Rose McGowan’s former attorneys sued her for defamation Tuesday, arguing the actress has been falsely claiming they pressured her into pleading no contest to possessing cocaine that she says was planted on her by associates of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
Read moreIn the 11th Circuit, government prosecutors at long last uttered the word “sorry” in open court to victims of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage sex ring, after years of refusing to apologize for keeping them in the dark about a deal that protected the wealthy money manager from federal charges.
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A former nurse who spent the last three decades in prison for the murder of a 15-month-old girl was sentenced to life in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to killing another young child in 1981.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn Tuesday moved to withdraw his guilty plea for lying to the FBI during the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. In his motion, Flynn says the government breached the plea agreement and acted in “bad faith” and “vindictiveness.”
Read moreThe federal aggravated identity theft statute does not specify if the phrase “another person” includes a deceased person but the “ordinary meaning … is unambiguous,” the Fourth Circuit ruled, finding that the lower court improperly allowed a defendant to withdraw his guilty plea to aggravated identity theft.
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An informal adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who testified in the Mueller probe pleaded guilty Monday to charges of child sex trafficking and possessing child pornography.
Read moreTwo brothers pleaded not guilty Thursday to interfering in the criminal human trafficking case against online porn purveyor GirlsDoPorn by allegedly stealing computer evidence from the abandoned North San Diego County home of the website’s owner.
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A Colorado man charged in a school shooting that left a classmate dead and injured eight others pleaded not guilty to four dozen criminal charges Thursday.
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The highest ranking United Auto Workers official yet to face punishment for his role in a sprawling corruption scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday, as the case continues to rock the foundation of one of the most powerful unions in the nation.
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A former prosecutor on Tuesday called Duncan Hunter’s guilty plea to a single corruption charge “a great deal” for the California congressman who had faced 60 counts.
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Embattled GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter said Monday he will plead guilty to federal charges of campaign finance fraud after claiming for over a year the prosecution against him was a “political witch hunt.”
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A truck driver charged with manslaughter for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese immigrants whose bodies were found in the back of a truck outside London pleaded guilty Monday to lesser charges, as police made a new arrest in the case.
Read moreA Chinese tour guide living in the San Francisco Bay Area who was accused of spying for China cut a deal with prosecutors, pleading guilty Monday to acting as a foreign agent in a plot involving classified information funneled to Chinese officials using coded messages and dead drops.
Read moreA Chinese national pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges that he stole trade secrets from Monsanto, which prosecutors say is part of a pattern of Beijing encouraging the theft of U.S. intellectual property.
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A Colorado man accused of plotting to bomb a synagogue pleaded not guilty Monday to three charges handed down by a federal grand jury.
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A California venture capitalist who donated nearly $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to falsifying records to hide his work as a foreign agent, but he was recently informed by federal prosecutors in New York he could face similar charges there.
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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 moreAction Telecom, based in the San Diego suburb Santee, pleaded guilty to defrauding the government of $11 million in federal contracts in a “rent-a-vet” scheme, to get contracts reserved for service-disabled, veteran-owned businesses, federal prosecutors said.
Read moreFormer NFL player Kellen Winslow Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to raping an unconscious teen in 2003 and to sexual battery involving a 54-year-old hitchhiker in a deal that spared him the possibility of life in prison.
Read moreReturning to New York Supreme Court for the second time this month to face mounting allegations of criminal sexual conduct in nightclubs, actor Cuba Gooding Jr. once again pleaded not guilty Thursday afternoon to a new indictment brought by the Manhattan District Attorney.
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