Prosecutors seek nearly 5 years in prison for ex-Congressman

NEW YORK (AP) — A former congressman should serve nearly five years in prison for insider trading, especially after coming to represent “the cynical idea that those in power who make the laws are not required to follow them,” prosecutors said Monday. Christopher Collins, 69, is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday after the Republican... Read More

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Christopher Collins

January 14, 2020

Judge refuses to second-guess family separations at border

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A U.S. judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration is operating within its authority when separating families stopped at the Mexico border, rejecting arguments that it was quietly returning to widespread practices that drew international condemnation. The American Civil Liberties Union argued that the administration was splitting families over dubious allegations... Read More

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Immigration

January 14, 2020

Federal government blasts PG&E’s deal with fire victims

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tensions between the U.S. government and Pacific Gas & Electric are boiling over as the two sides battle over whether a taxpayer-funded agency should be allowed to stake a claim on a $13.5 billion settlement covering most of the losses from catastrophic wildfires blamed on the bankrupt utility. The showdown came... Read More

Business, Criminal Justice News, News

Pacific Gas & Electric, PG&E

January 13, 2020

Agreement reached in 30-year-old school desegregation case

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — An agreement reached Friday in a long-running school desegregation case in Connecticut’s capital city will put the district on a path to ending 30 years of litigation, state officials said. The settlement includes new measures to reach diversity goals and allows for judicial oversight to end once they are shown to... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Milo Sheff

January 13, 2020

Judge orders homeless women to leave house they’re occupying

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Homeless women who are illegally occupying a house in the expensive San Francisco Bay Area do not have the right to stay and must leave within five days, a judge ruled Friday. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Patrick McKinney previously issued a tentative ruling in favor of Wedgewood Inc., a real... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Dominique Walker

January 13, 2020

President Trump’s ex-private lawyer seeks cooperation credit

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump’s ex-personal lawyer told a judge Friday that he’s the victim of a continuing campaign of “character assassination” by prosecutors who oppose his time behind bars being trimmed from three years to one. Michael Cohen said in a court document filed in Manhattan federal court that federal prosecutors are... Read More

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Michael Cohen

January 13, 2020

Gun case delayed for man cleared of San Francisco pier death

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Friday delayed a gun possession trial against a Mexican man who was acquitted of killing a woman on a San Francisco pier in a case that became a national flashpoint, saying he has questions about the man’s mental competency. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria postponed a trial... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate

January 13, 2020

Las Vegas ‘black widow’ denies killing millionaire husband

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — One of Nevada’s most notorious convicted murderers, dubbed a “black widow killer,” said after being released from prison Friday that she did not kill her millionaire husband 25 years ago in Las Vegas, and plans to use proceeds from her story to offer money for tips about who did.... Read More

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black widow killer, Margaret Rudin

January 13, 2020

Judge allows effort to recall Alaska governor to proceed

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska judge ruled Friday that an effort to recall Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy may proceed, a decision that is expected to be appealed. The decision from the bench by Superior Court Judge Eric Aarseth in Anchorage followed arguments in the case and came two months after Gail Fenumiai, director of... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

Mike Dunleavy

January 13, 2020

Dozens allege abuse at youth detention center

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — More than two dozen men and women say they were physically, sexually and emotionally abused as children at New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center over the course of three decades, according to attorneys who have filed a class action lawsuit on their behalf. The lawsuit filed Saturday in Merrimack County Superior... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

January 13, 2020

Not on form, but brawl over citizenship question continues

The U.S. Supreme Court decided a citizenship question won’t be on this spring’s census form, but that doesn’t mean the fight over it has ended in courtrooms across the country. In Maryland, civil rights groups are trying to block an order from President Donald Trump to gather citizenship data through administrative records. In New York,... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

Citizenship

January 13, 2020

Suit over Border Patrol detention conditions goes to trial

PHOENIX (AP) — A years-old lawsuit challenging detention conditions in several of the Border Patrol’s Arizona stations will go to trial Monday as the agency as a whole has come under fire following several migrant deaths. The lawsuit filed in 2015 applies to eight Border Patrol facilities in Arizona where attorneys say migrants are held... Read More

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Immigration

January 13, 2020

Ex-drug company execs face reckoning in opioid bribery case

BOSTON (AP) — The founder and former top employees of a pharmaceutical company are facing a reckoning for their role in a bribery scheme that prosecutors say boosted sales of a powerful, highly addictive painkiller and helped fuel the national opioid epidemic. Starting Monday, seven people who worked for Insys Therapeutics will appear in Boston... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

John Kapoor

January 13, 2020

Patriots star Edelman arrested for vandalism in California

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — New England Patriots star Julian Edelman was arrested in Southern California on suspicion of misdemeanor vandalism after jumping on the hood of someone’s car, authorities said Sunday. Edelman, 33, caused unspecified damage when he jumped on the vehicle Saturday night on a commercial block of Beverly Hills, police Lt. Elisabeth... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sports

Julian Edelman, NFL

Prosecutors seek nearly 5 years in prison for ex-Congressman

Judge refuses to second-guess family separations at border

Federal government blasts PG&E’s deal with fire victims

Agreement reached in 30-year-old school desegregation case

Judge orders homeless women to leave house they’re occupying

President Trump’s ex-private lawyer seeks cooperation credit

Gun case delayed for man cleared of San Francisco pier death

Las Vegas ‘black widow’ denies killing millionaire husband

Judge allows effort to recall Alaska governor to proceed

Dozens allege abuse at youth detention center

Not on form, but brawl over citizenship question continues

Suit over Border Patrol detention conditions goes to trial

Ex-drug company execs face reckoning in opioid bribery case

Patriots star Edelman arrested for vandalism in California

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