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Erik Uebelacker
Erik Uebelacker covers New York City for Courthouse News. He graduated from DePaul University in 2023 and previously covered breaking news for The Daily Beast.
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Former Epoch Times executive pleads guilty to multimillion-dollar fraud scheme that funded newspaper
Bill Guan, the newspaper’s ex-finance chief, admitted he ran a team out of Vietnam called “Make Money Online” to carry out the scam.
New York sues 3M, DuPont over ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
State Attorney General Letitia James says a group of manufacturers concealed the dangers of PFAS chemicals from the public, even as they phased out their use.
Cash App agrees to $45 million settlement over shoddy account security and customer service
Attorneys general from all but four states sued the mobile payment app, claiming it misleadingly hawked the platform’s security and failed to shield users from fraud.
Feds’ child porn probe of peer-to-peer Freenet software gets First Circuit approval
A convicted sex offender argued an FBI sweep of his activity on an anonymous file sharing site was unconstitutional.
ICE points finger at protesters over recent arrests at NYC immigration courts
The agency says it has made at least five arrests in Manhattan immigration courts since May 18, when a federal judge barred the agency from broadly making this kind of arrest.
Judge cautions Melania Trump against trying to sanction journalist Michael Wolff
Wolff filed a now-dismissed anti-SLAPP lawsuit to starve off a potential defamation suit from the first lady — who demanded an apology for comments on her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Judge bars Trump from cutting off Hudson Tunnel funding
The Department of Transportation announced last September that it would be pausing funding for the project to review its compliance with the administration’s stance on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Judge blocks Trump’s mail-in voting restrictions ahead of midterm elections
“The Constitution does not grant the president any specific powers over elections,” a federal judge ruled.