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Lawsuit Suggests ATF Authorized Theft From 700 Tobacco Farmers

A federal racketeering lawsuit brought by a cooperative of tobacco farmers against two Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives (ATF) informants, Jason Carpenter and Christopher Small, is headed for trial in the Eastern District of North Carolina Western Division. The complaint alleges that Carpenter and Small swindled the plaintiffs, US Tobacco Cooperative Inc, a co-op made of about …


Little Rock Settles Lawsuit Over 2010 Police Shooting

Little Rock settled a lawsuit Friday with relatives of a 67-year-old black man who was killed after a struggle with two white, off-duty police officers who entered his home without a warrant in 2010, marking what the family’s attorney said was a record settlement of about $1.5 million. The lawsuit was filed after the death of Eugene Ellison, whose children include a Little Rock police …