April 26, 2025

Justice Department

Funds

Judge Limits Trump’s Ability to Withhold School Funds Over D.E.I.

A federal judge in New Hampshire limited on Thursday the Trump administration’s ability to withhold federal funds from public schools that have certain diversity and equity initiatives. The judge, Landya B. McCafferty, said that the administration had not provided an adequately detailed definition of “diversity, equity and inclusion,” and that its policy threatened to restrict

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Crypto

Justice Department will narrow its focus on crypto-related enforcement

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is disbanding a team of prosecutors who targeted cryptocurrency crimes and is shifting its focus away from complex crypto-related cases involving banking and securities law, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press. “The Department of Justice is not a digital assets regulator,” Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche

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Investors

He sold investors on a new app, but spent the money on cars, his Malibu mansion and yacht, feds say

A Malibu man has been convicted of fraudulently obtaining an estimated $25 million in investments in his tech company and using the funds to finance a lavish lifestyle that included a Rolls-Royce, mansion by Carbon Beach and yacht, authorities said. After a nine-day trial, Bernhard Eugen Fritsch, 63, was found guilty of one count of

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Investment

Inside Google’s Investment in Anthropic

To win the artificial intelligence race, Google not only has developed its own technologies, but has also pumped money into prominent A.I. start-ups. And to preserve its competitive edge, Google has kept its ownership stakes in those start-ups a secret. Court documents recently obtained by The New York Times reveal Google’s stake in one of

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