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  • Column: A Trump judge just overturned the government’s most effective anti-fraud tool, which has stood for 150 years

    10/26/2024 11:16:05 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 34 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | Oct. 25, 2024 3 AM PT | Michael Hiltzik
    Since 1986, whistleblowers have been in the forefront of the government’s war on fraud, accounting for $53 billion, or more than 70%, of the $75 billion recovered from swindlers on defense contracts, from Medicare and from other federal programs.There’s no debate over what’s driving this record: It’s a 1986 federal law that awards whistleblowers up to 30% of the recovery. For the federal government, this is a bargain. Without the law, the government might never even know about most of the $75 billion in fraud that was unearthed. That makes the law “one of the government’s top fraud-fighting tools,” says...
  • Judge rules federal law banning gun possession in post offices unconstitutional

    01/13/2024 6:41:35 PM PST · by CFW · 23 replies
    Just the News ^ | 1/13/24 | John Solomon
    Afederal judge has declared that a law banning Americans from possessing guns in postal offices is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle in Florida ruled Friday that a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022 made the postal office gun ban illegal. As part of the decision, she dismissed part of an indictment charging postal worker Emmanuel Ayala with illegally possessing a gun in a federal building. She said the criminal charge violated Ayala’s 2nd Amendment rights. [link to judge's opinion included in article]
  • CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge

    04/18/2022 10:51:22 AM PDT · by Ben Dover · 125 replies
    CNN ^ | April 18, 2022
    (CNN)A federal judge in Florida struck down on Monday the Biden administration's mask mandate for airplanes and other public transport methods. US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the mandate was unlawful because it exceeded the statutory authority of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and because its implementation violated administrative law.