Canada has implemented new legislation to make it a criminal offence for two or more employers to engage in wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements regarding employees. The legislation took effect June 23 with amendments to the Competition Act’s conspiracy provisions. It is now criminally prohibited for employers from different companies to make deals that will “fix,…
Australia to Extradite Former US Marine Pilot for Allegedly Training Chinese Pilots
December 29, 2022
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The Australian federal government has approved a request to extradite a former U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot to the United States where he faces conspiracy charges over allegations he unlawfully exported defence services to China. Daniel Edmund Duggan, 54, who held both Australian and American citizenship, was accused of breaking U.S. arms control laws by…
Suspected FSB Officer Among Russians Facing Sanctions-Busting Conspiracy Charges in New York
Five Russian nationals and two United States nationals were the subjects of a 16-count indictment that was unsealed in a Brooklyn federal court on Dec. 14. The defendants, which included a suspected Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, were charged with conspiracy and other crimes after the Department of Justice alleged they were part of a…
Suspected Russian Intelligence Officer Among Those Facing Sanctions-Busting Conspiracy Charges
Five Russian nationals and two United States nationals were the subjects of a 16-count indictment that was unsealed in a Brooklyn federal court on Dec. 14. The defendants, which included a suspected Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, were charged with conspiracy and other crimes after the Department of Justice alleged they were part of a…
No Bond for Woman Charged in Death of Socialite Mother
CHICAGO—A judge declined to ease bond conditions Thursday and release a Chicago woman who is charged with conspiracy in the 2014 death of her wealthy mother during a luxury vacation in Bali. The decision means Heather Mack, 27, will remain in custody without bond while awaiting a July trial in federal court in Chicago. Mack…
Chinese Man Sentenced in US Court for Stock Market Manipulation Conspiracy
A Chinese citizen living in the Boston metropolitan area was sentenced recently in federal court in Massachusetts after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, officials announced. Wang Jiali, 44, of Weymouth, was sentenced to time served (three months in prison) and nine months of home detention, and was ordered to forfeit $7.75…
A Chinese Man Sentenced in Massachusetts for Stock Market Manipulation Conspiracy
Wang Jiali, a Chinese citizen living in the greater Boston metropolitan area, was tried for multi-year stock market manipulation conspiracy by U.S. District Court for Massachusetts on Dec. 1. Wang was accused of leading and participating “in a sophisticated market manipulation scheme aimed at the U.S. securities markets that was perpetrated primarily from China,” which…
Ex-Banker Charged With Conspiring in Murdaugh Money Scheme
COLUMBIA, S.C.—A grand jury has indicted the former CEO of a South Carolina bank on charges of conspiring with once-prominent, now- suspended attorney Alex Murdaugh to defraud victims—including the family of a deaf man who became quadriplegic after a car crash — of $1.8 million. Russell Laffitte, who headed Palmetto State Bank until he was…
Do Conspiracies Really Exist? Murray Rothbard Thought So
Commentary It is also important for the State to inculcate in its subjects an aversion to any “conspiracy theory of history;” for a search for “conspiracies” means a search for motives and an attribution of responsibility for historical misdeeds. If, however, any tyranny imposed by the State, or venality, or aggressive war, was caused not…
Trial of 47 Hong Kong Democracy Activists Charged With Conspiracy to Commit Subversion Adjourned Till March
HONG KONG—A closely monitored national security trial involving 47 Hong Kong democracy campaigners charged with conspiracy to commit subversion, most of whom have been in custody since March, has been adjourned till March next year, a judge ruled on Monday. Magistrate Peter Law adjourned the next hearing till March 4, after making directions for the…
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