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SpaceX sued by Justice Department over alleged asylee, refugee discrimination

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The Department of Justice is suing Elon Musk's SpaceX for allegedly rejecting job applicants over their asylum or refugee status. The Department of Justice is suing SpaceX, the aerospace company owned by Elon Musk, over alleged discriminatory practices against people living in the country under asylum and refugees. The federal government contends in its civil lawsuit, which was filed Thursday, that the company violated the Immigration and Nationality Act between September 2018 and May 2022 by discouraging asylees and refugees from applying to the company and refusing to hire or consider them. The complaint contends that Musk and SpaceX's leadership repeatedly made false claims that the company couldn't hire anyone who wasn't a U.S. citizen or green card holder, because of "export control laws," but the Department of Justice argued that those laws do not enforce such restrictions. In this NASA handout, A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spac...

Prosecutors launch website to notify Sam Bankman-Fried's alleged victims

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Prosecutors launched a website to notify Sam Bankman-Fried's alleged victims of his FTX company. There are so many victim s of the fraud alleged ly per Pet rated by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried federal prosecutors said it would be impractical for them to individually notify all of them. So, late Friday, the judge overseeing the case authorized an alternative method. Judge Lewis Kaplan allowed prosecutors to establish a website to inform alleged victim s of their rights and of the schedule of proceedings in the case. "If you believe that you may have been a victim of fraud by Samuel Bankman-Fried, AKA "SBF," please contact the victim/witness coordinator at the United States Attorney's office," the website said. MORE: FTX crypto CEO Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty in Manhattan federal court The number of FTX investors and customers who prosecutors have said collectively lost $8 billion is likely to exceed 1 million. Federal law requires prosecutors t...