A vehicle carrying former U.S. President Donald Trump is driven to the Alto Lee Adams Sr. U.S. Courthouse on March 01, 2024 in Fort Pierce, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Friday urged a Florida federal court judge to schedule his criminal trial on charges related to retaining … Read more
Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in court with members of his legal team for an arraignment on charges stemming from his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, in New York City on April 4, 2023. Timothy A. Clary | Pool | Reuters … Read more
Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks during a press conference in New York City, Sept. 22, 2023. Barry Williams | New York Daily News | Getty Images A personal pilot for British billionaire investor Joe Lewis pleaded guilty Monday to securities fraud related to the same insider trading scheme … Read more
Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, arrives at court in New York, US, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried are asking a judge for a relatively short sentence like “junk bond king” Michael Milken instead of the 100 years that a presentence investigation … Read more
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace attends a news conference on recent enforcement actions against cryptocurrency at the U.S. Justice Department Building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 18, 2023. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A former New York City police officer was indicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud after … Read more
The Airbnb logo is displayed on the Nasdaq digital billboard in Times Square in New York on December 10, 2020. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images When prosecutors announced the plea deal late last week of Shamoon Rafiq, who ran a $10 million scheme that duped investors into buying into pre-IPO tech companies like … Read more
Kameleon007 | Istock | Getty Images A California prison inmate locked up on a gang-related murder conviction led a scheme that defrauded the U.S. government out of more than $550 million in Covid-era federal tax credits, prosecutors said. The inmate, Kristopher Thomas, was also charged with running a drug trafficking operation from his cell at … Read more
Philip Esformes attends the 15th annual Harold & Carole Pump Foundation gala at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on August 7, 2015 in Century City, California. Tiffany Rose | Getty Images Philip Esformes on Thursday pleaded guilty to health care fraud, resolving the Justice Department’s years-long effort to prosecute the convicted fraudster after then-President Donald … Read more
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, if convicted he could face … Read more
FILE: Leon Black, chairman and chief executive officer of Apollo Global Management LLC, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images A woman who had accused Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black of raping her at the New York … Read more
