Federal authorities are investigating whether Debbie Louis and her sister, Farah Louis, accepted bribes in connection with funding for migrant shelters in New York City. The investigation also includes Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, the husband of the Brooklyn Democratic Party chair, who has solicited City Council members for funding allocations to the nonprofit BHRAGS Home Care Inc.
This is the policy the Trump administration uses to banish immigrants to countries that are not their home countries, and to which they often have no connection whatsoever. The Trump administration does this without giving people notice of where they were being expelled, or an opportunity to object to being expelled there. That clearly violates the Convention Against Torture, which bars the government from deporting people to any country in which there is substantial reason to believe they will be tortured or killed.
The commission said it referred the peer, 72, to the European Anti-Fraud Office (Olaf) last week after the US Department of Justice released documents allegedly showing he shared sensitive government information with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The files suggested that among information he shared with Epstein was details of a 500bn bailout to save the euro in 2010.
A magistrate judge in the United States has issued a stern rebuke to the administration of President Donald Trump, criticising its handling of the indictment against a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), James Comey. On Monday, Judge William Fitzpatrick of Alexandria, Virginia, made the unusual decision to order the release of all grand jury materials related to the indictment.