The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, whose Los Angeles charter is supposed to give an award to disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, issued a statement saying that its unit president Leon Jenkins has stepped down to distance the civil rights group from the negative pressure in the wake of the racial discrimination scandal.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's subpoenas allegedly target trading exchanges to shed light on whether high-frequency trading violates insider trading laws, Bloomberg reported.
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced on Thursday that Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care facility director Sharon Helman, Associate Director Lance Robinson and an unidentified third employee had been placed on administrative leaves following reports that the facility keeps a secret waiting list, which is part of a scheme to explain the long wait time to provide medical care to US veterans, CNN reported.
A copy of a letter from the US Justice Department that Bloomberg News was able to retrieve indicated that the federal agency has ended its probe on Chesapeake Energy Corp and Encana Corp from claims that both engaged in attempting to monopolize shale drilling auctions.
