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Appeals court reinstates lawsuit by Honduran woman who says ICE agent repeatedly raped her
A New York federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit brought by a Honduran woman who says she was repeatedly raped and impregnated by an immigration agent who threatened to get her deported if she didn’t obey him. The 2nd U.S.
 
Peaches Stergo, left, leaves Manhattan federal court, Thursday, July 27, 2023, in New York after she was sentenced to more than four years in prison for cheating an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor of $2.8 million. Stergo met him on a dating website seven years ago. Prosecutors say the 36-year-old Champions Gate, Florida, resident used the money to live lavishly. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
Florida woman who stole nearly $3 million from Holocaust survivor gets over 4 years in prison
A Florida woman who drained an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor’s life savings by posing as a love interest and then lived lavishly off the $2.8 million she got has been sentenced to over four years in prison.
 
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Federal court, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Campaign finance charge dropped from case against Sam Bankman-Fried
Prosecutors have withdrawn a campaign finance charge from eight counts among charges FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will face at an October trial.
 
FILE - In this May 3, 2019, file photo, trainer Jason Servis attends events at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Servis, the trainer of racehorse champion Maximum Security, was sentenced to four years in prison on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, for his role in a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them race faster. (AP Photo/Gregory Payan, File)
Trainer of champion Maximum Security gets 4 years in prison in racehorse-drugging scheme
The trainer of racehorse champion Maximum Security has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a widespread international scheme to drug horses to make them race faster. Jason Servis was sentenced Wednesday by U.S.
 
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Federal court, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
Sam Bankman-Fried should be jailed until trial, prosecutor says, citing bail violations
A judge is weighing whether to revoke Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail. It’s under consideration after prosecutors said Wednesday that the FTX founder used the press to harass a key witness against him and should be locked up until trial. Judge Lewis A.
 
FILE - Actor Michael K. Williams poses for a portrait at the Beverly Hilton during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 30, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. A 71-year-old man linked to a crew of drug dealers blamed in the death of Williams has been sentenced Tuesday, July 25, 2023, to more than two years in prison at a proceeding in which the actor's nephew urged compassion for the defendant. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)
Michael K. Williams’ nephew urges compassion for defendant at sentencing related to actor’s death
A 71-year-old man linked to a crew of drug dealers blamed in the death of actor Michael K. Williams has been sentenced to more than two years in prison at a proceeding in which the actor’s nephew urged compassion for the defendant.
 
Colorado businessman Timothy Shea stands outside Manhattan federal court after he was sentenced on Tuesday, July 25, 2023, in New York. Shea was sentenced to five years and three months in prison for his role in a scheme to siphon hundreds of thousands of dollars from an online fundraiser that collected $25 million in donations. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
Colorado businessman gets over 5 years in prison for ‘We Build The Wall’ fundraiser fraud
A Colorado businessman convicted of fraudulently siphoning hundreds of thousands of dollars from an online fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S. southern border has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison.
 
Sexual assault victims share smiles as they gather for a group photograph after sentencing proceedings concluded for convicted sex offender Robert Hadden outside Federal Court, Tuesday, July 25, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Gynecologist accused of sexually abusing over 200 patients is sentenced to 20 years in prison
A gynecologist who sexually abused vulnerable and trusting patients for over two decades at prestigious New York hospitals has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
 
FILE - Minnesota Vikings new defensive coordinator Brian Flores is introduced during an NFL football news conference, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, in Eagan, Minn. A federal judge said Tuesday, July 25, that she’s not changing her decision to let NFL coach Brian Flores put the league and three of its teams on trial over his claims that he and other Black coaches face discrimination.(Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP, File, File)/Star Tribune via AP, File)
Judge says she won’t change ruling letting NFL coach’s racial discrimination claims proceed to trial
A federal judge says she’s not changing her decision to let NFL Coach Brian Flores put the league on trial over claims that he and other Black coaches face discrimination.
 
Sexual assault survivors Amy Yoney, right, and Laurie Kanyok, left, embrace after speaking to members of the media during a break in sentencing proceedings for convicted sex offender Robert Hadden outside Federal Court, Monday, July 24, 2023, in New York. The former obstetrician was convicted of sexually abusing multiple patients over several decades. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Judge says he plans to sentence gynecologist who sexually abused patients to 20 years in prison
A federal judge says he plans to sentence a former gynecologist who sexually abused dozens of patients for over two decades at prestigious New York hospitals to 20 years in prison. Judge Richard M.
 
FILE - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Manhattan federal court in New York, Feb. 16, 2023. Bankman-Fried is harassing a key witness against him at his upcoming trial by giving a newspaper personal things she wrote while she was the chief executive of his cryptocurrency hedge fund trading firm, prosecutors say, Thursday, July 20.(AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Prosecutors say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is harassing a key witness at his upcoming trial
Prosecutors say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is harassing a key witness against him at his upcoming trial by publicly disclosing personal things she wrote while she was the chief executive at his cryptocurrency hedge fund trading firm.
 
FILE - Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen speaks to reporters after a second day of testimony before a grand jury investigating hush money payments he arranged and made on the former president's behalf on March 15, 2023, in New York. Donald Trump’s company and Cohen have settled a lawsuit over Cohen’s claims that he was unfairly stuck with big legal bills after getting entangled in investigations into the former president. Lawyers for the two sides told the judge they had reached a settlement during a court hearing Friday, July 21, in Manhattan, just as Cohen’s 2019 lawsuit was slated to go to trial Monday in a Manhattan state court. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
The Trump Organization and former fixer Michael Cohen settle his lawsuit over unpaid legal bills
Donald Trump’s company and his former longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen have settled a lawsuit over Cohen’s claims he was unfairly stuck with big legal bills after getting entangled in investigations into the former president.
 
CORRECTS FULL NAME TO ZACHARY MARGULIS-OHNUMA, NOT ZACHARY MARGULIS - Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, attorney for retired Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal, speaks to reporters after his client entered a not guilty plea at his initial appearance at federal court, Thursday, July 20, 2023, in New York. The former Venezuelan spymaster close to the country's late leader Hugo Chávez was extradited to New York from Spain on Wednesday, July 19, to face decade-old drug trafficking charges. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Ex-Venezuelan spy chief pleads not guilty to charges alleging he flooded US with drugs
A former Venezuelan spy chief and longtime adviser to the country’s late leader Hugo Chávez has pleaded not guilty to decade-old drug trafficking charges, a day after his extradition from Spain. Retired Maj. Gen.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump is escorted to a courtroom, April 4, 2023, in New York. A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump's bid to move his hush-money criminal case from New York state court to federal court. He ruled that the former president had failed to meet a high legal bar for changing jurisdiction. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
Judge nixes Trump’s bid to move hush-money criminal case, keeping it in New York state court
A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s bid to move his hush-money criminal case from New York state court to federal court. He ruled that the former president had failed to meet a high legal bar for changing jurisdiction. U.S.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks with supporters at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. A federal judge upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump on Wednesday, rejecting the former president’s claim that the award was excessive and that a jury in a civil case vindicated him by failing to conclude that he raped a columnist in a luxury department store dressing room in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump in a writer’s sex abuse and defamation case
A federal judge has upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the ex-president’s claim the jury vindicated him by failing to conclude he raped a columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s. Judge Lewis A.
 
FILE - Charlie Javice, second from left, founder of a student loan assistance startup company charged with fraud, arrives at federal court with her legal team, June 6, 2023, in New York. Frank shook her head repeatedly Thursday, July 13, as a prosecutor claimed that she snookered J.P. Morgan Chase into paying $175 million for her business by lying about its client base. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
Founder of student aid startup Frank shakes head as prosecutor describes case against her
The founder of student aid startup Frank shook her head repeatedly as a prosecutor claimed she tricked J.P. Morgan Chase into paying $175 million for her business by lying about its client base.
 
CAPTION CORRECTION CORRECT NAME SPELLING: Alexander Mashinsky, founder and former chief executive of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network, leaves Manhattan federal court Thursday, July 13, 2023, in New York on $40 million bail after pleading not guilty to charges alleging that he schemed to defraud customers by misleading them about key aspects of the business. (AP Photo/Lawrence Neumeister)
Founder of failed crypto lending platform Celsius Network arrested on fraud charges
The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network has been arrested on federal fraud charges alleging that he schemed to defraud customers by misleading them about key aspects of the business.
 
Trump lashes out after Justice Department no longer says presidency shields him from defamation suit
Former President Donald Trump has lashed out on social media against the U.S. Justice Department after it stopped supporting his claim that the presidency shields him from liability against a defamation lawsuit.
 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll walks out of federal court in Manhattan, May 9, 2023, in New York. A federal judge upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump on Wednesday, rejecting the former president’s claim that the award was excessive and that a jury in a civil case vindicated him by failing to conclude that he raped a columnist in a luxury department store dressing room in the 1990s. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Trump can be held liable in writer’s defamation lawsuit after Justice Department reverses course
The Justice Department has reversed its position that Donald Trump can’t be held personally liable for remarks he made about a woman who accused him of rape because he was president when he made the comments.
 
Sentencing for former Indiana congressman postponed as prosecutors seek $1.4 million in restitution
Federal prosecutors say a former Indiana congressman should pay nearly $1.4 million to cover the legal bills of companies forced to incur expenses when he was prosecuted on insider trading charges.
 
FILE - A person walks past the Fox News Headquarters in New York on April 12, 2023. Fox News will pay one of its former producers $12 million to settle her claims that she faced a discriminatory workplace and that the network tried to coerce her into giving false testimony in Dominion Inc.’s defamation lawsuit against the network, her lawyer said Friday, June 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
Fox News reaches $12M settlement with former Tucker Carlson producer who testified in Dominion case
A lawyer for a former Fox News producer who says the network coerced her into giving false testimony in Dominion Inc.'s defamation lawsuit says her former employer is paying her $12 million to settle her legal claims. Attorney Parisis G.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks with supporters at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. A federal judge upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump on Wednesday, rejecting the former president’s claim that the award was excessive and that a jury in a civil case vindicated him by failing to conclude that he raped a columnist in a luxury department store dressing room in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
A judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to toss out defamation claims by columnist E. Jean Carroll
A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request that he dismiss a New York columnist’s defamation claims against him on grounds that he is entitled to absolute presidential immunity. Judge Lewis A.
 
Michael Shvartsman, right, and his brother Gerald, center, leave the federal courthouse with their attorney, after posting bond, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Miami. The two brothers and another man are charged with making $22 million through illegal insider trading before the public announcement of a Miami firm's merger with former President Donald Trump's media company. The charges do not implicate Trump or the Trump Media & Technology Group. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
3 charged in insider trading case related to taking Trump media firm public, accused of making $22M
Three Florida men have been charged with making $22 million through illegal insider trading before the public announcement that an acquisition firm was going to take former President Donald Trump’s media company public.
 
Victims of gynecologist convicted of sex crimes urge judge to impose maximum prison term
Victims of a gynecologist who practiced at prestigious New York hospitals before he was convicted of sexually abusing women over several decades have asked a federal judge to keep him behind bars as long as possible. Judge Richard M.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women Lilac Luncheon, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Concord, N.H. A federal judge in Florida has set a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents. The May 20, 2024, trial date was set Friday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
A jury found Trump responsible for sexual abuse. Now he’s suing his accuser for saying she was raped
Former President Donald Trump has countersued the advice columnist who accused him of rape, saying she defamed him by continuing to insist she was raped even after a jury declined to agree.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump sits at the defense table with his legal team in a Manhattan court, April 4, 2023, in New York. A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s bid to move his hush-money criminal case from New York state court to federal court. He ruled that the former president had failed to meet a high legal bar for changing jurisdiction. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool, File)
Judge, rejecting Trump arguments, signals he’ll let New York criminal case stay in state court
The hush money case against former President Donald Trump appears headed back to a New York state court. A federal judge showed little inclination Tuesday to let Trump move the history-making prosecution to federal court.
 
Konrad Bicher, who dubbed himself the "Wolf of Airbnb," leaves Federal Court, in New York, Monday, June 26, 2023. Bicher, of Hialeah, Fla., pleaded guilty Monday to wire fraud for entering lease agreements on false pretenses and cheating a government pandemic program. (AP Photo/Lawrence Neumeister)
Self-professed ‘Wolf of Airbnb’ pleads guilty to wire fraud for defrauding landlords
A Florida man who dubbed himself the “Wolf of Airbnb” has pleaded guilty to a wire fraud charge for defrauding landlords and cheating a government pandemic program.
 
FILE - The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023. A federal judge on Thursday, June 22, imposed $5,000 fines on two lawyers and a law firm in an unprecedented instance in which ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research in an aviation injury claim. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Lawyers submitted bogus case law created by ChatGPT. A judge fined them $5,000
A federal judge has imposed $5,000 fines on a group of lawyers after ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research to support an aviation injury claim. Judge P.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Lawyers for an advice columnist who won a $5 million sex abuse and defamation jury verdict against Trump have urged a judge to reject his efforts to reduce the award to under $1 million. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Writer’s lawyers say Trump is wrong about $5 million sex abuse-defamation jury award
Lawyers for an advice columnist who won a $5 million sex abuse and defamation jury verdict against former President Donald Trump have urged a judge to reject Trump’s efforts to reduce the award to under $1 million. Lawyers for writer E.
 
US citizen charged with violating Crimea-related sanctions
U.S. prosecutors say a former CNBC and Fox News employee has been arrested in London for his work as a television producer for a Russian media baron tied to aggression in Ukraine. U.S.
 
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