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
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was detained in Russia on spying charges, is escorted out of the Lefortovsky Court building in Moscow on Jan. 26, 2024. Alexander Nemenov | Afp | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said “an agreement can be reached” over the release of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan … Read more
US President Joe Biden answers questions from the press following his remarks regarding lowering cost for American families in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Thursday January 12, 2023. Demetrius Freeman | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Joe Biden “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice … Read more
Michael Shvartsman, hides from journalists using an umbrella after exiting Federal Court, Thursday, July 20, 2023, in New York. John Minchillo | AP A man already charged with insider trading related to a shell company’s planned merger with Donald Trump’s social media firm was hit with a new money laundering count in Manhattan federal court. … Read more
A deactivated Titan II nuclear ICMB is seen in a silo at the Titan Missile Museum on May 12, 2015 in Green Valley, Arizona. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images Federal prosecutors charged an engineer who worked at a Los Angeles-area company with stealing trade secret technologies developed for use by the U.S. government … Read more
U.S. President Joe Biden takes questions from reporters on classified documents as he delivers remarks on the economy and inflation in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 12, 2023. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images News | Getty Images Neither President Joe Biden nor anyone else is expected to be criminally charged … Read more
Former President Donald Trump does not have presidential immunity from prosecution on criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, a federal appeals court unanimously ruled Tuesday. “We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter,” a three-judge panel wrote in … Read more
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters, as he departs for his second civil trial after E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her decades ago, outside a Trump Tower in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., January 26, 2024. Eduardo Munoz | Reuters A judge on Friday indefinitely postponed the … Read more
The collapse of FTX has sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency industry. The price of bitcoin and other major digital coins have fallen sharply as problems at FTX emerged. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images Three people were indicted for an identity-theft conspiracy that allegedly included the $400 million hack in late 2022 of doomed … Read more
