Lawsuit targets donation to Rudy Giuliani defense fund

Lawsuit targets donation to Rudy Giuliani defense fund

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani departs the U.S. District Courthouse after he was ordered to pay $148 million in his defamation case in Washington, U.S., December 15, 2023. Bonnie Cash | Reuters One of the largest donations to Rudy Giuliani’s legal defense fund is at the center of a new lawsuit that argues the … Read more

Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to five months in jail for perjury

Former Trump executive Allen Weisselberg sentenced to five months in jail for perjury

Former Trump Organization Finance Chief Allen Weisselberg appears for a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court on March 04, 2024 in New York City.  Curtis Means | Getty Images Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg on Wednesday was sentenced to five months in jail for lying under oath during the civil business fraud trial … Read more

Woman who stole Ashley Biden diary sentenced to jail

Woman who stole Ashley Biden diary sentenced to jail

Ashley Biden speaks alongside her father US President Joe Biden during a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.  Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images A Florida woman who stole and then sold a diary and other items belonging to Ashley Biden … Read more

Georgia prisoner mailed bombs to D.C., Alaska court

Georgia prisoner mailed bombs to D.C., Alaska court

Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards David Dwayne Cassady, inmate in Georgia. Courtesy: Georgia Department of Corrections A man serving a life sentence for kidnapping and other crimes while in a Georgia prison built two bombs which he mailed to a District of Columbia office building and the federal courthouse and building in Anchorage, Alaska, prosecutors … Read more

Trump loses bid to dismiss Georgia election case on free speech grounds

Trump loses bid to dismiss Georgia election case on free speech grounds

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after surrendering at the Fulton County jail on August 24, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Joe Raedle | Getty Images A judge on Thursday denied an effort by Donald Trump to dismiss his criminal election interference case in Georgia on grounds that … Read more

Trump loses late bid to delay New York hush money trial

Trump loses late bid to delay New York hush money trial

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after attending a wake for New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed while making a routine traffic stop on March 25 in the Far Rockaway section of Queens, in Massapequa Park, New York, U.S., March 28, 2024.  Shannon Stapleton | Reuters PolA … Read more

Brothers plead guilty to Trump Media merger insider trading

Brothers plead guilty to Trump Media merger insider trading

Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Two Florida brothers pleaded guilty Wednesday in New York federal court to insider trading charges related to their purchase and sale of securities of the company that eventually merged with former President Donald Trump’s social media firm. The brothers, Michael Shvartsman and Gerald Shvartsman, earned more than $22 … Read more

Singapore convicts first suspect in record money laundering case

Singapore convicts first suspect in record money laundering case

A Porsche 911 Targa vehicle seized by police at a residence of Su Jiafeng, one of the suspects in the S$2.8 billion money-laundering case, in Singapore, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Allegations have erupted that wealthy Chinese have been pouring ill-gotten gains into the Asian financial hub, in what the government itself describes as potentially … Read more

Trump Media insider trading defendants signal possible guilty pleas

Trump Media insider trading defendants signal possible guilty pleas

A Florida venture capitalist and his brother moved Monday toward potential guilty pleas in an insider trading case connected to the merger that took Donald Trump’s social media company public last week. Michael Shvartsman, the venture capitalist, and his brother, Gerald Shvartsman, both previously pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of insider trading and conspiracy, … Read more

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried sentencing

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried sentencing

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces sentencing Thursday in New York federal court for a massive fraud conspiracy that led to the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange and a related hedge fund. Federal prosecutors want Bankman-Fried sentenced to between 40 to 50 years in prison. His defense team asked Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan to … Read more