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☆ Denver man convicted of using AK-47 to kill woman who was walking her dog
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

DENVER — A man accused of using an AK-47 to kill a woman and wound her boyfriend as they walked their dog was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder on Thursday. Close had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but jurors concluded that he knew what he was doing when he opened fire, The Denver Post reported. Close yelled out the window at the couple as they urged the dog to “go potty” before getting the AK-47, which he had taken from a friend who was a Denver police sergeant. Close cried as the verdict was read, as did members of Thallas’ family. Thallas’ mother, Anna Thallas, said she felt numb.

REUTERS/Nate RaymondBOSTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday said they reached an agreement to drop criminal charges filed during the Trump administration against a Massachusetts judge accused of impeding a federal immigration arrest of a defendant in her courtroom. Federal prosecutors said they had agreed to dismiss the obstruction charges filed against Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph in exchange for the judge referring herself to a state commission tasked with investigating judicial misconduct. Prosecutors are also dropping obstruction charges against her former courtroom deputy, Wesley MacGregor, who entered into a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve a remaining perjury count. Prosecutors claimed Joseph and MacGregor in 2018 helped a previously deported state court defendant evade being detained by an ICE agent by allowing him leave their Newton courthouse through a rear door. "I have concluded that the interests of justice are best served by review of this matter before the body that oversees the conduct of Massachusetts state court judges, rather than in a continued federal criminal prosecution," Cunha said.

She called the "pattern of fraud and deception" used by Trump and the Trump Organization "astounding." 'DISASTERS OF THE WORLD'(L-R) Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump attend the ground breaking of the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office Building in Washington, July 2014. Donald Trump Jr tweeted that James was "weaponizing her office to go after her political opponents!" Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has separately charged the Trump Organization with criminal tax fraud, and is preparing for an Oct. 24 trial. read more"Our criminal investigation concerning former President Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization, and its leadership is active and ongoing," Bragg said in a statement.

Syed was convicted of killing 18-year-old ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, whose body was found buried in Baltimore’s Leakin Park in 1999. Family attorney Steve Kelly said Lee's survivors do not believe Baltimore prosecutors will opt for another trial. “The family has very little hope at this point, they are not hopeful that anybody will ever face justice for Hae’s murder,” Kelly said Tuesday. Mosby's hedged comments belie court action moments earlier when her own prosecutor eviscerated the state's successful murder case against Syed. In her arguments in court Monday, prosecutor Becky Feldman attacked virtually every crucial point of the state's case against Syed.

☆ The podcast 'Serial' got Adnan Syed conviction vacated. But injustices continue
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Andrey Spektor | Maryclaire Kennedy | Andrey Spektor Is A Litigation Partner At Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

It also shed light on the deficient representation Syed received from his counsel, who was disbarred just a year after Syed’s conviction. A judge in Maryland granted Syed a new trial, and an appellate court upheld that decision. It agreed that the performance of Syed’s trial counsel in investigating the case was unacceptable but concluded that the proof presented against Syed at trial was too strong for that deficiency to have made a difference. They have the right to see the prosecutors’ evidence before trial and to confront their witnesses in court. For convicted defendants like Syed, journalists are often the only remaining hope.

☆ Feds charge dozens in Minnesota in alleged scheme to steal $250 million in pandemic aid
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Prosecutors say few meals were actually served, and the defendants used the money to buy luxury cars, property and jewelry. "This $250 million is the floor," Andy Luger, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, said at a news conference. According to court documents, the alleged scheme targeted the USDA's federal child nutrition programs, which provide food to low-income children and adults. But during the pandemic, some of the standard requirements for sites to participate in the federal food nutrition programs were waived. Luger said the scheme involved more than 125 million fake meals, with some defendants making up names for children by using an online random name generator.

Companies Us Justice Department FollowWASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to let it resume reviewing classified materials seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Florida estate. The Justice Department must now convince the Atlanta-based appeals court, with a conservative majority, to take its side in litigation over the records probe. The government's motion comes after U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday rejected the same requests from the Justice Department. REUTERS/Al Drago/File PhotoThere were roughly 100 classified documents among the 11,000 records gathered in the FBI's court-approved Aug. 8 search at the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort. If Cannon's ruling stands, experts said, it would likely stall the Justice Department investigation involving the government records.

☆ Alex Murdaugh Double-Murder Trial Begins With Jury Selection
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-07 | by ( Valerie Bauerlein | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WALTERBORO, S.C.—The double-murder trial of the disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh began Monday with the scion of one of this state’s most powerful families facing charges of fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, and son Paul at the family hunting estate. The 54-year-old Mr. Murdaugh is accused by the state of shooting his wife several times with a rifle and his son with two blasts from a shotgun at the family property’s dog kennels on the night of June 7, 2021. Prosecutors alleged that Mr. Murdaugh was under pressure from mounting questions about his finances, a serious review of which would have revealed a decadelong scheme of stealing from his personal-injury clients. The motive for the killings, prosecutors said in court filings, was to garner sympathy and buy time to cover his tracks.

☆ Alex Murdaugh Double-Murder Trial to Begin With Jury Selection
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-07 | by ( Valerie Bauerlein | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WALTERBORO, S.C.—The double-murder trial of the disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh begins Monday with the scion of one of this state’s most powerful families facing charges of fatally shooting his wife, Maggie, and son Paul at the family hunting estate. The 54-year-old Mr. Murdaugh is accused by the state of shooting his wife several times with a rifle and his son with two blasts from a shotgun at the family property’s dog kennels on the night of June 7, 2021. Prosecutors alleged that Mr. Murdaugh was under pressure from mounting questions about his finances, a serious review of which would have revealed a decadelong scheme of stealing from his personal-injury clients. The motive for the killings, prosecutors said in court filings, was to garner sympathy and buy time to cover his tracks.

Joe Lewis surrendered in Manhattan last week and was charged with securities fraud and conspiracy. Photo: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg NewsThe globe-trotting billionaire Joe Lewis , longtime owner of the London soccer club Tottenham Hotspur, spent the evening of July 25, 2019, with a woman who was then his girlfriend, dining on room service at the Four Seasons hotel in Seoul. U.S. prosecutors say he also fed her confidential information about coming disclosures by a life-sciences company that she used to make stock trades that ultimately netted her hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Persons: Joe Lewis, Victor J Organizations: Bloomberg, London soccer, Tottenham Hotspur Locations: Manhattan, Seoul . U.S

☆ Nxivm leader Keith Raniere has been convicted. Here's what happened inside his sex-slave ring that recruited actresses and two billionaire heiresses.
▼ + stars: | 2019-06-19 | by ( Katya Kupelian | Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The scandal behind the alleged Nxivm sex-slave ringSeveral high-profile people face charges for their involvement in a secretive organization that allegedly recruited and branded women as sex slaves. Prosecutors allege that Raniere kept a group of 15 to 20 women as sex slaves, branded with his initials. Allison MackFormer "Smallville" actress Allison Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering for her alleged role in the Nxivm sex cult case. Catherine and India OxenbergActress Catherine Oxenberg took ESP courses with her daughter India. Keith Raniere faces charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, wire fraud conspiracy, possession of child pornography, forced labor conspiracy, and conspiracy to commit identity theft.

Persons: Nxivm, Keith Raniere, Nancy Salzman, ESPs, Raniere, " Salzman, Allison Mack, Clare, Sara Bronfman Clare, Sara Bronfman, heiresses, Catherine Oxenberg, Catherine, Sarah Edmondson, she'd Organizations: Forbes, Nxivm, Prosecutors, New York Times Locations: Catherine, India, Nxivm, Mexico

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