Politics Feb 13 Federal prosecutor resigns after refusing DOJ order to drop NYC Mayor Adams’ corruption case The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned Thursday after refusing a Justice Department order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Before quitting, Danielle Sassoon told President Donald Trump's new attorney general that she was “confident”…
Nation Feb 12 Federal appeals court upholds singer R. Kelly’s convictions and 30-year prison sentence The Grammy-winning, multiplatinum-selling R&B songwriter was convicted in 2021 in Brooklyn federal court of multiple charges, including racketeering and sex trafficking.
Politics Jan 16 Rudy Giuliani settles dispute with Georgia election workers over ownership of his assets A settlement was reached Thursday between Rudy Giuliani and two former Georgia election workers to decide the ownership of his Florida condominium and three World Series rings, which were sought to satisfy a $148 million defamation judgment against him.
Politics Jan 10 Prosecutors seek 15-year prison sentence for Menendez after bribery conviction Menendez was convicted in July of 16 corruption charges brought after an FBI raid on his home in 2022 turned up $150,000 in gold bars and $480,000 in cash, much of which prosecutors alleged was the result of bribes paid by three…
Politics Jan 06 Giuliani found in contempt for failing to respond to requests related to election worker defamation case Judge Lewis J. Liman ruled after hearing Rudy Giuliani testify for a second day at a contempt hearing called after lawyers for the election workers said the former New York City mayor had failed to properly comply with evidence production…
Politics Jan 02 Giuliani fighting to keep his Yankees World Series rings after $148 million defamation verdict As Rudy Giuliani’s life gets stripped for parts to satisfy a $148 million defamation verdict, the former New York City mayor is fighting to keep one gleaming set of sports memorabilia in the family.
Politics Dec 30 $5 million verdict in sexual abuse case against President-elect Donald Trump upheld by appeals court A federal appeals court has upheld a jury's finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in an upscale department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
Politics Nov 08 DOJ brings criminal charges in Iranian murder-for-hire plan that targeted Trump Investigators learned of the plot to kill Trump while interviewing Farhad Shakeri, an Afghan national identified by officials as an Iranian government asset who was deported from the U.S. after being imprisoned on robbery charges.
World Oct 22 Revolutionary Guard official charged in alleged plot to kill Iranian American activist Federal prosecutors on Tuesday charged a senior Iranian military official and three others with links to that country's government with plotting to kill an Iranian American author on U.S. soil — a development lauded by the alleged target.
Nation Oct 10 Trial date set for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to face sex trafficking charges in May A May 5 trial date was set Thursday for hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs to face sex trafficking charges.