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#federal-charges

A woman serving life in prison for murder admitted Wednesday that she played a leading role in a scam by inmates and others to use stolen identities to secure state unemployment benefits during the coronavirus pandemic.Natalie Le DeMola, 38, pleaded guilty to federal charges of bank fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud.

William Shae McKay could have been in custody Dec. 29 - in more than one case.Instead, the "three strikes" felon, already facing a life sentence, gunned down a Riverside County deputy before dying alongside a freeway in a hail of bullets.How was it that the 44-year-old violent criminal was free?

In this courtroom sketch, attorney Todd Blanche stands as he enters a plea of not guilty on behalf of former President Donald Trump in federal court on Tuesday in Miami.From left are: Stanley Woodward, Walt Nauta, Blanche, Trump and Chris Kise.Elizabeth Williams via AP Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges during a Miami court appearance on Tuesday.

The federal indictment of former President Donald Trump and an associate, Walt Nauta, in the classified documents probe has been unsealed.Trump faces the charges in the special counsel's classified documents probe, marking the first time a former president has faced federal charges.CNN's Paula Reid and Laura Coates break down some of the details.

Former President Donald Trump is pictured during a round of golf on May 2 in Turnberry, Scotland.On Friday, the Justice Department special counsel announced that Trump has been indicted related to the handling of classified documents.Robert Perry/Getty Images The federal indictment of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents probe has been unsealed.

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to ex-President Donald Trump, testified Wednesday afternoon in front of a New York grand jury as part of an investigation into hush money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.This isn't a question of vindication.It's not a question, as I stated before, about revenge My position is that, at the end of the day, Donald Trump needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds, if in fact that's the way that the facts play out, Cohen told reporters after wrapping up his testimony.

A grim Donald J. Trump leaned back from the defendant's table inside a jammed 13th-floor courtroom in Miami on Tuesday, jaw set, arms crossed, his back muscles tensing visibly under his dark suit jacket.About 20 feet away, in the second row of the visitors' gallery, was Jack Smith, the special counsel who had put him there, alert and poker-faced.

A studio founded by the actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck denounced former President Donald J. Trump's use of audio from its movie Air in a campaign video posted online over the weekend.The video, shared on Truth Social early Saturday, featured a nearly two-and-a-half-minute monologue from the movie that played alongside photos and videos depicting Mr. Trump throughout his life.

A 6-month-old baby who survived an alleged kidnapping alongside his twin brother died one month later in a sudden unexplained infant death, an Ohio coroner's office said Friday.An autopsy following Ky'air Thomas' January 28 death revealed the infant was placed face down (prone) on an adult bed with excess bedding and pillows (unsafe sleep environment), unsupervised, the Franklin County Coroner's Office said in a written statement.

A civilian used his legally licensed gun to shoot and wound a suspect in a mall shooting in El Paso, Texas, that left one dead and three injured earlier this week, police said.Emanuel Duran, 32, shot a 16-year-old who is believed to have carried out the shooting at the Cielo Vista Mall, spurring chaos and sending many patrons running in panic Wednesday evening, El Paso Police said in a statement Friday night.

Joran van der Sloot, a man who has been connected to the 2005 disappearance of the American teenager Natalee Holloway, was being temporarily extradited to the United States on Thursday.He was being flown from Peru to Alabama.Mr. van der Sloot, 35, had been serving a prison sentence in Peru, where he pleaded guilty to the 2010 murder of a young woman.

In a pair of unanimous decisions in cases involving defendants convicted of fraud for actions during Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's administration in New York, the Supreme Court on Thursday again limited federal prosecutions of public corruption.One case concerned Joseph Percoco, a former aide to Mr. Cuomo convicted of taking illicit payments to benefit a Syracuse-area developer.

A Twitter page of Chinese exiled businessman Guo Wengui is seen on a computer screen in Beijing on Aug. 30, 2017.The self-exiled Chinese businessman was arrested Wednesday in New York on charges that he oversaw a billion-dollar fraud conspiracy.Andy Wong/AP NEW YORK A business tycoon long sought by the government of China and known for cultivating ties to Trump administration figures including Steve Bannon was arrested Wednesday in New York on charges that he oversaw a $1 billion fraud conspiracy.

Two Kansas men were arrested on Thursday on federal charges that they broke U.S. export laws by selling aviation-related technology to Russia, the Justice Department said.The men, Cyril Gregory Buyanovsky, 59, of Lawrence, Kan., and Douglas Edward Robertson, 55, of Olathe, Kan., owned and operated KanRus Trading Company, which supplied electronics installed in aircraft to Russian companies and provided repair services for equipment used in Russian-manufactured aircraft.

The books are piling up again.The physical ones on the bedside table; the library queue; the e-bookshelves on which reside the novels impulse-purchased from bed, begun and then forgotten in one insomniac night.My eyes, always, bigger than my attention span.I'm contemplating the year's midway point, my book-a-week commitment, the number of pages between here and 26.

One story dominates the front pages of Saturday's newspapers as Boris Johnson's resignation as an MP features across all titles.Even Donald Trump's indictment on federal charges in the US struggles to make much of an impression as the front pages react to Friday night's breaking news.The Daily Mail and The Independent both use a phrase from Mr Trump as Mr Johnson blames his departure on a witch-hunt.

Federal charges against Donald Trump have been made public in the case involving his handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.Special counsel Jack Smith is scheduled speak at the Justice Department at 2 p.m. CT.
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Amazon agreed on Wednesday to pay a civil penalty of $25 million to settle federal charges that it kept sensitive information collected from children for years, including their precise locations and voice recordings, in violation of a children's online privacy law.It was the latest legal action in an intensifying regulatory effort to require some of the world's largest tech platforms to better safeguard their younger users.

Former President and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump participated in a CNN town hall Wednesday where he made numerous false claims about the violence at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.Here is a fact check of some of those claims.Former President Donald Trump tried to blame then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence on January 6, 2021 when his own supporters stormed the US Capitol, claiming she was in charge of security that day.

The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed 13 federal charges against Rep. George Santos and the New York Republican is in custody, a spokesperson for the Eastern District of New York said.Santos has been charged on seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the US House of Representatives.

The Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed 13 federal charges against Rep. George Santos including fraud related to Covid-related unemployment benefits and using campaign funds for luxury clothing and the New York Republican is in custody.Santos has been charged on seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.

Republican Rep. George Santos of New York, who was indicted on charges of wire fraud and money laundering, has lost his effort to keep the public from learning the names of the people who co-signed his $500,000 bond, according to court records.Santos' attorney Joseph Murray had asked the court to keep the names of the people who guaranteed his half-a-million dollar bond sealed after a motion was filed by multiple news organizations, including CNN, requesting the names be made public.

Indicted Rep. George Santos' attorney has filed a letter asking the judge overseeing the New York Republican's case to keep the names of the people who put up his $500,000 bond sealed.Attorney Joseph Murray objected to a motion by news organizations, including CNN, for the judge to make public the names of the cosigners following Santos' indictment on campaign finance and fraud charges in New York in early May.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has made no move to penalize or marginalize Representative George Santos even in the face of mounting allegations of misconduct and lies by the first-term New York Republican, has signaled that Mr. Santos will be allowed to continue to serve in Congress even after being indicted on federal charges.

Sam Bankman-Fried admitted to Congress Tuesday that he fed up while running bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and claimed he has only $100,000 in his bank account, despite a one-time net worth of $26 billion.Or, at leastthat's what he had planned to do before he was arrested late Monday in the Bahamas on U.S. federal charges that include wire fraud, securities fraud, and money laundering.

A former nurse for Rush University Medical Center has been arrested on federal charges alleging he harassed and cyberstalked a man he met on the dating app Grindr, disseminating nude photos of the victimonline and setting up phony profiles that led to hundreds of men going to the victim's home seeking sex.

An Indiana man was arrested Wednesday on federal charges alleging he illegally sold a pistol to a friend in Illinois that was later found in possession of one of the suspects in the slaying of Chicago police Officer Aréanah Preston.Corey Gray, 21, of LaPorte, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court with one count of illegally transporting a firearm over state lines.

A federal search warrant unsealed Thursday alleges "bomb-making materials" were found in the apartment of Highland Park massacre suspect Robert Crimo III, who allegedly told authorities in an interview he'd contemplated bringing improvised explosive devices to the Fourth of July parade route but decided they were too heavy.

A south suburban police sergeant and a patrol officer under his command are facing federal charges alleging they robbed motorists of cash and drugs during traffic stops and extorted people in exchange for declining to press charges or tow their vehicles.Jarrett Snowden, 34, of Lansing, and Antoine "Bell" Larry, 46, of Bolingbrook, both officers for the small village of Phoenix, were charged in a four-count indictment made public Tuesday with bribery conspiracy, extortion and attempted extortion.

A former payroll manager for the Art Institute of Chicago has been indicted on federal charges alleging he embezzled more than $2 million in museum funds over a 12-year period by falsifying payments to employees.Michael Maurello, 56, of Beach Park, was charged in an indictment made public Friday with two counts each of wire fraud and bank fraud.

It's nearing the 20th anniversary of then-Gov.George Ryan's mass commuting of Illinois death row inmates' sentences to life in prison, which earned him praise from global human rights leaders such as Nelson Mandela and condemnation from other politicians and victims' families.The discordant lessons of that day - and how we got there - should inform today's government and criminal justice system leaders seeking to stem Chicago's rising crime.

During that meeting, the four Republicans said, McCarthy laid out three options to handle the Santos expulsion resolution and explained that leadership is only considering one: referring Garcia's proposal to the Ethics Committee.The GOP's two other options are tabling the proposal and bringing it to the floor; McCarthy warned that those paths risked dividing his members.

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Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain.A lot of them are straight-up insulting, said the 40-year-old, who lives in Dallas.They say things like We don't treat drug addicts.'Layman has tried a host of non-opioid treatments to help with the intense daily pain caused by double scoliosis, a collapsed spinal disc, and facet joint arthritis.

Jessica Layman estimates she has called more than 150 doctors in the past few years in her search for someone to prescribe opioids for her chronic pain.A lot of them are straight-up insulting, said the 40-year-old, who lives in Dallas.They say things like We don't treat drug addicts.'Layman has tried a host of non-opioid treatments to help with the intense daily pain caused by double scoliosis, a collapsed spinal disc, and facet joint arthritis.

Local Investigators believe the body of Ana Walshe, a Cohasset mother of three, was thrown into trash bags her husband, Brian, later discarded in Greater Boston communities.Only days before Ana Walshe was last seen alive, her husband, Brian, allegedly made what prosecutors now consider a revelatory Google search.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island man found with an arsenal of more than 200 guns at his home along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and a flamethrower has agreed to plead guilty to some federal charges, according to court documents.At a date to be determined, Ronald Andruchuk, 38, will plead guilty to lying to authorities in order to purchase guns and possessing a firearm as a prohibited person because of his alleged illegal drug use, according to a plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court in Providence on Tuesday.

Kellyanne Conway, who managed the final months of Donald J. Trump's 2016 campaign, met with prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office on Wednesday, the latest sign that the office is ramping up its criminal investigation into the former president.The prosecutors are scrutinizing Mr. Trump's role in a hush money payment to a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who has said she had an affair with him.

A 40-year-old man was arrested this week on federal charges after he checked a suitcase containing an explosive for a flight to Florida at a Pennsylvania airport, the F.B.I. said.The suitcase checked by Marc Muffley, of Lansford, Pa., at an Allegient Air counter at Lehigh Valley International Airport for a flight to Orlando, Fla., on Monday was flagged by an alarm during a Transportation Security Administration screening, Eddie Garcia, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

A small airport in Pennsylvania was closed on Friday night after a suspicious package was detected in checked luggage on a flight bound for Chicago.The authorities later said that bag did not contain anything hazardous, and that the airport would reopen at 4 a.m. on Saturday.The passenger terminal at the University Park Airport in State College, Pa., was evacuated out of an abundance of caution around 6:30 p.m. after a suspicious item was detected by airport security, the Penn State University Police and Public Safety Department said on Twitter.

The FBI is searching for a Florida woman who did not show up to court in Washington, DC, on Monday, when she was set to go to trial on federal charges related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot.According to a warrant issued for her arrest, court officials have not been able to locate defendant Olivia Pollock since late February.

A Libyan man accused of being involved in making the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, in December 1988 pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to three federal charges brought against him in Washington, DC.Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi faces two charges of destruction of an aircraft resulting in death and one charge of destruction of a vehicle used in foreign commerce by an explosive, resulting in death.

The man who allegedly attacked New York police officers with a machete on New Year's Eve pleaded not guilty to state charges in court Wednesday.Trevor Bickford, 19, appeared in a Manhattan courtroom wearing a tan uniform with his wrists and ankles shackled.He spoke only to enter his plea.Bickford was indicted January 6 on 18 counts, nine of which included charges of first-degree attempted murder, assault, aggravated assault on a police officer, attempted aggravated assault on a police officer and attempted assault in furtherance of an act or as a crime of terrorism, according to the indictment.

A gynecologist who molested patients during a decades long career was convicted of federal sex trafficking charges Tuesday after nine former patients told a New York jury how the doctor they once trusted attacked them sexually when they were most vulnerable.A Manhattan federal court jury returned its verdict after deliberating less than a day in the case against Robert Hadden, 64, who worked at two prestigious Manhattan hospitals - Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital - until complaints about his attacks shut down his career a decade ago.

A former Manhattan gynecologist who was accused of sexual abuse by dozens of women was convicted on Tuesday of inducing patients to cross state lines for what they believed were routine examinations during which he sexually assaulted them.The federal charges against Robert A. Hadden, who has not worked as a doctor since 2012, stemmed from assaults against four patients who traveled from and through New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania for gynecological and obstetrics appointments.

A Utah plastic surgeon and three of his associates are facing federal charges for a year-long scheme in which they allegedly squirted around 2,000 vaccine doses down the drain, sold falsified vaccination cards for $50 each, and tricked kids into thinking they were vaccinated against COVID-19 by injecting them with saline, collectively, 391 times.

A former upstate New York election official pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal identity theft charges arising from his fraudulent use of voters' personal information to apply for a dozen absentee ballots in 2021.In entering his plea in U.S. District Court in Albany, the former official, Jason Schofield, admitted to requesting the bogus ballots through a state website in his role as the Republican election commissioner in Rensselaer County, federal prosecutors said in a news release.

A Chicago Transit Authority retirement specialist has been indicted on federal charges alleging she used phony beneficiary information for dozens of recently deceased retirees to steal more than $350,000 from the agency's pension system.Ayanna Nesbitt, 50, of Chicago was charged in an indictment made public Friday with five counts of wire fraud.