An engineer for an undisclosed defense contractor was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison for selling stolen satellite information to an FBI agent he believed was a Russian agent. Prosecutors say the engineer planned to send the $3,500 he made from the sale to an “online paramour” he had never met.
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Seeking no prison time for his disgraced ex-congressman client, an attorney for Anthony Weiner argues in a new court filing that tipping the 2016 presidential election was a top priority for the 15-year-old with whom Weiner sexted.
Read moreAn Alameda County Superior Court judge on Wednesday dismissed criminal charges against a former Oakland police officer at the heart of a police sex-abuse scandal, finding insufficient evidence the man had exchanged anything for sex with a prostitute.
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Saying she was fired over a baseless rumor about sex with a police officer at a death scene, a former deputy coroner brought a federal complaint Thursday against Monroe County, Pennsylvania.
Read moreA former Tennessee sheriff was sentenced Wednesday to nearly three years in prison after admitting to giving female inmates certain benefits in exchange for sex.
Read moreA Romanian bishop who was seen on video engaging in sexual acts with a male student resigned Friday, the Romanian Orthodox Church said.
Read moreA federal judge ruled that a Florida college must face claims that it violated female students’ right to free speech and discriminated against them on the basis of sex by forcing them to undergo in-class vaginal ultrasounds for a sonography program.
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Attorneys for Taylor Swift and the former Denver disc jockey she accuses of groping her opened the trial Tuesday by telling the eight-member civil jury very different stories about the night in question.
Read moreCivil rights attorneys on Monday asked a federal judge to order Oakland to identify and punish senior police officers who botched internal inquiries into officers’ sexual exploitation of an underage girl, though it was far from clear whether the request will be granted.
Read moreFox Business Network suspended its “Making Money” host Charles Payne on Thursday night in the latest raft of sexual-harassment allegations to hit the scandal-plagued network.
Read moreFormer reality TV star Josh Duggar, of “19 Kids and Counting,” claims that In Touch Weekly invaded his privacy by publishing investigative reports from the 2006 child molestation case his sisters made against him, which Arkansas police promised would be kept confidential.
Read moreA phone-sex operator filed a class-action lawsuit against Tele Pay USA, claiming it pays its employees well below the national minimum wage while making hundreds of dollars per hour from customer calls.
Read moreOakland’s former police chief tried for six months to muzzle allegations that multiple officers sexually exploited an underage girl, and encouraged his department to drop its internal probe of the misconduct, according to a report released Wednesday by a court-appointed monitor.
Read moreAn Iowa attorney who attacked his client-turned-girlfriend did not commit legal malpractice against her, a narrowly divided Iowa Supreme Court ruled.
Read moreFrom Buzzfeed to the New York Times, a coalition of news organizations fought in court Tuesday to learn the names of the jurors who deadlocked on Bill Cosby’s sexual-assault trial.
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A judge declared a mistrial Saturday in the Bill Cosby sexual assault trial, with the jury deadlocked on whether the comedian intentionally incapacitated a woman he had sex with in 2004.
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The judge presiding over Bill Cosby’s sexual-assault trial ordered the jury to continue deliberating Thursday after they reported a deadlock on the 79-year-old comedian’s fate.
Read moreThe jury hearing Bill Cosby’s sexual-assault case will hear closing arguments Monday after Cosby confirmed that he would not take the stand.
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