UN rights office says livestreaming a US military execution would breach the torture ban
The statement followed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's vow to publicly execute Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan.
Crime law and justice
US sanctions the International Criminal Court itself; Guterres calls it a 'serious blow'
The court called the step unprecedented, and Secretary of State Rubio vowed to dismantle it unless it changes course.
Fed orders American Express to fix its anti-money-laundering program
A consent order cites failures to detect and report suspicious activity; the OCC separately penalized Amex's bank.
Matched by algorithm, steered by salespeople: SEC penalizes adviser-finder Zoe Financial
People who came to Zoe Financial for help finding an investment adviser answered an online questionnaire, and an algorithm picked their matches.
California bars public officials from issuing meme coins
California public officials will be barred from issuing their own meme coins under AB 2409, one of 11 corruption, consumer and crypto-fraud bills Gov. Gavin…
Juvenile judges must weigh loaded-gun charges before offering a path to dismissal
California juvenile judges deciding whether a young person is suitable for "deferred entry of judgment" must now consider whether the charge is possession…
SEC: Pension-plan worker's fund scheme took $860,000 from South Florida police
A Port St. Lucie, Fla., man and his company raised about $860,000 from at least 18 investors, many of them current or retired South Florida law enforcement…
SEC penalizes OTC stock trading operator, its second settlement in two years
The SEC has censured OTC Link LLC, the OTC Markets Group unit that runs a trading system for over-the-counter stocks, and ordered it to pay a $575,000 penalty.
Fed bars three former bank and card-company employees
The Federal Reserve on Sept. 18 barred three former financial-industry employees from banking under consent orders: a former Northstar Bank employee in Bad…
Fed lifts its order on United Texas Bank, but a new regulator's order remains
The Federal Reserve has ended its 2024 cease-and-desist order against United Texas Bank of Dallas, but the bank remains under an order from its new regulator.
SEC charges three former Tricolor executives in $1.9 billion subprime auto collapse
The SEC has charged three former executives of Tricolor, a Dallas-area used-car dealer and subprime lender, with defrauding investors as the company raised…
Two SEC cases filed four days apart accuse pre-IPO fund sellers of hidden markups
Two SEC cases filed four days apart describe the same risk in the booming market for shares of private companies before they go public: investors paying far…
Fed bars two former Regions bankers from one Memphis branch over check fraud
The Federal Reserve has barred four former Regions Bank employees from the banking industry in orders announced since July 30.