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The Epoch Times – Federal Judge Unseals Warrants in Case of Botched LADWP Billing

By City News Service, EPOCH TIMES https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/federal-judge-unseals-warrants-in-case-of-botched-ladwp-billing-5631503 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A Los Angeles federal judge issued a final order today on an application to unseal 33 FBI search warrants and related documents that detail a probe into alleged unethical...

The Los Angeles Times – Documents will be unsealed in L.A. city attorney and DWP corruption case, judge rules

By Dakota Smith, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-12/documents-unsealed-city-attorney-dwp-corruption More than 1,000 pages of confidential documents from a federal criminal investigation into the Los Angeles city attorney's office and the Department of Water and Power will be unsealed, a federal judge signaled...

CNN – U.S. Cable: 73 Million Former AT&T Customer Accounts Leaked To The Dark Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLsyrzTHydc Consumer Watchdog says, what you can do if you've been caught up in this is you can freeze your credit with the big three credit bureaus for free, and that makes it a little bit harder for someone...

NPR – Millions of customers’ data found on dark web in latest AT&T data breach

By Chloe Veltman, NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/03/30/1241863710/att-data-breach-dark-web AT&T announced on Saturday it is investigating a data breach involving the personal information of more than 70 million current and former customers leaked on the dark web. According to information about the breach on the...

KQED-FM (Radio) – San Francisco, CA: Apple is Leveraging Control of its App Store to Increase Prices

By Staff Reporters, KQED-FM – San Francisco, CA  Click below to listen to the audio of this radio broadcast segment.

The Los Angeles Times – What the DOJ’s antitrust suit against Apple means for everyone with an iPhone

By Wendy Lee, LOS ANGELES TIMES https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-03-21/apple-doj-lawsuit-consumers Cheaper app subscriptions. Additional payment options. Greater freedom for app developers on the App Store. More consumer choice. Those are some of the possibilities that consumer advocates hope will come to pass for users...

The San Diego Union Tribune – John Gomez withdraws his lawsuit against San Diego attorneys’ group he once presided over

By Jeff McDonald, THE SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2024-03-14/gomez-withdraws-his-lawsuit-against-san-diego-attorneys-group-he-once-led SAN DIEGO — John Gomez, the firebrand San Diego litigator known locally through several high-profile lawsuits and frequent television commercials, has dismissed an eye-popping legal complaint he filed late last year against a local attorneys...

Yahoo! News – More info could become public in years-old scandal associated with congressional candidate

By Cameron Kiszla, YAHOO! NEWS https://news.yahoo.com/more-could-become-public-years-152841449.html As Election Day grows ever closer, one candidate for Congress is facing the possibility of new revelations related to a years-old scandal. Mike Feuer, one of the frontrunners to replace U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), was formerly...

KNBC-LA (NBC) – Los Angeles, CA: New Developments in LADWP Overbilling Scandal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWaNL99S0CM Consumer Watchdog asked a federal court to allow the public to see hundreds of pages of sealed FBI records on its investigation of the department of water and power, the city's attorney's office and other city officials who...

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