BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—An Alabama woman who claimed she was abducted after stopping her car to check on a wandering toddler pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of giving false information to law enforcement. News outlets reported that Carlee Russell pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of false reporting to law enforcement and falsely reporting an incident. She […]
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro began his four-month prison sentence on March 19 after being found guilty of contempt of Congress. David Gelman, a criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, says Mr. Navarro should have had presidential immunity in this case, and he is a political prisoner in a two-tiered justice system.
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y.—A man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from a state park in upstate New York pleaded guilty to two felony counts and faces 47 years to life in prison. Craig N. Ross Jr. pleaded guilty Wednesday under a plea deal to first-degree kidnapping and predatory sexual assault of a child, according to […]
ATLANTA—Rapper YFN Lucci pleaded guilty Tuesday to a gang-related charge after reaching a deal with prosecutors nearly three years after he was indicted on murder, gang and racketeering charges in Atlanta. The rapper, whose given name is Rayshawn Bennett, was one of a dozen people charged in a wide-ranging indictment targeting alleged members of the […]
BRATTLEBORO, Vt.—A man arrested last month in Connecticut in the killing of a television news anchor’s mother in Vermont last February has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder. Shawn Conlon, 44, was arraigned in Brattleboro on Friday. Claudia Voight, 73, of Windham, Vermont, died in her home Feb. 20, 2023. She was the mother of […]
A Texas man who kidnapped a 13-year-old girl in San Antonio and sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving her to Southern California last year pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge Friday as part of a plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said. Steven Robert Sablan, 62, abducted […]
NEW YORK—Jonathan Majors was convicted Monday of assaulting his former girlfriend after a two-week trial that the actor hoped would salvage his damaged reputation and restore his status as an emerging Hollywood star. A Manhattan jury found Mr. Majors, 34, guilty of one misdemeanor assault charge and one harassment violation. He was acquitted of a […]
Binance chief Changpeng Zhao stepped down on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to breaking U.S. anti-money laundering laws as part of a $4.3-billion settlement that resolves a years-long probe into the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors have said. The deal with the Justice Department—which is part of a larger settlement between Binance and other U.S. agencies—resolves […]
Changpeng Zhao, the founder of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges and agreed to step down and pay a $50 million fine, while Binance itself faces over $4 billion in fines to settle criminal charges and must make a “complete exit” from the United States. Following a years-long investigation into […]
Beaufort, S.C.—Alex Murdaugh pleaded guilty Friday to stealing millions of dollars from vulnerable legal clients in schemes lasting over a decade under an agreement that all but ensures more prison time for the longtime lawyer who was convicted of killing his wife and younger son. Murdaugh agreed to plead guilty to 22 total counts, including […]
Two of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants taking a plea deal from prosecutors in the Georgia election case. Kash Patel, former Pentagon Chief of Staff, discussed if President Trump had anything to do with the plea deals and the gag order.
CHARLESTON, S.C.—Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh did something Thursday he hasn’t done in the two years since his life of privilege and power started to unravel—plead guilty to a crime. Murdaugh admitted in federal court to 22 counts of financial fraud and money laundering. Murdaugh, 55, is serving life without parole in a South Carolina prison […]
LOS ANGELES—Wildlife traffickers pleaded guilty this week in federal court in California to illegally importing endangered sea cucumbers—which are prized in China for food and medicine and as a reputed aphrodisiac—from Mexico. Zunyu Zhao and Xionwei Xiao were charged with conspiracy and illegal importation of brown sea cucumbers worth over $10,000 from 2017 to 2019 […]
A staff sergeant who oversaw Marine training at South Carolina’s Parris Island has been cleared of criminal responsibility in the death of a 19-year-old recruit in 2021. A military jury on Friday found Staff Sgt. Steven Smiley not guilty of negligent homicide and four other counts in the death of Pfc. Dalton Beals, The Hilton […]
The White House has issued a response to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s guilty plea to federal crimes. “The President and First Lady love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life,” White House spokesperson Ian Sams told The Epoch Times in an email. “We will have no further comment.” […]
LAS VEGAS—Ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving his sports car drunk at speeds up to 156 mph on a city street before causing a fiery crash that killed a woman and her dog. “Guilty,” said the former first-round NFL draft pick, 24, who will avoid trial and is expected to […]
RIVERSIDE, Calif.—A Southern California man accused of killing three teenage boys by intentionally ramming their car after they played a doorbell-ringing prank on him was found guilty Friday of murder. Anurag Chandra was convicted in a Riverside County courtroom of three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder. “The murder of these […]
INGLEWOOD, Calif.—One of four men charged in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter. The 20-year-old man, who was 17 when the killing occurred, also pleaded guilty in Inglewood juvenile court to home invasion robbery. He was sentenced to four years and […]
NEW YORK—The former engineering director at FTX pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy and wire fraud Tuesday, becoming the third executive from the collapsed cryptocurrency giant to strike a cooperation deal with prosecutors building a case against the company’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. The plea by Nishad Singh, 27, in what authorities have labeled one of […]
NEW YORK—A former Mexican law enforcement official once in charge of his country’s fight against drug traffickers was convicted on Tuesday on U.S. charges that he took millions of dollars in bribes from the infamous Sinaloa cartel. Federal prosecutors in the New York City borough of Brooklyn said Genaro Garcia Luna accepted bribes from the […]
