Video of Atlanta shooting suspect, unaccompanied migrant kids, AT&T overcharging accusations, Wirecard fraud
Atlanta suspect entered first spa more than an hour before shooting
The Washington Post citing surveillance video.
The video shows that Robert Aaron Long first spent an hour sitting in the parking lot outside the shop. He then entered, and an hour and 12 minutes elapsed before he was seen leaving the establishment and getting into his car. Several minutes later, people appear in the parking lot and police arrive.
It’s unclear what he was doing for the hour after he was seen entering the spa and before the shooting began.
More than 5,000 unaccompanied children are in US Customs and Border Protection custody
CNN citing government documents.
There are more than 600 children who have been in custody for more than 10 days, documents show.
Federal law requires unaccompanied children to be turned over within 72 hours to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees a shelter network designed to house minors, but amid constraints related to the pandemic, children are staying in custody for longer than the 72-hour limit.
Former AT&T lawyer says company systemically overcharged neediest schools
The Washington Post citing internal AT&T notes and emails.
Theodore Marcus once was an in-house lawyer for AT&T, taskedwith reviewing whether the telecom giant was overcharging schools and libraries for Internet and telephone service.
Marcus came to believe that AT&T did not charge low prices required by law, misledthe government about its compliance with the rules of a federal program and then rebuffed his concerns.
How Germany considered rescuing Wirecard days before its doom
Reuters citing a nine-page government memo.
On June 22, just hours after the company revealed that 1.9 billion euros in its accounts probably “do not exist”, Joerg Kukies, a deputy finance minister, sent a nine-page memo to Finance Minister Olaf Scholz which played down concerns that the company was in imminent peril and outlined a plan to rescue it with funds from state bank KfW.
“A bank run could put Wirecard in liquidity difficulties,” officials wrote. “It is not currently expected that Wirecard’s creditors ... will feed it to the wolves.”
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