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  • Supreme Court Revives Law Meant to Fight Money Laundering

    01/23/2025 2:21:59 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Jan. 23, 2025, 2:45 p.m. ET | Adam Liptak
    The Corporate Transparency Act, which requires businesses to disclose ownership information, was blocked by a federal judge as beyond Congress’s authority.The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a federal law requiring companies to report information about their owners in an effort to combat money laundering, the drug trade and terrorism.The court’s brief order gave no reasons, which is typical when the justices act on emergency applications. The ruling was provisional, reinstating the law while a challenge to it moves forward.Critics say that the law, the Corporate Transparency Act of 2021, is needlessly burdensome, a threat to privacy and an unconstitutional federal...
  • Two federal judges rule for small businesses, halt Corporate Transparency Act

    01/12/2025 10:46:18 AM PST · by CFW · 14 replies
    The Center Square ^ | 1/12/25 | By Bethany Blankley
    Within one month of each other, two federal judges ruled that a law passed by Congress is “likely unconstitutional” and ruled in favor of small businesses. At issue is the Corporate Transparency Act, which Congress passed in 2021, overriding a veto issued by then President Donald Trump. The law requires entities incorporated under state law to disclose the personal information of their stakeholders, including current address, identification documents, and other sensitive information, to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. After Trump’s veto was overridden, several small businesses in Texas sued U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, arguing the...
  • Treasury Department may fine small businesses $10,000 or more if they don’t file this new report

    12/10/2024 8:16:33 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    CNBC ^ | 12/10/2024 | Greg Iacurci
    KEY POINTS * The Corporate Transparency Act of 2021 requires many businesses to report beneficial ownership information by Jan. 1, 2025, in an effort to curb crime through shell companies. * About 32.6 million businesses are subject to the new BOI reporting, according to federal estimates. * Individuals who “willfully” violate the requirement may be subject to fines of $10,000 or more and possible jail time. * A federal court in Texas temporarily halted enforcement. Small businesses and their owners could face penalties of $10,000 or more if they don't comply with a new U.S. Treasury Department reporting requirement by...
  • FinCEN Says Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Reports Are Voluntary Following Court Decision

    12/09/2024 5:28:09 AM PST · by george76 · 11 replies
    Forbes ^ | Dec 06, 2024 | Kelly Phillips Erb
    The U.S. government has appealed the nationwide preliminary injunction—and FinCEN has backed off of its position that filings should continue. FinCEN now says that "reporting companies may continue to voluntarily submit beneficial ownership information reports." Earlier this week, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas threw the fate of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) into question, blocking the U.S. Department of Treasury from enforcing the beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements across the country. Now, the U.S. government has appealed the nationwide preliminary injunction—and FinCEN has backed off of its position that filings should...
  • Court Challenge to Corporate Transparency Act Rebuffed – For Now

    11/12/2024 3:28:57 PM PST · by T Ruth · 1 replies
    National Law Review ^ | October 18, 2024 | William E. Quick, Philip G. Feigen, Mark A. Olthoff
    On September 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon for the District of Oregon issued an Opinion and Order in favor of defendants in the case. Firestone, et al.. v Janet Yellen, et al., Case No. 3:24-cv-1034 (D. Ore.) The Order upheld the constitutionality of the CTA and recognized Congress’ power to regulate. It is currently unclear as to the implications of this ruling for the business community at large. …[D]iscussing the likelihood of success on the merits, the court rejected the argument that Congress lacked authority to enact the CTA. The court recognized Congress’ broad authority to adopt...
  • Small Business Owners are branded “terrorists” by Federal Government

    10/25/2024 3:20:20 PM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies
    Gateway Pundit, ^ | Oct. 25, 2024 | Peter McIlvenna
    In just over 2 months every small business owner in America is required to be registered with the Federal Government’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The Biden/Harris administration rolled out this unconstitutional law, known as the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), on January 1st, 2024. The CTA requires all small business owners in the United States, with revenue under 5 million and less than 20 full time employees to self-report to FinCEN, housed under the Department of Treasury. According FinCEN’s website: “FinCEN is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Director of FinCEN is appointed by the Secretary...
  • Long-time CTA {Chicago Transit Authority} menace is murdered at Morse Red Line station

    10/21/2024 6:41:18 AM PDT · by Salman · 30 replies
    CWB Chicago ^ | October 21, 2024 | CWB Chicago staff writer
    CHICAGO — A man with a long history of criminal activity on the CTA’s train lines was shot and killed Sunday evening at the Morse Red Line station, according to a law enforcement source. CWBChicago is not identifying the man in this story because officials have not released his name, but we have confirmed that he was awaiting trial for yet another robbery aboard a Red Line train at the time of his death. At about 8:20 p.m. Sunday, at least one gunman opened fire from a dark-colored Jeep outside the Morse station, 1358 West Morse, spraying rifle rounds up...
  • New ‘Transparency’ Act Forces Small Businesses To Register Personal Data With Federal Law Enforcement

    10/10/2024 3:00:32 PM PDT · by george76 · 39 replies
    Federalist ^ | October 09, 2024 | Peter McIlvenna
    By year-end, Americans will be required to hand over data on their small businesses to the federal government’s law enforcement database... The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is an aggressive domestic program to federally register millions of unsuspecting small business owners under the guise of an “anti-money laundering initiative.” By the end of this year, Americans will be required to hand over their small businesses’ private data — such as owners’ names and home addresses — to the federal government’s law enforcement database, operated by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), housed under the Department of the Treasury. Such small businesses...
  • CTA Shooter Motive "Unknown"

    09/05/2024 7:04:10 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 17 replies
    Second City Cop ^ | 5 Sept 2024 | Second City Cop
    One merely has to travel 419 miles to Nashville to discover a probable motive (or surf the internet), a motive prevalent in so many shootings where the shooter is "trans" (which the CTA shooter is). This might get us in trouble with the eBlogger people, so if we disappear again, you know why. mental illness runs rampant in this segment of society Colorado Springs. Denver. Aberdeen. The Highland Park shooter, too. Hell, there's even a picture of the Trump shooter in a dress. It is something that deserves an unbiased scientific exploration, but unfortunately, the left won't permit it.
  • Suspect charged in shooting that killed 4 sleeping people on CTA Blue Line train

    09/04/2024 1:15:14 AM PDT · by Governor Dinwiddie · 53 replies
    CBS News ^ | September 3, 2024 | Elyssa Kaufman, Sara Machi, Carol Thompson, Tara Molina
    FOREST PARK, Ill. (CBS) — A man was charged Tuesday afternoon in a mass shooting that left four people dead on a CTA Blue Line train in west suburban Forest Park the day before. Rhanni Davis, 30, of Chicago, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, according to Forest Park police, who announced charges Tuesday evening along with Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx and Chicago Transit Authority President Dorval Carter. All four victims were passengers on a Blue Line train as it was headed into the Forest Park terminal when they were shot shortly before 5:30 a.m. Police...
  • Lifelong Chicagoan speaks out after teens attack him on CTA train: 'a gauntlet of fists'

    07/12/2024 10:54:01 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 7 replies
    fox32chicago ^ | 07/11/2024 | Elizabeth Matthews
    CHICAGO - A 63-year-old man was attacked by a group of more than a dozen teenagers on the Orange Line train in downtown Chicago on Monday night, he told FOX 32. The victim, Michael Manning, a lifelong Chicagoan, said he was keeping to himself after a 12-hour workday and looking forward to getting home when the group targeted him. "This was surreal. I think I was just so shocked. I think I kind of went numb," Manning said. He recounted that it was after 11 p.m. when the group boarded the train at the LaSalle/Van Buren stop. "I knew right...
  • 14-year-old helped rob CTA passenger of his shoes at gunpoint, police say

    06/26/2024 6:33:15 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 10 replies
    Cwb Chicago ^ | 06/26/2024 | Cwb Chicago
    CHICAGO — A third juvenile has been charged with robbing a CTA passenger of his shoes earlier this month. Chicago police arrested the 14-year-old yesterday. Two other boys, ages 15 and 16, were previously charged. The trio, joined by two additional accomplices who remain on the loose, tried to rob a 17-year-old boy inside a Blue Line train car near the Racine station around 1:40 p.m. on June 8, police said.
  • Boys, ages 15 and 16, robbed CTA passenger of his shoes, police say

    06/20/2024 1:58:28 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
    CWB Chicago ^ | 06/19/2024 | CWBChicago
    CHICAGO — Two boys, ages 15 and 16, were part of an armed robbery crew that robbed a CTA passenger at the Racine Blue Line station on June 8, police say. CPD continues to look for three more members of the group. Mass Transit Unit detectives released surveillance images of the robbers on June 10 and asked the public to call them with any information that could help with the investigation. CPD officers arrested the 15-year-old that same day, and the 16-year-old was arrested yesterday, police said. According to CPD, five young men tried to rob a 17-year-old at gunpoint...
  • 11-year-old boy robbed 62-year-old aboard a CTA train, Chicago police say (His accomplice was 14)

    06/07/2024 7:11:09 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    Cwb Chicago ^ | 06/05/2024 | Cwb Chicago
    Chicago police have charged an 11-year-old boy with robbing a man nearly six times his age on a CTA train. He worked with a 14-year-old girl to commit the crime, police said. The pair robbed the 62-year-old inside a Red Line train car at State-Lake around 7:30 p.m. on May 24, according to police. CPD said the girl also robbed a 41-year-old man at the Clark-Division station about 40 minutes later. This victim was also on a Red Line train. Both juveniles are charged with robbery of a victim over the age of 60. The girl faces an additional charge...
  • Novel CT exam reduces need for invasive artery treatment

    04/20/2024 1:32:23 PM PDT · by ConservativeMind · 7 replies
    A study shows that a non-invasive imaging test can help identify patients with coronary artery blockage or narrowing who need a revascularization procedure. Doctors use coronary CT angiography (CTA) to diagnose narrowed or blocked arteries in the heart. A CTA exam receives a score from mild (0–1) to severe (4–5). Patients with scores above 3 typically require medical treatments. Doctors have traditionally relied on invasive coronary angiography to image vessels and more recently have added fractional flow reserve (FFR) to identify and assess significant blockages. To assess CT-FFR, Dr. Randhawa conducted a retrospective study of patients who underwent coronary CTA...
  • CTA union leader supports deploying National Guard on Chicago transit system

    03/16/2024 5:32:21 AM PDT · by Salman · 23 replies
    CWB Chicago ^ | March 15, 2024 | Glenn Minnis
    Only days after one passenger shot and killed another aboard a West Side bus filled with other riders, Chicago Transit Authority union leader Keith Hill says he’s now open to seeing the Illinois National Guard provide security for the long-troubled system. “Since 2017, my call has been for extra security, a presence on the transit system,” Hill told The Center Square. “From a worker standpoint, the workers need to feel safe. When a person rides the system, they should feel safe getting from point A to point B.” Late Tuesday night, a 53-year-old man began waving a knife around while...
  • Question on the new Corporate Transparency Act (looking for legal viewpoint)

    01/10/2024 8:04:59 AM PST · by EBH · 18 replies
    What Every Small Business Needs to Know About the Corporate Transparency Act The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is going into effect on January 1, 2024, impacting millions of small businesses across the U.S. Knowing the intricacies of this act and its potential impact is essential for small businesses. Otherwise, they may incur criminal or civil penalties for not filing or updating this report. What is the Corporate Transparency Act? Enacted in 2021, the CTA aims to combat illicit activity including tax fraud, money laundering, and financing for terrorism by capturing more ownership information for specific U.S. businesses operating in or...
  • Woman charged in connection with summer Red Line shooting in Loop: Chicago police

    02/18/2023 9:05:38 AM PST · by simpson96 · 8 replies
    ABC7 Chicago ^ | 2/7/2023 | Staff
    CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 25-year-old Chicago woman was charged in connection with a shooting on the CTA Red Line in the Loop over the summer, Chicago police said Tuesday. Latrice Harvey was charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery/discharge of a firearm after being identified as one of the suspects who, on Aug. 27, shot and seriously injured a 30-year-old woman, CPD said. The Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested her Monday near her home in the 3600-block of West North Avenue. Shots were fired on the train as it approached the State and Lake station at about...
  • Teachers union spied on parent groups seeking to reopen schools amid pandemic, emails show

    09/07/2022 10:56:16 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 6 replies
    SAN DIEGO, Calif. (TND) — A public records request from a parents' group which sought to keep schools open during the COVID-19 pandemic apparently shows the California Teachers Association (CTA) – one of the state's largest and most powerful teachers' unions – was spying on them and other similar groups seeking to reopen schools.
  • California teachers union spied on parents who wanted schools to reopen during COVID: emails

    09/06/2022 7:09:17 PM PDT · by lightman · 14 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6 September A.D. 2022 | Allie Griffin
    A California teachers union is being accused of spying on parents after emails reveal the union was conducting opposition research on parent groups fighting for schools to reopen during the height of the COVID pandemic. The California Teachers Association (CTA) employed a researcher who emailed a parent arm of the local union in April 2021, hoping to dig up information on the motives of San Diego County parents who had successfully sued the state to reopen schools a month earlier. According to emails obtained through a public records request, the union was seeking to uncover “some of the ideological leaning...