Court Watch #74: Elon Pushes Back
Tesla says EEOC's discovery is too onerous. Plus: Threatening an FBI agent on Christmas, Gaza Solidarity Encampments, Racist Candles, and Jesus.
Welcome Court Watch #74. It’s a short issue, largely because we’re crashing on a series of stories for a new feature with Court Watch. We’ve spent the last couple days pulling old court cases that have national importance but haven’t yet seen the light of day. We’ll start publishing mid-next week and reader, they are bangers, involving former State Department officials running coups and a car stuck in the mud that unraveled a left-wing extremism attack.
Speaking of things missed, yesterday evening, lawyers for Tesla and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a joint scheduling motion about a case involving an investigation into whether Tesla mistreated its Black employees. In it, Tesla lawyers argue that the EEOC discovery requests are both too broad and too late. The entire filing is worth a read, including a note that EEOC and Tesla were engaged in settlement talks prior to the lawsuit.
If you bought some Made in America products at William Sonoma, you got duped.
A bunch of minors and an adult with two fake passports were arrested for ATM skimming.
A coordinator with the Atlantic City Housing Authority was charged with filing fraudulent COVID loans.
A student is suing Columbia University, about the ‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’, arguing that the university is failing to project Jewish students.
A whistleblower made half a million dollars when a COVID contract tracing company admitted it didn’t protect folks’ personal information.
A defense contractor pled guilty to attempted espionage for trying to give fighter jet information to who he thought worked for the Russians. Also, he told his realtor about classified information for good measure.
The Justice Department is going after Jesus, the bitcoin version.
The head of the Arlington Aquatic Club and a FDIC lawyer received 20 years for convincing underage girls to livestream sexually explicit content.
The Justice Department says that the Saudi national accused of stealing a school bus and having a antisemitic journal was not under investigation prior to his carjacking.
A man who has an online store selling racist scented candles was indicted for mailing an anti semitic death threat to a Rabbi.
Prosecutors in New York secured a guilty plea in a Russian military drone case outta Brooklyn.
“For years Marian Hudak terrorized people of color living in one North Carolina city” says the head of the FBI office in Charlotte North Carolina.
Someone is calling Utah residents saying they’re from the U.S Attorney’s Office
A fake bank website and non-existent gold bars are the basis of a pretty involved romance scam.
Threatening an FBI agent usually never ends well, especially if you do it on Christmas.
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