As President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial unfolds, Courthouse News will be gathering interviews with senators, members of Congress, attorneys and other newsmakers in the corridors of the Capitol for this regular feature.
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A police union spokesman on Tuesday called St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner the worst prosecutor in the country, a day after she accused the union and city of a racist conspiracy to force her out.
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Two months after her barrier-breaking election, the first black treasurer of a small city south of Pittsburgh brought a federal complaint against two white officials whom she accuses of conspiring to block her from assuming the office.
Read moreA federal court in Texas ruled that exonerated former judge Suzanne Wooten has plausibly pleaded her conspiracy claim, which alleges that Collin County district attorney’s office defendants – at the request of the incumbent judge she beat in an election – acted in concert with a former assistant attorney general to investigate her.
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A federal judge gave Tekashi 6ix9ine a two-year sentence Wednesday for his involvement with the Brooklyn set of the Bloods gang whose members the gangster rapper spent days on the stand fingering as a government cooperator.
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Rick Gates clocked over 500 hours cooperating with federal investigators, but it was not enough to keep him out of jail as a federal judge handed the former Trump deputy campaign manager a 45-day sentence Tuesday.
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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.
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