One of the four people arrested at the Saturday rally in support of those on trial for participating in the January 6 riot has turned out to be a federal law enforcement officer, who showed up at the gathering with a concealed handgun. The man is reported to be a …
Read More »US Justice Dept charges 138 in massive fraud schemes, including over $1.1 BILLION in telemedicine & Covid-19 scams
Taking full advantage of the US pivot to telemedicine during the coronavirus pandemic, 43 individuals have been charged with paying off doctors and nurses to order overpriced and unnecessary medical equipment and tests – all without actually meeting or in some cases even speaking to the “patients” the procedures were …
Read More »Bolivia charges ex-President Anez with ‘genocide’ over death of protesters in 2019
The charges against Anez, who seized power in the Latin American nation for a year, have been “provisionally classified as genocide, serious and minor injury, and injury followed by death,” Attorney General Juan Lanchipa announced on Friday. According to Bolivian law, the ex-president could face 10 to 20 years in …
Read More »Amnesty International calls on Biden to drop ‘politically-motivated’ charges against Julian Assange ahead of hearing
In a statement ahead of Wednesday’s Royal Courts of Justice appeal hearing – where the United States government will attempt to appeal a UK judge’s decision in January not to extradite Assange – Amnesty International’s Europe Director Nils Muižnieks urged Biden to drop the charges. “This attempt by the US …
Read More »New York Governor Cuomo faces potential criminal charges as local prosecutors make inquiries on sexual-harassment claims
Prosecutors in Manhattan, Westchester County and Nassau County issued statements on Wednesday indicating that they had requested materials from a state investigation into the allegations against Cuomo so they can determine whether he committed any crimes in their areas. Albany County District Attorney David Soares, whose jurisdiction includes the state’s …
Read More »Texas truckers face charges for smuggling HUNDREDS of migrants, but others just WALK across
Marc Anthony Bane, 45, and Tara Renee Dillon, 33, were taken before a US magistrate judge on Thursday to answer charges of attempting to smuggle 89 migrants in a tractor trailer, the US Justice Department said. The day before, the same judge heard the charges against Michael Warren Mccoy, 43, …
Read More »Feds slap Ohio ‘incel’ with hate crime & weapons charges over alleged ‘revenge slaughter’ plot
Tres Genco, 21, of Hillsboro was arrested by federal agents and charged by a grand jury on Wednesday, according to an indictment published by the Justice Department. He is accused of plotting to commit a hate crime and illegally possessing a machine gun, with the hate crime charge carrying a …
Read More »Mel Gibson’s survived charges of sexism, racism and anti-Semitism… but saluting Trump could finally get him canceled
Mel Gibson, the movie star and Academy Award-winning director, has long been a lightning rod for his problematic behavior and beliefs. But, over the weekend, he finally crossed the line and committed the most egregious of mortal sins in the New Hollywood: he saluted Donald Trump. For those of you …
Read More »Criminal charges against the Trump Organization are a political prosecution… as they couldn’t get Trump on anything else
If the company bearing former President Donald Trump’s name now finds itself criminally charged in the overwhelmingly Democrat-dominated state of New York for an alleged tax scheme that predates his presidency – with its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, paraded in handcuffs and charged personally with another 15 felony financial-related …
Read More »Trump Organization CFO surrenders ahead of unsealing of charges in criminal case
The 73-year-old was seen entering the Lower Manhattan building that houses the office of DA Cyrus R. Vance Jr., accompanied by his lawyer, early on Thursday morning, media outlets reported. The legal development reportedly stems from a wider investigation that Vance is conducting into the business practices of the former US president and …
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