R. Kelly has been charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Cook County, Illinois.
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The lawsuit was filed under the qui tam or whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act, which allow private parties to file suit on behalf of the United States for false claims and to receive a share of any recovery.
For victims of sexual abuse, mere moments can affect lifetimes, and short windows can predicate decades. When the New York state legislature passed The Child Victims Act last month, the bill ushered in a new era for victims of child sexual abuse and sexual misconduct.
Honda is recalling 106,683 Ridgeline pickups in the United States, because they could catch fire after being cleaned.
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation has agreed to pay $25 million to settle charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and two of the company's former executives were charged for their roles in facilitating the payment of millions of dollars in a bribe to an Indian government official.
With survivors of sexual abuse in attendance, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, flanked by lawmakers and victims' advocates, signed into law the Child Victims Act, ending a 13-year fight and decades of personal pain for many.
Recalls have become big news again, and the industry requires better ways to anticipate and mitigate them rapidly and surely
In another blow to USC's student health clinic, six male graduates filed a lawsuit this week accusing a men's health doctor of sexual battery and harassment during appointments.
The allegations resolved by the settlement were brought in a lawsuit filed under the qui tam, or whistleblower, provisions of the False Claims Act.
It is known as the "largest kleptocracy case in the world", a tangled tale of Hollywood celebrities, Malaysian politicians, luxury yachts, Picasso paintings, power and mind-boggling amounts of stolen money.
Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday it was recalling about 1.48 million F-150 pickup trucks in North America due to a potential transmission downshift issue that could increase the risk of a crash.
USC will institute campus-wide reforms to prevent and report sexual and racial misconduct under terms of a settlement agreement filed Tuesday resolving claims related to former campus gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall.
One of banking's most wanted whistleblowers, Frenchman Herve Falciani, has picked unlikely new weapons to fight money-laundering and fraud - cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology behind it.
In this new world of advanced driver assistance systems, features like lane-keeping assistance, automatic emergency braking and collision avoidance are integrated with windshields.
Greenway Health LLC (Greenway), a Tampa, Florida-based developer of electronic health records (EHR) software, will pay $57.25 million to resolve allegations in a complaint filed by the United States under the False Claims Act alleging that Greenway caused its users to submit false claims to the government by misrepresenting the capabilities of its EHR product "Prime Suite" and providing unlawful remuneration to users to induce them to recommend Prime Suite, the Justice Department announced today.
A day after Pope Francis publicly admitted for the first time that clerics had sexually abused nuns, promising to tackle the issue that was "still going on" within the Catholic Church, two former female members of the Church have spoken about their experiences with the BBC.
The biggest strategy shift in Volkswagen's 80 years has its roots in a weekend crisis meeting at the Rothehof guesthouse in Wolfsburg on October 10, 2015.
And according to documents prepared for the court hearing, suddenly it turns out that a company widely seen as Canada's biggest cryptocurrency trader, a company that described itself as a "leading bitcoin exchange" was really just a guy with a computer.
Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns, and says he is committed to doing more to fight the problem.
Last month, Bosch agreed to pay nearly $131 million to settle claims from Fiat Chrysler diesel owners and resolve all investigations by 47 U.S. state attorneys general into its involvement with diesel vehicles, including into the Volkswagen emissions cheating.
