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Queens Man Charged For Illegal Firearms Collection After Alleged Self-Defense Shooting

The Crime Report

Foehner has been charged with seven felony counts under state law and one misdemeanor under New York City administrative law. His top charge is for felony possession of a weapon in the first degree , under a specific portion of New York State law addressing the possession of ten or more firearms.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 10 to April 14, 2023

Broadcast Law Blog

The licensee had pled guilty to five crimes, consisting of one felony (criminal use of a communications facility) and four related misdemeanors, but received probation instead of a prison sentence. The FCC’s Enforcement Bureau issued a Revocation Order revoking the license of an FM station in Pennsylvania.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters:  March 19, 2022 to March 25, 2022

Broadcast Law Blog

See our post on the Broadcast Law Blog for more information, and read the audit letter setting out all the requirements for the audit response and the list of audited stations, here. A felony conviction involving lying to another government agency will normally trigger such a review.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: May 7, 2022 to May 13, 2022

Broadcast Law Blog

Following a “paper hearing” designed to speed FCC decisions when cases require fact finding by an FCC administrative law judge, a judge found that a convicted felon’s crimes were not serious enough to warrant his company’s losing its radio licenses.

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The ‘Unexamined Law of Deportation’

The Crime Report

The Biden administration didn’t change the basics, putting a priority on the deportation of people convicted of aggravated felonies, with agreement from many immigration rights groups, the paper said. Then-President Barak Obama said the program aimed to deport “felons, not families.”

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

The Crime Report

While these political vs. legal interpretations of reality capture the moment in the ongoing saga of Donald Trump, I do not believe that the label of victim is “baked in” nor that his narrative of victimhood will be the prevailing one.

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