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Pennsylvania Man Charged With Wire Fraud For Alleged Role In PPP Loan Scheme
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a federal initiative designed to mitigate the disastrous economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, helped protect millions of workers in the United States from losing their jobs. In the months after the program rolled out, investigations began into fraudulent loan applications and instances of misuse of PPP loan funds. … Read More »
Domestic Violence Calls Do Not Always Lead To Criminal Charges
Everyone has someone with whom emotions run high. Most siblings who fight like cats and dogs as kids work out their differences once they grow up, but since you and your brother are roommates out of economic necessity, your tempers flare just like they did in your childhood. Your off again on again girlfriend… Read More »
The 7-OH Crisis In Pittsburgh Continues
A repeating pattern in the history of society’s favorite intoxicating substances is that proponents claim that a newly introduced substance is a safe alternative to another one that has long-standing popularity and well documented risks. For example, when coffee was introduced to Europe in the 16th century, it gained a reputation as a social… Read More »
Stealing From Fraternal Benefit Societies
Anyone with a computer or smartphone can lament to the whole world about their loneliness and speculate that everyone else is as lonely as they are. There is so much raw material on this topic for chatbots to remix that ChatGPT or your custom-made Character AI companion could probably spin a mean social isolation… Read More »
Is THCa Legal If It Is Destined To Turn Into THC By The Time You Smoke It?
Medical cannabis programs and local and state initiatives to decriminalize the possession and use of cannabis have created a lot of legally hazy situations. Pennsylvania, like many states, has not decriminalized cannabis at the statewide level, but it has had a medical cannabis program since 2016, and several cities, including Pittsburgh, have decriminalized possession… Read More »
Child Endangerment Charges When A Child Ingests Illegal Drugs
Young children will put almost anything in their mouths. The manufacturers of commercial products such as batteries and nail polish remover have started adding ingredients to the products to make them taste so bad that children would immediately spit them out and not swallow them. Sometimes children swallow things that are not food, and… Read More »
Four Employees Of Franklin County Used Car Dealership Face Charges For Odometer Fraud
Anyone who buys a used car approaches the dealership anticipating a strategy game of interpreting double meanings, bluffing, and calling someone else’s bluff. If a car were so awesome, it wouldn’t be available for resale. If the seller were forthcoming about the car being a pile of junk, it would have an irresistibly low… Read More »
York County Man Arrested For Possession Of Deepfake Images Of Sexual Abuse
Around a decade ago, people who spent all their free time online were joking about something called Rule 34, which states that anything that exists, even things that exist only in your imagination, can be remixed into pornographic content. The Internet is a noticeably less friendly place than it was in 2015, and even… Read More »
Beware Of Synthetic Kratom
Vape shops are a dream world of ambiguities, as they were in the old days, when they were called smoke shops and you had to consume your favorite inhalable substances through analog devices like cigarettes and water pipes. The glass bongs were a splendid sight in a glass case, invariably bearing a sign declaring… Read More »
Farmer’s Market Shop Owner Faces Charges For Solicitation Of Minors
Today, we see the progress the labor movement in the United States made over the 20th century going in reverse. Fewer jobs offer pensions, employer-provided retirement savings, long-term employment contracts, and other signs of permanence and stability than they did a generation ago. Wages have barely increased even as the prices of most consumer… Read More »
