SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California labor leader behind a proposal to tax billionaires has been accused of harassing and intimidating several women who work for an affiliated union.
The allegations against Dave Regan, president of the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West, are detailed in an investigative report commissioned by SEIU California and obtained Friday by The ******* ociated Press. It includes interviews with several current and former SEIU members and others who say Regan tried to intimidate union leaders into supporting the billionaires' tax, which goes before voters in November.
The Los Angeles Times was the first to report on the allegations.
The report also includes allegations that Regan physically ******* aulted an SEIU leader more than 15 years ago amid a political dispute and that more recently he engaged in harassing behavior against other women who work for the organization.
Regan acknowledged using curse words with union leaders but denied the physical ******* ault allegation.

#regan #seiu #report #harassing

A Dominican Summer League player in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization, Belfi Rivera, is at the heart of a deflating story that dropped on ProPublica about young baseball players in the Dominican Republic being preyed on and scammed.
Gus Garcia-Roberts, an investigative reporter who specializes in sports, released the article on Thursday, Sept. 10. Rivera is at the forefront as Garcia-Roberts exposes Santo Caraballo, whom Garcia-Roberts describes as "one of the most notorious moneylenders profiting from Dominican baseball," for receiving $950,000 of Rivera's money despite not having anything to do with Rivera's development.
That $950,000 is part of a $1.8 million deal the Diamondbacks pledged to pay him after he turned 16. Garcia-Roberts also found that these deals are made verbally, so no records can be found if a team decides they do not want to pay the kids.
MLB finds more players in the Dominican Republic than anywhere outside of the United States, so the league sees the country as a hotbed for talent. They work to sell the kids and families on a dream that they can become the next Ketel Marte, Geraldo Perdomo or whichever Dominican star they look up to. Oftentimes, like in Rivera's case, the players and families they talk to come from poor financial backgrounds.
Some takeaways from the story:

#garcia #diamondbacks

Olivia Oras, a popular Finnish social media influencer, died aged 27 after losing consciousness under anesthesia before a scheduled liposuction procedure at a private clinic in Helsinki. Olivia's death is currently being investigated by police as aggravated manslaughter.
The incident occurred on September 3rd. The police received a notification requesting an investigation on September 6th.
According to an investigative broadcast from the Finnish public broadcaster Yle, Olivia's problems started due to the anesthesia before the liposuction. Olivia lost consciousness and was moved to Helsinki University Hospital, where she eventually died. Later, Yle discovered from Helsinki District Court that August 31st is considered the date of the suspected offense. Detective Chief Inspector Juha Piippo, who led the case, reported that Olivia stayed in the hospital for several days between the suspected crime and her death.
Juha Piippo revealed that police suspect the involvement of a doctor or doctors in Olivia's death. However, the detective refused to provide any information on suspects' detainment or arrest.
Police carried out a special search at the Plastic Surgery Center clinic on Aleksanterinkatu street on Thursday. Police conduct a special search when there is possible information that a doctor's office or similar institution is involved. Police are ******* yzing technical equipment, and the clinic's operations have been halted for the patient's safety. The clinic removed staff profiles from its website upon the disclosure of Olivia's death.

#olivia

It started with yelling about toilets. Steve Ballmer was so serious about turning the Los Angeles Clippers into a serious franchise for the first time in their existence that he wanted to make sure no fan ever waited in a long line to use the bathroom when the team opened its new arena. Ballmer's drive to win eventually led the Clippers to courting Kawhi Leonard in free agency, fresh off leading the Toronto Raptors to a 2019 NBA championship. Leonard wanted to live in Los Angeles, yes, but he also wanted Paul George as his running mate, so the Clippers shipped out a boatload of draft picks and future two-time MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to get him.
Leonard's people also made it known that their client wanted the type of big endorsement deals his off-putting, robotic personality couldn't land legitimately. Leonard's now infamous Uncle Dennis Robertson never tried to be subtle about his desire to secure similar off-court bags to the ones Kawhi's contemporaries like LeBron James, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant were landing on their own accord, and leaks of his demands circulated as soon as Leonard hit free agency.
The Clippers became so entangled in pleasing Leonard that it led to blatant salary cap circumvention, first reported by investigative journalist Pablo Torre. The NBA found enough evidence supporting Torre's claims that it hammered the Clippers with the most severe penalty in league history, stripping five future first-round draft picks, suspending executives including Ballmer, and more. That figured to be the end of the story, with the Clippers spending the next decade trying to climb out of the abyss. Torre continued to hint that there was another shoe to drop, and now that it's here, the Clippers might be in much bigger trouble than anyone first believed.
The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the Clippers, according to the New York Times, and it's already issued one subpoena. While the scope of the investigation is unclear for now, the fact that the feds are watching the Clippers for under-the-table dealings potentially makes this a much bigger deal than simply breaking NBA rules.
How does breaking NBA rules amount to a federal crime by the Clippers? While there's a lot left to come out, the main idea is that the Clippers committed some level of fraud. Daktronics was a publicly traded company, the only one of the four tied up in the Leonard scandal to fit that description, while Aspiration, Lockton Insurance, and Boingo Wireless were not. Publicly traded companies have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to disclose big investments, and it sure feels like that never happened when dealing with Leonard.

#ballmer

When a subject has been as exhaustively covered — and as infamous — as Elon Musk, the electric-car-entrepreneur-turned-rocket-man-turned-richest-billionaire-in-the-universe-turned-Twitter-disruptor-turned-DOGE-destroyer-turned-God-only-knows-what-he'll-do-next, reviews of a documentary about him tend to lead by plucking out the film's incendiary bits of investigative reportage, the ones that feel worthy of a news headline. "Musk," Alex Gibney's 3-hour-and-45-minute documentary about the tech bro who would be king, has a handful of those.
The biggest revelation, to me, was the film's detailed history of Musk's attempt to put a self-driving car on the market — a technology that's sure to be here at some point, though Musk, in his race to be first, was far too eager to announce that it had already happened. Tesla released its Autopilot driver-assist system in 2015 (and then the Full Self-Driving Beta program in 2020), marketing the new technology with ads that exaggerated the car's powers. And so people were suckered. From the outset, there were accidents. More than 60 fatalities have been linked to Tesla's driver-assistance systems. Talk about something that could put a dent in your image! But Musk, for the most part, succeeded in hushing up the lawsuits, the federal investigations, and the fatal crashes, which were evidence of a recklessness that should have given the whole world pause.
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#twitter

The Mavericks' minority owner, Mark Cuban, reacted to the NBA's recent verdict in the Kawhi Leonard salary-cap circumvention controversy with the Clippers.
"Congrats, Pablo," wrote Cuban on X.
NBA fans took to social media and saw the billionaire businessman's two-word response. They flooded the comment section with criticism, calling Cuban out for backtracking on his comments about Pablo Torre, the investigative journalist who first reported the story.
"Not sure how you thought they were innocent. This smelled like rotting fish from the beginning."
"Man…you were so wrong in this one. Always side with the smarter people…Pablo is much smarter than Ballmer. And Pablo actually works for a living."

#pablo #smarter #kawhi #torre

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has seized more than $560,000 in cryptocurrency donations intended for Hamas, the Justice Department said Tuesday in announcing a disruption of financing for the militant group.
In addition to seizing cryptocurrency meant to support Hamas' military wing, the department said that it had taken control of website domains and communication platforms used for fundraising and recruitment, and had obtained information about thousands of people who had contacted Hamas with a goal of giving money to the group.
"My message to Hamas is clear: your networks are not secure, your crypto is vulnerable, and we will not stop until your ability to wage war is defeated," Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said in a video statement announcing the operation.
According to FBI affidavits filed in connection with the seizures, Hamas began testing virtual currency fundraising in or around early 2019 through its Qassam Brigades, or military wing, and solicited donations on its Telegram channel and also used direct online fundraising. Hamas officials bragged that the currency would be untraceable and their websites offered instructions for how to make anonymous donations, the affidavits say.
A major investigative break arrived last year when FBI officials identified a financing network soliciting donations to the Qassam Brigades via virtual currency and a confidential source located in the United States alerted law enforcement to a Telegram post asking for contributions to an email address **** ociated with Hamas.

#telegram

California's "monumental problem" with rampant fraud is about to get significantly worse, according to Republican state ******* emblyman Carl DeMaio, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that he warns will crack down on people investigating scammers.
Officially ******* led "Privacy for immigration support services providers," the new law creates privacy protections for immigration support service providers, employees and volunteers, including shielding their addresses and imposing penalties on those who publish their images on social media. DeMaio told Fox News Digital the bill amounts to criminalizing investigative journalism and works to "silence citizen journalists and shield taxpayer-funded organizations from public scrutiny."
"What does the Stop Nick Shirley Act do? It basically makes it illegal for a citizen journalist to document fraud of taxpayer money and post that on the internet in the form of an internet video," he said.
Newsom signed the bill into law last week, and it is set to take effect Oct. 1. DeMaio told Fox News Digital that he and a "coalition of civil liberty protectors" are prepared to file a lawsuit challenging the law.
Dems Ripped For 'Stop Nick Shirley Act' That Could 'Shield' Fraud And Abuse In California

#newsom #digital #nick #shirley

In a statement on 20 August 2026, the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) said Boohoo had mislabelled synthetic products as "leather," "faux leather," and "suede," breaching French rules governing the accurate description of textiles and footwear.
An investigation by the DGCCRF's National Directorate for Investigative Operations found that Boohoo failed to provide legally required information on the composition of textile products and the materials used for shoe uppers, linings, and soles.
The regulator also identified additional instances of misleading commercial practices. Boohoo was found to have advertised price reductions online that did not accurately reflect real discounts.
According to the DGCCRF, 40% of the **** ysed promotions offered no genuine saving, 7% provided a smaller discount than advertised, and 48% of the cases represented a price increase.
The Paris Public Prosecutor approved a criminal settlement requiring Boohoo.com UK to pay the fine to the State Treasury, which the company has done.

#dgccrf

In a statement on 20 August 2026, the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) said Boohoo had mislabelled synthetic products as "leather," "faux leather," and "suede," breaching French rules governing the accurate description of textiles and footwear.
An investigation by the DGCCRF's National Directorate for Investigative Operations found that Boohoo failed to provide legally required information on the composition of textile products and the materials used for shoe uppers, linings, and soles.
The regulator also identified additional instances of misleading commercial practices. Boohoo was found to have advertised price reductions online that did not accurately reflect real discounts.
According to the DGCCRF, 40% of the **** ysed promotions offered no genuine saving, 7% provided a smaller discount than advertised, and 48% of the cases represented a price increase.
The Paris Public Prosecutor approved a criminal settlement requiring Boohoo.com UK to pay the fine to the State Treasury, which the company has done.

#boohoo

Hayden Panettiere's death investigation has taken a new turn as the Drug Enforcement Administration has joined the ongoing probe.
The Heroes and Nashville actress died August 16 at age 36 in Greenville, South Carolina, just days before her 37th birthday. Her official cause and manner of death have not been determined.
According to People, a source confirmed that the DEA is now ***** isting with the investigation. The Greenville City Police Department remains the lead investigative agency.
Panettiere was found unresponsive at a residence, and emergency responders attempted to revive her after finding her in cardiac arrest. An autopsy did not reveal any trauma that contributed to her death, while toxicology results are still pending. The coroner previously said those results could take up to eight weeks.
A Panettiere representative also addressed the DEA's involvement in a statement to ABC News.

#results #enforcement

An investigator revealed that Princess Diana would have been alive today if she had made a different choice. FOX's "Celebrity Crime Scene" used recreation technology to recreate the unfortunate Paris tunnel crash that ultimately claimed Diana's life on August 31, 1997. For those unversed, Diana was accompanied by her companion, Dodi Fayed, and their driver, Henri Paul, and she was only 36 years old at the time of her death.
Host and investigative crime journalist Jakson Buhaj, alongside British forensic psychologist Kerry Daynes and former U.S. Secret Service agent Rich Staropoli, revisited the tragic death on FOX's "Celebrity Crime Scene", special documentary.
Buhaj explained that had Diana done one thing differently, she might have possibly survived the fatal crash. He remarked: "It's very odd that no one was wearing a seat belt. You would think that [Dodi Fayed's bodyguard] Trevor Rees-Jones, who was sitting in the front seat directly ahead of Diana, would caution her that she should definitely put a seat belt on, considering the car is driving way over the speed limit. Yet no one thinks to do that."
Notably, three of the four people in the car, including Diana, passed away in the fatal car crash. Dodi Fayed's bodyguard, Rees-Jones, survived but suffered brutal injuries. There were rumors that Rees-Jones survived because he was wearing a seat belt. Investigators later revealed that wasn't the case. The official British inquiry concluded that none of the occupants in the car were wearing a seat belt when it crashed.
Buhaj continued to insist that wearing a seat belt would have saved the former Princess of Wales' life. "What I think is the most tragic thing about this is that, had everyone been wearing their seat belt, unfortunately, Henri Paul and Dodi Fayed probably would've passed away, but Diana most likely still would've been with us," he added.

#crime

On August 6, Corvus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CRVS) held its second-quarter 2026 earnings call, and the story was almost entirely about one molecule. Soquelitinib, the company's oral ITK inhibitor, is now being tested across five different diseases at once, from a rare blood cancer to asthma. That kind of breadth from a single-asset biotech is either a sign of real conviction in the science or a company spreading itself thin before it has proven anything. The quarter's numbers and trial updates offer evidence for both readings.
The clearest bright spot is atopic dermatitis. In the highest-dose cohort of a Phase 1 trial, presented at the Society for Investigative Dermatology meeting, 75% of soquelitinib patients hit EASI-75 after 8 weeks of 200 milligram twice-daily dosing, versus 20% of patients on placebo. A quarter of treated patients reached EASI-90, and a third achieved clear or almost-clear skin, outcomes no placebo patient matched. Management also pointed to something more unusual: the benefit persisted after dosing stopped, without the rebound seen with other drugs in the class.
Corvus is carrying that data into a roughly 200-patient Phase 2 trial, called SEERA-1, with enrollment set to finish in early 2027 and results due the following quarter. The company's finances give it room to run. It ended the quarter with $215 million in cash and marketable securities, up from $56.8 million at the end of 2025, largely thanks to $189 million raised in a Q1 follow-on offering, enough to fund operations into the second quarter of 2028.
That cash cushion exists because Corvus is spending a lot more than it used to. R&D costs jumped to $16 million in the quarter from $7.9 million a year earlier, and the net loss more than doubled to $18 million from $8 million, driven by higher trial costs and added headcount tied to soquelitinib. The company remains a one-drug story in practice, and its most advanced program, a Phase 3 trial in relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma, will not offer a public readout soon.
An independent committee is expected to run a futility ***** ysis around the first quarter of 2027, with no data released publicly at that time. Much of the atopic dermatitis story outside the US also runs through Angel Pharmaceuticals, a China-based partner in which Corvus just put another $5 million as part of a $13.5 million financing round. That trial's first cohort of 24 patients is not expected to finish enrolling until September, meaning part of the bull case still sits ahead of the company.

#company

On August 6, Corvus Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:CRVS) held its second-quarter 2026 earnings call, and the story was almost entirely about one molecule. Soquelitinib, the company's oral ITK inhibitor, is now being tested across five different diseases at once, from a rare blood cancer to asthma. That kind of breadth from a single-asset biotech is either a sign of real conviction in the science or a company spreading itself thin before it has proven anything. The quarter's numbers and trial updates offer evidence for both readings.
The clearest bright spot is atopic dermatitis. In the highest-dose cohort of a Phase 1 trial, presented at the Society for Investigative Dermatology meeting, 75% of soquelitinib patients hit EASI-75 after 8 weeks of 200 milligram twice-daily dosing, versus 20% of patients on placebo. A quarter of treated patients reached EASI-90, and a third achieved clear or almost-clear skin, outcomes no placebo patient matched. Management also pointed to something more unusual: the benefit persisted after dosing stopped, without the rebound seen with other drugs in the class.
Corvus is carrying that data into a roughly 200-patient Phase 2 trial, called SEERA-1, with enrollment set to finish in early 2027 and results due the following quarter. The company's finances give it room to run. It ended the quarter with $215 million in cash and marketable securities, up from $56.8 million at the end of 2025, largely thanks to $189 million raised in a Q1 follow-on offering, enough to fund operations into the second quarter of 2028.
That cash cushion exists because Corvus is spending a lot more than it used to. R&D costs jumped to $16 million in the quarter from $7.9 million a year earlier, and the net loss more than doubled to $18 million from $8 million, driven by higher trial costs and added headcount tied to soquelitinib. The company remains a one-drug story in practice, and its most advanced program, a Phase 3 trial in relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma, will not offer a public readout soon.
An independent committee is expected to run a futility ******* ysis around the first quarter of 2027, with no data released publicly at that time. Much of the atopic dermatitis story outside the US also runs through Angel Pharmaceuticals, a China-based partner in which Corvus just put another $5 million as part of a $13.5 million financing round. That trial's first cohort of 24 patients is not expected to finish enrolling until September, meaning part of the bull case still sits ahead of the company.

#corvus #company #pharmaceuticals

Patrick Reeder's 15-year-old daughter, Sophie, has been missing for just over nine years. Since then, the case has gone cold and there have been few developments, he said.
Desperate for answers, Reeder is depending on detectives investigating his daughter's disappearance to crack the case.
But their latest investigative tool is not exactly what he had in mind.
"I just don't get it," Reeder told CNN. "A psychic?"
Sophie with her father, Patrick Reeder. - Courtesy Reeder family

#patrick #year #daughter #missing

Ever since ESPN completed its deal to acquire NFL Media in exchange for a 10 percent equity stake in the network earlier this year, questions about how the league's ownership of the network would influence ESPN's editorial output have been a regular topic of conversation. ESPN and the NFL have regularly insisted that the equity stake will have no bearing on the network's reporting of the league.
So far, that seems to be the case. The network recently re-signed investigative reporter Don Van Natta Jr., who has reported on the NFL aggressively for 15 years since joining ESPN in 2011. And just last month, ESPN published a triple-bylined investigative report on the NFL's Rooney Rule that offered a very critical look at the efficacy of the league's hiring protocols. If ESPN was planning to neuter its reporting on the NFL because of its new equity arrangement with the league, it hasn't been very overt about it.
But there's one way in which the network might attempt to take the sting out of its more critical reporting about the league, Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio suggested on a recent episode of The Varsity podcast. Florio believes that ESPN may very well continue to report on the NFL just as it always has, but he wonders if the network will put that reporting behind the megaphone like it once did.
"Here's the thing to watch. When they have a deep-dive investigative story that may make the NFL and or one of its teams look bad, what do they do with it?" Florio posed. "When do they release it? How do they showcase it on the various ESPN car wash of shows? There was a time when they would strategically pick, in my view, maximum disruption for dropping one of these stories. And the person that wrote it would be on every ESPN show you can imagine talking about it. So, they may still check the box on journalism, but let's see how much of a spotlight they shine. Let's see how strategic they are about putting it at a good spot instead of maybe burying it on a Friday afternoon. That's the thing to watch as it relates to ESPN's journalism of the NFL."
At some point, ESPN will be tested on this front. Reporters like Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham, or Kalyn Kahler will eventually report a story that shakes the NFL. The level to which ESPN covers those stories across its more popular mediums like television and social media will be telling as to whether the NFL's equity stake in the network has any sway over the network's editorial decisions.

#network #Equity #investigative

By Nandita Bose
WASHINGTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - U.S. House Democrats preparing for a possible return to power are developing a broad investigative strategy targeting companies and financial firms surrounding President Donald Trump, instead of trying to impeach him immediately, according to four people familiar with the discussions.
Senior Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and committee aides have discussed using hearings, subpoenas and document ‌requests to obtain records from entities tied to Trump's political and business orbit, the sources said. It is a bet that investigating private companies and outside financial players will prove more fruitful than directly ‌confronting a White House they expect to resist oversight, they said.
The approach reflects both Democratic caution and a lesson many in the party say they learned during Trump's first term: that impeachment proceedings can consume Congress while allowing Trump to cast himself as the victim of a partisan campaign.
Instead, Democrats involved in the planning envision using House investigative powers after November's midterm elections to scrutinize the administration's decision-making and examine whether Trump used his power to benefit himself, allies or donors.

#instead

Kawhi Leonard's luck may help him after the conclusion of the NBA's ongoing investigation of LA Clippers circumventing the salary cap.
Investigative journalist Pablo Torre's bombshell reports about Kawhi Leonard and Steve Ballmer's LA Clippers circumventing the salary cap has been a major topic of discussion heading into the season.
After all, if Leonard is found guilty, his trade to the Toronto Raptors could be voided. But that's only the case if the league's investigation reaches a conclusion before 2027.
Right now, the investigation is in its arbitration stage, and this is something that works in favor of the 2x NBA champion.
Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

#investigative

A royal expert claimed investigative journalist Michael Gillard, who closely followed Prince Harry's Daily Mail lawsuit, has been right throughout. He said Gillard's latest article contains the biggest revelation yet. The expert revealed that the journalist obtained a letter. It claimed that the claimants and legal team already knew key investigator Gavin Burrows had stopped being involved in the case before the lawsuit started.
Tom Sykes shared an update in his latest The Royalist article on Substack on how the key witness opted out of the Daily Mail lawsuit even before it started. The witness in question is private investigator Gavin Burrows, who had been a key supporter of the case. The expert gave his stance on Gillard's reporting in his The Upsetter article, **** led Last of the Fauxhicans, claiming that he has been almost right on every step of the case. Gillard was **** ociated with The Sunday Times' Insight team and The Guardian's investigations unit and had been closely following and covering the case since it started.
Sykes mentioned that Gillard obtained the letter, which was originally received by Mr. Justice Nicklin on January 26. It mentioned that the claimants learned about Burrows' withdrawal in March 2022, when Prince Harry and six high-profile figures filed a lawsuit against the Daily Mail for illegally obtaining information and publishing stories about them. It is to be noted that the case has been won by **** ociated Newspapers Limited (ANL).
The letter stated that Burrows didn't want to testify in the trial following alleged accusations of **** aulting and threatening the lead researcher, Graham Johnson, at his home in South London. Since then, he hasn't been in contact with anyone but told the court through a video link from somewhere in Asia that he is afraid to testify.
Sykes added that the claimants, nevertheless, filed the lawsuit despite knowing that Burrows wouldn't be involved. They had clear proof of withdrawal in March 2023 after Burrows denied the allegations in a witness statement submitted by **** ociated Newspapers. The public had no idea about him stepping back from cooperating until 2025. It became known after his written submission debunking his past statements was released.

#burrows #gillard #sykes #article

Linda Blair says her dog rescue remains under control after authorities found 251 animals at her Southern California property. The Exorcist star maintains that paperwork and permit issues, not the dogs' welfare, triggered the investigation. Officials found no signs that the animals were sick or injured. However, the county's review remains active as neighbors question the number of dogs housed at the facility.
Authorities served an investigative warrant at Blair's 2.5-acre property after the kennel's permits reportedly expired in 2023, TMZ reported. The Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning said officials had made 24 attempts to arrange inspections over three years.
Officials counted 251 dogs while checking structures and possible code violations. Law enforcement told the outlet that "no dogs showed signs of illness or injury," and authorities did not remove any animals.
Blair addressed the search in a Facebook video. "I am fine, the animals are fine," she said, describing the dispute as a matter involving paperwork and updated property diagrams. She also said she had been trying to relocate so she could expand her rescue work.
The new information follows an earlier search of Blair's property, which initially focused on a kennel believed to house more than 100 dogs. The latest count more than doubled that estimate.

#dogs #animals #found #paperwork

As the Kawhi Leonard scandal continues to worsen, the LA Clippers are remaining firm in their stance.
The Clippers and Leonard came under scrutiny last season when investigative reporter Pablo Torre unearthed documents about Aspiration, a company he alleges the team used to pay the superstar beyond the salary cap under the table.
And with Leonard's trade to the Raptors being paused amid an investigation from the NBA, and Torre's newest report, the Clippers have issued a response.
Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images
Speaking to Baxter Holmes of ESPN, one source ****** ociated with the LA Clippers noted that the organisation continues to defend themselves against allegations of circumventing the salary cap.

#pablo #raptors

Jared Leto has been accused of ****** aulting four women when they were in their teens, according to a new BBC report.
The women, who are unnamed in the July 29 report, detailed alleged incidents with the "Suicide Squad" actor, including one woman who alleged the actor ****** ually ****** aulted her in a motel bathroom when she was 17, and another who said she had underage ****** with the Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman in California when she was 17, which would be considered statutory rape in the state.
A third woman said Leto threatened her with ****** ual ****** ault when she was 19, and a fourth recalled receiving ****** ually explicit phone calls from the "Tron: Ares" star when she was 16, with him suggesting they have ****** at least once.
USA TODAY has reached out to Leto's reps for comment. The actor also did not respond to BBC's request.
The allegations in the report, as detailed in the BBC investigative documentary "Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret," are among 10 women with allegations against Leto, regarding incidents between 2002 and 2016, when he was between 30 and 44.

#detailed

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia university missed opportunities to learn of a student's terrorism-related conviction before the man opened fire in an ROTC class in March, injuring two students and killing an Army veteran who fought back with "extraordinary heroism," an investigative report released Tuesday found.
The federal probation officer working with Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, who spent eight years in prison for attempting to aid the Islamic State, did not share Jalloh's criminal background with Old Dominion University, despite the serious nature of the offense, according to the report, which was produced by the law firm Cooley on behalf of the university.
Jalloh, who also died in the March attack, had attended the public university in Norfolk beginning in 2007, was suspended in 2010 and reenrolled after his early release from prison in December 2024. He was readmitted to the school in May last year.
No federal or state law enforcement agency reported his prior conviction either, the report said.
State law prohibits the university from inquiring about student criminal history before admission or readmission, according to the report. The university could have asked readmitted students to voluntarily disclose their criminal history but did not at the time, the report said.

#conviction

The people familiar with the search didn't say where the devices are currently or what information was being sought, but seizing the electronics from a high-profile business leader like Walter is a significant investigative step. Probes by prosecutors can end without charges being brought. The search warrant was one of several executed last September, according to other people with knowledge of the probe, who asked not to be identified discussing a confidential matter. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have been investigating potential financial improprieties at two of Walter's insurance companies and at Guggenheim Partners, the financial firm Walter leads, Bloomberg News has reported.
This article originally appeared on Hoops Hype: The people familiar with the search didn't say where …

#financial #probes #september #federal

It was a seismic story in the middle of the 2025 Tour de France: a senior member of Ineos Grenadiers staff was sent home from the race over alleged links to a German blood-doping ring.
David Rozman was the head carer (soigneur) of the Ineos cycling team, a job which involves all manner of support for riders including nutrition and massage.
The Slovenian had a long ***** ociation with the team, now known as Netcompany-Ineos Cycling Team, stretching back to 2011 when he joined what was then Team Sky during their heyday, as Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome sparked the British team's near-decade of Tour de France dominance under the leadership of Sir Dave Brailsford.
Rozman was first named publicly in relation to the case by The Irish Independent in an article published during last year's Tour. The next day, L'Equipe splashed the Rozman story, and the Ineos head carer's name was published in the British press for the first time two days later by The Times.
It followed an investigative documentary by German broadcaster ARD called Secret Doping: In the Slipstream, broadcast shortly before the Tour began, in which Rozman was not named for legal reasons. The ARD documentary revealed that a member of Ineos staff had allegedly shared messages with a notorious doping doctor, Mark Schmidt, and that some of those messages were used as evidence in Schmidt's criminal trial.

#ineos #tour #france #Cycling

By Andrew Goudsward
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith's team reviewed text messages from 44 Republican and Democratic members of Congress during his investigation into President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn ‌the 2020 election, according to two Republican senators.
The records came from subpoenas to the National Archives and Records ‌Administration for text messages from government phones used by Trump and a range of his top officials and advisers from October 2020 until the end of his first term in January 2021.
The records Smith's team obtained included text messages that 40 Republican lawmakers and four Democrats exchanged with Trump officials, according to Republican Senators Chuck Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson, the chair of a Senate investigative panel.
The new material underscores how many senior figures in the U.S. government were examined as Smith investigated ‌Trump's attempts to reverse his defeat to Democrat ⁠Joe Biden in 2020 and his alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort during Biden's administration. Both cases were dropped after Trump won the 2024 election.

The New York Jets and their quarterback, Geno Smith, received good news today. It appears that Smith won't be charged in a domestic dispute he had with his baby's mother.
The Geno Smith case, stemming from a June 21 dispute with a woman at his home, has been declared inactive by police.
The investigation has concluded, and no charges are being brought. Future investigative action is contingent on additional information or evidence being brought forward, per a police spokesperson.
"No further investigative steps can be reasonably taken with the information presently available," per the investigator's report
The woman claimed that Smith hit her and tried to film him as he called the police on her. The police in the case have decided that there is not enough evidence to charge him with anything, which is why they have decided to let it go.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to intervene after a judge ordered an $800-a-day fine for a former Fox News reporter if she refuses to reveal her confidential source for stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged.
The high court rebuffed an emergency appeal from Catherine Herridge. The veteran investigative reporter has been held in civil contempt as part of a lawsuit that scientist Yanping Chen filed against the government over the leak.
Chief Justice John Roberts previously put a short-term hold on the fine as the court considered the appeal. On Thursday, the court said it was denying Herridge's bid to stay the fine. Justice Brett Kavanaugh supported granting the application for a stay, the court said.
Herridge published a series for Fox News in 2017 that examined Chen's ties to the Chinese military and raised questions about whether the scientist was using a professional school she founded in Virginia to help the Chinese government get information about American servicemembers.
Fox News Media expressed disappointment in the decision.

Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi was booed during the World Cup group phase after it was announced he will stand trial in a rape case.
Hours before Morocco’s game against Scotland on 19 June, a French appeals court confirmed that Hakimi will stand trial in a rape case.
The PSG defender, who was part of the French side’s Champions League glory in May, had appealed a February decision by an investigative judge. That ruling followed recommendations from public prosecutors that Hakimi should face trial.
He denies any wrongdoing.
The Versailles appeals court’s decision was released just hours before Morocco beat Scotland 1-0 in their Group C match, after the African side drew 1-1 with Brazil in their opening game.

Carillon Tower Advisers, an investment management company, released its first-quarter 2026 investor letter for the "Carillon Eagle Small Cap Growth Fund". A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Small-cap stocks delivered mixed results in the quarter as the market favored value stocks over growth. The Russell 2000 Growth Index fell 2.82% in the quarter, while the Russell 2000® Value Index increased 4.96%. The first quarter saw equity market volatility due to Iran strikes, boosting energy prices. The firm is optimistic that the turbulence in the market will be short-lived, with improved valuations and potential positive developments from de-escalation in the Middle East. In addition, please check the Fund's top five holdings to know its best picks in 2026.
In its first-quarter 2026 investor letter, Carillon Eagle Small Cap Growth Fund highlighted IRhythm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC). IRhythm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC) is a digital healthcare company that provides Zio ambulatory cardiac monitoring services. The company, previously known as iRhythm Technologies, Inc., changed its name to iRhythm Holdings, Inc. in January 2026. On June 24, 2026, IRhythm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC) closed at $112.47 per share. One-month return of IRhythm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC) was -2.72%, and its shares lost 26.34% over the past 52 weeks. IRhythm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC) has a market capitalization of $3.7 billion.
Carillon Eagle Small Cap Growth Fund stated the following regarding IRhythm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC) in its Q1 2026 investor letter:
"IRhythm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:IRTC) is a digital healthcare company that develops wearable, AI-driven cardiac monitoring devices. The stock struggled despite delivering beat-and-raise results. Broader weakness in the healthcare equipment and supplies industry, as investors rotated into cyclical and technology stocks, weighed on performance. Additional pressure came from a US Department of Justice Civil Investigative Demand (DOJ CID) received in December related to mobile cardiac telemetry services rendered in 2023 via iRhythm's Zio AT recording device. This inquiry is limited in scope as it only accounts for a small portion of total sales and the risk has already been priced in. We don't read too much into the com pany's recent change of auditors."
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