More than two years after President Trump was convicted of 34 felonies tied to a 2016 “hush money” payment to an adult film star, his lawyers are set to argue their appeal Thursday in New York. Mr. Trump’s attorneys in the case have changed — one former defense attorney, Todd Blanche, is now U.S. attorney…
A federal magistrate judge on Monday dismissed a criminal complaint charging two former senior FBI counterintelligence officials with lying to Congress about their roles in the bureau’s Hunter Biden investigation, saying the politically charged case lacked evidence and appeared to be timed with the midterm election. In a scathing, hour-long oral ruling, Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui rebuked…
Federal prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg resigned from the Department of Justice this week, penning a scathing letter in which she said U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros “personally directed” the Broadview Six prosecution that she says ended her career. Mecklenburg was the lead prosecutor for the grand jury proceedings that brought felony charges against a group of six…
An English judge issued a scathing report Tuesday blaming dysfunctional management and a “complete failure at all levels” to protect babies at the hospital where neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven newborns. The inquiry into baby deaths found the Countess of Chester Hospital, in northwestern England, could have saved some infants from…
Patrick Clancy, Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband, issued a scathing statement to conspiracy theorists who have been claiming he was involved in the deaths of the couple’s children – “There will be consequences.” “Enough is enough — this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop,” Clancy’s lawyer Howard Cooper said in a statement Tuesday morning. As attention…
A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and several of his co-defendants, after politically appointed leaders in the Justice Department decided to kill the case in May. But in an unusual twist, U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis for the Eastern District of New York refused to…
