In 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.
Read moreA federal judge in California fined a notorious outlaw motorcycle group $500,000 Friday following conviction on federal racketeering charges, but kept in place an earlier decision to let the group keep their trademarked insignia worn on their backs.
Read moreA former member of the purported self-help group NXIVM’s executive board testified Monday that its ex-leader Keith Raniere tried to “break” women in the organization by putting them on very stringent diets.
Read moreA defense attorney invoked Winston Churchill and Atticus Finch in his opening statement Tuesday on behalf of cult founder Keith Raniere, hours before a woman testified that she had been extorted into sending nude photos to the leader of the purported self-help group NXIVM.
Read moreEight men and four women were chosen as jurors Monday for the upcoming trial of cult founder Keith Raniere, a leader of the purported self-help group NXIVM who is accused of running a sex-slavery ring within the secretive organization.
Read moreAs a federal trial dubbed the biggest cult case in decades kicks off next week in Brooklyn, experts and lawyers across the country are watching closely to see how it shapes the prosecution of cult leaders and the public perception of their organizations.
Read moreIn separate federal racketeering complaints, four women claim that Aquawood LLC, Banzai International and others dodged $1.46 million in sexual-harassment judgments by conspiring in an international shell game and money laundering.
Read moreLori Loughlin and three other parents indicted as part of the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions scandal filed not-guilty pleas on Monday.
Read moreA federal RICO class action claims that Young Living Essential Oils, Young Living Foundation, and their directors run “a cult-like organization falsely peddling the ever-elusive promise of financial success and an alternative lifestyle.”
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