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Three JPMorgan employees were indicted on racketeering and fraud charges for 'spoofing' gold and silver markets by placing orders that they later canceled, in turn deceiving other participants about the actual supply and demand of the precious metals.

A lawsuit by Resolute Forest Products, a logging company, to suppress Greenpeace’s environmental activism against its forestry operations was dismissed by a federal court. It targeted Greenpeace and Stand.earth’s freedom of speech and right to dissent, alleging the organizations engaged in racketeering and defamation against the company.
Annie Leonard, the executive director of Greenpeace USA, reacted:

Lawsuit accuses Republicans of fraud and racketeering for raising millions of dollars in donations based on the pledge to repeal Obamacare while knowing they could not or would not do it. [...]

In this Feb., 2011 photo, protesters gather around Republican State Sen. Russell Pearce, the author of Arizona’s SB1070 immigration bill, outside the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse in Phoenix. (AP/Matt York,)
(REPORT) — If Republicans in Arizona’s senate have their way, police in that state could soon have the power to seize assets and property from protesters, the Arizona Capitol Times reports.
From a February 22 article:

5/5 (2) George Soros Plotting to Influence Turnout at U.S. Elections
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Big Tobacco companies like Phillip Morris STILL have to make public statements about smoking’s harmful effects. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said so in an 11-page court decision.  She also slammed the industry’s fraudulent tactics to promote smoking and called the companies’ request to rewrite the public disclosures “ridiculous.”