The defense in a racketeering and fraud case against anti-abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt hit a snag Tuesday when Planned Parenthood attorneys refuted Merritt’s testimony about inadequate security at an abortion industry conference where she and Daleiden secretly recorded Planned Parenthood doctors.
Read moreA Planned Parenthood doctor who was surreptitiously recorded by anti-abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt at a National Abortion Federation conference in San Francisco said her sense of security was shaken after a video of what she thought was a private conversation about fetal tissue donation was released online.
Read moreTwenty-five people sued Michael L. Postle and King’s Casino LLC dba Stones Gambling Hall in federal court, claiming Postle use electronic devices to cheat at poker and “steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from fellow players … the single largest known cheating scandal in the history of broadcast poker.”
Read moreDownplaying his role in an alleged conspiracy to infiltrate abortion industry meetings and secretly videotape doctors, a longtime abortion foe testified Tuesday he did not know his colleagues planned to use fake IDs and other deceptive means to gain access.
Read moreOn the first day of trial over abortion foe David Daleiden’s campaign to infiltrate industry meetings and covertly videotape Planned Parenthood doctors, a jury was bombarded with conflicting messages on what the case is about.
Read moreTekashi 6ix9ine, the jailed Brooklyn rapper and braggadocious social media personality turned government cooperator, detailed how his ascendant viral popularity was inextricably entangled with street crimes and juvenile rap feuds in testimony against two accused gang members in a Manhattan racketeering trial this week.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a RICO complaint that claims the chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission, et al., conspired to take bribes to allow water companies to raise their rates.
Read moreWildfire victims claiming two engineering firms lied to the government about cleanup efforts may not see their class action move forward, after a federal judge said Thursday their racketeering claims do not pass muster.
Read moreIn the U.S. justice system, federal prosecutors typically have the exclusive power to charge people with crimes, but unknown to most of the public, there are a vanishingly small number of exceptions.
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They may not be able to prove racketeering, but victims of a purported multilevel-marketing scheme can sue President Donald Trump for luring them in without disclosing that he was being paid millions to do so.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday ordered embattled R&B star R. Kelly to be held in jail without bond as he awaits trial on racketeering and child pornography charges.
Read moreMembers of the MS-13 gang committed a string of murders across Southern California in recent years, including gruesome slayings where the gang used machetes to kill victims in a forest near Los Angeles, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Read moreThe fate of accused sex-cult leader Keith Raniere is now in the hands of a jury in Brooklyn.
Read moreIn his last opportunity to defend his client in front of a federal jury, a defense attorney said Monday afternoon that former NXIVM leader Keith Raniere might be a philanderer but that having multiple intimate partners is not a crime.
Read moreA federal judge refused to certify a class accusing Leaders in Community Alternatives of violating federal anti-racketeering law in its electronic monitoring program for Alameda County criminal defendants.
Read moreA woman who says she was lured into a secretive sex cult within the purported self-help group NXIVM testified Thursday she thought its former leader’s reputation as the smartest man in the world was “bullshit” but trusted her recruiter, former “Smallville” actress Allison Mack.
Read moreExposing the “violent underbelly” of a white supremacist gang that they believe murdered and sold drugs inside California prisons, federal law enforcement officials on Thursday announced the arrests of 14 reputed Aryan Brotherhood gang members and associates.
Read moreThe Trump campaign asked a federal court in New York on Tuesday to sanction the Democratic National Committee for continuing to pursue a racketeering lawsuit accusing it of conspiring with Russia – because special counsel Robert Mueller stopped short of that conclusion in his report.
Read moreKeith Raniere and several associates of the purported self-help group NXIVM held a young woman in a room in her family’s house for two years after she kissed another man, she testified over several days at Raniere’s sex-cult trial before finally leaving the witness stand Friday afternoon.
Read moreOne member of a Mexican family with deep ties to the New York-based purported self-help group NXIVM testified Thursday that its former leader, accused of leading a secretive sex cult within the organization, had sex with her younger sister when the girl was 16.
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