Items from a COVID-19 test kit are displayed for a photograph. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Federal prosecutors have criminally charged a Georgia man for allegedly conspiring to defraud federal and private health-care benefit programs “by submitting fraudulent testing claims” for coronavirus and genetic cancer screenings, authorities announced Monday. The man, 49-year-old Erik […]
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Trump mocks virus fear for Romney, Avenatti
U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sunday, March 22, 2020. Jim Lo Scalzo | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump, in the midst of the biggest global health crisis in a century, on Wednesday morning […]
Trump 2020 campaign sues CNN for libel over opinion article
President Donald Trump gets into an exchange with CNN reporter Jim Acosta during a news conference a day after the midterm elections on November 7, 2018 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Al Drago | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign sued CNN on Friday for libel, following similar […]
Google reaches a settlement with state attorneys general
Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 11, 2018. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Google has reached a settlement with state attorneys general over outside consultants hired to work on the states’ antitrust investigation, CNBC has learned. The settlement means that potential […]
Trump friend Roger Stone sentenced to prison for WikiLeaks lies
A federal judge sentenced President Donald Trump’s friend, longtime Republican operative Roger Stone, on Thursday to more than three years in prison for lying to Congress and tampering with a witness in an effort to protect Trump. “He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the president, he was prosecuted for […]
William Barr criticizes Trump tweets about Roger Stone
Attorney General William Barr, in a stunning rebuke to his boss, said Thursday that President Donald Trump should stop tweeting about the Justice Department, complaining that the president’s comments “make it impossible for me to do my job.” The remarks in an ABC News interview followed days of sharp criticism of Barr, Trump and the DOJ […]
Judge rejects new trial for Roger Stone as Trump hints at pardon
Former advisor to US President Donald Trump, Roger Stone, waves as he arrives for a court hearing on March 14, 2019, in Washington DC. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that his longtime friend and political advisor Roger Stone was treated “very badly” by prosecutors, who the president […]
Prosecutors say Trump ally Roger Stone deserves prison sentence
Roger Stone, a former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, leaves the Prettyman United States Courthouse after a hearing February 1, 2019 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson | Getty Images A top federal prosecutor said in a new legal filing Tuesday that Republican operative Roger Stone deserves to be sentenced to “far less” time in […]
Trump ally Roger Stone should go to prison for up to 9 years, prosecutors say
President Donald Trump early Tuesday blasted federal prosecutors for seeking a prison term of between seven and nine years for his longtime ally Roger Stone, a Republican political operative convicted of lying to Congress in the Russian election meddling probe. Prosecutors on Monday had called for that long prison term by citing the seriousness of […]
New Orleans Saints helped Catholic Church on clergy sex abuse PR
The legal professionals signify a person who’s suing the archdiocese on claims he was sexually abused as a boy by a Catholic lay minister. The Saints mentioned in a press release Friday that the NFL crew supplied the PR assist to the Catholic archdiocese after being requested for help by church officers. And the crew […]