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

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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

Criminal Justice News, News

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

May 3, 2019

Mother who paid $6.5M to college scammer says she was duped

BOSTON (AP) — A mother said Thursday that she paid the consultant at the center of the sweeping college admissions bribery scheme $6.5 million after her daughter got into Stanford University because she was led to believe the money would go toward helping underprivileged students. Massachusetts’ top federal prosecutor said in March that parents shelled... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Fraud, News

Admissions Scheme

May 3, 2019

Georgia executes man convicted of 1994 killings of 2 women

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — A man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and another woman nearly 25 years ago was executed Thursday evening in Georgia. Scotty Garnell Morrow’s approximate time of death was 9:38 p.m., Warden Benjamin Ford told witnesses at the state prison in Jackson. Morrow, 52, was convicted of murder in the shooting... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Execution, News

Scotty Garnell Morrow

May 3, 2019

In ‘lawless’ world of service dogs, many families suffer

APEX, N.C. (AP) — All the counseling, therapy and medication did little to ease 9-year-old Sobie Cummings’ crippling anxiety and feelings of isolation. And so a psychiatrist suggested that a service dog might help the autistic child connect with other kids. To Glenn and Rachel Cummings, Mark Mathis seemed like a dream come true. His... Read More

Animals, Criminal Justice News, News

May 3, 2019

New Tennessee law punishes voter signup missteps; suit filed

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee’s governor signed GOP-backed legislation Thursday that would likely make his state the first to fine voter registration groups for turning in too many incomplete signup forms, prompting a federal lawsuit and protests by critics who said it would suppress efforts to register minorities and other voters. Tennessee’s NAACP chapter and... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Politics

May 3, 2019

Landlord who refused to rent to Muslim men settles lawsuit

DENVER (AP) — A Denver landlord who was recorded telling her tenant to find an “American person … good like you and me” to sublease her property instead of a Muslim father and son seeking to open their second restaurant must pay the men $675,000 under a settlement. The three men sued last year, generating... Read More

Criminal Justice News, News, Race

Rashad Khan

May 3, 2019

YouTube star to be sentenced in Chicago in child porn case

CHICAGO (AP) — A former YouTube star with a large teenage following is scheduled to be sentenced in Chicago federal court for coercing six girls to send him sexually explicit videos. Prosecutors are seeking an 11-year prison sentence for Austin Jones on Friday. The defense wants the minimum available five years. The Chicago Tribune cites... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Entertainment, News, Sexual Abuse

Austin Jones

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

Mother who paid $6.5M to college scammer says she was duped

Georgia executes man convicted of 1994 killings of 2 women

In ‘lawless’ world of service dogs, many families suffer

New Tennessee law punishes voter signup missteps; suit filed

Landlord who refused to rent to Muslim men settles lawsuit

YouTube star to be sentenced in Chicago in child porn case

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