Tag: U.s. Department Of Justice
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Liquor operator pleads guilty to tax fraud totaling $2.2M, federal prosecutors say
An Aurora business owner pleaded guilty to tax fraud last week after IRS investigators say they found he had diverted money from a Denver liquor store and a drain installation company to private accounts to dodge having to report his actual income. In 2021 alone, federal prosecutors said, Manuel Rocha reported that Rocha’s Liquor and…
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What to know about the Justice Department’s Jeffrey Epstein files
NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein. After months of rancor and recriminations, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to give the public everything it has on Epstein — and it has to be…
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Judge sides with family of Boulder attack suspect
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal judge in Denver on Thursday ruled that the deportation case for the wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman, charged with a hate crime after the June 1 firebomb attack on marchers in Boulder, will be heard in the Western District of Texas, not…
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Colorado Attorney General, other states propose remedy to end Google search engine monopoly
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Google’s search engine has remained supreme since its launch in 1998, but due to a violation of antitrust laws the monopoly may soon come to an end. Following Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s ruling in August that Google violated federal antitrust laws by illegally maintaining a…
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Denver voters will decide whether to allow non-citizens to serve as police, firefighters
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Non-citizens are one step closer to being able to apply to become a Denver police officer or firefighter after the City Council unanimously approved a ballot measure seeking to change the city charter during Monday’s meeting. The proposed charter change requiring police and fire departments…
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Colorado legal settlement would improve housing, care for trans women inmates
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Taliyah Murphy received a letter in early 2018 about a soon-to-be-filed class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of transgender women like her who were housed in men’s prisons in Colorado. It gave her hope. Murphy and other trans women in Colorado had faced years of sexual harassment and often violence from staff members and fellow incarcerated…
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Merrick Garland visits Denver, says Americans have a ‘personal stake’ in rule of law abroad
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Americans should have a stake in the success of democracy abroad, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland told a gathering of lawyers in Denver on Monday, noting that the U.S. Justice Department is cooperating with the International Criminal Court and supporting Ukrainian prosecutors carrying out war crime investigations. Congress recently allowed for new U.S. flexibility in assisting…
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Accused Planned Parenthood shooter would be competent to stand trial if forced to take medication: Psychologists
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The man accused of shooting up a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood in 2015, killing three and injuring nine, would be competent to stand trial if he were forced to take anti-psychotic medication, two psychiatrists testified at a federal court hearing Tuesday. Robert Lewis Dear, 64, was first ruled incompetent to stand trial in Colorado Springs…
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FBI searching four suspects that robbed an Englewood bank
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Officials from the FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task force and the Englewood Police Department are asking for the public’s help in locating four suspects that robbed a bank on Thursday. BBVA Compass Bank at…