In stunning testimony by Merchant, a Pakistani national who said he was recruited by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in 2022 or 2023, earlier this week, the accused walked jurors through the same steps the government accused him of taking: traveling to the U.S. and seeking out hit men kill a politician at a rally.
Whatever your opinion is on Mr. Musk, Twitter or Tesla, can you set it aside in the sense that you will judge the defendant based solely, emphasize solely, on the evidence produced in this trial and the law as I give it to you?
Three men were arrested Monday for allegedly offering to pay $100,000 in cash to a juror at the Brooklyn drug trial of former heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic, leading a federal judge to abruptly dismiss the jury as it was about to hear opening statements. An anonymous jury will be chosen when Gogic's trial resumes after a 30-day break, said John Marzulli, a spokesperson for federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. Judge Joan Azrack scheduled a Dec. 17 conference.
The facts of the incident are ostensibly simple: In the early days of Trump's militarization of the nation's capital, Dunn-a 37-year-old Air Force veteran and, at the time, Justice Department employee-screamed at federal officers stationed in a popular nightlife corridor, repeatedly calling them fascists, and then hurled a Subway footlong at a Customs and Border Protection agent, hitting him squarely in the chest.
Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao faces a federal trial on eight counts of bribery and fraud, alongside her ex-boyfriend and two businessmen linked to a $95,000 no-show job.
