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Nationse arrived there last night, he was greeted by a group of protestors carrying confederate flags. cheerleaders are made employees not independent contractors and insures they get workers comp sick leave and other benefits. in the first three months of hillary clintons campaign more than 60% of donors have been women. bernie sanders has discouraged the formation of super pacs in his name. thats not stopping some supporters. a los angeles lawyer filed papers to form a super pac called b...

Were created to help americans who truly cant make a living off of working. >> yeah, con artists are cheating honest taxpayers out of hundreds of millions of dollars every year. and the problem appears to only be getting worse. >> increasingly investigators now learning how to outfox the clever cheats. and were up all "nightline" with abcs neal karlinsky. ♪ >> reporter: at this years miss toyota long beach grand prix beauty contest, if there was an award for being a shameless con artist, calif...

Dancer was claiming disability while working for madonna, chris brand and others. he wasnt the first claimant busted after appearing on screen. >> kathy cashwell come on down. remember kathy cashwell spinning the big wheel on "the price is right" and claiming workers comp for a shoulder injury. she pled guilty last year. and social security pays $175 billion every year in disability, too. last year alone, they received 72,000 reports of suspected fraud. like this guy throwing the football who cl...

>> is this how businesses are trying to save money is bringing in temporary workers and you dont have to provide certain benefits? >> why is this continuing? >> yes. its definitely a function of cost. there are a couple of reasons why, one as you hit on, they dont have to pay benefits. they dont have to pay health benefits. they dont have to alot for workers comp or paid time off and theres also the fact that if they dont need someone for a certain amount of time they can just drop them and pick...

Affordable care act. here he is four years later, still at it. while in richsons home, brown reportedly characterized obamacare as a, quote, monstrosity thats hurting the middle class. then something really remarkable happened which is that reality entered in. herb richardson, the guy who was hosting him, the republican state representative whose house he was in, spoke up to say that obamacare had been a financial life saver after he was injured on the job and his old pre-obamacare health insura...

Still at it. while in richardsons home, brown reportedly characterized obamacare as a, quote, monstrosity thats hurting the middle class. then something really remarkable happened which is that reality entered in. herb richardson, the guy who was hosting him, the republican state representative whose house he was in, spoke up to say that obamacare had been a financial life saver after he was injured on the job and his old pre-obamacare health insurance had eaten up most of his workers comp. "tha...

Make a difference in this case? >> well, the first problem theyre going to have -- the obstacle theyre going to have to overcome is the workers compensation bar. they have already pleaded that this falls outside of workers comp. most people dont realize you cant sue your employer because of a statute that says you have to go through the workers compensation process. if they can show this was not an accident as defined under the code and this was not a work-related single incident accident, then ...

Coming up in "the newsroom" the tables have turved, a super secret conversation on a train tweeted live by another passenger, definitely was not the quiet car. plus the pepper spray cop from uc davis, you will not believe how much money hes getting in workers comp.. hint, way more than the students he sprayed are getting. and cards sox evened up as the series heads to st. louis. newsroom continues now. good morning. im carol costello, thank you so much for joining us. sometimes you just ca...

Claims for injured football players. if a player was a student athlete, they were not by definition an employee and ergo not qualified for workers comp if they got injured on the field. that means ncaa players are essentially the uncompensated employees of the cartel. players who literally as we saw risk their limbs on the court in order to produce a product that is immensely, immensely profitable. how profitable? in 2010, the ncaa reached a 14 year, $10.8 billion deal with cbs sports and turner...

Senate need to kind of get withes the program because i think the country needs to send a stronger message internationally. >> well -- >> i have to say that i think americans realize you dont need a passport to work on human rights. and one of the big programs were working on now is farm worksers rights. here in new york state, farm workers dont have the right to a day off per week, dont have the right to workers comp, dont have the right to form a union. you can be fired for trying to form a un...