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New Mexico Man Sentenced to Prison for Stolen Identity Refund Fraud

Douglas Kuester, 43, a tax preparer from Silver City, N.M., was sentenced Monday to 48 months in prison for filing false claims and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a...

Broker Sentenced to 135 Months in Prison for Bribery, Kickback, Fraud, and Perjury Scheme Involving Toms River Schools

The former insurance broker for the Toms River Regional School District was sentenced on Friday to 135 months in prison for his role in a scheme to pay bribes and other benefits to the then-superintendent of schools to get...

Greenpeace exposes hazardous chemicals in high street fashion

High street fashion brands are selling clothing contaminated with hazardous chemicals that break down to form hormone-disrupting or even cancer-causing chemicals when released into the environment, according to a report re...

Cambodia: Obama Should Publicly Denounce Rights Abuses

US President Barack Obama should publicly express grave concern about Cambodia’s long deteriorating human rights situation while in Phnom Penh for the US-ASEAN and East Asia summits on November 19 and 20, 2012, Human Right...