“Beginning Jan. 1, 2026, it will become extraordinarily difficult to be a professional gambler in the U.S.,” says Bourdaghs, who plays an occasional hand as an avid poker player in his free time. “Previously, gamblers were taxed only on their net profits. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code so that gamblers will be allowed to deduct only 90% of their losses against their winnings.  This will potentially lead to counterintuitive outcomes in which some gamblers owe taxes despite having had a net loss for the year.”

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To say that President Donald Trump’s administration is off to a fast start would be quite the understatement. The administration, working through Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, is clearly looking to change how the federal government works by offering a mass severance package to roughly 2 million employees, which is virtually the entire federal workforce.

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“My advice is to not use them in the workplace at all because there is no such thing as a safe emoji,” Kang says in the article.

Even ones that appear innocuous can be problematic, noting that the popular “thumbs up” emoji, for example, tends to have a positive connotation with older generations but can be seen as dismissive by a younger viewer.

Kovalsky told Law360 that she, Wolfe and Kang had worked recently on a large opioid case where the government intervened after a whistleblower complaint. She said that case made it clear the firm could really make a name for itself, weeding out fraud and misconduct through helping whistleblowers bring similar cases, especially in the opioids and health care spaces.

“The opioid epidemic and health care fraud generally, is something we’re particularly interested in and is an area where we feel like we can make a difference for whistleblowers, holding corporate defendants and their executives accountable,” she said.

Wolfe said he’s expecting to see more qui tam cases emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, especially with fraud related to the COVID relief money distributed as a result of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act.

Article: https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/1508701/kang-haggerty-opens-whistleblower-division