A court in Athens has found seven former parliamentarians who were members of the extreme right-wing Neo-Nazi political party Golden Dawn guilty of running a criminal organization after a marathon five year trial. Police fired tear gas amore than 10,000 people gathered outside the courthouse as the panel of judges deliberated the fate of 68 defendants that included 18 former lawmakers of the party that became […]
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The head of bitcoin escrow company Volantis pleaded guilty in New York on Thursday to bilking an investor of over $3 million. He also settled parallel commodities fraud charges. Jon Barry Thompson, 49, admitted in Manhattan federal district court that his crypto companies – Volantis Market Making LCC and Volantis Escrow Platform LLC – never followed through with a promised $3.25 million bitcoin buy for one […]
Multiple homicides took place in Zama, Japan, in November 2017, in which nine people, mostly young women including 3 high school girls, were murdered by a 27-year-old man, Takahiro Shiraishi. “Twitter killer” Takahiro Shiraishi has pleaded guilty to killing nine people after contacting them on the social media platform, in a terrifying case that shocked Japan in 2017, The Japan Times reported. The 29-year-old man told the Tachikawa […]
US Accountant Found Guilty In Panama Papers Case By Will Fitzgibbon, ICIJ.org. September 29, 2020 US Accountant Found Guilty In Panama Papers Case2020-09-292020-09-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/panamapapers.jpg200px200px Sentenced to more than 3 years. Richard Gaffey forged documents to help American clients evade taxes and worked with lawyers at the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, prosecutors said. NOTE: It is good to see that at least one of the accountant’s clients […]
A former Louisville police officer has pleaded not guilty to charges of wanton endangerment in connection to the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Charges against two other officers involved in the incident were dropped last week. Former Louisville Metro Police Detective Brett Hankison pleaded not guilty on Monday to three counts of wanton endangerment, one for each person he endangered in an apartment next door to […]
Michael Weigand faces a five-year maximum sentence for hiding his role with Silk Road from investigators. Source link
MSNBC Legal Analyst, Glenn Kirschner, talks about Trump’s culpability in the growing number of American deaths due to COVID. ATTENTION READERS Due to the nature of independent content, VT cannot guarantee content validity.We ask you to Read Our Content Policy so a clear comprehension of VT’s independent non-censored media is understood and given its proper place in the world of news, opinion and media. All content […]
Roger Waters: If Julian Assange Is Guilty, So Am I By Roger Waters, News Clickin. September 9, 2020 Roger Waters: If Julian Assange Is Guilty, So Am I2020-09-092020-09-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/rogerwaters-e1599661157413.jpg200px200px Musician Roger Waters told NewsClick that , “In 2010 Julian Assange along with Chelsea Manning played a pivotal role in releasing classified documents on US military activity in Iraq and Iran. I displayed the video for three […]
A Dutch appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that found right-wing politician Geert Wilders guilty of inciting discrimination against 400,000 Moroccans in the Netherlands, but found him guilty of insulting them. The judge in the town of Schiphol near Amsterdam also rejected the prosecution’s application for Wilders to be fined €5,000. He said that the man has “already paid a high price for years […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/08/1d/1080316830_0:100:3072:1828_1200x675_80_0_0_c15d25c6af69533e24126669ba9ee129.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Muhammad Osman. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202008301080316801-jacob-blake-to-get-court-hearing-will-plead-not-guilty-to-3-charges-lawyer-says/ On 23 August, an African-American man, Jacob Blake, was shot by a white policeman seven times in the back in the US city of Kenosha, as officers attempted to take him into custody. Video of the shooting triggered a wave of protests and riots in the city. The victim is alive but paralyzed as a result of […]
The Special Tribunal for Lebanon based in the Hague has found one of the four members of the Iran-backed militia and political party Hezbollah guilty of the 2005 car bomb assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others. The verdict was delayed by two weeks due to the catastrophic explosion on August 4 in Beirut that killed nearly 200 and injured more than 6,000. […]
A former FBI lawyer plans to plead guilty to falsifying a key document that was part of the initial investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, several news outlets reported on Friday. Kevin Clinesmith, a 38-year-old lawyer assigned to the FBI probe into foreign election meddling, is expected to plead guilty to altering an email from the CIA that investigators used to seek a wiretap […]
The 17-year-old behind July’s Twitter hack has pled not guilty; the defense says bail posted is “grossly inappropriate” to the amount of money stolen. Source link
A 45-year-old Missouri man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges related to his trying to buy chemical weapons on the dark web using $150 in bitcoin. Read the plea deal below: Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital […]
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, wearing a face mask with his supporters, arrives at the courthouse in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Tuesday. Najib was found guilty of corruption in the first of several trials linked to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund. Vincent Thian/AP hide caption toggle caption Vincent Thian/AP Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, center, wearing a face mask […]
Kais Mohammad, aka “Superman29,” has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges he ran an unlicensed Bitcoin ATM network that laundered up to $25 million, including funds that originated in criminal activity. According to a recent press release by the Department of Justice, the Orange County, California, resident is pleading guilty to one count each of money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and failure […]
Joe diGenova says US Attorney John Durham is working guilty pleas with various Deep State actors involved in the Trump coup attempt. Former US Attorney Joe diGenova was on the radio earlier today with Mornings with the Mall as part of his weekly interview. At the beginning of discussion diGenova discussed the John Durham investigation after the hosts shared an audio of DOJ spokesman Kerri Kupec […]
U.S. prosecutors have secured a guilty plea from Sohrab Sharma, a co-founder of the Centra Tech initial coin offering (ICO) fraud. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups. Source […]
Previously convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff has pleaded guilty to knowingly promoting an alleged crypto fraud with false and misleading information. Source link
Randall Joseph Smail faces up to 30 years in prison for lying to a bank about having $640,000 in bitcoin to get a loan. Source link
Sergey Medvedev, a Russian national who operated a digital currency escrow service for the $568 million payment card fraud forum he founded in 2010, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in what the U.S. government called its largest ever cyber fraud case. Medvedev, 33, admitted in his June 26 plea before the U.S. District Court for Nevada that he founded and ran the Infraud Organization, an international […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105409/31/1054093124_0:236:2803:1812_1200x675_80_0_0_fcacfb5612188b0b8f9cee5dee8c32f2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202006261079731849-russian-national-sergey-medvedev-pleads-guilty-for-involvement-in-cybercrime-organisation/ Medvedev was detained in Thailand in 2018 upon the request of the FBI on the grounds that the security service suspects him of hacking activities and the use of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, for illegal trade. Russian national Sergey Medvedev has pleaded guilty in a US court to being involved in a cybercrime organisation, the Justice Department said in a […]
Newly obtained evidence indicates the woman who made false allegations against former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens, was bribed to willfully lie under oath and engaged in extensive perjury in the effort to oust the rising Republican star from office, according to a police source with knowledge of an investigation into the circuit attorney’s misconduct. Katrina “Kitty” Sneed, testified under oath that she secretly met with St. […]
The co-founder of the Centra Tech crypto project that at one time garnered A-list celebrity endorsements but was later called a scam in court, pleaded guilty Tuesday for conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud. Robert Farkas, 33, admitted he and co-founders Sohrab Sharma and Raymond Trapani misrepresented Centra Tech’s true purpose as they worked to dupe investors out of more than $25 million, the Justice […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107954/59/1079545982_0:0:1201:675_1200x675_80_0_0_ffc8ec81d538dcfe34e9836aeb3a2002.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202006081079546015-whats-wrong-mummy-golden-retriever-gives-its-owner-a-guilty-look/ If you have a dog you might know how good they are at making a ‘guilty’ face after they have done something wrong. This video shows Ellie the golden retriever looking at her owner from behind a gate which divides her own space from the rest of the house. We see that the dog’s hair is wet and dirty […]
Gary Jones, former president of the United Auto Workers, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement in a union corruption scandal. Carlos Osorio/AP hide caption toggle caption Carlos Osorio/AP Gary Jones, former president of the United Auto Workers, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement in a union corruption scandal. Carlos Osorio/AP Gary Jones, the former president of the United Auto Workers union, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement, racketeering and […]
Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli have agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges in the sprawling college admissions scandal, according to the Department of Justice. The couple was indicted for their alleged scheme to gain their two children admission into the University of Southern California as purported athletic recruits. Source link