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Federal regulators seek to break up Google, force Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment
1 month ago

Federal regulators seek to break up Google, force Chrome sale as part of monopoly punishment

LA Times  

The U.S. Justice Department’s effort to break up Google harks back to a similar punishment initially imposed on Microsoft after a major antitrust trial a quarter-century ago. Besides seeking a Chrome spinoff and corralling of the Android software, the Justice Department wants the judge to ban Google from forging multibillion-dollar deals to lock in its dominant search engine as the …

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Feds charge 5, including man acquitted at trial, with conspiring to bribe Minnesota juror with $120K
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Feds charge 5, including man acquitted at trial, with conspiring to bribe Minnesota juror with $120K

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Five people were charged Wednesday with conspiring to bribe a Minnesota juror with a bag of $120,000 in cash in exchange for the acquittal of defendants in one of the country’s largest COVID-19-related fraud cases, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI announced Wednesday. Abdiaziz Shafii Farah, Abdimajid Mohamed Nur, Said Shafii Farah, Abdulkarim Shafii Farah and Ladan …

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Audit finds Minnesota agency’s lax oversight fostered theft of $250 million from federal food aid program
6 months, 1 week ago

Audit finds Minnesota agency’s lax oversight fostered theft of $250 million from federal food aid program

LA Times  

Cash from a bag that was left at the home of a juror in a massive fraud case, June 2, outside Minneapolis, Minn. A Minnesota agency’s inadequate oversight of a federal program that was meant to provide food to kids, and its failure to act on red flags, created the opportunities that led to the theft of $250 million in …

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Hunter Biden found guilty on all three charges in historic federal gun trial
6 months, 1 week ago

Hunter Biden found guilty on all three charges in historic federal gun trial

The Independent  

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Hunter Biden's ex-wife, other family members expected to take the stand in his federal gun trial
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Hunter Biden's ex-wife, other family members expected to take the stand in his federal gun trial

The Independent  

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Judge rejects Hunter Biden’s bid to delay his June trial on federal gun charges
7 months, 1 week ago

Judge rejects Hunter Biden’s bid to delay his June trial on federal gun charges

Associated Press  

— Hunter Biden’s federal gun case will go to trial next month, a judge said Tuesday, denying a bid by lawyers for the president’s son to delay the prosecution. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected Hunter Biden’s request to push the trial in Delaware until September, which the defense said was necessary to line up witnesses and go through evidence …

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Trial age verification to block children from social media, Coalition argues
8 months ago

Trial age verification to block children from social media, Coalition argues

ABC  

In short: The Coalition wants trials of age verification technology that would lock children out of social media platforms. The Coalition wants trials of age verification technology that would lock children out of social media platforms. The federal opposition is urging the government to trial age verification on social media, wanting to block young Australian children from accessing platforms and …

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How might new evidence heard in the Federal Court this week impact the outcome of Bruce Lehrmann's defamation trial?
8 months, 2 weeks ago

How might new evidence heard in the Federal Court this week impact the outcome of Bruce Lehrmann's defamation trial?

ABC  

The revived defamation case between Bruce Lehrmann and Network Ten captivated thousands of observers this week, as it heard from a fresh witness, and received several new exhibits. Network Ten uses evidence to further challenge Bruce Lehrmann's credibility Network Ten has used the evidence to launch fresh attacks on Mr Lehrmann's credibility as one of the two critical witnesses in …

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Judge denies officers' attempt to move federal trial in Tyre Nichols death out of Memphis
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Judge denies officers' attempt to move federal trial in Tyre Nichols death out of Memphis

The Independent  

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April 15 trial date set for Trump’s New York hush money case
8 months, 4 weeks ago

April 15 trial date set for Trump’s New York hush money case

LA Times  

A New York judge has scheduled an April 15 trial date in former President Trump’s hush money case. The case centers on allegations that Trump falsely logged $130,000 in payments as legal fees in his company’s books “to disguise his and others’ criminal conduct,” as Bragg’s deputies put it in a court document. But Trump’s lawyers said in a court …

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Memphis judge postpones state trial in Tyre Nichols death until end of federal trial
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Memphis judge postpones state trial in Tyre Nichols death until end of federal trial

Associated Press  

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A judge on Friday indefinitely postponed the state court trial of four former Memphis officers charged with second-degree murder in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols until after the conclusion of a federal court trial on civil rights violations. Criminal Court Judge James Jones Jr. made the ruling after defense attorneys filed a motion asking him to …

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Trump’s plan to use Judge Aileen Cannon to block Judge Tanya Chutkan and avoid trial
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump’s plan to use Judge Aileen Cannon to block Judge Tanya Chutkan and avoid trial

CNN  

CNN — Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers see a major opportunity this week to use his criminal document mishandling case in Florida to create an impasse on his calendar for the two federal judges overseeing his major criminal cases. “The Special Counsel seeks urgently to force President Trump into a months-long criminal trial at the height of campaign season, effectively …

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Court reverses former Nebraska US Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s conviction of lying to federal authorities
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Court reverses former Nebraska US Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s conviction of lying to federal authorities

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — An appellate court on Tuesday reversed a 2022 federal conviction against former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska, ruling that he should not have been tried in Los Angeles. In its Tuesday ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit wrote that the trial venue of Los Angeles was improper because Fortenberry made the false statements …

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George Santos is in plea negotiations with federal prosecutors
1 year ago

George Santos is in plea negotiations with federal prosecutors

Associated Press  

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is in negotiations to resolve his federal criminal fraud case, prosecutors said in a court filing Monday. “The parties are presently engaged in plea negotiations with the goal of resolving this matter without the need for a trial,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace’s office wrote in the filing. Asked if he is afraid of going to …

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Paul Pelosi details attack and arduous recovery while on stand in DePape federal trial
1 year, 1 month ago

Paul Pelosi details attack and arduous recovery while on stand in DePape federal trial

CNN  

CNN — Paul Pelosi recounted publicly for the first time Monday the shock he felt last year as he awoke to a man armed with a hammer in the San Francisco home he shares with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, telling jurors how he later came to in a pool of blood after he was violently struck in the head. …

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A judge declines for now to push back Trump’s classified documents trial but postpones other deadlines
1 year, 1 month ago

A judge declines for now to push back Trump’s classified documents trial but postpones other deadlines

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Florida on Friday declined to delay Donald Trump’s classified documents trial, calling a request by the former president’s defense lawyers to postpone the date “premature.” But she pushed back other deadlines in the case and signaled that she would revisit the trial date later. The federal judge overseeing the Florida classified documents case against …

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Trump trial set for March 4, 2024, in federal case charging him with plotting to overturn election
1 year, 3 months ago

Trump trial set for March 4, 2024, in federal case charging him with plotting to overturn election

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A judge on Monday set a March 4, 2024, trial date for Donald Trump in the federal case in Washington charging the former president with trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting a defense request to push back the case by years. The March 2024 date would also ensure a blockbuster trial in the nation’s …

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Trump lawyers seek April 2026 trial date in federal election subversion case
1 year, 4 months ago

Trump lawyers seek April 2026 trial date in federal election subversion case

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for Donald Trump asked a federal judge Thursday to put off until 2026 a trial in Washington on charges that the former president plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In a court filing Thursday evening, Trump’s lawyers say the years-long delay is warranted because of the “massive” amount of information — prosecutors have already …

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Georgia prosecutor seeks March trial date for Trump and 18 others in election case
1 year, 4 months ago

Georgia prosecutor seeks March trial date for Trump and 18 others in election case

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — The prosecutor in Atlanta who obtained an indictment this week against former President Donald Trump and 18 others wants to take the case to trial in March. Trump is already scheduled to stand trial in March in the separate New York case involving dozens of state charges of falsifying business records in connection with an alleged hush money …

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Federal grand jury reportedly calls witnesses related to Ken Paxton
1 year, 4 months ago

Federal grand jury reportedly calls witnesses related to Ken Paxton

Raw Story  

A federal grand jury has convened in San Antonio and called witnesses close to suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Austin American-Statesman reported The identities of the witnesses and the focus of the inquiry remain unclear. Dan Cogdell, one of Paxton’s lawyers, said at an unrelated court hearing in Houston last week that a federal probe into the attorney general, …

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Prosecutors may be aiming for quick Trump trial by not naming alleged conspirators, experts say
1 year, 4 months ago

Prosecutors may be aiming for quick Trump trial by not naming alleged conspirators, experts say

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — By not naming or charging six alleged co-conspirators in the indictment this week of former President Donald Trump, federal prosecutors may be signaling their desire to expeditiously put the Republican presidential front-runner on trial for seeking to overturn the 2020 election. — “Co-Conspirator 3,” attorney Sidney Powell, pushed election conspiracies that even Trump privately conceded sounded “crazy,” the …

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Real estate investor central to Ken Paxton impeachment charged with 8 felonies
1 year, 6 months ago

Real estate investor central to Ken Paxton impeachment charged with 8 felonies

Raw Story  

Nate Paul, the Austin real estate investor central to allegations of illegal conduct by suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton, has been charged with eight counts of making false statements to financial institutions. Paxton was not mentioned in the indictment, nor was he discussed during a half-hour proceeding Friday in Austin's federal courthouse, where Paul appeared shackled and wearing a blue …

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Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin serving her 11-year sentence
1 year, 6 months ago

Elizabeth Holmes enters Texas prison to begin serving her 11-year sentence

LA Times  

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes on Tuesday entered a Texas prison to begin serving an 11-year sentence for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. Business Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to avoid prison and is hit with $452-million restitution bill Disgraced Theranos chief Elizabeth Holmes appears to be bound for prison soon after …

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Ex-officer Thao convicted of aiding George Floyd’s killing
1 year, 7 months ago

Ex-officer Thao convicted of aiding George Floyd’s killing

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — A former Minneapolis police officer who held back bystanders while his colleagues restrained a dying George Floyd has been convicted of aiding and abetting manslaughter. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who led the prosecution team, said Thao’s conviction “brings one more measure of accountability in the tragic death of George Floyd” while calling on Congress to enact a …

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