Citigroup agreed to pay $730 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed investors were misled by the bank's disclosed when they purchased its debt and preferred stock. These investors' purchases were made from May 11, 2006 through November 28, 2008.
Benjamin Bishop, a former U.S.Army officer, has been charged with passing information relating to nuclear weapons and other military secrets to his Chinese girlfriend, the Justice Department said. Bishop was arrested Friday at work, appearing in federal court in Honolulu on Monday.
The attorneys for George Zimmerman is again asking Circuit Judge Debra Nelson to reconsider a request to take the deposition of Benjamin Crump, the attorney who interviewed a teenager who says she was on the phone with Trayvon Martin before he was shot by the neighborhood watchman, according to the court filling made public on Monday.
Senator Elizabeth Warren made a case for increasing the minimum wage during last week's Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Hearing. There she cited a study that suggested the federal minimum wage would have stood at nearly $22 an hour today if it kept up with increased rates in worker productivity.
