An Internal Revenue Service staffer pleaded guilty Wednesday to leaking confidential details about former Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen to Michael Avenatti, the former attorney of adult film star Stormy Daniels who claims to have had an affair with Trump before he became president.
Read moreA U.S. Army veteran who choked and threw a 14-year-old boy to the ground for not removing his hat during the national anthem at a small-town Montana rodeo pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of assault.
Read moreIn front of a packed courtroom for his New York arraignment Friday, R. Kelly sat slouched in his chair with a pained look on his face and pleaded not guilty.
Read moreU.S. rapper A$AP Rocky pleaded not guilty to assault at his trial in Sweden Tuesday over a street brawl, saying he acted in self-defense in a case that has stirred diplomatic tensions and outraged fans.
Read moreFormer U.S. Marine Bradley White, 31, of Oakley, Calif., faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to conspiring to defraud the military health care program Tricare out of more than $65 million, from which he got $195,000.
Read moreA year and a half after his victory at the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected an argument from a self-proclaimed “constitutional bounty hunter” that his 2014 guilty plea should be invalidated because a ban on guns on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol is a violation of the Second Amendment.
Read moreTwo days after a press conference where Alex Acosta defended his former handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, President Trump’s cabinet member stepped down from his post as secretary of labor.
Read morePresident Trump’s Labor Secretary Alex Acosta blamed Florida. He blamed how trauma distorts the memories of the victims of sexual assault. He blamed a pre-#MeToo society that viewed women accusing powerful men of sexual assault with a jaundiced eye.
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President Trump says he’ll look “very closely” at Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s handling of a sex trafficking case involving jailed billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein, but he stood by his Cabinet official, praising Acosta’s performance on the job and saying he felt “very badly” for him.
Read more“The Wolf of Wall Street” producer and stepson of Malaysia’s former prime minister pleaded not guilty on Friday to laundering $248 million from a state investment fund, becoming the third person in his family charged in the 1MDB scandal that helped end Najib Razak’s government last year.
Read moreEastern Pennsylvania saw its third Democratic mayor in the last year and a half convicted of public corruption charges Tuesday.
Read moreA Texas woman charged with mailing a homemade bomb in 2016 to then-President Barack Obama, implicated when FBI agents matched a hair that was found on the package’s address label to her cat, pleaded guilty Monday.
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Former University of Southern California gynecologist George Tyndall pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of sexual assault of 16 women at a student health center.
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Already convicted federally on a host of financial crimes, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort pleaded not guilty Thursday to related criminal charges by New York authorities.
Read moreGrammy-winning rapper Cardi B was arraigned Tuesday on new felony charges in connection with a fight last year at a New York City strip club.
Read moreThe man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques on Friday pleaded not guilty to all the charges filed against him.
Read moreMargaret Hunter, the wife and campaign manager of U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., pleaded guilty Thursday to one charge of conspiracy for converting campaign funds to personal use, agreeing to testify against her husband if called upon by prosecutors.
Read moreThe North Carolina man charged with killing three much-admired Muslim university students pleaded guilty Wednesday, four years after the slayings.
Read moreThe man accused of stealing from and abusing the late comic book legend Stan Lee pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday.
Read moreAppearing in the same courthouse where he once represented the adult film star, celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti told a federal judge Tuesday that he will fight charges that he tried to rip off Stormy Daniels.
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