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Boling pleaded guilty in servicemember identity scheme
An Army medical records administrator photographed personal information. The October 20, 2026 plea names two conspiracy counts and a maximum of 20 years on each, and it states no dollar loss. The July 23, 2019 indictment charges millions of dollars of actual and attempted losses.
Oct 29, 2026
March report left out 20 million usable GSA square feet
The March 2026 utilization rates exclude GSA-controlled vacant space with no occupancy agreement. Leaving those feet out shrinks the denominator and lifts the rate. Table 2 puts the omitted space at 20,243,856 usable square feet as of July 2026.
Oct 28, 2026
Reported fraud losses by older adults hit $3 billion
The $3 billion is what got reported. The FTC's own report prints a modeled range of $13.3 billion to $119.5 billion and says high-loss underreporting is not well understood. Six percent of older adults' loss reports carried 70 percent of the dollars. The House passed H.R. 9500 on September 15 and the bill is not law.
Oct 27, 2026
FCI Berlin's $17 million repair request was unfunded at the inspection
The heat-pipe money was requested from the region and the Central Office, and page 40 says the request was unfunded when inspectors were in the building.
Oct 27, 2026
Judge shuts down sextortion help company after it took millions
People already being blackmailed paid again for a tracking campaign. The court's order says the firm's own sample missed the 90% sales line, and that the work often was a block a person could do without paying.
Oct 24, 2026
GAO Report Says DHS Refused Automatic Activation For ICE Body Cameras
CBP already auto-starts the same kind of camera. ICE left the button on the officer, with no results measure for trust and zero written reprimands through September 2025.
Oct 23, 2026
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Boling pleaded guilty in servicemember identity scheme
An Army medical records administrator photographed personal information. The October 20, 2026 plea names two conspiracy counts and a maximum of 20 years on each, and it states no dollar loss. The July 23, 2019 indictment charges millions of
March report left out 20 million usable GSA square feet
The March 2026 utilization rates exclude GSA-controlled vacant space with no occupancy agreement. Leaving those feet out shrinks the denominator and lifts the rate. Table 2 puts the omitted space at 20,243,856 usable square feet as of July
Reported fraud losses by older adults hit $3 billion
The $3 billion is what got reported. The FTC's own report prints a modeled range of $13.3 billion to $119.5 billion and says high-loss underreporting is not well understood. Six percent of older adults' loss reports carried 70 percent of th
FCI Berlin's $17 million repair request was unfunded at the inspection
The heat-pipe money was requested from the region and the Central Office, and page 40 says the request was unfunded when inspectors were in the building.
Judge shuts down sextortion help company after it took millions
People already being blackmailed paid again for a tracking campaign. The court's order says the firm's own sample missed the 90% sales line, and that the work often was a block a person could do without paying.
GAO Report Says DHS Refused Automatic Activation For ICE Body Cameras
CBP already auto-starts the same kind of camera. ICE left the button on the officer, with no results measure for trust and zero written reprimands through September 2025.
Village Capital Fined For Ignoring 6 Percent Servicemember Mortgage Rate Cap
The mechanism is a form letter that reports a rate the note does not show, then a payoff formula that adds the larger of $500 or three times the overcharge.
Senator Slotkin Warns Young People To Avoid Jobs In This Administration
The mechanism is not one filed case. It is a stated plan to make the next applicant walk away before any charge exists.
Courts ordered ghost preparers to repay IRS over 20 million dollars
Courts ordered over $20 million back to the IRS in 19 selected cases, almost $16,000 back to taxpayers in three, and the IRS cannot say how many ghost preparers it has identified.
GAO covert test: one service record sent unredacted, 49 improper releases reported
The services wrote the redaction rules, then reported 49 improper releases and failed a covert test.
Steven Crowder Claims Trademark Lawsuit Against CNN But No Filing Exists
Registration 5,960,565 is a live class 41 service mark owned by LWC IP Assets LLC. CNN's noon hour called a segment Change My Mind. On stage, Erin Burnett said Change My Mind.
FTC sues a broker over ticket limits
The complaint alleges thousands of accounts, other people's names, and virtual cards let one broker buy past issuer limits, then resell. Section 45c bans the circumvention and the sale.
Compass Shareholders Sue Over Alleged Hidden DOJ Lobbying In Merger Papers
The complaint pleads strict-liability Securities Act counts against the registration statement, and it recites a reported appeal over the antitrust division to the deputy attorney general. Those are allegations in a filing, not findings.
Pentagon admits hiding Iran war deaths from public and Congress
The war's casualty count depends on categories: after the administration said Operation Epic Fury ended May 5, deaths moved to a new 'Overseas Operations' page, the Epic Fury toll fell from 18 to 14, and some deaths were left out for months
Judge stops $20 million Trump ad buy funded by border money
The stayed money was reapportioned into a commemorative-events line and then obligated the next day for a national media campaign, and the order stops future payments without ordering the spent dollars back.
Ascelia refuses new trial for Orviglance after FDA meeting
The public is reading the company's summary of the minutes, not the FDA complete response letter or the minutes themselves, which is the gap Commissioner Makary has described on camera as corporate spin.
Anthropic bans abusing Claude chatbot while internet mocks new AI conduct rule
Every other rule in the policy protects a person; this one protects the product, rests on the company's own stated uncertainty about model welfare, and is enforced by the protected model itself, with the announcement naming only the primary
FBI Arrests Ransomware Negotiator Edward Dubrovsky In ShinyHunters Probe
Ransomware response runs on trust: victims hand their secrets, including insurance limits, to outside negotiators they cannot watch, and no one checks the negotiator until after the money moves. The BlackCat insider cases and the MonsterClo
Willy Sun Pleads Guilty To Smuggling Nvidia Chips To China
Export controls rest on paperwork the seller vouches for, checked by the seller's own compliance team, with a government spot-check after shipment. Per the indictment, every company-run check was beaten, by a friendly auditor, falsified lea
Army Corps Fails To Document Why 52 Projects Need No Wildlife Mitigation
Since 1986 the law has given the Corps two options for every project it sends Congress: a mitigation plan or a stated negligible-impact finding. GAO found the plans generally done and the findings generally not written down, with no interna
Russia worker dies of unknown pneumonia while US monitors from outside WHO
Outbreak information runs from the national authority to WHO to member states; WHO can only ask. Russia offers a conclusion without published evidence, WHO can't verify, and the U.S. exit removes America's seat in the channel. Each institut
DHS Secretary Missed 30-Day Deadline In All 11 Whistleblower Retaliation Cases
The protection is not the right, it is the clock attached to the right. DHS substantiated 11 retaliation cases and started the 30-day decision clock 11 times, and finished it inside the window 0 times.
Canada bans US goods as Washington blocks Canadian cars and dairy
Both sides are operating under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, invoked in July 2026 for the first time in its 96-year history. The section authorises duties up to 50% and then, if the discrimination continues, exclusion of the countr
SEC warns asset managers that coordinated voting could cost them passive status
Disclosure law treats investors who act together as one owner. The SEC's report lays out how a coalition flagged votes and pressured the largest index managers, how those managers say they decided alone, and why the agency chose a warning o