Collusion
Yakuza leader pleads guilty to nuclear materials trafficking, narcotics in New York
The DOJ alleges that a high-ranking member of the Yakuza, Takeshi Ebisawa, was the central figure in a plot to funnel American weapons to ethnic militias in Myanmar in exchange for heroin and meth. Ebisawa is charged with narcotics importation, money laundering and conspiracy to acquire surface to air missiles. NBC News A Japanese Yakuza […]
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Trump loses appeals court bid to halt Friday sentencing in hush money case
Former President Donald Trump arrives at Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. Seth Wenig | Via Reuters A New York appeals court judge on Tuesday rejected a request by President-elect Donald Trump to delay his criminal sentencing Friday for his conviction in a case related to paying hush money to a […]
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Trump lawyers seek to block sentencing in New York hush money case with appeal
Former U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the courtroom during his hush money trial at Manhattan criminal court on April 26, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump sought to block his scheduled sentencing later this week in a New York criminal hush money case, according […]
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Last Madoff victim fund payout brings recovery to nearly 94% of Ponzi scheme losses, DOJ says
Financier Bernard Madoff leaves Manhattan Federal court March 10, 2009 in New York City. Madoff attended a hearing regarding the conflicting status of his legal representation in his multi-billion dollar fraud allegations. Chris Hondros | Getty Images The 10th and final distribution from a fund for victims of the late Ponzi scheme king Bernie Madoff […]
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Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murder of health insurance CEO
Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to New York state murder charges that brand him a terrorist. Mangione, 26, was escorted into Judge Gregory Carro’s 13th-floor courtroom in the New York state criminal courthouse in lower Manhattan with […]
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Father, son plead guilty in $100 million New Jersey deli stock scheme
Peter Coker Sr. and his wife Susan Coker at U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, March 15, 2023. Dan Mangan | CNBC Peter Coker Jr., left, is issued search warrants from police at his villa on the southern resort island of Phuket, Thailand, Jan. 11, 2023. Crime Suppression Division, Royal Thai Police | AP […]
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Trump attorney alleges ‘grave juror misconduct’ in hush money trial, calls to toss verdicts
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, with attorney Todd Blanche, speaks to reporters as jurors are released to begin deliberations for his criminal trial at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York, NY on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Jabin Botsford | Reuters Attorneys for Donald Trump told a New York judge that the president-elect’s criminal hush […]
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Luigi Mangione indicted on murder charges for shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
Luigi Mangione, 26, a suspect in the New York City killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson, is escorted after an extradition hearing at Blair County Court House in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 10, 2024. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters A New York grand jury indicted Luigi Mangione on charges of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the […]
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Luigi Mangione charged with murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, court record shows
Booking photo of Luigi Mangione taken in a holding cell on Monday. The Altoona Police Department Prosecutors in New York on Monday charged Ivy League grad Luigi Mangione with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, court records show. The charge came hours after Mangione was arraigned in a Pennsylvania courtroom on gun and other […]
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McKinsey unit will pay $123 million to settle claims it bribed South African officials
This photograph shows a logo of American multinational corporation McKinsey & Company on the first day of the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 26, 2024. Pau Barrena | Afp | Getty Images A subsidiary of top global consulting firm McKinsey & Company agreed to pay nearly […]
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