Kelso Aims to Seize Billions for California Prison Health

An interesting collision of circumstances: California prison health care receiver J. Clark Kelso is saying he hopes to seize billions of dollars from the California general fund to pay for much needed improvements to the state prison system. The only hitch: the.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California filed a dismissal last week of its remaining charges against former San Francisco Giants slugger and outfielder, Barry Bonds, as reported by the Associated Press. Bonds was convicted in April on one count of.

As I mentioned in a post earlier this month, Dr. Arthur Jordan, who is a professional witness of sorts in the government’s pharmaceutical fraud cases, is scheduled to testify this coming week in our sleepy little hamlet. Here’s the latest: Following the.

Drug policy is a complicated issue. Is there anything anybody can say in 100 words that would make you change your mind about the way we deal with drugs? Here's my stab at it. What's yours? I believe that America needs to change.

This week the Pew Center on the States released a report titled One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections (pdf). It's a report that seems intended both to illustrate the extraordinary scale of American corrections and to point toward the cost.

The Washington Post recently reported on one especially troubling tale of civil forfeiture.  The Department of Justice has a civil forfeiture system in place that is making it possible for police to seize billions of dollars in property and money, often from.

The case of the Wecht jury deliberations gets curiouser and curiouser. Remember now, since deliberations began on March 18, 2008, the jury has deliberated on only 8 of the intervening 22 days, and they have had two consecutive four day weekends. The.

The IRS has nearly unlimited power over commercial tax return businesses and preparers.  It shouldn’t. Suppose you own a business that prepares and files tax returns for others.  In today’s internet world, you would be filing those returns electronically.  In fact, you.

Three weeks after receiving a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and as part of its new campaign for openness, Penn State officials posted on the school website Friday, a brief blurb acknowledging receipt of the subpoena, a copy of the subpoena and the cover.

WALLA WALLA -- A woman charged with stealing money from Banner Bank while employed as a loan servicing agent has been sentenced to a term on a work crew. Suzette A. Brock, 39, of 262 N.E. 11th Ave., Milton-Freewater, pleaded guilty Monday.