Disgraced former Rep. Chris Collins is about to be sentenced Friday within the insider-trading case that led him to surrender his seat in Congress. U.S. Judge Vernon Broderick is scheduled to ship Collins’ sentence at 2:30 p.m. ET in federal court docket in decrease Manhattan. Federal prosecutors need Broderick to condemn Collins to […]
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Barr says Apple not providing ‘substantive assistance’ on locked iPhone
U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University School of Law on July 23, 2019 in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Attorney General William Barr said during a press conference on Monday that Apple had not helped the FBI crack into password-protected iPhones used […]
Ex-Treasury official pleads guilty to leaks about Paul Manafort
Natalie Mayflower Edwards Source: Alexandria Sheriff’s Office A former U.S. Treasury official pleaded guilty Monday to illegally leaking highly confidential documents about suspicious financial transactions of ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and others to reporters at BuzzFeed News. The official, Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards, leaked so-called suspicious activity reports, or SARS, starting in October 2017 […]
Mueller witness George Nader pleads guilty to child sex, porn charges
This 1998 frame from video provided by C-SPAN shows George Nader, president and editor of Middle East Insight. As an adviser to Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Nader worked throughout 2017 with Elliott Broidy, a fundraiser for President Donald Trump, in a secretive lobbying effort to alter U.S. policy in […]
Sentence recommendation for Rep. Chris Collins in insider trading case
Former U.S. Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) exits federal court on October 1, 2019 in New York City. Collins announced his resignation from Congress on Monday. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Federal prosecutors on Monday urged a judge to sentence former Rep. Chris Collins, a New York Republican, later this week to nearly five years in […]
MIT puts professor on leave for Jeffrey Epstein donations
Jeffrey Epstein in 2004. Rick Friedman | Corbis News | Getty Images The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday that it had placed one of its tenured professors on paid administrative leave after finding that he “purposefully failed to inform MIT” that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was the source of two donations in 2012 […]
Trump loses bid to dismiss E. Jean Carroll suit involving rape claim
E. Jean Carroll visits ‘Tell Me Everything’ with John Fugelsang the SiriusXM Studios on July 11, 2019 in New York. Noam Galai | Getty Images President Donald Trump has lost an effort to get a New York judge to dismiss a lawsuit against him by E. Jean Carroll, the writer who alleges that he raped […]
