Longest-running housing discrimination case outlives judge

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (AP) — A federal judge who worked until his recent death at age 96 left a historic trail of groundbreaking legal opinions. But one case outlived Damon Keith: the longest-running housing discrimination lawsuit in the United States. Keith declared in 1971 that Hamtramck, a tiny Detroit-area city long known for Polish culture, had... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

May 6, 2019

Self-improvement guru set to face ‘sex slave’ accusers

NEW YORK (AP) — It was called “collateral” — nude photos and other embarrassing material that female members of an upstate New York self-improvement group turned over to their “masters” to ensure obedience, silence and sexual fealty to the organization’s spiritual leader, Keith Raniere. Now some former members of the group, NXIVM, are poised to... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse

NXIVM

May 6, 2019

Judge to announce sentence in Chicago terrorism case

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge will announce her sentence for a 25-year-old who was arrested in a 2012 FBI terrorism string after trying to ignite what he thought was a real car bomb outside a Chicago bar. The judge’s sentence Monday for Adel Daoud follows a hearing held last week. Prosecutors want a 40-year... Read More

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Adel Daoud

May 6, 2019

Lawsuit asks to end solitary confinement in Virginia prisons

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to end the use of solitary confinement at two of the state’s toughest prisons. The lawsuit filed Monday alleges that inmates held in solitary confinement for extended periods of time at the Red Onion and Wallens Ridge prisons... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

May 6, 2019

Trial beginning for 1 of 3 defendants left in prison riot

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Jurors in the trial of one of three remaining inmate defendants in a deadly riot at Delaware’s maximum-security prison should use their common sense in deciding guilt or innocence, a prosecutor said Monday. “You’re allowed to make rational inferences from the evidence that you see and the evidence that you hear,”... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

May 6, 2019

Prosecutors refuse final meeting with Cohen as prison looms

WASHINGTON (AP) — For months, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen tried — but failed — to position himself as a whistleblower in the vein of Watergate hero John Dean. As the time ticked down toward his deadline to report to prison, Cohen also lost the interest of the one group of people who... Read More

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Michael Cohen

May 6, 2019

French telecom giant Orange on trial over staff suicides

PARIS (AP) — The toll is shocking: 19 suicides, 12 suicide attempts and eight cases of serious depression among employees at France’s main telephone and internet company over three years. A long-awaited trial began Monday in Paris accusing the telecom giant Orange and seven former or current managers of moral harassment and other charges. The... Read More

Criminal Justice News, International Justice Watch, News

May 3, 2019

Would-be NYC bomber gets 10 years in foiled al-Qaida plot

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who plotted to bomb New York City’s subways, then switched sides after his arrest and spent nearly a decade helping the U.S. identify and prosecute terrorists, was rewarded for his help Thursday with a sentence of 10 years in prison, effectively time he has already served. Najibullah Zazi, a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, National Security, News

Najibullah Zazi

May 3, 2019

Judge orders life sentence for Iowa coach who abused players

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A judge sent an influential youth basketball coach to prison for the rest of his life on Thursday, saying he secretly collected sexual images of 440 boys and molested more than a dozen over a 20-year period. U.S. District Judge C.J. Williams sentenced former Iowa Barnstormers coach Greg Stephen to... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Sexual Abuse, Sports

Greg Stephen

May 3, 2019

Billionaire victim advocate faces hearing in Vegas drug case

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A judge says she’ll decide next month if a California tech billionaire and victim rights advocate should stand trial on felony drug trafficking charges after authorities say he was found in a Las Vegas Strip hotel room with briefcases full of drugs. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Karen Bennett-Haron on... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, News

Ashley Fargo, Henry Nicholas III

May 3, 2019

Prosecutor: Murder suspect was ‘boy next door killer’

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An air conditioning repairman charged with murdering a Chicago-area teenager and two California women, one the ex-girlfriend of actor Ashton Kutcher, would “watch, shadow, stalk and hunt down” his victims before fatally stabbing them for sexual pleasure, a Los Angeles prosecutor said during opening statements Thursday. Michael Gargiulo’s trial began with... Read More

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Michael Gargiulo

May 3, 2019

Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push opioid

BOSTON (AP) — A pharmaceutical company founder accused of paying doctors millions in bribes to prescribe a highly addictive fentanyl spray was convicted Thursday in a case that exposed such marketing tactics as using a stripper-turned-sales-rep to give a physician a lap dance. John Kapoor, the 76-year-old former chairman of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilty... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Drugs, Fraud, News

John Kapoor

May 3, 2019

ACLU sues to stop Trump policy on jailing asylum seekers

SEATTLE (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups are again going to court to challenge the Trump administration, this time over its policy to bar detained asylum seekers from asking a judge to grant them bond. The American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Council and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed a... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

ACLU, Asylum

May 3, 2019

Judge tosses $128M damages in ‘Bones’ profit dispute

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Thursday overturned a $128 million punitive damages award to the stars and producers of the long-running Fox TV show “Bones” in a dispute over profits. Judge Richard Rico’s decision is a victory for the studio, 21st Century Fox, which called it a vindication. The ruling leaves in place... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News

Bones, Fox

Longest-running housing discrimination case outlives judge

Self-improvement guru set to face ‘sex slave’ accusers

Judge to announce sentence in Chicago terrorism case

Lawsuit asks to end solitary confinement in Virginia prisons

Trial beginning for 1 of 3 defendants left in prison riot

Prosecutors refuse final meeting with Cohen as prison looms

French telecom giant Orange on trial over staff suicides

Would-be NYC bomber gets 10 years in foiled al-Qaida plot

Judge orders life sentence for Iowa coach who abused players

Billionaire victim advocate faces hearing in Vegas drug case

Prosecutor: Murder suspect was ‘boy next door killer’

Pharmaceutical exec guilty of bribing doctors to push opioid

ACLU sues to stop Trump policy on jailing asylum seekers

Judge tosses $128M damages in ‘Bones’ profit dispute

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