South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday indicted Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong on charges of stock price manipulation and other financial crimes, setting up what could be a protracted legal battle to determine whether the 52-year-old billionaire illegally cemented his control over the business giant.
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A $25 million campaign to crowdfund a wall on the U.S. southern border fell apart Thursday with the arrest this morning of former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on a Chinese billionaire’s yacht.
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Federal prosecutors are upping the criminal charges brought against the daughter of one of Mexico’s most wanted cartel leaders, tripling the prison sentence she could serve if found guilty.
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The Texas man accused of killing 23 people and injuring 23 more at an El Paso Walmart last August was re-indicted on Thursday by a grand jury that added new murder and hate crime charges to the state’s case against the gunman.
Read moreA new Justice Department indictment filed Wednesday claims WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tried to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia to give him classified information and military secrets.
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A Georgia grand jury has formally indicted three men on murder charges in the February death of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man who was killed while jogging in a residential neighborhood, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Read moreThe CEO of Pilgrim’s Pride is one of four current and former chicken company executives indicted Wednesday on charges of price-fixing.
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A court investigating crimes against ethnic Serbs during and after Kosovo’s 1998-99 independence war with Serbia on Tuesday said it has initiated charges against suspects without giving details.
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A new set of federal charges against R. Kelly in Brooklyn accuses the incarcerated singer of not disclosing that he has herpes in two instances of alleged forced sexual contact.
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Less than a week after federal agents extradited the son of one of Mexico’s top cartel leaders, the Justice Department has arrested the wanted criminal’s daughter, known as “La Negra.”
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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.
Read moreActor Jussie Smollett was indicted Tuesday for a second time on charges of lying to police about a racist and anti-gay attack he allegedly staged on himself last year in downtown Chicago.
Read moreChina denied involvement in any hacking activities on Tuesday after the United States indicted four members of the Chinese military for allegedly breaking into the computer networks of the Equifax credit reporting agency and stealing the personal information of nearly half of U.S. citizens.
Read moreTouting the indictment of two gang members following a joint investigation by local police and feds, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California on Thursday blasted San Francisco policies that limit cooperation with federal agents.
Read moreA Texas grand jury on Friday formally indicted a white former Fort Worth police officer for murder in the shooting of a black woman through her own window during a welfare check.
Read moreA federal grand jury indicted a Colorado man Monday on charges of killing three people in a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015, though the suspect has not yet been deemed mentally competent to stand trial.
Read moreFederal prosecutors filed a second superseding indictment against rapper R. Kelly, claiming he bribed a public employee to forge an ID for 15-year-old singer Aaliyah one day before he married her.
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An indictment unsealed by a Georgia federal judge charges Russian and Italian nationals, a U.S. citizen and several companies in a conspiracy to circumvent American trade sanctions by disguising the destination of drilling equipment.
Read moreThe United States unsealed a superseding indictment accusing former San Diego resident Jehad Serwan Mostafa of conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, al-Shabaab.
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