his conviction on three grounds: the jury verdicts were “unreasonable” based on the evidence, the judge erred by blocking the defense from showing a video graphic in its closing argument, and there was a “fundamental irregularity” as Pell did not make his plea physically in the presence of the jury panel, but rather by a video-link. Pell’s appeal claim said the whole case rested on the account of one of the two victims, and there were “at least thirteen solid obstacles in the path of a conviction”. “No matter what view was taken of the complainant as a witness, it was simply not open to the jury to accept his word beyond reasonable doubt,” the appeal claim to the court said.

Pell’s barrister, Bret Walker, told the court his client could not have been in the priests’ sacristy at the time of the events as he would have been out on the front steps of the cathedral after mass, a point that went unchallenged at the trial. The claimant said the first assault took place in the priests’ sacristy after mass in late 1996. “You have to destroy the alibi, otherwise there is a reasonable doubt,” Walker told the court. He said the victim who testified at the trial gave differing accounts about the timing of the abuse, which also should have raised a reasonable doubt. The Crown will lay out its response to the appeal on Thursday.

While awaiting the outcome of his appeal, Pell remains a cardinal and could only be dismissed from the priesthood if the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith found him guilty following a separate canonical trial or a shortened procedure called an “administrative process”. Pell was chosen in 2014 to oversee the Vatican’s vast finances, but no longer has any position in the Vatican.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-abuse-pell/former-vatican-treasurer-appeals-against-abuse-convictions-idUSKCN1T5342?il=0

>>6681508

Last headline on him was this from 2017:

Trump loyalist Ezra Cohen-Watnick fired from NSC, sources say

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/trump-loyalist-ezra-cohen-watnick-fired-from-nsc-sources-say/#undefined.uxfs

>>6681508

Correction just found

Controversial former NSC official Ezra Cohen-Watnick headed to Justice Department

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/11/politics/erza-cohen-watnick-doj/index.html

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