A federal corrections officer caught a visitor sneaking contraband into a downtown Manhattan jail, then allegedly demanded sex for not arresting her on smuggling charges and having her barred from future visits. The officer, Robert Adams, was arrested Monday by the FBI for bribery and blackmail, several months after he began coercing the visitor into having sex with him, according to an indictment unsealed Monday in New York federal court. The case traces its origins back to July 2019, when Adams, who worked in the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s (MCC) visiting area, allegedly found a prohibited item on an inmate shortly after […]
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Bailey Boswell, the woman accused of helping her boyfriend strangle a 24-year-old wooed through Tinder, “got off sexually” from talking about killing and torture, prosecutors alleged on Friday, as the bombshell trial involving claims of a vampire sex cult began. Boswell, 26, is charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and improper disposal of human remains for her role in the 2017 slaying and dismemberment of Sydney Loofe, a cashier at a Lincoln home-improvements store. Prosecutors allege Boswell conspired for weeks with her boyfriend, Aubrey Trail, 52, to lure Loofe to her death. Loofe was missing for 19 days after […]
A government chemist in Hawaii cooked up batches of LSD for active-duty members of the U.S. military who responded to ads for the powerful hallucinogen posted on social media, prosecutors allege. Trevor Keegan, an “extract tech” in the Disease Outbreak Control Division of the state Health Department, was charged earlier this month on one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. His alleged co-conspirator, Austin White, is not known to be affiliated with any government agency. He is facing the same charges as Keegan. The case came to the attention of investigators last September, when a confidential informant tipped off the […]
The two Russians who were sanctioned earlier this week by the U.S. Treasury Department on accusations of being crypto thieves allegedly got their millions through market manipulation and phishing. Prosecutors detailed Danil Potekhin and Dimitrii Karasavidi’s alleged heists, victims and target exchanges in a 30-page forfeiture complaint filed Wednesday against the pair’s previously seized crypto funds. In late October 2017, hackers pumped $5 million of one victim’s crypto into NEO’s Gas market, skyrocketing the usually sleepy token’s value 13,000% before ordering their personal gas-holding Poloniex accounts to cash out into ETH. The victim “lost virtually all of his $5 million in […]
U.S. Attorney General William Barr, seen here in Phoenix Sept. 10, called his colleagues at the Justice Department a “permanent bureaucracy,” in a speech Wednesday. Bob Christie/AP hide caption toggle caption Bob Christie/AP U.S. Attorney General William Barr, seen here in Phoenix Sept. 10, called his colleagues at the Justice Department a “permanent bureaucracy,” in a speech Wednesday. Bob Christie/AP Updated at 8:22 am ET Attorney General Bill Barr blasted his own Justice Department prosecutors as a “permanent bureaucracy” that all too often abuse their power to go after high-profile targets in a process he likened to “headhunting.” In remarks Wednesday […]
As Clare Bronfman awaits sentencing for her role in NXIVM, prosecutors on Monday alleged the Seagram’s heiress went to extreme lengths to protect the sex cult’s leader—including sending “threatening letters” and attempting to file criminal charges against women who alleged they were branded and manipulated into master-slave relationships. “When I was at my most vulnerable, Clare Bronfman traumatized me,” one former NXIVM member wrote in a lengthy detention memo filed Monday. In the memo, prosecutors detail Bronfman’s continued loyalty to the purported self-help group’s founder, Keith Raniere, and argue that she should receive a harsher prison sentence for her “obsessive” attempts […]
US prosecutors are reportedly refusing to cooperate with a Spanish investigation into the company accused of spying on Julian Assange while he sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy, unless the judge accedes to a list of demands. Judge Jose de la Mata of Spain’s High Court is conducting an ongoing investigation into UC Global. The firm was previously in charge of security at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and now stands accused of spying on WikiLeaks founder Assange and passing sensitive information to US intelligence. Testimony from witnesses, including former staff at UC Global, alleges that the company’s former owner, David […]
After six trials and 23 years behind bars, charges are being dropped against Curtis Flowers (pictured here in Dec. 2019) over a 1996 quadruple killing in Mississippi. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a conviction last summer, citing among other things, the deliberate elimination of Black jurors from Flowers’ trials. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption toggle caption Rogelio V. Solis/AP After six trials and 23 years behind bars, charges are being dropped against Curtis Flowers (pictured here in Dec. 2019) over a 1996 quadruple killing in Mississippi. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a conviction last summer, citing among other things, […]
Reginald Fowler, the ex-Minnesota Vikings owner accused by U.S. prosecutors of running a cryptocurrency “shadow bank,” stashed funds over a global network of bank accounts, according to a filing today. Prosecutors say the funds are subject to forfeiture. Source link
Clinton-appointed U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero on Thursday rejected President Trump’s second attempt to quash an investigation by abusive New York prosecutors seeking his tax returns and financial documents. Recall, Judge Marrero previously denied Trump’s first attempt to block a subpoena from crooked Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance. The Supreme Court also ruled last month that a US president is not immune from a grand jury subpoena while in office. “At its core, it amounts to absolute immunity through a back door, an entry point through which not only a President but also potentially other persons and entities, public and private, could […]
Prosecutors in Berlin have confirmed that a man detained following a series of road traffic incidents is being held on suspicion of Islamist terrorism. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
For years, New York attorney Jason Kurland was the “go-to” lawyer for lottery winners. Having represented dozens of lucky people across the country—whose total winnings estimated $3 billion—the attorney appeared on CNN and CNBC as a “lottery law expert,” offering advice on how winners can protect their sudden infusion of cash. “The biggest mistake people make is doing it on their own,” Kurland said in a 2019 interview, stressing that it’s important for lottery winners to “know that someone can walk you through it, step by step, so there are no surprises.” But prosecutors on Tuesday allege that the self-dubbed “Lottery […]
While we all already knew that the “prosecutors” who ran the sham trial and political persecution of Roger Stone were corrupt Obama political appointees, new documents reveal internal emails showing their meltdown following Attorney General Bill Barr’s recommendation to lessen the sentence for the longtime Trump advisor and New York Times bestseller. “It Seems to Me You’ve Got One Problem – The Judge Disagreed with You” – Rep. Jim Jordan DESTROYS Mueller Gang Member Aaron Zelinsky in Hearing The emails obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request from the Trump-hating website Buzzfeed News hardly exonerate the prosecutors in Stone’s case, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104701/10/1047011096_0:285:5472:3363_1200x675_80_0_0_afbf4dbf15014d6dafad69ae062d132c.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202008031080049777-us-prosecutors-reveal-trump-financial-probe-may-include-bank-insurance-fraud/ Tropical Storm Isaias isn’t the only tempest bearing down on New York: court filings by state prosecutors on Monday revealed their investigation into the finances of US President Donald Trump includes probes into other possible financial crimes, such as insurance fraud and bank fraud, and not just hush money payments. In a new filing made at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. argues Trump’s legal team is mistaken in claiming that their investigation into the president’s financial records is limited to […]
St. Louis prosecutors on Monday filed charges against Mark and Patricia McCloskey. Via KMOV: St. Louis prosecutors on Monday filed charges against Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the Central West End couple seen pointing guns at protesters in late June. Patricia and Mark McCloskey are each facing one count of Unlawful Use of a Weapon – Flourishing, sources told News 4. TRENDING: Michelle Malkin Attacked by Antifa and Black Lives Matter Thugs at Denver Back the Blue Rally; Sends Law and Order SOS to President Trump KMOV reported that in a statement Monday, their attorney, Joel Schwartz said the charges are “disheartening, […]
Brendan Smialowski/Getty Given the death toll from COVID-19 and the continuing public outcry over police brutality in the United States, it may have gone largely unnoticed that on June 11, President Trump issued an executive order targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hague-based war crimes tribunal that the United States has refused to join. The order, which has prompted harsh condemnation from the international justice community and other concerned stakeholders, comes on the heels of a recent ruling by the ICC authorizing an impartial investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have been committed by the various parties […]
On 2 July, US authorities detained Ghislaine Maxwell, described by her many alleged victims as convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler, after months of avoiding showing up in court on charges of grooming underage girls for the deceased financier in the 1990s. US federal prosecutors said on Monday that Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and suspected associate of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, attempted to evade FBI agents by wrapping her cellphone in tin foil to avoid detection before being arrested earlier this month, according to Fox News. Prosecutors reportedly cited the details in court argument in a bid to block Maxwell’s […]
Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Jeffrey Epstein confidant accused of helping him sexually abuse underage girls, tried to hide from federal agents during her July arrest—and even wrapped her cell phone in tin foil in “a misguided effort to evade detection,” prosecutors said Monday. Federal prosecutors made the shocking disclosure about Maxwell’s July 2 arrest at her ultra-secluded New Hampshire mansion in court documents arguing against her release from federal prison on a $5 million bond. Maxwell, 58, is in custody at a federal detention facility in New York after being charged with allegedly enticing minors, some as young as 14, to […]
The White House released a statement Friday night announcing the commutation of the prison sentence of Roger Stone that blasted the Mueller team’s prosecution of Stone. The statement says Trump did not pardon Stone as Stone maintains his innocence and is appealing his conviction. The statement called the pre-dawn raid by the Mueller team to arrest Stone at his home a “shameful spectacle” and questioned the presence of a CNN news team for the arrest of the 67-year-old Stone. TRENDING: WOW! NBC Guest Doctor Who Was Suffering from Coronavirus in Hospital in TV Interviews — NEVER HAD CORONAVIRUS! (VIDEO) The commutation […]
As Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly helped recruit and groom minor girls for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is expected to appear in a US court next week, royals experts have weighed up as to how her testimony may affect Prince Andrew and the British royal family. When speaking to ABC News’ Pierre Thomas on Thursday about the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, Attorney General William Barr made it clear that the US Justice Department wants to talk to Prince Andrew, known for his decades-long communication with Jeffrey Epstein, who hanged himself in August 2019. Meanwhile, the Southern District of New York has been seeking […]
A man wearing military fatigues stands next to the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH17 carrying 298 passengers and crew, that crashed in eastern Ukraine six years ago. Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images A man wearing military fatigues stands next to the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH17 carrying 298 passengers and crew, that crashed in eastern Ukraine six years ago. Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images The Netherlands said Friday that it will sue Russia at the European Court of Human Rights for Moscow’s alleged role in the shooting down of an airliner over […]
Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Jeffrey Epstein confidant accused of helping him sexually abuse underaged girls, had not been hiding from prosecutors since the pedophile billionaire’s jailhouse suicide in August—but from an “unrelenting and intrusive media,” her lawyers claimed in a Friday memo. “She did not flee, but rather left the public eye, for the entirely understandable purpose of protecting herself and those close to her from the crush of media and online attention and its very real harms—those close to her have suffered the loss of jobs, work opportunities, and reputational damage simply for knowing her,” her lawyers wrote in a […]
The historic Thurgood Marshal U.S. Courthouse building, right, in New York City. A judge is assessing a case there after prosecutors admitted missteps, although they said with no malice intended. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption toggle caption Mary Altaffer/AP The historic Thurgood Marshal U.S. Courthouse building, right, in New York City. A judge is assessing a case there after prosecutors admitted missteps, although they said with no malice intended. Mary Altaffer/AP Federal prosecutors under scrutiny for failing to turn over favorable evidence to a defendant told a judge they didn’t act in bad faith, even as they disclosed internal emails in which […]
Police officers and prosecutors have searched the offices of auto parts producer Continental as well as the premises of German automaker Volkswagen as part of a five-year-long diesel emissions probe. The raids were conducted in several cities on Wednesday, including Hanover, Regensburg, Wolfsburg, Gifhorn, Berlin, Frankfurt and Nuremberg, a spokesman for the Hanover prosecutor’s office said, confirming earlier German media reports. Continental employees are suspected of “abetting fraud and for providing false documentation,” Reuters cited Prosecutor Oliver Eisenhauer as saying. The official said that seven engineers and two project leaders are affected by the probe. Also on rt.com Pollution police: South […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107974/15/1079741591_0:376:2971:2047_1200x675_80_0_0_0c6021ebcdb377fc528c8ff82faeb8a2.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202006281079741626-prosecutors-in-us-charge-4-over-attempt-to-topple-statue-of-andrew-jackson-in-washington/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Four men have been charged with destruction of federal property in the United States over their attempt to topple a statue of former president Andrew Jackson in the nation’s capital, the Department of Justice said in a press release. “Lee Michael Cantrell, 47, of Virginia; Connor Matthew Judd, 20, of Washington, D.C.; Ryan Lane, 37, of Maryland; and Graham Lloyd, 37, of Maine, were charged by criminal complaint yesterday with destruction of federal property”, the press release, which was published on Saturday evening, read. The charges relate to an attempt made […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/uk/202006271079736669-suspect-in-reading-attack-charged-with-three-counts-of-murder/ The stabbing attack in the UK city of Reading was allegedly perpetrated by a 25-year-old man of Libyan origin and left three people killed, with a further three wounded. The attack, which has been declared a terrorist incident, took place on 20 June. The suspect in the 20 June attack in Reading in the UK has been charged with three counts of murder, the public prosecution service said in a statement. The statement comes after a deadly stabbing attack that left three people dead. The suspect, who was arrested at the scene, was later […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107972/80/1079728054_0:0:3068:1726_1200x675_80_0_0_5631bf7670bd658a6c9394a72d1353e3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202006261079728099-dutch-prosecutors-agree-to-postpone-malaysian-mh17-crash-hearings-until-early-2021/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Netherlands Public Prosecution Service has agreed to postpone hearings in substance of the Boeing MH17 crash case from this fall to February-March of next year as requested by attorneys and representatives of victims, prosecutor Ward Ferdinandusse said on Friday. “If the legal team and representatives of relatives [of victims] need more time, the prosecution service will take it into account… Taking into account yesterday’s letter from the council of relatives, we propose to approve a preliminary schedule of further substantive hearings and hold them in February-March of 2021 instead of this […]
Prosecutors in St. Petersburg are looking for two defendants in the ‘Network’ case to be given up to nine years behind bars. Yuly Boyarshinov, 28, and Viktor Filinkov, 25, are accused of being part of a terrorist organization. According to investigators, Kazakhstani national Filinkov and Russian citizen Boyarshinov have been members of the ‘Set’ (meaning Network) anarchist terrorism community since 2016. In 2017 and 2018, several alleged members of the group were arrested in Penza and St. Petersburg, including these two men. The prosecution alleges that they had planned to carry out terrorist attacks during both the 2018 FIFA World Cup […]
Prosecutors from the Italian town of Bergamo, which has been among the hardest-hit by Covid-19, have interviewed Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte about the actions of the authorities during the early stages of the outbreak. Conte spoke to prosecutors for about three hours on Friday. “I am not afraid of ending up under investigation, because I acted according to science and in good faith,” he told reporters before the interview. “I immediately made myself available to the investigators to inform them of the circumstances that I am aware of,” the PM said, adding that if the course of events were replayed, he would […]
California DA’s Call For Ban On Police Union Money In Elections Of Prosecutors By Eliyahu Kamisher, The Appeal. June 5, 2020 California DA’s Call For Ban On Police Union Money In Elections Of Prosecutors2020-06-052020-06-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/11/stop-killings-by-police-protest.-credit-william-widmer-of-the-ny-times-from-eyevine-e1591363213750.jpg200px200px Above photo: Stop killings by police protest. William Widmer of the NY Times from Eyevine. San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and others say the money creates ethical conflicts when police are prosecuted for misconduct. A coalition of four current and former district attorneys called on the State Bar of California on Monday to ban law enforcement unions from funding district attorney campaigns, saying the contributions represent a conflict of […]
One of the women was wrongfully imprisoned for over a decade on a murder conviction secured by later discredited forensic evidence, and another woman was unsuccessfully tried twice for helping people vote. ‘A great embarrassment’: records offer insight into Ahmaud Arbery suspect George Barnhill, the district attorney for the Waycross judicial circuit in south-east Georgia, advised police in April that Gregory and Travis McMichael should not be charged over the death of Arbery, suggesting that the two had attempted to “stop and hold this criminal suspect” before fatally shooting him. Arbery had been jogging in the area, with numerous accounts stating there was no evidence of […]
Speaking exclusively to TGP, filmmaker and producer David Lugo is speaking for the first time about his grand jury testimony and interviews with federal agents during the investigation into Trump advisor Roger Stone. Lugo, who produced a film featuring Roger Stone and Randy Credico, the prosecutions lead witness, said he wants to “set the record straight.” Lugo was shocked to see press accounts of Stone’s trial in which comic impressionist and sometime radio talkshow host Randy Credico said he was not the source of Stone’s information regarding Wikileaks. “I testified under oath and provided documentary evidence that this was a lie,” […]