#conviction-and-sentencing

#conviction-and-sentencing

At age 30, Holmes was regarded as a preternatural business talent and, more impressively, described as the youngest self-made female billionaire in history owing to her founding and stewardship of Theranos, a Silicon Valley start-up that promised to revolutionize health care by diagnosing a host of maladies with just a pinprick's worth of blood. It was all a big con job. Her medical claims were a sham.

Santiago Uribe, the brother of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, has been sentenced to 28 years and three months in prison for aggravated homicide and conspiracy to commit a crime while leading a paramilitary group. In Tuesday's verdict, a three-judge panel in the northwestern province of Antioquia ruled that, in the early 1990s, Uribe formed and led an illegal armed group.

In April 2023, a federal jury convicted Michel of 10 counts, including conspiracy and acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Justice Department prosecutors said federal sentencing guidelines recommended a life sentence for Michel, whom they said "betrayed his country for money" and "lied unapologetically and unrelentingly to carry out his schemes." "His sentence should reflect the breadth and depth of his crimes, his indifference to the risks to his country, and the magnitude of his greed," they wrote.

A serial rapist who drugged his victims to attack them at his London apartment and used hidden cameras to covertly record women is set to be sentenced. Chao Xu, a 33-year-old Chinese national, used networking parties at his Greenwich apartment to draw in potential victims before plying them with a drink laced with drugs. After his arrest, Met Police detectives found hidden cameras in Xu's bathroom, including one secreted inside an air freshener, and also recovered videos and images showing he was a prolific upskirter on London's transport network.

Now it is quite shocking as the verdict was read, it appeared to our producers inside the courtroom that Routh tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen. That's what it appeared to look like. Then four marshals dragged him out of the courtroom, took his coat off; they then shackled him at the waste and ankles, and they brought him back into the courtroom.

On Thursday, the populist ex-leader was found guilty by four out of five judges examining the case at Brazil's Supreme Court, on all five counts he faced, making him the first Brazilian leader ever to be found guilty of an attempt to overturn an election. On house arrest in the lead-up to the verdict, he has now been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison.