The Texas state senator convicted in February of 11 felony charges for running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme announced his resignation on Monday, though Carlos Uresti’s exit will not change the balance of the Republican-controlled state Senate.
Read moreHome Depot claims in court the nation’s largest suppliers of drywall are engaged in a conspiracy to artificially inflate prices and prevent competition inside the $3 billion industry.
Read moreA national training program for the United Auto Workers filed a lawsuit against former Fiat Chrysler officials, seeking to recover more than $4 million that it says they stole.
Read moreFive Romanians have been arrested in Sicily for allegedly exploiting other Romanians as unpaid farmworkers and prostitutes, police said Wednesday.
Read moreThe attorney for a Chinese woman convicted of trying to send a $50 million missile-firing drone and jet fighter engines to China, asked the 11th Circuit on Friday to overturn her conviction claiming that there is no substantial evidence to incriminate her.
Read moreA federal appeals court on Friday upheld the convictions of three top staffers on Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign who were found guilty of arranging for money to be funneled through a vendor to an influential Iowa state senator who dropped his support for another Republican candidate in favor of Paul.
Read moreAlabama’s disgraced former governor Robert Bentley conspired with other state employees to defame a former finance official who was tasked with finding and delivering Bentley’s emails in response to a subpoena, the former official said in a lawsuit Tuesday.
Read moreFour former executives for the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program were convicted Thursday of fraud and conspiracy charges.
Read moreJust weeks after she was forced out of office, a federal judge in Michigan dismissed a lawsuit from a former county clerk who claimed other local officials conspired to prevent her from performing her duties.
Read moreSaying his opportunity to seek political office was hindered, failed U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a defamation lawsuit against three women who publicly accused him of sexual misconduct in the weeks leading up to the special election in Alabama.
Read moreMore thrilling than any summer blockbuster, a federal judge set a July 5 hearing date for the Democratic National Committee’s wide-ranging conspiracy claims over its digital sabotage before the 2016 election.
Read moreFormer CW actress Allison Mack was arrested at her apartment in Brooklyn on Friday morning for what federal prosecutors say is a conspiracy with accused cult leader Keith Raniere.
Read moreThere is something rotten in Stanislaus County, California, according to a federal lawsuit filed late Tuesday.
Read moreAbruptly shifting gears in their defense to conspiracy charges, an attorney for former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort demanded a harness Wednesday on the investigative power of special prosecutor Robert Mueller.
Read moreRecalling Portia’s plea for Shylock to season justice with mercy in “The Merchant of Venice,” attorneys have asked a federal judge for leniency in sentencing the Turk who flouted sanctions against Iran through a series of multibillion-dollar bank trades.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty Wednesday to the latest charges filed against him in the broad investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Read moreClaims that San Francisco police conspired to fabricate evidence to pin a former reality TV show contestant with a murder he did not commit must be decided by a jury, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreThe Second Circuit revived some claims Friday by Charles Schwab, which claims to have suffered damages from the Libor banking conspiracy in connection with its purchase of hundreds of billions of dollars in debt securities.
Read moreThe defense contractor CACI must face conspiracy but not direct-liability claims from men who say they endured tortured at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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