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The black-market trade in wildlife has moved online, and the deluge is dizzying Rene Ebersole © Photograph by Felix Wong, South China Morning Post, Getty Images Illegal ivory from elephants, rhinos, and other animals is in demand for the production of carved sculptures, trinkets, and jewelry such as these pieces, destroyed in Hong Kong in May 2014 as a public display of defiance against wildlife trafficking. Scientists studying the online ivory trade have found that sellers of...

By Aaron Nicodemus2020-12-11T22:01:00+00:00 Tucked into the $740 billion defense spending bill Congress approved Friday are several anti-money laundering (AML) provisions that could dramatically improve law enforcement’s ability to identify and prosecute criminals laundering money through the U.S. banking system. The “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021” (H.R.6395) contains a provision (Section 6403) that will require corporations to identify who owns and controls them...

On September 23, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published its final rule [1] on several questions regarding the agency’s whistleblower program. Among the rulings were a rejection of a change that would have limited payouts on very large fraud cases, the removal of all internal whistleblower protections offered by the SEC, and a restriction of “related action” cases in which whistleblowers could receive rewards from more than one agency. The final rule has been ...

governments around the world that ended up not being true. >> kurt eichenwald on his boat "500 days." and a whistleblower once jailed after revealing how ubs had helped americans evade taxes. >> today is a great day for whistleblowers, a great day for all the honest americans out there who work their job, pay their taxes, and today is a great day for tax fairness. today is a terrible day for big- time tax cheats. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow...

was the number of elements of the story that were advanced by governments around the world that ended up not being true. >> kurt eichenwald on his boat "500 days." and a whistleblower once jailed after revealing how ubs had helped americans evade taxes. >> today is a great day for whistleblowers, a great day for all the honest americans out there who work their job, pay their taxes, and today is a great day for tax fairness. today is a terrible day for big- time tax cheats. >> all of t...

governments around the world that ended up not being true. >> kurt eichenwald on his boat "500 days." and a whistleblower once jailed after revealing how ubs had helped americans evade taxes. >> today is a great day for whistleblowers, a great day for all the honest americans out there who work their job, pay their taxes, and today is a great day for tax fairness. today is a terrible day for big- time tax cheats. >> all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow...

whistleblowers. the fda launched a massive surveillance campaign targeting its own scientists for writing letters to journalists, members of congress, even president obama himself. the scientists were expressing their concern are the fdas approval of medical imaging devices for colonoscopy and mammograms that could endanger patients with high levels of radiation. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. im amy goodman. a sena...

surveillance campaign targeting its own scientists for writing letters to journalists, members of congress, even president obama himself. the scientists were expressing their concern are the fdas approval of medical imaging devices for colonoscopy and mammograms that could endanger patients with high levels of radiation. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. im amy goodman. a senate report has found lax controls and an ade...

administrations war on whistleblowers. the fda launched a massive surveillance campaign targeting its own scientists for writing letters to journalists, members of congress, even president obama himself. the scientists were expressing their concern are the fdas approval of medical imaging devices for colonoscopy and mammograms that could endanger patients with high levels of radiation. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report....

geneva convention. that means that anyone who attacks or kills civilians could face charges for war crimes. the rules also protect prisoners of war. they forbid for ture-- torture and say that the wounded must receive treatment. so essentially the aim of this designation is to protect civilians but also possibly to pave the way for future war crimes prosecution. >> clarissa as we mention this has been going on for some time now. you know that. how does the red cross decide when a count...