Tag: case
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Trump argues special counsel’s evidence in federal election case shouldn’t be released before Election Day
Attorneys for Donald Trump on Thursday argued against the release of additional evidence in the former president’s federal election interference case in the lead up to Election Day. “There should be no further disclosures at this time of the so-called ‘evidence’ that the Special Counsel’s Office has unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized—during early voting in the…
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TD Bank pleads guilty in money laundering case, will pay $3 billion in penalties
TD Bank pleaded guilty Thursday in a criminal money laundering case and agreed to pay a whopping $3 billion in fines and other penalties to the Department of Justice and federal financial regulators for failing to monitor money laundering by drug cartels. As part of the deal, TD Bank, whose U.S. unit is the 10th-largest American bank by assets, is…
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Supreme Court hears Oklahoma death penalty case in which state and inmate agree conviction should be tossed
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday will weigh whether inmate Richard Glossip’s murder conviction should be thrown out — an unusual death penalty case in which the attorney general of Oklahoma has sided with a defendant. Glossip, who is now 61, was convicted of arranging for the murder in 1997 of his boss at…
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Former Singapore minister is jailed for a year for receiving gifts in landmark case
SINGAPORE — A Singapore court on Thursday sentenced a former minister to 12 months in prison for obstructing justice and receiving more than $300,000 worth of gifts, in the first jailing of a former cabinet member in a city-state famous for its clean governance. S. Iswaran, who was a cabinet member for 13 years and…
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Texas inmate Robert Roberson could be first U.S. execution for case of ‘shaken baby’ death
A condemned man in Texas is set to die this month in what would be the country’s first execution for “shaken baby syndrome,” a scrutinized diagnosis that has been successfully challenged in some criminal cases. After he filed a clemency petition with the state ahead of his execution, which is scheduled for Oct. 17, Robert…
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Colorado to pay web designer’s legal fees after losing LGBTQ anti-bias law case
The state of Colorado has agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in legal fees to a web designer who won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that found the right to free speech allows some businesses to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings. Colorado and web designer Lorie Smith’s lawyers at conservative…
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Smartmatic and Newsmax reach settlement in election defamation case
Smartmatic and Newsmax have reached a settlement in the voting technology company’s election defamation lawsuit against the right-wing news outlet shortly before the case was set to go to trial. The lawsuit focused on Newsmax’s false claims that Smartmatic’s machines rigged the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden. A spokesperson for Smartmatic said Thursday that the…
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Two Hong Kong journalists to be sentenced in sedition case criticized by U.S.
Two journalists who led a pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong are being sentenced Thursday after being convicted of sedition last month in a verdict seen as a further blow to press freedom in the Chinese territory. Chung Pui-kuen, the former editor-in-chief of the now-defunct Stand News, and Patrick Lam, the newspaper’s former acting editor-in-chief, had been…
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Ex-New York prosecutor indicted in bribery case dies in apparent suicide as FBI arrive at his home to arrest him
A former Orange County, New York, prosecutor accused of accepting bribery payments died in an apparent suicide at his home as federal agents arrived to arrest him, sources familiar with the matter told NBC New York. The FBI had arrived at the home of Stewart Rosenwasser to take him into custody Tuesday morning, the same…