George Zimmerman, the Florida man acquitted of murdering black teen Trayvon Martin in 2012, is suing Martin’s family as well as an attorney and prosecutors for malicious prosecution and defamation in an explosive $100 million lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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The former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods was convicted Tuesday for his part in a canned tuna price-fixing conspiracy involving the industry’s top three companies.
Read moreRussian and Chinese spies repeatedly targeted the Czech state last year, the country’s intelligence service said in its 2018 report published Tuesday, detailing cyberattacks and disinformation.
Read moreA former CIA case agent was sentenced Friday to 19 years in prison for an espionage conspiracy with China.
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The disgraced former mayor of Baltimore pleaded guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges in a case involving sales of her self-published children’s books.
Read moreA California appellate court panel Tuesday upheld a former assistant city manager’s conviction for conspiracy to misappropriate public funds in a corruption scandal that launched the small Southern California city of Bell into the national spotlight.
Read moreFederal prosecutors on Friday touted the indictment of a California man as the “first of its kind” involving large-scale fraudulent enrollments of people in plans under the federal health care law.
Read moreNow you see me, now you don’t. The world’s largest independent energy exploration company says that’s what happened after it tried to claw back $1.3 million routed to the owner of a certified minority business enterprise because of an accounting goof.
Read moreA Planned Parenthood lawyer Thursday tried to discredit anti-abortion activist David Daleiden’s motives for secretly videotaping abortion doctors and releasing the videos on the 15th day of a civil fraud and conspiracy trial.
Read moreThe Second Circuit affirmed the fraud conspiracy convictions of Martin “Pharma Bro” Shkreli’s former attorney Evan Greebel.
Read moreFullerton, California, sued Friends for Ferguson’s Future and three residents, claiming they gained unauthorized access to the city’s Dropbox account, and published material damaging to the reputation of city officials, employees and former employees.
Read moreThe leader of a Southern California ministry accused of forcing homeless people to hand over their panhandling money and surrender welfare benefits including food stamps pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of labor trafficking, conspiracy and benefits fraud.
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The European Union has warned that next-generation telecommunication networks face a range of cyber threats, including from hostile countries.
Read moreBaltimore’s top prosecutor has begun asking judges to throw out nearly 800 convictions that she said were tainted by officers linked to a corruption scandal.
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California Representative Devin Nunes asked a federal court in Iowa Monday to award him $75 million in damages in a defamation and common law conspiracy suit against reporter Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines.
Read moreInfowars personality Alex Jones claims in a federal complaint that hackers allied with The Young Turks LLC libeled him by trying to plant child pornography on his company’s computers, and falsely claiming that he “sent child porn to the victims of school shootings.”
Read moreA longtime Texas judge was sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday in connection with a bribery scandal that brought down the once-prominent Democrat’s two-decade judicial career.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a RICO complaint that claims the chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission, et al., conspired to take bribes to allow water companies to raise their rates.
Read morePerdue, Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride and 15 other poultry-processing giants were hit with federal class action accusing the companies of conspiring to suppress wages.
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