Section: US & Canada
NYT: Skadden Paid $11M To Settle Claim Arising From Manafort’s Ukraine Work
The New York Times has an answer to a mystery first launched by Ukrainian financial disclosures last week. White shoe law firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom paid out at least $11 million to settle allegations stemming from an operation imprisoned former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort ran to whitewash the Ukrainian...
Coronavirus Overwhelms Ukraine’s Hospitals Even With Low Number Of Cases
CHERNIVTSI, Ukraine (AP) — Medical workers in homemade protective masks and suits, with plastic bags over their shoes. A hospital intended for 150 coronavirus patients now holding 250. A lack of filtration systems that forces autopsies to be done outside, under the trees, instead of in the hospital morgue. Ukraine’s troubled health care...
How to Destroy the Balance of Powers
In 1922, the United States Senate launched an investigation into what would become the most infamous story of executive-branch corruption in American history until Watergate. Teapot Dome, as the scandal came to be known, involved secret deals given out by Warren Harding’s administration for access to oil reserves in Wyoming and California....
Why No One Is Calling on Trump to Resign
In late March, The Boston Globe published an editorial excoriating President Donald Trump over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. It said that Trump was “epically outmatched” by the public-health emergency and that his “callousness, self-concern, and a lack of compass” had plunged the country into disaster. Trump, the Globe declared in its...
Ukraine’s hospitals under strain, even with few virus cases
Medical workers in homemade protective masks and suits, with plastic bags over their shoes. A hospital intended for 150 coronavirus patients now holding 250. A lack of filtration systems that … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: The Bellingham...
Ukraine’s hospitals under strain, even with few virus cases
Medical workers in homemade protective masks and suits, with plastic bags over their shoes. A hospital intended for 150 coronavirus patients now holding 250. A lack of filtration systems that … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: Miami...
U.S. Law Firm Paid Millions To Former Ukrainian Prime Minister To Avoid Lawsuit — Report
An international law firm based in New York paid at least $11 million to avoid being sued by Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukraine’s former prime minister, according to The New York Times in a story published May 10. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
New York law firm paid $11M to avoid lawsuit from ex-Ukrainian prime minister: NYT
A New York law firm paid at least $11 million to avoid a lawsuit from Ukraine’s former prime minister, The New York Times reported Sunday. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom reportedly paid millions to former Prime Minister Yulia V…. …read more Source:: The...
Canadian military postpones, curtails numerous overseas missions due to COVID-19
OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is postponing the deployment of a warship and surveillance aircraft to help enforce United Nations’ sanctions against North Korea because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The delay is one of numerous changes the Armed Forces is making to its overseas missions following a detailed analysis of the roughly 20...
Skadden Said to Have Paid $11 Million to Settle Ukraine Dispute
The law firm paid a former Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, and an associate to avert a suit over its role in a report justifying her imprisonment by a political rival. …read more Source:: The New York...
