Florida sheriff to investigate Epstein’s work release

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida sheriff launched an investigation Friday into whether his department properly monitored the wealthy financer Jeffrey Epstein while he was serving a sentence for soliciting prostitution from underage girls. The inquiry will focus on whether deputies assigned to monitor Epstein in a work-release program violated any rules or regulations, Palm Beach... Read More

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Jeffrey Epstein

July 22, 2019

Counties: Drug companies shipped suspicious opioid orders

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Companies that make and distribute opioids didn’t abide by a requirement that they refuse to ship orders of the powerful prescription painkillers when they deemed them suspicious, helping fuel a national addiction and overdose crisis, two Ohio counties said in a legal filing Friday. Until now, lawyers representing Cuyahoga and Summit... Read More

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Opioids

July 22, 2019

Scion of wealthy NYC family, Morgenthau was DA for decades

NEW YORK (AP) — He seemed almost like he was out of Central Casting — tall and patrician, with a cultivated above-the-fray presence. And in fact, former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau inspired some television casting of his own, as the model for the avuncular character of prosecutor Adam Schiff, played by actor Steven... Read More

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Robert Morgenthau

July 19, 2019

Drug company, 4 people indicted in US painkiller probe

CINCINNATI (AP) — A wholesale drug distributor linked to the flood of opioids into Appalachia and two of its former executives were charged with conspiring to illegally distribute millions of painkiller pills, federal authorities said Thursday. The former executives of Ohio-based Miami-Luken — the president and compliance officer — along with two pharmacists in West... Read More

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Opioids

July 19, 2019

Trial of ex-Flynn business partner allowed to go forward

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A judge is allowing the trial of a one-time business partner of former national security adviser Michael Flynn to go forward even though he says the evidence is weak. Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the trial of Bijan Kian . He is accused of failing to register as a Turkish... Read More

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Bijan Kian

July 19, 2019

Feds: Man charged with killing 3 had been deported twice

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Guatemalan man who apparently entered the U.S. illegally after being deported twice has been charged with killing an Iowa woman and her two children. Marvin Oswaldo Escobar-Orellana, 31, made an initial court appearance Thursday in Des Moines, where the judge set his bond at $3 million cash and scheduled... Read More

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Marvin Oswaldo Escobar-Orellana

July 19, 2019

Deemed dangerous, Epstein denied bail in sex abuse case

NEW YORK (AP) — A judge who denied bail for jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking charges Thursday said he poses a danger to the public and seems to still have an uncontrollable urge for sexual conduct with or in the presence of underage girls. Epstein, 66, also might use his “great wealth and... Read More

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Jeffrey Epstein

July 19, 2019

About 10,000 au pairs to get paid in class-action settlement

DENVER (AP) — About 10,000 live-in childcare workers from around the world will share in a class-action settlement in a case that challenged whether they should be treated as employees entitled to minimum wage or members of the family learning about the United States while helping out at home. U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello gave... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

July 19, 2019

State court suit over ‘no-call’ can proceed against NFL

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana judge ruled Thursday that a damage lawsuit can continue against the NFL over the playoff “no-call” that helped the Los Angeles Rams beat the New Orleans Saints and advance to the Super Bowl. State Civil District Court Judge Nicole Sheppard also ruled that attorney Antonio “Tony” LeMon can request... Read More

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NFL

July 19, 2019

Woman charged in Michigan soldier’s death guilty of murder

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — The wife of a U.S. Army sergeant from Michigan who plotted to kill her husband has been found guilty of murder. Kemia Hassel was convicted Thursday by a Berrien County jury in the death of Sgt. Tyrone Hassel III. The 23-year-old Hassel was fatally shot in an ambush on New... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News

July 19, 2019

Ex-Illinois student’s life spared in killing of scholar

PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A former University of Illinois doctoral student was spared the death penalty Thursday and sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and killing a 26-year-old scholar from China. Her parents, disappointed he was not sentenced to death, publicly begged for the killer to reveal where her remains are so they can... Read More

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Brendt Christensen

July 19, 2019

Police overseers fire 4 officers in McDonald-related case

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Police Board on Thursday fired four police officers for allegedly covering up a white officer’s 2014 fatal shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald. The nine-member board found the officers exaggerated the threat posed by the 17-year-old McDonald to justify his shooting by Jason Van Dyke and voted unanimously for the... Read More

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Jason Van Dyke, Laquan McDonald

July 19, 2019

Men face sentencing on riot charge in Virginia rally case

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Three members of a white supremacist group face sentencing on a federal riot charge in connection with a white nationalist rally in Virginia and political rallies in California. The men are members of the Rise Above Movement, a militant group known for members who train in mixed martial arts street-fighting techniques.... Read More

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Rise Above Movement

July 19, 2019

Judge weighs new Motel 6 settlement in immigration lawsuit

PHOENIX (AP) — A revised settlement for Motel 6 guests who say the national chain invaded their privacy by giving their information to immigration authorities is returning to court for a judge’s review. A federal judge is to decide Friday on the proposal increasing to $10 million the total amount available for claims. Any remainder... Read More

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Immigration, Motel 6

Florida sheriff to investigate Epstein’s work release

Counties: Drug companies shipped suspicious opioid orders

Scion of wealthy NYC family, Morgenthau was DA for decades

Drug company, 4 people indicted in US painkiller probe

Trial of ex-Flynn business partner allowed to go forward

Feds: Man charged with killing 3 had been deported twice

Deemed dangerous, Epstein denied bail in sex abuse case

About 10,000 au pairs to get paid in class-action settlement

State court suit over ‘no-call’ can proceed against NFL

Woman charged in Michigan soldier’s death guilty of murder

Ex-Illinois student’s life spared in killing of scholar

Police overseers fire 4 officers in McDonald-related case

Men face sentencing on riot charge in Virginia rally case

Judge weighs new Motel 6 settlement in immigration lawsuit

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