Atlanta Democrat Park Cannon was arrested last month after she repeatedly knocked on the door of Republican Governor Brian Kemp’s office as he prepared to sign a controversial bill overhauling Georgia’s elections.
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Prosecutors say the ex-State Department aide incited the Capitol mob as it tried to breach police lines and shoved a riot shield into an officer.
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A bench trial is scheduled to start in April for a Chinese woman facing federal charges of lying on a visa application and trying to hide information from investigators.
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A federal judge sentenced Mitch Englander, the former Los Angeles City Council member who accepted lavish gifts from a businessman, to 14 months in prison and ordered him to pay a $15,000 fine.
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A Zimbabwean magistrate Thursday denied bail to an investigative journalist who has been in detention for more than a week for alleging corruption in the country’s prosecuting agency, sending him back to a harsh prison in which he recently spent six weeks on a separate charge.
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Uber’s former head of security Joseph Sullivan was charged Thursday with trying to cover-up a 2016 data breach that exposed 57 million drivers’ and passengers’ personal information.
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The Ninth Circuit on Thursday quashed efforts to continue prosecuting the Bundy ranching family at the center of two armed standoffs with the government.
Read moreA federal judge on Friday granted Roger Stone two extra weeks before he must report to prison, after the convicted confidant of President Donald Trump requested a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreThe Civil Beat Law Center for the Public Interest asked Honolulu Federal Court to unseal the sentencing memoranda for a former Honolulu police chief, a senior deputy prosecuting attorney for the City and County of Honolulu, and two police officers, who were convicted of “conspiring to obstruct justice by framing a man for a crime that he did not commit.”
Read moreHaving slung mud unsuccessfully at both judge and jury, Roger Stone opened a new wave of attack at the D.C. Circuit to overturn his conviction on charges from special counsel Robert Mueller.
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Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch Englander agreed Friday to plead guilty to criminal charges of obstructing a federal probe of his actions while in office after a real estate developer showered him with cash, trips and expensive meals.
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Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitch Englander surrendered to federal authorities Monday to face charges of obstructing an FBI probe into corruption at City Hall and later lying to law enforcement about his conduct.
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Hours after a federal judge sentenced Roger Stone to more than three years in prison, President Donald Trump took to the stage of a graduation ceremony for former prisoners Thursday and said his longtime friend and ally was treated unfairly by the courts.
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Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison — a match for the recommendation made more lenient by the Justice Department after President Donald Trump weighed in on the treatment of his longtime political ally.
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President Donald Trump Wednesday declined to say whether he plans to pardon Roger Stone after the Justice Department rolled back a sentencing recommendation for the president’s longtime ally, who was convicted last year of lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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President Donald Trump may have been acquitted of obstructing Congress but the Justice Department seeks nine years in prison for his former adviser Roger Stone.
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As the Democrats wind down their opening arguments for President Trump’s removal from office, themes of obstruction and intimidation pervaded impeachment news both inside and outside the Senate chamber.
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Impeachment managers closed their opening arguments Friday with a warning that if the President of the United States cannot be impeached for obstruction of Congress, it will remove the most powerful check the storied body has on a president — any president.
Read moreNearly three years after his conviction on federal obstruction charges, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca was ordered to begin serving his three-year prison sentence after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take his appeal.
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Dusting off a procedure not seen in the House of Representatives for 21 years, lawmakers voted 228-193 to transmit articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate on Wednesday.
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