Sen. Elizabeth Warren leads a bipartisan bill to make the Fed and SEC investigate "Epstein connected" firms and executives, with fines or bans for wrongdoers. Barclays has already offered her a vetting defence over ex-CEO Jes Staley. She said it was not sufficient.
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Mr Justice Hilliard ruled one significant error in the warrant application made police searches of two Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor homes unlawful. The inquiry goes on while a private hearing in 2027 decides whether officers can keep what they took.
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Global Counsel's rivals took its staff and clients after weighing a deal to buy the firm
Interpath says several approaches for the client book and IP of Peter Mandelson's collapsed Global Counsel produced no viable deal. Rivals could hire the partners who held the client relationships, so they had little reason to pay the estate for them.
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FCA board member Lea Paterson will review how the regulator handled Simon Andriesz, a whistleblower it wrongly told had no protection. MPs want an independent body to do the work, because the error concerned the basic question of who is covered.
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ShinyHunters claims it scraped 200,000 driver records out of Florida's DAVID lookup portal
The gang says a password-reset flaw handed it DMV employee and FBI accounts, after which it walked record IDs one at a time from September 3. Florida's motor vehicle agency has confirmed none of it, and the proof on offer is one screenshot.
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The essay's proposals, a tax on AI tokens and robots plus jobs reserved for humans, are addressed to policymakers. Both would land on employer payrolls before any retraining fund pays out.
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