Rick Claypool

Jan 23, 2025 | citizen.org | Rick Claypool

By Rick Claypool President Trump’s executive order “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government” is not just about getting back at the Biden administration – it’s also threatens to ring in a new era of corporate lawlessness.

Oct 21, 2024 | citizen.org | Rick Claypool

Public Citizen Menu Elon Musk isn’t running for office in 2024. But Musk himself may still be the main beneficiary of his own political spending. Whatever outlandish conspiracies and sci-fi visions Musk espouses at any moment, the man is, among other things, an executive with a net worth of nearly $250 billion. Enforcement priorities can shift significantly when administrations change. Musk’s self-serving desire to thwart the numerous civil and criminal investigations into his businesses...

Aug 5, 2024 | citizen.org | Molly White |Rick Claypool

Supplementary Filing Highlights Coinbase's Incorrect Argument By Molly White and Rick Claypool Original Complaint to the Federal Election Commission, Filed August 1, 2024Coinbase, Inc.

Mar 25, 2024 | citizen.org | Rick Claypool

OverviewAfter federal prosecutions of corporations fell to a quarter-century low in 2021 (90), the Department of Justice marked modest upticks in corporate prosecutions in 2022 (99) and, according to newly released U.S. Sentencing Commission data, 2023 (113). The number of federal corporate prosecutions has been trending downward since 2000, when the DOJ prosecuted triple the number of corporations that it does today (304).

Mar 18, 2024 | citizen.org | Rick Claypool

Emerging A.I. technologies are being deployed to help beginner foragers find edible wild mushrooms. Distinguishing edible mushrooms from toxic mushrooms in the wild is a high-risk activity that requires real-world skills that current A.I. systems cannot reliably emulate. Individuals relying solely on A.I. technology for mushroom identification have been severely sickened and hospitalized after consuming wild mushrooms that A.I. systems misidentified as edible.