- A new dawn for data privacy as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect yesterday — of course no one’s really ready for it, including the regulators
- This former Tennessee judge would make other criminals blush — sexual favors for favorable judicial treatment, paying off a witness, planting drugs in another witness’s car, and embezzling cash from the court’s drug treatment program
- Watch your mailboxes — these guys allegedly stole mail with personally identifiable info and then opened credit cards in the victims’ names
- Black Market Peso Exchange (BMPE) scheme in Oregon — the CEO of a company called Beauty Plus Global allegedly accepted deposits of laundered money from drug traffickers (an in-depth explanation of the BMPE can be found here on page 29)
- Lastly, Pfizer agreed to pay $24 million to resolve charges that it used an independent charity to pay illegal kickbacks to Medicare patients
