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☆ Verstappen fastest in chaotic Baku practice
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Alan Baldwin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

April 28 (Reuters) - Red Bull's Formula One leader Max Verstappen put in the fastest time right at the chequered flag on Friday in a chaotic sole practice for the new format Azerbaijan Grand Prix sprint weekend. The double world champion, last year's winner in Baku, lapped the fast street circuit with a best time of one minute 42.315 seconds with his final effort on the soft tyres. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, who has never won in Baku but will be chasing his third successive pole in Azerbaijan in later qualifying for Sunday's grand prix, was second on the timesheets. The Monegasque ended up 0.037 seconds slower, after going top in the dying seconds, with Red Bull's Sergio Perez third and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz fourth. Perez has the best record of any driver on the starting grid in Baku with a victory in 2021, second last year and two third places.

☆ Judge makes thinly-veiled attempt to silence Trump during rape trial, advising parties against statements that could 'incite violence'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against former President Trump went to trial Tuesday. The judge asked both parties not to make statements that could "incite violence." Opening statements are expected to kick off today in E. Jean Carroll's defamation and rape lawsuit against Trump. The lunatics will fail and President Trump will Make America Great Again!" In her lawsuit, Carroll says that Trump's comments have "injured the reputation on which she makes her livelihood as a writer, advice columnist, and journalist."

☆ Jurors in the Trump rape case were advised to use fake names with each other to preserve their anonymity
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

E. Jean Carroll's rape and defamation lawsuit against former President Trump went to trial Tuesday. The judge in the case advised jurors to use fake names with each other. Before the jury was chosen, Kaplan addressed the group and suggested that they use fake names with each other to preserve their anonymity. Former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll walks into Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, in New York. In her lawsuit, Carroll says that Trump's comments have "injured the reputation on which she makes her livelihood as a writer, advice columnist, and journalist."

☆ Trump's rape trial brought by E. Jean Carroll starts Tuesday in Manhattan. The case centers around accusations from the 1990s
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-24 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman changing room in the mid-1990s. Carroll is asking for Trump to retract his statements and for a jury to award her unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. Carroll says their encounter started off playful, with Trump asking Carroll to help him pick out a gift for a female friend. Eva Deitch for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesTrump's lawyers are likely to try and paint Carroll's lawsuit as a political witch hunt. Trump's lawyers asked to delay the trial a month so that they could probe Hoffman's involvement more, but that request was denied, though Kaplan allowed Trump's legal team to conduct another deposition with Carroll before the trial starts.

☆ Ex-Peru president Toledo surrenders to US authorities, extradition imminent
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/3] A media member streams their news desk on their phone screen while reporting outside Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse on the day Peru's former President Alejandro Toledo, wanted in his home country on charges of taking millions of dollars in bribes, is expected to turn himself in for extradition, in San Jose, California, U.S. April 21, 2023. REUTERS/Loren ElliottApril 21 (Reuters) - Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo surrendered to U.S. authorities on Friday, a U.S. Marshals Service official told Reuters, a day after his bid to block his extradition to Peru over corruption charges was denied. The former president was arrested in the United States in July 2019 after a formal request by Peru for his extradition.

☆ Judge seals filings over whether billionaire Democratic donor is bankrolling E. Jean Carroll's rape lawsuit against Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

E. Jean Carroll's rape lawsuit against former President Donald Trump goes to trial next week. A federal judge sealed documents related to whether billionaire Reid Hoffman funded Carroll's suit. Alina Habba, an attorney representing Trump in the lawsuit, told Insider she would oppose the decision. On April 13, Habba asked Judge Kaplan (who is not related to Carroll's lawyer) again to delay the trial and reopen the discovery process in the case. Trump's attorneys haven't yet said whether the former president will attend the trial, and Judge Kaplan isn't forcing him to.

On that unredacted form, Kacsmaryk reported owning about $2.9 million in stock in the Florida-based supermarket company Publix. Federal judges are only required to report financial holdings in ranges, and don’t have to provide exact figures. One possible source of the Publix stock Kacsmaryk reported in 2017 is the judge’s grandmother. In 2020 and 2021, less than 4% of officials required to file judicial financial disclosures requested redaction, according to reports from the Administrative Office of the US Courts. In any case, experts said, the judge’s redacted report prevents transparency that litigants deserve.

☆ Trump hasn't decided if he will attend E. Jean Carroll rape defamation trial, lawyer says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Former President Donald Trump has yet to decide if he will attend his upcoming rape defamation trial, his attorney told a federal judge Thursday. The defamation trial is scheduled to begin in U.S. District Court in Manhattan next Tuesday. In a new court filing posted Thursday afternoon, Trump's lawyer Joe Tacopina told Judge Lewis Kaplan that he could not make a commitment around attendance — yet. Trump's decision "will be made during the course of the trial," Tacopina wrote. Carroll plans to attend the entire trial and testify under oath before the jury, her lawyer noted Wednesday in a letter to Kaplan.

☆ Charlotte, North Carolina: Manhunt after 6-year-old girl and dad shot by neighbor when basketball rolled into his yard
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Jamiel Lynch | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A manhunt is underway near Charlotte, North Carolina, after a 6-year-old and her dad were seriously wounded when a neighbor reportedly began shooting after a basketball rolled into his yard – at least the fourth time this week an apparently ordinary blunder led to gun violence. Suspect Robert Louis Singletary, 24, should be considered armed and dangerous, Gaston County Police said. Kids had been “playing basketball, and a ball had rolled down that way and had rolled into their yard and they went to go get it,” neighbor Jonathan Robertson told CNN affiliate WBTV. “I mean that was insane.”Police would not confirm what started the Tuesday night shooting in Gastonia, citing the investigation. In the Gastonia attack, “one adult victim … remains hospitalized in Charlotte,” Police Chief Stephen Zill, said Wednesday evening in a statement.

[1/2] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S., April 14, 2023. Kaplan said Trump has no obligation to show up or testify, and his lawyers, who said Trump "wishes to appear," can renew the request if he doesn't. The judge also noted that Trump, the Republican front-runner in the 2024 presidential campaign, is planning a New Hampshire campaign stop on April 27, which would be the trial's third day. Carroll, 79, has accused Trump, 76, of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan in late 1995 or early 1996. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Ultrarunner disqualified from race after using a car to complete part of the course
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Scottish ultramarathon runner Joasia Zakrzewski has been disqualified from a 50-mile race after traveling in a car for a section of the course. The 47-year-old Zakrzewski told the BBC she made a “massive error” in accepting the third-place trophy and “should have handed it back,” adding that she was “tired and jetlagged and felt sick” during the race having arrived from Australia the night before. Her friend and fellow runner, Adrian Stott, said he wasn’t able to offer further comment on the event. “I would never purposefully cheat and this was not a target race, but I don’t want to make excuses. UK Athletics said it was aware of the incident and that it would likely be managed at a national governing body level.

☆ US to advance small F-16 equipment sale to Turkey -sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( Humeyra Pamuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The U.S. State Department could send the formal notification for the smaller sale, which includes radars and avionics, as early as Monday, the sources said. If it is cleared by Congress during the formal approval process, the package would be the first major military sale to Turkey that Congress has approved for years. The Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees, who have cleared the modernization package during the informal review, declined comment. The package is separate from the proposed $20 billion sale of new Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) F-16 fighters and nearly 80 modernization kits that Turkey requested in October 2021. Such conditions are likely to anger Turkey, which has said the United States had "endless" demands relating to the sale of F-16s and that Washington's behavior wasn't fair.

☆ Peru set to jail third ex-president as Toledo awaits extradition from U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Peru's Justice Minister Jose Tello said on Wednesday night that a California court judge had ordered Toledo to turn himself in on Friday to the U.S. Marshals Service and await extradition after his request for bail was revoked. "Sooner rather than later, Toledo will answer to Peruvian justice," Tello told television station Canal N, adding that his extradition should take place in a "matter of days". The Peruvian minister said 77-year-old Toledo is expected to be held while he awaits trial in a jail complex in the outskirts of Lima that was built to hold former president Alberto Fujimori. Toledo was arrested in the U.S. in July 2019 following a formal request by Peru for his extradition.

☆ An ex-aide to former GOP Gov. Larry Hogan was shot dead in a confrontation with the FBI after a 3-week manhunt on fraud charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Its unclear whether he was shot by the FBI, or if he shot himself. He was soon deemed a fugitive by US Marshals, as CBS Baltimore reported, with a warrant issued for his arrest. After McGrath went missing, the US Marshals Service and the FBI teamed up to offer a $20,000 reward for information on his whereabouts. Around 6.30 p.m. on Monday, FBI agents encountered McGrath at an intersection and opened fire, The Baltimore Banner reported, citing the FBI. CBS News reporter Mike Hellgren posted pictures from the scene:In a statement Monday night, the FBI said it was reviewing an agent-involved shooting, the Post reported.

☆ Aide to former Maryland governor killed as FBI closed in for arrest
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

April 3 (Reuters) - A fugitive and former top aide to former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan was killed in Tennessee after a confrontation with the FBI, the Washington Post reported, citing the former aide's lawyer. The Baltimore Sun said he was shot but it was uncertain whether it was self-inflicted or by the FBI. The FBI said in a statement it was reviewing an agent-involved shooting, the Post reported. The FBI takes all shooting incidents involving our agents or task force members seriously," the FBI statement said. Hogan said in a statement he and his wife, Yumi Hogan, were saddened by the "tragic situation," the Baltimore Sun reported.

☆ Alex Marquez battles fire and damp track to take pole at Argentina GP
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

April 1 (Reuters) - Alex Marquez overcame a crash and fire on his Gresini Ducati machine in the first qualifying session to take his maiden pole position in MotoGP at the Argentina Grand Prix on Saturday, on a damp track where his tyre gamble paid off. "I did my best with the wet tyres. Later on I go in I thought there was no time to change the tyres. But we changed the tyres... and it was working, so really happy for that and looking forward to the sprint and the race." Maverick Vinales of Aprilia, who dominated Friday practice, was fifth fastest while Johann Zarco of Pramac Racing completes the second row.

☆ The Trump rape case jurors will go to court in secret so Trump can't harass them
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Ashley Collman | Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A judge has ruled the jurors will be kept anonymous in the upcoming defamation trial against Donald Trump. Judge Kaplan said he'll keep them secret so Trump and his supporters can't harass them. E. Jean Carroll, who accuses Trump raped her in the 90s, is suing Trump for defamation and battery. But Kaplan wrote that Leish's arguments for keeping the jurors public were "unpersuasive" in convincing him that the public interest in the case outweighs the jurors' safety. E. Jean Carroll.

☆ 1,000 federal judges seek to remove personal info from internet as threats skyrocket
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

More than 1,000 federal judges have asked the U.S. Courts system for help removing personally identifiable information from the internet under a program implemented after a New Jersey judge's son was murdered at their house. The report also details what it called "a dramatic rise in threats and inappropriate communications against federal judges and other court personnel" in recent years. Marshals Service, the agency responsible for protecting federal judges and courthouses. The Justice Department's internal watchdog in a 2021 report found that the Marshals Service lacked enough resources to adequately protect federal judges and prosecutors. Federal authorities said the man, Nicholas John Roske, planned to kill Kavanaugh in part because of his expectation that the Supreme Court would overturn the federal right to abortion.

☆ Dollar General enters the retail 'labor hoarding' war with a $100 million investment to boost scheduled hours for employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Dominick Reuter | Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Discount retailer Dollar General is the latest employer to join the industry's "labor hoarding" war. download the app Email address By clicking ‘Sign up’, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider as well as other partner offers and accept our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyRetail's "labor hoarding" war now has a General — Dollar General, that is. CEO Jeff Owen told investors to expect an additional investment of approximately $100 million in 2023 as the company aims to boost scheduled hours for store associates. Rolltainers full of candy, toilet paper, and other dry goods sit in cage-like rolltainers outside of a Dollar General store in Minnesota. Insider sourceKeeping shelves stocked and unpacking inventory has been a problem for many Dollar General locations.

☆ Elizabeth Holmes owes over $25 million to Theranos, lawsuit says
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Yasmin Khorram | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes (C) arrives at federal court with her mother Noel Holmes (L) and father Christian Holmes on September 01, 2022 in San Jose, California. Elizabeth Holmes hasn't paid back over $25 million to creditors of her former Theranos company as she tries to delay her 11-year prison sentence, according to a lawsuit. According to the breach of contract suit, Holmes executed three promissory notes while she was CEO of the failed blood-testing company. The promissory notes were as follows, according to the lawsuit:August 2011 in the amount of $9,159,333.65. Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 after dropping out of Stanford, with the promise of revolutionizing the healthcare industry.

☆ Manhunt for ex Maryland governor's former top aide after court no-show
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Roy McGrath, the former top aide to an ex Maryland Governor, is seen in this U.S. Marshals Service wanted poster released on March 14, 2023 after McGrath failed to appear in court where he is charged with wire fraud and falsification. March 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. on Tuesday said it issued an arrest warrant and began a manhunt for Roy McGrath, the former top aide to an ex Maryland governor, for not appearing in court to face charges of wire fraud and falsification of records. In June 2020, McGrath was appointed Chief of Staff to former Republican Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who served from 2015 to 2023. Reporting by Costas Pitas in Los Angeles; Editing by Caitlin Webber and Josie KaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ The ex-chief of staff for Maryland's former governor went missing the day of his criminal trial. US Marshals are still searching for him.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Hogan's former chief of staff, Roy McGrath, failed to show up for his federal fraud trial. McGrath, a Florida resident, faces eight federal counts, including wire fraud, theft in programs receiving federal funds, and falsification of records. The charges against McGrath stem from his time serving as the executive director of the Maryland Environmental Service. He led the quasi-government agency before he was brought on as Hogan's chief of staff in June 2020. McGrath resigned as chief of staff to Hogan in August 2020.

☆ Ted Cruz shouts over Merrick Garland about the DOJ's response to protests outside Supreme Court justices' homes
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-01 | by ( Oma Seddiq | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Sen. Ted Cruz pressed AG Merrick Garland over the DOJ's response to protests outside Supreme Court justices' homes. Cruz accused Garland and the DOJ of being politically biased. The Texas Republican condemned the protestors as rioters and extremists organizing harassment campaigns against the justices and accused Garland of inaction. Other Republicans on the committee, including Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, similarly raised concerns about DOJ's handling of the protests outside Supreme Court justices' homes last year. "It's very clear that they're trying to influence in one way or another those serving on the United States Supreme Court," Lee said.

☆ U.S. Marshals Service Targeted in Ransomware Attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Marshals Service said Tuesday hackers had carried out a major ransomware attack on one of its systems, stealing sensitive information about employees and people under investigation. The agency, which is part of the Justice Department, said it discovered the attack on Feb. 17 but didn’t say when the information was stolen. The Marshals Service said the hackers targeted one stand-alone system, which the agency disconnected as soon as it learned about the attack.

☆ U.S. Marshals Service suffers security breach
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Marshals Service (USMS) suffered a ransomware security breach this month that compromised sensitive law enforcement information, a spokesman said on Monday. The Marshals Service notified the U.S. Department of Justice to the breach, and agents there began a forensic investigation, Drew Wade, chief of the Marshals Service public affairs office, told Reuters in an email. "The affected system contains law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, administrative information, and personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of USMS investigations, third parties, and certain USMS employees," Wade said. The incident took place on Feb. 17, when the service "discovered a ransomware and data exfiltration event affecting a stand-alone USMS system", after which the system was disconnected from the network, Wade said. The USMS is a federal law enforcement agency within the Department of Justice.

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