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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A Maryland man pleaded guilty Monday to killing five employees at an Annapolis newspaper, and a jury is to hear testimony next month about whether he was not responsible by reason of insanity.
Read moreThe leader of a Southern California ministry accused of forcing homeless people to hand over their panhandling money and surrender welfare benefits including food stamps pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of labor trafficking, conspiracy and benefits fraud.
Read moreJacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, claims The Daily Mail, The Morning Call and G/O Media dba Jezebel defamed her by claiming she “pled guilty to and/or was convicted of an anti-Semitic physical assault on a Jewish lawyer in New York City,” in New York County Supreme Court.
Read moreTwo of the men accused of conspiring with Rudy Giuliani’s associates to funnel Russian money into U.S. elections pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges.
Read moreThe 21-year-old man charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, pleaded not guilty Thursday during a brief initial hearing.
Read moreThe mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, resigned Thursday after pleading guilty to wire fraud for stealing donations he collected for a youth basketball team.
Read moreA Coast Guard lieutenant and self-proclaimed white nationalist accused of plotting an attack on high-profile Democrats and journalists pleaded guilty Thursday to gun and drug charges.
Read moreHis political future is far from certain, but the son of ex-Congressman Chris Collins followed in his father’s footsteps Thursday by pleading guilty to securities fraud.
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