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NASDAQ:AKRX Long Term Investor Alert: Investigation of Potential Wrongdoing at Akorn, Inc.

An investigation on behalf of current long term investors in Akorn, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKRX) shares over possible breaches of fiduciary duty by certain officers and directors was announced. The investigation by a law firm for investors in NASDAQ: AKRX stocks follows a lawsuit filed against Akorn, Inc. over alleged securities laws violations. The investigation on behalf of investors in NASDAQ: AKRX …



Class Action Over Syngenta Corn Moves Forward

This week’s guest on Open Mic is Tom Martin, President and CEO of the American Forest Foundation. In this week’s interview Martin explains forest owners desire to amend federal policy to treat wildfires as natural disasters preserving funding for land conservation and stewardship programs. Martin explains how estate taxes threaten family forest owners and says amendments to corporate taxes …


UWO Lawsuit Documents $11M in Illegal Transfers

Former University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Chancellor Richard Wells is accused of overseeing the illegal transfer of more than $11 million in university funds to support five Oshkosh-area building projects. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Dane County by the UW System claims Wells and Tom Sonnleitner, retired UWO vice chancellor of administrative services, made illegal financial guarantees between 2010 and 2014 to secure backing for high-profile building projects on and around the Oshkosh campus, and later spent more than $11 million in university funds on …


Chesterfield County Registrar Accused of Concealing Voting Records in Lawsuit

A federal lawsuit has been filed against Chesterfield County registrar Larry Haake, for allegedly refusing to disclose election records. The Public Interest Legal Foundation claims those records show foreigners improperly registered to vote in Virginia. The group is also suing Susan Reed, the registrar in the City of Manassas, for the same reason.


Kevin Turner, Lead Plaintiff in NFL Concussion Lawsuit, Had CTE

Dozens of times since beginning their work on the brains of former football players, boxers and military members who suffered repeated blows to the head, researchers have announced their findings with slides of damaged tissue, strong words about the danger of concussions and perhaps a call for sports officials to take the issue more seriously. At a Boston University medical conference …


Group Threatens to Sue Over Corps’ Spiritual Fitness Initiative

A plan by the Marine Corps to include spiritual fitness as a component of professional military education is unconstitutional and must be stopped, the leader of a group dedicated to keeping religion out of the military says. Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, told Military.com he plans to assemble a class-action lawsuit if the Corps proceeds with its …


Trump Appears to Admit Using Charity Money to Settle Lawsuit

When The Washington Post’s David A. Fahrenthold first reported that Donald Trump has used money contributed to the foundation that bears his name to help settle two lawsuits, Trump and his surrogates repeatedly said the charge was untrue. Not Wednesday. At the third presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump essentially acknowledged he had used Trump Foundation money to settle a lawsuit …


Exxon Faces a First-Of-Its-Kind Lawsuit Over Climate Deception

The Conservation Law Foundation wants to take Exxon to court over water pollution in Massachusetts. The Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Thursday, arguing that the company is violating several key water regulations at one of their Boston storage and transfer locations. The site in …