An 11th Circuit panel Thursday upheld the convictions of baseball agent Bartolo Hernandez and trainer Julio Estrada, who smuggled Cuban baseball players into the U.S. and profited off their major league contracts.
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A California company and its CEO are facing conspiracy, money laundering and other federal charges for allegedly attempting to illegally export chemicals to a Chinese company with military ties, federal prosecutors said.
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One-quarter of American adults believe the coronavirus pandemic was probably created intentionally as a way for powerful people to make money, the Pew Research Center reported Monday.
Read moreA federal judge found a Chinese national and university professor guilty Friday of economic espionage, theft of trade secrets and conspiracy, following a four-day bench trial in San Jose, California.
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A Tea Party Republican who was ousted from the Michigan House of Representatives after he used public funds to cover up an affair with a colleague argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday to revive his conspiracy claims against the state government and numerous lawmakers.
Read moreA federal class action claims Celestron Acquisition et al. conspired to fix the price of telescopes.
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An attorney for a trust linked to Venezuela’s state-owned oil company asked an 11th Circuit panel Friday to reinstate its antitrust and racketeering complaint accusing international energy trading firms of cheating the company out of billions through a bribery conspiracy.
Read moreA federal class action claims GrubHub, DoorDash, Uber Eats et al. conspire to fix fees for their food-delivery services, costing restaurants money.
Read moreErdal Kuyumcu was properly convicted of conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the Second Circuit ruled. Kuyumcu had pleaded guilty but claimed his plea allocution was insufficient to prove his involvement in a plan to channel cobalt alloy with nuclear and missile applications to Iran.
Read moreA Pennsylvania appeals court ruled that a trial court improperly denied Philadelphia electrical union leader John J. “Johnny Doc” Dougherty’s motion to stay a civil action brought by an electric contractor who alleges Dougherty engaged in battery, intentional interference with contractual relations and civil conspiracy while attempting to persuade him to join the union.
Read moreA former assistant public defender sued the Judicial Conference of the United States, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, et al., in federal court, claiming they conspired to violate her civil rights after she truthfully complained of sexual harassment, but “punished” and “intimidated” her for reporting it.
Read moreTwo people affiliated with Imperial Valley (Calif.) Ministries pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges of forced labor conspiracy: Jose Gaytan, 47, and Sonia Murillo, 51, both of El Centro, face up to 25 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.
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A Texas man accused of being the former leader of a neo-Nazi terrorist group was arrested Wednesday on charges of making fake emergency calls targeting elected officials, minorities and journalists.
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A federal grand jury in California has returned an indictment against three administrators of a Philippines-based church accused of orchestrating a scheme to bring church members to the United States to work long hours as “miracle worker” donation collectors.
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Prosecutors unsealed a superseding federal indictment Thursday that puts the Chinese tech company Huawei at the center of a conspiracy to steal trade secrets and to do business with the globally sanctioned countries Iran and North Korea.
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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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