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☆ Ex-FBI informant pleads guilty to making false bribery allegations about the Bidens
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Zoë Richards | Zoë Richards Is A Politics Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A former FBI informant pleaded guilty Monday to providing false information to federal authorities about Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden months before the 2020 presidential election. Many House Republicans had touted a confidential human source document tied to Smirnov's allegations as key to their impeachment inquiry into Biden, who denied any wrongdoing. He also pleaded guilty to tax evasion in charges tied to a separate indictment unsealed last month, admitting he received more than $2 million in unreported income for the tax years 2020-22. The case against him was brought by special counsel David Weiss, who previously investigated Hunter Biden on gun and tax charges. Hunter Biden was convicted on federal gun charges in June and pleaded guilty to tax charges in September.

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The New York judge who presided over Donald Trump’s hush money trial denied the president-elect’s bid to vacate his guilty verdict on presidential immunity grounds. "Defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment and verdict is denied," Judge Juan Merchan wrote in a ruling Monday. Merchan handed down the decision after he also denied Trump's argument that he's already protected by presidential immunity because of his election win. Trump's attorneys had argued the indictment and the verdict should be thrown out in light of a Supreme Court ruling issued weeks later that created a new standard for presidential immunity. Merchan instructed attorneys on both sides to file their letters about the issue publicly and with redactions.

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☆ Trump hush-money conviction survives his 'immunity' challenge — for now
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A NY judge Monday denied Trump's demand that his hush-money case be dismissed on immunity grounds. Judge Juan Merchan said the SCOTUS immunity decision found a president is not above the law. Donald Trump's 11th-hour bid to toss his hush-money case prior to Inauguration Day — on presidential immunity grounds — was rejected Monday by a Manhattan judge. Presidential immunity does not apply to the hush-money case because the case hinged on "decidedly personal acts," Merchan found, agreeing with arguments by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. They also argued that presidential immunity, as bestowed by SCOTUS in June, extends to presidents-elect.

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☆ Juror 'misconduct' battle brewing in Trump hush-money case
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Trump's lawyers allege there was juror "misconduct" at his NY hush-money trial. One day after Donald Trump lost his 11th-hour bid to void his hush-money conviction, a juror "misconduct" battle is brewing, according to a newly-public series of court filings in the case. Prosecutors responded to the misconduct allegations on December 9, arguing that the claim "consists entirely of unsworn allegations," and is based on "hearsay and conjecture." AdvertisementMerchan, like prosecutors, noted that the defense misconduct claim "consists entirely of unsworn allegations." "Allegations of juror misconduct should be thoroughly investigated," he wrote, adding, "However, this court is prohibited from deciding such claims on the basis of mere hearsay and conjecture."

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☆ RFK Jr. takes his turn in the spotlight: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +11 min

In today’s edition, Robert F. Kennedy begins meeting with senators in Washington, while Donald Trump holds his first post-election news conference. “Obviously, HHS under the first Trump administration was very clear on the issue of abortion conscience protections and all those things. On the reported sightings of drones over New Jersey and New York, Trump said, “The government knows what is happening.” He declined to say whether he had received an intelligence briefing about it. In 2000, Al Gore got oh-so-close to winning the White House when Bill Clinton’s approval rating was at 57%. Read more →That’s all from the Politics Desk for now.

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WASHINGTON — Lawmakers urged President Joe Biden in a letter Monday to commute the sentences of people who are affected by disparities in sentences for offenses involving crack and powder cocaine. The move effectively closed the disparity in federal sentencing between the two forms of the drug. Lawmakers, though, are urging Biden to use clemency powers to commute sentences of people affected by the sentencing disparity before Garland’s guidance. Sentencing Commission argued "reduced the disparity between crack and powder cocaine sentences, reduced the federal prison population, and appears to have resulted in fewer federal prosecutions for crack cocaine." The bill, which was re-introduced last year after the 2021 legislation stalled in the Senate, would end the cocaine disparity.

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☆ Former TV host Carlos Watson is sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison in a case about his failed startup Ozy Media
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-'til-you-make-it startup culture. So extreme that another Ozy executive impersonated a YouTube executive to hype Ozy to investment bankers — while Watson coached him, prosecutors said. Watson even listened in and texted talking points while his co-founder posed as a YouTube executive to praise Ozy on a phone call with potential investors, prosecutors said. Ozy Media was his second startup, coming a decade after he sold a test-prep company that he had founded while in his 20s. Meanwhile, Ozy gave prospective investors much bigger revenue numbers than those it reported to accountants, according to testimony and documents.

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“I’ll be looking at J6 early on, maybe the first nine minutes,” Trump told Time magazine. “There needs to be a more specific, updated argument made to the public to defend pardons for Jan. 6 defendants,” the Trump ally said. But it’s very important for the president to have a very succinct and compelling argument for these pardons,” the Trump ally said. Even if Trump pardons hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants, there’s a record of the reality of the attack that cannot be erased. “We’re going to ride this train ’til the end of the line, whether that’s Jan. 20, 2025, or Jan. 6, 2026.”

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☆ Trump is vowing to pardon Jan. 6 rioters. Allies and critics alike say he needs a refresher
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-14 | by ( Ryan J. Reilly | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Trump is weeks away from being sworn in, a day he has said that he'll "most likely" begin immediately pardoning Jan. 6 defendants. One law enforcement official said the interview made "absolutely" clear that Trump wasn't read in on the details of Jan. 6 cases. A Trump ally who is familiar with the discussions within the Trump team said that the "Meet the Press" interview showed the president-elect's blind spots on the sprawling probe. "There needs to be a more specific, updated argument made to the public to defend pardons for Jan. 6 defendants," the Trump ally said. But it's very important for the president to have a very succinct and compelling argument for these pardons," the Trump ally said.

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Bragg's office made the suggestion - one of several about how the case could proceed despite Trump's status as president-elect - in a court filing earlier this week, and acknowledged it was "novel." Prosecutors also offered other ways Merchan could proceed with the criminal case in which Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. "As President-elect and the soon-to-be President, there can be no further criminal proceedings against President Trump. The DA's office said Smith relied on guidance regarding federal cases, which is not binding on its case. In a filing in that case, the DA said, "we cannot prosecute a president while in office.”Trump's attorneys argued that, "Sitting-president immunity requires that President Trump not be subjected to any criminal proceedings."

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CNN —President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly pledged to pardon US Capitol rioters on Day One, but one month before Inauguration Day it’s not clear who among the hundreds of convicted rioters, defendants awaiting trial and remaining fugitives would receive clemency. In a Time Magazine interview conducted last month and published Thursday, the president-elect said he would look at rioters’ cases individually. Some judges in Washington, DC, have also been publicly critical of Trump’s attempts to whitewash the riot’s causes and violence. One major question has been where a line might be drawn among the Capitol riot defendants who would be eligible for Trump’s clemency, and what would qualify as violent versus non-violent actions. One judge, Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, made pointed comments in a hearing for a Capitol riot defendant two weeks after this year’s election.

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“Wanted” posters and harassment toward health insurance workers follow the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing. And new dietary guidelines for Americans suggest more plant-based proteins. On social media, images of “wanted” posters put up in Manhattan featured photos of the CEOs of at least two health insurance companies. New dietary guidelines proposedA report released this week containing updated U.S. dietary guidelines recommends that people eat more beans, peas and lentils and decrease their consumption of processed and red meat, sugary drinks, sodium and processed foods. The updated dietary guidelines, recommended by an advisory committee to the Agriculture Department, are expected to go into effect next year and remain in effect until 2030.

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☆ Biden to commute sentences of 1,500 'non-violent' offenders, in the biggest single-day act of clemency to date
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Patrick-Smith-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Patrick Smith | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of almost 1,500 offenders and pardon 39 others, in what the White House said early Thursday was the biggest number of commutations and clemencies granted in a single day. Explaining what may become a defining act in the dying days of his presidency, Biden said in a statement: “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances.”Biden continued. The 39 pardoned individuals were all convicted of "non-violent crimes". President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 330 offenders in one of his final acts before leaving office in 2017, then the biggest single batch of commutations in history. "The President has issued more sentence commutations at this point in his presidency than any of his recent predecessors at the same point in their first terms," the White House statement said.

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WASHINGTON — A Republican former House member and three current members of Congress from Utah invited a Jan. 6 defendant to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, according to a letter filed by the defendant's lawyer. Jan. 6 defendant Russell Taylor organized a group of “fighters” to travel to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, in response to Trump’s tweet telling supporters the day "will be wild." Russell Taylor, right, makes an obscene gesture, obscured by NBC News, at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. On Jan. 6, 2021, after the Capitol attack, Taylor wrote in a message that he "was pushing through traitors all day today." In the interview, Trump said members of Congress who served on the House Jan. 6 committee "should go to jail."

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☆ Biden grants clemency for nearly 1,500 people, the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-12 | by ( Mj Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

White House officials are billing Thursday’s move as the biggest single-day act of clemency in modern history. “America was built on the promise of possibility and second chances,” Biden said in a statement released shortly after CNN reported early Thursday morning on the coming announcement. With less than six weeks left until the end of Biden’s term, the president is expected to provide further relief. “I will take more steps in the weeks ahead,” Biden said. The White House counsel’s office has also been in consultation with the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney.

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☆ Man who leaped over bench to attack judge sentenced to decades for viral courtroom attack
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Antonio Planas | Antonio Planas Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

On Tuesday, he was sentenced to between 26 and 65 years in prison for the courtroom attack, his attorney, Carl Arnold, said Wednesday. After the attack, Redden told corrections officers that he had a bad day and tried to kill the judge, according to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department document. Redden pleaded guilty but mentally ill to attempted murder and five other charges linked to the attack, according to Arnold. The judge told Redden that she would impose a prison sentence because of his crime and past convictions. Holthus later sentenced Redden to up to four years in prison in connection with a baseball bat attack on a person last year.

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☆ How two New York tragedies exposed the failure of politics in a fraught American moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-11 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

But it was soon overtaken by a wider debate about the complicity of major executives in America’s high health care costs and perceived injustices of the industry. In Baltimore, close to Mangione’s home town, a sign reading “Deny, Defend, Depose” and “Health Care 4 All” appeared over I-83, the Baltimore Banner news site reported. The “brokenness of the health care system is something that I have lived with, and something that still very much sits with me to this day,” he said. JD Vance: ‘Thank God justice was done’Penny, the Marine veteran acquitted in the Neely case, gave his first interview to Fox News. For them it is one political game.”Daniel Penny arrives at criminal court on December 9, 2024, in New York.

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Prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office are urging a New York judge not to throw out President-elect Donald Trump's criminal conviction in the hush money case, offering a variety of suggestions on how the case could proceed without interfering with his presidential duties. They also knocked Trump's claim that the case should be "immediately" dismissed because he's already protected by presidential immunity. Judge Juan Merchan indefinitely postponed Trump's sentencing last month so both sides could present their arguments on the issue. Prosecutors presented a number of possible ways forward, including staying Trump's sentencing until after he's out of office. "To be sure, the People do not dispute that presidential immunity requires accommodation during a President’s time in office.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James has rejected Donald Trump's request to walk away from her office's $486 million civil fraud judgment against the president-elect. There is "no merit to your claim that the pendency of defendants’ own appeal will impede Mr. Trump’s official duties as President," Vale wrote. Mr. Trump’s official duties will not be impeded while awaiting the First Department’s decision," she added. Judge Arthur Engoron handed down a $350 million judgment against Trump, his company and several top executives in February, after a monthslong civil trial included testimony from Trump and his oldest children. The "overwhelming evidence supports Supreme Court’s conclusion that Mr. Trump and the other defendants engaged in repeated and persistent fraud and illegality," she wrote.

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CNN —The New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney both said Tuesday they will not dismiss their historic cases against Donald Trump now that he’s been reelected president. And the New York attorney general’s office wrote in a letter to Trump’s attorneys Tuesday that Trump’s appeal of his $454 million civil fraud judgment poses no burden to his future presidency. Trump’s attorneys have argued that the pending criminal proceedings could interfere with his presidential functions. New York AG says $454 million civil judgment does not impact Trump’s presidencyLast month, Trump’s attorney John Sauer asked James, the Democratic New York attorney general, to dismiss the $454 million civil fraud judgment against Trump following the election. In a letter to Sauer Tuesday, the New York attorney general’s office swiftly rebuffed Trump’s request.

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☆ Bragg says Trump's crimes and 'history of malicious conduct' are too serious for his hush-money case to be dismissed
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-10 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Trump is making an 11th-hour bid to toss his hush-money case before Inauguration Day. Trump's "history of malicious conduct" is too serious to toss the case, Bragg wrote. In an 82-page court filing made public Tuesday, Manhattan prosecutors say Donald Trump's "history of malicious conduct" is too serious for his hush-money case to be dismissed. "There are no grounds for such relief now, prior to inauguration," Bragg wrote in opposing Trump's 11th-hour motion to dismiss, "because President-elect immunity does not exist." AdvertisementTrump was found guilty of criminal contempt ten times for his "extrajudicial speech" — including social media attacks on witnesses — during his trial this spring, Bragg wrote.

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A 55-year-old fugitive who had been on the run for eight years after escaping from a federal prison in California has been caught and indicted, the U.S. attorney’s office said last week. According to Talbert’s office, Pree was convicted on federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in 2012. “Pree did not have permission to leave the Atwater facility and remained at large until his arrest” nearly two months ago, Talbert’s office states in its news release. In October, investigators found Pree in the city of Walnut Creek in California and arrested him there. Pree is back in federal custody to serve the remainder of his original sentence as he faces an additional charge for his alleged prison escape.

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A pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers, worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz," sold Saturday at an auction for $32.5 million, making the sparkling shoes the most valuable movie memorabilia ever sold at auction. Live bidding for the pair of ruby red heels started at $1.55 million, according to Heritage Auctions, and were initially estimated to go for $3 million or more. The auction house said in a news release that the slippers passed that number "within seconds" and that no other pair of ruby slippers has gone for close to that amount. The auction also included the hat worn by the Wicked Witch in "The Wizard of Oz," which sold for $2.9 million. Among Saturday's bidders was the Judy Garland Museum, which was on a quest "to bring 1 of 4 remaining pairs of Ruby Slippers Judy Garland wore in 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) home to Judy's birthplace in Grand Rapids, Minnesota," the museum wrote on Facebook.

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So on Friday, Grillo was sentenced to a year in prison on the remaining misdemeanor counts. We stormed the Capitol,” Grillo said in a video he took of himself in the Capitol, according to the Justice Department. We did it!”Lamberth, who sentenced Grillo to 12 months behind bars, had rejected Grillo's argument to delay his sentencing due to the possibility that Trump might pardon some of all of the Jan. 6 rioters. "That is what is means to have an independent judiciary, that is what it means to have law and order," he said. As of Nov. 6, approximately 1,561 defendants have been federally charged with crimes associated with the Jan. 6 attack, according to the Department of Justice.

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☆ January 6 rioter scoffs at prison sentence, saying ‘Trump’s gonna pardon me anyways’
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The rioter, Philip Sean Grillo of New York City, announced after his sentencing, “Trump’s gonna pardon me anyways,” as a US marshal had him remove his belt and tie before handcuffing him inside the courtroom. Lamberth also spoke extensively about his role as a federal judge to facilitate the discovery of facts, apply the law and carry out justice. “Even nonviolent defendants merit punishment.”Grillo’s defense attorney asked Lamberth to give Grillo a day to turn himself in voluntarily, and Lamberth said no. “Don’t worry, Phil,” one of the friends shouted immediately after Lamberth left the courtroom. The man declined to say who on Trump’s team he had spoken with.

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