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☆ Delphi murders: Richard Allen is found guilty in double murder trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

The Indiana man charged in the 2017 killing of two middle school girls was convicted of murder Monday, NBC affiliate WTHR of Indianapolis reports. The jury’s decision came after a four-week trial in which Richard Allen, 52, pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the Feb. 13, 2017 slayings of close friends Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14. “Richard Allen is the ‘bridge guy.’ He kidnapped them and later murdered them. After his arrest, Allen was held in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison while awaiting trial. “How much can one human endure?”Officers escort Richard Matthew Allen following a hearing on Nov. 22, 2022, in Delphi, Ind.

Persons: Richard Allen, Abigail Williams, Allen, Nick McLeland, ” McLeland, “ Richard Allen, ’, Libby, Brad Rozzi, Rozzi, Allen's, ” Rozzi, Richard Matthew Allen, Darron Cummings, WTHR, wasn't, he’d Organizations: NBC, Liberty, NBC Chicago, ”, Authorities Locations: Indiana, Indianapolis, Delphi, Carroll County, Ind

CNN —Richard Allen has been found guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of felony murder in the highly publicized Delphi murder trial, according to CNN affiliate WTHR. Delphi law enforcement have long held they believe the “Bridge Guy” shown in the video is the main suspect in the case. Prosecutors drew attention to the .40-caliber unspent round found by the girls’ bodies, which a prosecution expert testified matched Allen’s pistol. The prosecution has also tried to match Allen with the video and audio recording of the “Bridge Guy” captured on Libby’s cellphone. “Richard Allen is ‘Bridge Guy,’” McLeland told jurors.

Persons: Richard Allen, Allen, Abigail “ Abby ” Williams, “ Libby ”, WTHR, Frances Gull, Nick McLeland, “, ’, Abby, Libby, ” McLeland, Guy ”, McLeland, Guy, ” Allen, Brad Rozzi, you’ve, ” Rozzi, Abigail Williams, Tony Liggett, Allen “, Andrew Baldwin, Li Buszka, –, Monica Wala, Wala, I’m, Deanna Dwenger, Odinism, White supremacists, Gull, Brian Harshman, Guy ’, ”, “ Richard Allen, ’ ” McLeland, Rozzi Organizations: CNN, WTHR, Prosecutors, Associated Press, ”, Liberty, WLFI, Indiana Department of Corrections Behavioral Health, WRTV, Indiana State Police Locations: Delphi , Indiana, Allen, Carroll, Delphi, Westville Correctional

☆ Trump searches for his attorney general as Justice Department officials worry about chaos and retribution
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Evan Perez | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —From his seaside Florida resort, Donald Trump is holding a casting call to fill the toughest job in Washington: attorney general. Current and former Justice officials anticipate eventual departures in some parts of the department and employees being sidelined and forced out. The Justice Department is also charged with defending administration actions in court, covering issues from health care to the environment to gun control. “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes,” he wrote in a Twitter post in July 2017. Trump told Fox Business in 2020 that Barr should indict Obama, Biden and others because of the Russia investigation.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Mark Paoletta, they’ll, Trump’s, ” Paoletta, ” JD Vance, Jack Smith, Christopher Wray, James Comey, Wray, Wray “, ”, podcaster Joe Rogan, “, I’ll, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Sally Yates, Yates, Jeff Sessions, Matthew Whitaker, Sessions ’, John Huber, Rod Rosenstein, Sessions, William Barr, Barr, Obama, Biden, Bill Barr indicts, we’ll, ” Trump, ” Barr Organizations: CNN, Justice Department, Trump ., Justice, White, ABC, Trump, Employees, FBI, ISIS, Capitol, Biden, “, Sessions, Fox Business, Hoover Institution Locations: Florida, Washington, Manhattan, American, Lago, United States, Alabama, Russia

☆ Huge crime network forging Banksy, Warhol and Picasso uncovered in Italy
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-11 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Rome, Italy Reuters —Italian police have uncovered a large-scale pan-European forgery network making and selling fake artworks attributed to some of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art including Banksy, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. The chief prosecutor of Pisa, Teresa Angela Camelio, said experts from the Banksy archive who assisted with the investigation considered Monday’s operation as “the biggest act of protection of Banksy’s work.”Some of the fake artworks displayed by the Carabinieri in Pisa, Italy. 02:42 - Source: CNNThey said their probe started in 2023 when they seized about 200 fake pieces from the collection of a businessman in Pisa including a copy of a drawing by Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani. That led them to forgeries sold by auction houses across Italy, and to connect them to a known group believed to specialize in forgeries of Banksy and Warhol. To boost their credentials, the unnamed suspects organized two Banksy exhibitions with a published catalog in prestigious locations in Mestre near Venice and Cortona in Tuscany, investigators said.

Persons: Banksy, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Teresa Angela Camelio, ”, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dalí, Henry Moore, Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon, Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Amedeo Modigliani, Warhol Organizations: Italy Reuters, Carabinieri, Reuters, Reuters Pest Control, CNN Locations: Rome, Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Pisa, Reuters Pest, Tuscany, Venice, Europe, Mestre, Cortona

For some who’ve run afoul of Trump, the election results have sparked fresh worries that he may enter office looking for retribution. During the campaign, Trump has made different statements about whether he might target people who’ve upset him. Rep. Jim Jordan, a staunch Trump ally in Congress, said he doesn’t expect any of the prosecutors to face reprisals over Trump investigations. One former Trump White House official who has publicly spoken against Trump described feeling “scared” and declined to let their name be used. Now Fanone says he is hunkering down in his Virginia mountain-area home for fear that Trump could weaponize the police.

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☆ January 6 rioters and judges digest the impact of Trump’s victory
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-10 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Attorneys for some defendants also suggested Trump’s victory was unfair in light of the fact that rioters are still being prosecuted and sentenced. Talk of potential presidential pardons permeated at least one violent rioter’s sentencing Thursday, when Zachary Alam told a judge he had no remorse for his actions. I want a full pardon.”“Instead of pardons of innocence, some January 6ers should receive pardons of patriotism,” Alam added. US District Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, later said Alam was “delusional” to think that his actions on January 6 were patriotic. Alam was convicted on multiple felony and misdemeanor counts stemming from his participation in the Capitol attack.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Jack Smith, Elizabeth Mullin, Jaimee Avery, Zachary Alam, ” Alam, Alam, ”, Dabney Friedrich, Ashli Babbitt, Friedrich, Nicholas Fuller, ” Michelle Peterson, Fuller, Peterson, “, ” Peterson, Colleen Kollar, Bill Clinton, “ Mr, Joe Biden, Christopher Cooper, Cooper, Obama Organizations: CNN, Capitol, Trump, Prosecutors, US, US Justice Department, DC Locations: Washington ,, Minnesota

The Pentagon intends to challenge a recent ruling by a military court that deemed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to invalidate plea deals for several accused 9/11 co-conspirators improper, a defense official tells NBC News. “We intend to seek postponement of any hearing on the pleas or pretrial agreements during that time,” the official said. In July, prosecutors announced they had entered into pretrial plea agreements with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi. But in a shocking move days later, Austin withdrew the controversial plea deals and removed Susan Escallier, the convening authority for military commissions, from the case. A judge in the case agreed, ruling last week that Austin operated outside his authority to invalidate the plea deals and declared the plea deals valid and enforceable.

Persons: Lloyd Austin’s, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin ‘ Attash, Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, Austin, Susan Escallier, Mohammed Organizations: Pentagon, NBC

“We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,” he added. President Joe Biden had campaigned on passing legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level, but pulled back on that in office. Biden’s aides say he supports death row inmates serving life sentences without probation or parole. Meanwhile, the Justice Department under Biden and Garland has not sought the death penalty in federal cases that could have warranted it, and has even withdrawn death penalty sentences in about two dozen cases that it had inherited. There are currently 40 inmates, all men, on federal death row, according to the nonpartisan Death Penalty Information Center.

Persons: Donald Trump, ” Trump, “ We’re, ”, Trump, Yasmin Cader, Grover Cleveland, William Barr, “, Joe Biden, General Merrick Garland, Biden’s, Garland, Lee Kovarsky, Biden, Kovarsky, “ they’re, can’t, Ruth Friedman, ” Friedman, Friedman, Robert Roberson, Robert Dunham, ” Dunham, Dunham Organizations: Center for Justice, Equality, U.S, Department, Biden, Boston Marathon, University of Texas School of Law, Punishment, Trump, Trump’s, Federal, Habeas, Republican, Democratic, National Registry, ACLU Locations: Alabama, South Carolina, Pittsburgh, Texas

Prosecutors are instructed to argue that there is a societal interest in the quick administration of justice and these cases should be handled in the normal order. As for new arrests, the law enforcement official said, prosecutors will "focus on the most egregious conduct and cases until the end of the administration." "Just over 1 per day," one of the online "sedition hunters" who has dedicated hours of their life to finding the Trump supporters who brutally assaulted law enforcement officers that day, told NBC News. Existing cases against Jan. 6 defendants are expected to continue with additional trials, sentencing hearings and plea agreement hearings scheduled to take place next week. The prospect of presidential pardons for people who assaulted law enforcement is "pretty demoralizing," the former assistant U.S. attorney said.

Persons: WASHINGTON, —, Donald Trump, Trump, ”, Jan, sleuths, Michael Fanone, Daniel Hodges, Hodges, Aquilino, Kamala Harris, Gonell Organizations: The Justice Department, NBC News, U.S . Capitol, Justice Department’s Capitol, Prosecutors, Capitol, Trump, NBC, FBI, Justice Department's Capitol, Section, Former Capitol Police, Dominican Republican Locations: America

☆ A man who paid $200.57 for a night at a famous NYC hotel and then lived there rent-free for years is unfit to stand trial, court says
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-09 | by ( Alcynna Lloyd | Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Mickey Barreto lived in the New Yorker Hotel for free for years before his recent arrest. AdvertisementDoctors say a man who had lived inside the iconic New Yorker Hotel for free for more than half a decade is unfit to stand trial. Mickey Barreto lived in the New Yorker Hotel for years without paying a single cent in rent. In June 2018, Barreto and his partner, Matthew Hannan, stayed in room 2565 at the New Yorker Hotel for one night and paid $200.57. Although a judge ordered him to stop representing himself as the owner of the hotel, Barreto continued to live there for free.

Persons: Mickey Barreto, Barreto, Doctors, —, Cori Weston, Weston, Brian Hutchinson, Hutchinson, Alvin Bragg's, Matthew Hannan Organizations: New Yorker, Service, Manhattan District, New York Times, Times, Addiction, Mount, Business, Associated Press, Holy Spirit Association, Department of Environmental, Unification Locations: , New York, Mount Sinai, Hutchinson, Barreto's

Jurors will deliberate from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday until they reach a verdict, according to WTHR. Last month, 16 Allen County residents were selected to serve on the jury, including four people serving as alternates, WTHR said. “I believe the evidence is firmly convincing that Richard Allen is Bridge Guy and he killed Abby and Libby,” McLeland told the jury. Prosecutors drew attention to the .40-caliber unspent round found by the girls’ bodies, which a prosecution expert testified matched Allen’s pistol. He also pointed out that Allen still lived in Delphi for more than five years after the girls were killed.

Persons: Richard Allen, Allen, Liberty “ Libby, Abigail “ Abby ” Williams, WTHR, Frances Gull, Nick McLeland, “, Bridge Guy, Abby, Libby, ” McLeland, McLeland, ” Allen, Brad Rozzi, you’ve, ” Rozzi, Abigail Williams, Abby ”, “ Libby ”, Guy ”, Tony Liggett, Allen “, Monica Wala, Wala, I’m, Deanna Dwenger, Odinism, White supremacists, Gull, Darron Cummings, Brian Harshman, Guy ’, ’, “ Richard Allen, Rozzi, Allen wasn’t Organizations: CNN, WTHR, Associated Press, Bridge, ”, Liberty, WLFI, Prosecutors, Indiana Department of Corrections Behavioral Health, WRTV, Indiana State Police Locations: Delphi , Indiana, Carroll, Allen County, Allen, Delphi, Westville Correctional

☆ Menendez brothers timeline: A look at the murders, the trials and the effort to free them
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Their televised trial, which captured the brothers recounting the alleged abuse in grim and graphic detail, ended when the jury could not reach a verdict. After a second trial, the siblings were convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. The siblings fatally shot their parents, they testified, after Lyle confronted Jose about his brother’s abuse. When Lyle threatened to expose his father, he testified, Jose appeared to threaten him and his brother. Gascón also said his office was also reviewing a petition from the brothers that challenges their convictions.

Persons: Erik, Lyle Menendez, Jose, Kitty Menendez, Beverly Hills Kitty, Lyle, ”, he’d, Kitty, Jose Menendez, George Gascón, Gascón, Nathan Hochman Organizations: Beverly Hills Police, Prosecutors, NBC, Angeles Locations: Beverly, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Israel, Angeles County, L.A . County

☆ Menendez supporters say brothers should go free — but prosecutors who tried them believe they got what they deserved
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Tim Stelloh | Tim Stelloh Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +13 min

Erik and Lyle Menendez no longer pose a public safety risk and have paid their debt to society, Gascón told reporters. Menendez brothers, Erik, left, and Lyle at their Beverly Hills home in November 1989. Ronald L. Soble / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images fileJuan Mejia, now a head deputy for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, raised another concern. From left to right; Erik Menendez with his attorney, Leslie Abramson and Lyle Menendez in Los Angeles, Calif on March 9, 1994. Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images fileWhen they committed their crimes, Gascón said, they were younger than 26.

Persons: Erik, Lyle Menendez, “, Pamela Bozanich, ”, Menendez, Chance, Kitty Menendez, George Gascón —, —, Gascón, it’s, José Menendez, gunning, Lyle, Ronald L, Juan Mejia, Mejia, Lyle’s, ” Mejia, Dateline ”, resentencing, they’ve, Nathan Hochman, Hochman, Les Zoeller, who’d, Zoeller, Erik Menendez, Leslie Abramson, Ted Soqui, Ted, they’d, Bozanich, ” Bozanich, ‘, ’, Ann Wolbert Burgess, Mark J, Terrill, Jose, he’d, ” Gascón, They’ve, George Gascón, Myung Chun, Mark Geragos, Andy Cano, Kitty, Jose Menendez, NBC “ I’ve, Andy Organizations: NBC News, Los Angeles, “ Dateline, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles Times, Getty, Los Angeles County, Attorney’s Office, Dateline, Incoming, Angeles, Beverly, Rolex, Porsche, Court, Netflix, “, NBC, Attorney’s Locations: Los, Los Angeles County, Angeles County, Los Angeles, Calif, San Diego, ’ ”, Van Nuys, California

A firebrand legal adviser to the President-elect and a conservative lawyer under consideration for the post of Attorney General appear to be setting the stage for investigations and prosecution of Donald Trump’s legal adversaries, including Special Counsel Jack Smith and New York Attorney General Letitia James. The threats come as Trump campaign aides say that the president-elect considers his choice for attorney general to be his most important single appointment. Paoletta is among several people under consideration to run the Justice Department, people familiar with the matter tell NBC News. All of those people have claimed—without citing any specific evidence— that the federal prosecutions of Trump by Smith were politically motivated. The Trump Justice Department will have access to every text, email and memo written by everyone on the Smith team on government phones and computers during the investigation.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Jack Smith, Letitia James, Mike Davis, Trump, Smith, James, “, ” Davis, Benny Johnson, Davis, ”, Tom Williams, — Mark Paoletta —, Paoletta, ” Paoletta, Missouri Sen, Eric Schmitt, Utah Sen, Mike Lee, John Ratcliffe, Matt Whitaker, Donald Trump, can’t, —, Bill Barr, John Durham, Russia’s, “ Jack Smith Organizations: New York, Trump, Justice Department, Republican, Washington , D.C, Inc, Getty, NBC News, Department, DOJ, NBC, Justice, Democratic, DoJ, CIA, FBI, Trump Justice Department Locations: Washington ,, Missouri, Utah, Newsmax

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice on Friday charged an Iranian man in a murder-for-hire plot to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump and two others in a plot to kill an American journalist critical of Tehran. The three who were charged are Farhad Shakeri of Iran; Carlisle Rivera of Brooklyn, New York; and Jonathan Loadholt, of Staten Island, New York. Around Oct. 7, the Iranian official tasked Shakeri with providing a plan within seven days to kill Trump, he told law enforcement in recorded interviews, the complaint says. Shakeri told FBI officials that he didn’t intend to propose a plan to assassinate Trump in the timeframe set by the IRGC, it says. Trump was also briefed by U.S. intelligence officials after the attempt in September about threats from Iran to kill him.

Persons: WASHINGTON, Donald Trump, Trump, ” Damian Williams, Qasem Soleimani, Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera, Jonathan Loadholt, Shakeri, surveil, Steven Cheung, ”, Rivera, Masih Alinejad, Alinejad, Loadholt, realDonaldTrump, Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, —, Biden Organizations: The Department, Justice, Southern, of, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian, U.S, Trump, FBI, White, Prosecutors, NBC News, Fairfield University, Service, Emergency Economic Locations: American, Tehran, U.S, of New York, Iran, Brooklyn , New York, Staten Island , New York, New York City, Sri Lanka, United States, Afghan, New York State, Brooklyn, Loadholt, Staten Island, Republic, America, Florida, New York

WASHINGTON — A Jan. 6 rioter who was the subject of right-wing conspiracy theories suggesting he was a plant who worked with law enforcement was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday, among the longest prison sentences given in connection with the U.S. Capitol attack. In court Thursday, Alam said his fellow Jan. 6 inmates saw the segment in the jail in Washington when it aired on the local Sinclair station, WJLA. “They came to the conclusion that I was a confidential human source,” Alam said of his fellow Jan. 6 defendants. (President-elect Trump has called Capitol rioters “political prisoners” and “hostages” and said he would “absolutely” consider pardoning every one of them). Even after he saw fellow rioter Ashli Babbitt get shot and killed, Alam was still calling for violence, Lederer said.

Persons: WASHINGTON —, Zachary Alam, Donald Trump, Alam, Trump's, Trump, Sharyl Attkisson, Attkisson, “, ” Alam, ”, President Trump, Dabney L, Friedrich, Steven A, Metcalf, Rebekah Lederer, Alam’s, ” Friedrich, Lederer, Ashli Babbitt, ” Lederer Organizations: U.S . Capitol, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Justice Department, Capitol, Sinclair, U.S, District of Columbia, Federal, FBI, Trump, Alam Locations: Washington, ”, Jan, U.S

☆ Minnesota man found guilty of murdering mother of his children after allegedly warning she could end up like Gabby Petito
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | David K. Li | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Minnesota jurors on Thursday convicted a man for murdering his girlfriend after he'd warned she could end up like Gabby Petito, the vlogger who in 2021 was also slain by her boyfriend. The victim vanished on March 31, 2023 after dropping off her and Fravel’s two children at daycare in Winona. We’re not going to get Madeline back,” the victim’s father David Kinsgbury told reporters outside court. “Fravel can’t be punished enough.”The victim's loved ones said it'll never be clear to them what led Fravel to kill Kingsbury. A friend of the victim had testified that Kingsbury told her Fravel threatened that if she didn't do as told, the mother of two could end up like end up like Petito.

Persons: he'd, Gabby Petito, Adam Fravel, Madeline, Maddi, Fravel, We’re, David Kinsgbury, “, can’t, it'll, Kingsbury, influencer, David Kingsbury, you've, Zachary Bauer, Krista Hulthgren Organizations: YouTube Locations: Minnesota, Mankato, Kingsbury, Winona, Mabel

☆ Trump's potential Supreme Court impact and racist text messages about picking cotton: Morning Rundown
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Elizabeth Robinson | Elizabeth Robinson Is A Newsletter Editor For Nbc News | Based In Los Angeles. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Republicans are looking ahead at the possibility of Donald Trump appointing more Supreme Court justices. And dozens of Black people have said they received racist text messages about picking cotton. That includes potentially installing several more Supreme Court justices. More election coverage:Black people report receiving racist text messages about picking cottonFederal and local authorities across the U.S. have said they are aware of text messages that dozens of Black people have received telling them they’ve been “selected” to “pick cotton at the nearest plantation.” The messages came hours after the polarized presidential election came to a close earlier this week. Black social media users across the country reported similar text messages.

Persons: Donald Trump, Liam Payne, Trump, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett —, Franklin D, Roosevelt, hasn't, they’ve, Monèt Miller, ” Miller, Liam Payne’s, Payne, Yifei Xu, Xu, — Elizabeth Robinson, Elizabeth Robinson Organizations: White, Republicans, Federal Communications Commission, FBI, Justice Department, “, NBC Locations: Atlanta, Brown, Buenos Aires, Shanghai

In President-elect Trump, these ascendant insurgents across the pond see a key ally, someone who shares their mix of authoritarianism, populism and extreme hostility to immigration. “We have big plans for the future!” posted Hungary’s Prime Minister Vikor Orbán, an influential Trump friend and ally, calling it “a much needed victory for the World!”Orban visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida earlier this year. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at an EU Summit in Budapest on Friday. The AfD is an anti-immigration, anti-Muslim political party that is being monitored by the country’s domestic intelligence agency for suspected extremism — something it denies. Argentina’s far right, libertarian president, Javier Milei, told Trump he could “count on Argentina to carry out your task.” And Israel’s ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir reacted with a “Yesssss.”

Persons: Donald Trump’s, ”, Vikor Orbán, Trump, ” Orban, András, “, László, aren’t, Viktor Orban, Petr David Josek, Geert Wilders, Giorgia Meloni, Alice Weidel, Stefan Keuter, Christoph Reichwein, Siegbert Droese, ” Stefan Keuter, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Keuter, “ Trump, Javier Milei, Itamar Ben, Gvir Organizations: Trump, Hungary’s, Fidesz, NBC, EU, Washington, WIN, Getty, NBC News, Young Republicans, Nazi, National Locations: Lago, Florida, Budapest, Netherlands, Italy, Washington, Rome, Germany, Essen , Germany, Ukraine, Europe, Argentina

It faced a June 2025 deadline to complete the project, according to the federal indictment outlining grand jury charges against Lumumba, Owens and Banks. Lumumba faces five charges, including one count of federal program bribery and another count of money laundering. Banks has been charged with one conspiracy to commit federal program bribery, honest services wire fraud and money laundering, in addition to a count of federal program bribery. At least seven people have pleaded guilty in relation to the scandal. “This indictment is a horrible example of a flawed FBI investigation,” Owens told reporters after he pleaded not guilty Thursday.

Persons: JACKSON, —, “, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, ”, Lumumba, Jody Owens, Owens, Aaron Banks, Angelique Lee, Barbara Gauntt, Banks, Owens ’, Sherik Marve Smith, ” Smith, “ Banks, Jackson, ” Todd Gee, Ward, ” Owens Organizations: Miss, City, Democrat, Department of Housing, Urban, Banks, Jackson City, Clarion, Ledger, USA, Democratic, NBC, Authorities, Federal, Justice Department, FBI, Courthouse, “, Southern, Southern District of, ” Locations: Mississippi’s, Jackson, Hinds, Nashville , Tennessee, Fort Lauderdale , Florida, Owens, U.S, Southern District, Southern District of Mississippi, Africa

☆ Justice Department brings charges in thwarted Iranian plot to assassinate Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Rebecca Shabad | Michael Kosnar | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

The Department of Justice on Friday charged an Iranian man and two New York residents in murder-for-hire plots targeting then-candidate Donald Trump and others. The department said the plot was part of Iran's efforts to exact revenge for the death of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani during the Trump administration. Around Oct. 7, the Iranian official tasked Shakeri with providing a plan within seven days to kill Trump, he told law enforcement in recorded interviews, the complaint says. Shakeri told FBI officials that he didn't intend to propose a plan to assassinate Trump in the timeframe set by the IRGC, it says. Trump communications director Steven Cheung said Friday that the president-elect is aware of the attempted assassination plot.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Damian Williams, Qasem Soleimani, Farhad Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera, Jonathan Loadholt, Shakeri, surveil, Steven Cheung, Rivera, Masih Alinejad Organizations: U.S, The, Justice, Southern, of, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iranian, Trump, FBI, White, Prosecutors, NBC News Locations: Iranian, Tehran, Iran, New York, U.S, of New York, Brooklyn , New York, Staten Island , New York, New York City, Sri Lanka, United States, Afghan, New York State, Brooklyn, Loadholt, Staten Island, American

☆ DOJ announces charges in Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The Justice Department on Friday announced federal charges in a thwarted Iranian plot to kill Donald Trump before the presidential election. According to court documents, Iranian officials asked Farhad Shakeri, 51, in September to focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump. But IRGC officials told Shakeri on October 7 to focus only on Trump, court documents say, and that he had seven days to formulate an assassination plan. Shakeri would pay these criminal associates, like his two co-conspirators, to monitor the victims Iranian officials sought to assassinate, according to court documents. Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that all three men were specifically charged in the plot against Donald Trump.

Persons: Donald Trump, Farhad Shakeri, Trump, Shakeri –, –, Shakeri, Carlisle Rivera, Jonathan Loadholt, General Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, ” Garland, “, Qasem, ”, Masih Alinejad, Alinejad, Rivera, Loadholt Organizations: CNN, The Justice Department, Justice Department, Prosecutors, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Trump, Justice, FBI Locations: Iran, Afghan, Tehran, New York, United States, US, New, American, Sri Lanka, New York City

☆ As Trump grasps unprecedented power, the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity looms large
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( John Fritze | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Immune, immune, immune.”Justice Department ‘problem’But just how far that immunity extends is murky. The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision left many questions unanswered and lower courts have not yet wrestled with them. But the Supreme Court majority ruled that a president’s power to direct the Justice Department’s investigative and prosecutorial work is within his exclusive constitutional authority. While the Supreme Court granted former presidents wide immunity, the ruling made no such promises to aides in the White House or Justice Department. Even the conservative Supreme Court and several lower courts repeatedly blocked Trump, who according to a study last year had the worst win rate at the high court of any modern president.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Jack Smith “, Joe Biden, “, ”, Neil Eggleston, Obama, John Roberts, Biden, chafed, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, Smith, It’s, Smith’s, Trump’s, Richard Painter, George W, Bush, Painter, ” Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Mark Meadows, ” Rod Rosenstein Organizations: CNN, White, ”, Navy, Department, Trump, Justice Department, Supreme Court Locations: Georgia

☆ Trump's election interference case is on ice after Jack Smith, defense, and judge agree to vacate deadlines
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Prosecutors sought to vacate remaining deadlines in Donald Trump's election-interference case. Justice Department policy says a sitting president cannot be prosecuted while in office. AdvertisementA federal judge on Friday granted special counsel Jack Smith's request to vacate all pending deadlines for President-elect Donald Trump's federal election interference case. There is long-standing Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be prosecuted while in office. Over the last month, the federal judge overseeing the election interference case released a trove of prosecutors' evidence against Trump.

Persons: Donald Trump's, Jack Smith, —, Jack Smith's, Smith, Trump, John Moscow, Steven Cheung Organizations: Service, Trump Department of Justice, Manhattan, Department of Justice, Department, Trump

☆ Notre-Dame’s bells ring out for the first time since the devastating 2019 fire
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | Caroline Baum | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

On Friday morning, eight of the cathedral’s bells tolled for the first time since April 2019, according to Alexandre Gougeon, who managed their installation. “Hearing the bells ring this morning was very moving,” Gougeon told CNN, adding that the project to install the bells had taken a year and a half. Three new bells were also presented to the public and installed in the cathedral on Thursday. A worker installs the clapper onto "Marcel," one of the eight bells of Notre-Dame's north belfry in September. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty ImagesIn 2019, the 850-year-old building was engulfed by a devastating blaze, which burned for several hours.

Persons: Alexandre Gougeon, ” Gougeon, Notre Dame, “, ” Tony Estanguet, ”, Olivier Ribadeau Dumas, Marcel, Ed Jones, Hubert Hitier, Emmanuel Macron, Philippe Jost, ” Jost Organizations: CNN, Notre, Dame, Paris, Stade de France, Notre Dame, BFM, Getty, UNESCO, Heritage, RTL, “ Locations: Paris, Notre, French, “, AFP, Seine

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