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Law OrderUber's investigations unit reportedly protects the company before riders
Paulo Amorim/Getty ImagesUber's Special Investigations Unit protects the company before passengers, Greg Bensinger reported for the Washington Post on Wednesday.The SIU is a team of 80 workers who look into Uber rides that go wrong; drivers who sexually harass their passengers fall under the SIU's jurisdiction.Uber does not allows the SIU to report allegations against its drivers to police, according to former investigator Lilli Flores, the Post reported.The SIU is also forbidden from advising …
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China secretly abducted a university president on a trip through Germany and convicted him in sham trial. Two years on, he may be executed.
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Epstein bombarded Bill Gates with calls and contacts to score a meeting with the billionaire a year before his $2 million donation to MIT
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Bill Gates made donations to MIT through Jeffrey Epstein -here are all of the tech mogul's connections to the financier
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Hong Kong's leader says she'll withdraw the controversial extradition bill. Protest leaders say it's 'too little, too late'
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Police footage from 2005 reportedly shows Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion littered with massage chairs and nude pictures of young women
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Only 33% of Americans believe that Jeffrey Epstein actually died by suicide
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Oracle is suing Larry Ellison and Safra Catz over the $9 billion NetSuite deal, thanks to letter written by three Oracle board members
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There's another allegation that ties a member of the royal family to a woman who says she was victimized by Jeffrey Epstein
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