Categoria: Notícias

  Federico Buenrostro, the former chief executive officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, pleaded guilty to steering $14 million in placement fees to a former board member in exchange for cash bribes and gifts.   Buenrostro, who headed the country’s biggest pension fund from 2002 to 2008, entered his plea today in federal court in San Francisco. He admitted to conspiring to commit bribery and defrauding the U.S. and the state of California for his efforts on behalf of Alfred Villalobos, an ex-board member who brokered a $3 billion investment by Calpers in funds managed by Apollo Global Management LLC. (APO)   Calpers had $288 billion under management as of March 31.   Buenrostro gave Villalobos access to confidential information on Calpers investments and advised the board to make financial decisions that would benefit…

  There is no emergency that justifies rushing this urgent new "security" bill through parliament in the last few days before its summer break but it could nevertheless prove a major opportunity to bring the relentless rise of the surveillance state under democratic control.   The opportunity lies in the fact that in order to ensure the continued access of the police and security services to the personal internet and phone-use tracking data held by the telecoms companies, they have had to concede important privacy and civil liberty safeguards.   The aim of the emergency bill is to shore up powers signed off in 2009 that forced the internet and phone companies to keep for 12 months a wide range of billing data for email, text, internet and phone use including who is communicating…

El presidente del Consejo General de la Abogacía Española (CGAE), Carlos Carnicer, ha considerado que el proyecto de Ley de Justicia Gratuita era en su inicio «catastrófico» y ahora «aún es inadmisible» en varios de sus puntos. En rueda de prensa en la capital aragonesa, acompañado por el decano del Colegio de Abogados de Zaragoza, Antonio Morán, y la diputada de la Junta de Gobierno responsable del Turno de Oficio, Yolanda Montén, Carnicer ha remarcado que el texto que propone el ministro Alberto Ruiz Gallardón es «peor que la norma vigente» e incluye ocho puntos «inadmisibles».   El presidente de la Abogacía española ha observado que el proyecto de ley reconoce que estos servicios «son estupendos», por lo que «entonces no me toque usted la ley», ha reclamado al Ministerio…

O Instituto Internacional de Estudos de Direito do Estado (IIEDE), lamenta o falecimento do Ministro aposentado do Superior Tribunal de Justiça, e ex desembargador do TJ-RS, Dr. Athos Gusmão Carneiro, ocorrido na última quarta-feira (2) em Porto Alegre (RS). Dr. Athos Gusmão Carneiro foi também professor da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

As part of the President's Climate Action Plan — Strategy to Reduce Methane Emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing updates to its air standards for new municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. These updates would require certain landfills to capture additional landfill gas, which would reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and help further reduce pollution that harms public health. Non-hazardous waste from homes, business and institutions ends up in municipal solid waste landfills, where it decomposes and breaks down to form landfill gas, which includes carbon dioxide, a number of air toxics and methane. Methane has a global warming potential 25 times that of carbon dioxide.   "Reducing methane emissions is a powerful way to take action on climate change," said Administrator Gina McCarthy. "This…

  New York’s cities and towns can block hydraulic fracturing within their borders, the state’s highest court ruled, dealing a blow to an industry awaiting Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision on whether to lift a six-year-old statewide moratorium.   The case, closely watched by the energy industry, may invigorate local challenges to fracking in other states and convince the industry to stay out of New York even if Cuomo allows drilling. Pennsylvania’s highest court issued a similar ruling last year, striking down portions of a state law limiting localities’ ability to regulate drillers.   “This sends a really strong and clear message to the gas companies who have tried to buy their way into the state that these community concerns have to be addressed,” Katherine Nadeau, policy director for Environmental Advocates of New York, an…

  Britain's security and intelligence agencies should consider how far they are invading people's privacy when they seek permission for intrusive surveillance, their government-appointed watchdog has recommended.   Sir Mark Waller, the intelligence services commissioner, said the agencies should set out the specific invasion of privacy requested so that a proper assessment could be made of whether it was justified.   Waller made the recommendation as part of his report for 2013, by far the most detailed of the three annual reports he has written. It has just been published on his website, with the exception of a confidential annexe.   He also disclosed that there were more than 400 cases last year in which UK officials had to consider whether there was a serious risk of a detainee being subjected to…

Confiram aqui entrevista com Fábio Medina Osório, presidente do IIEDE, na Radio Justiça (25/6), concedida ao jornalista Pedro Beltrão, sobre a temática da improbidade administrativa. No mesmo programa, o promotor de Justiça do MP-RJ Emerson Garcia também foi entrevistado pelo jornalista Pedro Beltrão sobre a Improbidade Administrativa.

A Lei 12.846/13, também conhecida como Lei Anticorrupção, ou Lei da Probidade Empresarial, criou novos paradigmas para o setor privado nacional e estrangeiro no Brasil. Introduziu-se o princípio da responsabilidade objetiva das pessoas jurídicas por atos de seus dirigentes, representantes ou funcionários, desde que traduzam contatos indevidos com agentes públicos tipificados na lei. Para evitar a responsabilidade, e cortar o nexo causal, as pessoas jurídicas devem organizar estruturas de proteção interna à integridade institucional, com canais de denúncias, comitês independentes, auditorias, processos decisórios transparentes e dotados de garantias, fortalecendo novos modelos de funcionamento e de cultura organizacional.  O próprio Ministério Público poderá pleitear sanções administrativas em ação civil pública quando houver omissão das autoridades municipais, estaduais ou federais. Além da multa de até 20% sobre o faturamento bruto da pessoa…

No último dia 11/6, o Dr. Arnaldo Penteado Laudísio foi empossado como novo membro do Conselho de Recursos do Sistema Financeiro Nacional, como representante da Federação Brasileira de Bancos. O mandato é válido por dois anos.