“No one should have to endure sexual harassment to keep a roof over his or her head.” That’s what Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said in going on the legal offensive against a former Arkansas landlord and the property owner the landlord worked for.  The DOJ’s lawsuit , filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas in November, names Thomas Ray Kelso, 74, and Avatar Investments LLC, and alleges...

A leaked report by UK’s Royal College of Physicians paints a bleak and disturbing picture of life inside Blackpool Victoria Hospital on England’s northwest coast: systemic bullying, harassment, racial discrimination, sexual assault, murder, and a culture of fear so deep that staff felt they had to “keep their heads down” rather than speak out.  What’s staggering is how this culture didn’t just harm staff, it put patients at risk, according to the report, first chronicled by The Guardian  on...

Banks brace for AML failures. They brace for fines, monitorships, headlines, and massive cleanup programs. But here’s the risk almost no one prepares for: What happens when the remediation itself becomes the next compliance problem? That’s the uncomfortable question raised by the unfolding TD Bank story — where a multibillion-dollar anti-money laundering settlement has now collided with allegations that the bank’s internal cleanup disproportionately targeted employees of Chinese heritage,...