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View More NewsIn brief Since May 7, Empery Digital sold 1,400 Bitcoin for about $87.1 million, slashing its BTC treasury by nearly half. The firm repaid $10 million in debt, funded a pending property acquisition, and covered legal costs from ongoing stockholder litigation. As of July 10, the company holds 1,514 BTC and roughly $73.9 million in cash. Publicly traded Empery Digital Inc. has sold nearly half its Bitcoin treasury since early May, using the proceeds to pay down debt, prepare for an AI-related real estate acquisition, and cover mounting legal bills tied to a shareholder lawsuit, according to an SEC filing…
In January 2024, in End Citizens United PAC v. FEC, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit concluded that the Federal Election Campaign Act does not create a cause of action to challenge the FEC’s exercise of enforcement discretion. In October 2024, the full court voted to rehear the case en banc (as I noted in this post). Interestingly enough, the grant of rehearing expanded the issue before the court, perhaps for the purpose of cleaning up circuit precedent in this area. Oral argument was held in February 2025. It is now July 2026,…
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A review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders by Claudia Verhoeven; 384 pages; Verso (May 2026)Although the True Crime genre of publishing and documentary television is replete with accounts of murderous spouses, serial killers, Mafia wars, and financial scams, rarely do the subjects transcend the headline immediacy of police procedurals to deliver the long-term import of critical analysis. The Victorian predator Jack the Ripper and the Depression-era exploits of Bonnie and Clyde are two such exceptions; a third is the countercultural carnage wrought by the Manson family. As such, Claudia Verhoeven’s new book Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History…
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Gordon-Darby Holdings had a lucrative contract running New Hampshire’s vehicle emissions testing program. Understandably, Gordon-Darby was disappointed when the New Hampshire state legislature repealed…