Tag: Prosecution
Judge Rejects Hunter Biden Claim of Selective Prosecution in Gun Case
Judge Maryellen Noreika declined to dismiss the charges against the president’s son, saying Mr. Biden’s lawyer failed to show prosecutors had been mot [...]
Charges Against Two White Nationalists Are Dismissed as ‘Selective Prosecution’
A federal judge found that prosecutors were biased in pursuing charges against the two men and not against far-left activists who had also committed a [...]
Trump’s Boldest Argument Yet: Immunity From Prosecution for Assassinations
A lawyer for the former president said he would be immune from prosecution for the murder of a political rival unless he was first impeached and convi [...]
Proud Boys Member Who Helped Prosecution Sentenced in Jan. 6 Attack
Charles Donohoe, one of the members of the extremist group who cooperated with prosecutors, was sentenced to 40 months, slightly more than the time he [...]
Special Counsel Asks Supreme Court to Decide Whether Trump Is Immune From Prosecution
The request was unusual in two ways: Jack Smith asked the justices to rule before an appeals court acted, and he urged them to move with exceptional s [...]
U.S. Seizes Drug Ring’s $54M Crypto Stash as Prisoners Hatched Big Plans for Assets
What started out as $9,000 in ETH when they first invested the drug proceeds blossomed into about $53 million, authorities said, plus a wide assortmen [...]
Prosecution makes closing argument against SBF
The government presented its rebuttal against Sam Bankman-Fried on Nov. 2 in response to statements made by his defense during the closing arguments a [...]
Judge Scolds Prosecution at Hearing on Conflicts in Trump Documents Case
Judge Aileen Cannon postponed a hearing on a government request involving a lawyer for one of the former president’s co-defendants. She said prosecuto [...]
Sam Bankman-Fried’s jets are subject to forfeiture, says prosecution
Sam Bankman-Fried’s (SBF) two multi-million dollar luxury jets are now subject to forfeiture, according to a filing from the United States Department [...]
FTX founder’s plea for temporary release should be denied, prosecution says
The United States government sent a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan on Sept. 27 stating that it opposes the motion by Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and his rep [...]
How a Judge’s Ruling on Torture Imperils a Guantánamo Prosecution Strategy
In late 2006, in an effort to turn the page on a legacy of state-sponsored torture, prosecutors for the George W. Bush administration began an experim [...]
Crypto entrepreneur faces potential prosecution in Israel related to $290M scam: Report
Police in Israel have reportedly accused entrepreneur Moshe Hogeg of defrauding users out of roughly $290 million through scams involving crypto proje [...]
Teva, Glenmark enter deferred prosecution deal DOJ over price fixing
Boxes of tablets produced by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries.Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDrugmaker Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay $22 [...]
Georgia Case Lays Ground for Parallel Prosecution of Trump
The district attorney in Fulton County, Ga., Fani T. Willis, began investigating former President Donald J. Trump 21 months before Jack Smith was appo [...]
Judge blocks Bankman-Fried’s attempt to obtain key documents in fraud prosecution: Report
Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of FTX, has been denied his request to obtain documents from a Silicon Valley law firm, Fenwick & West LLP, as p [...]