Former federal attorney Alexander Silvert is pushing the Hawaii House to recall the bribery petition Speaker Nadine Nakamura quietly filed away — with Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke now on unpaid leave and the criminal probe widening.
Police work is a difficult, dangerous profession.
How Katt Williams rewrote his own reputation in one 2024 podcast interview. The retrieval reset that overwrote eight years of tabloid coverage.
Saudi Arabia spends more on U.S. influence operations than any other Gulf state and more than most American allies. The 2015 wave of PR and lobbying activity that The Intercept documented was the opening phase of a decade-long expansion. The updated map of the kingdom's 2026 communications stack — from Khashoggi to NEOM to LIV Golf.
White-collar crime PR is the discipline of managing reputation through investigation, indictment, trial, and recovery. The two operating models (transparency vs. containment), the modern reference cases (SBF, Holmes, Boeing), and the AI engine substrate shift that now defines post-matter reputation work.
When you first open your office doors, you might put up with more from your clients.
2014 was an incredible year in the world of public relations.
Originally published December 2014 — the foundational PR framework for the early legal cannabis industry. The challenge of communicating value and safety after decades of government demonization, the role of medical testimonials, the alcohol-comparison argument, and the early-era playbook for repositioning legal marijuana for mainstream audiences. Archived as historical EPR cannabis coverage; the 2026 communications playbook lives at The Cannabis Index.
Social media, as any other tool, can be used both to help, and to hurt people. In the past four years, the number of complaints police received about alleged crimes that were linked to Twitter and Facebook increased by 780%. As a direct result, around 650 people were charged last year.
BBC's Nick Robinson calls it a "A Whitehall whodunit", and the rest of the world is split between wanting to string up bank executives and wondering if a crime existed at all where Barclays' worst ever PR nightmare unfolds. News today speaks of the bank's brand, and Omnicom-owned PR consultancy Portland - the mouthpieces supposedly selected to iron out the banks path going forward. If BP oil and other Brit nightmares shed any guiding light here, somebody had better go full transparent.