BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Beth Holloway was after one thing for 18 years: answers about what happened to her missing daughter. She got them Wednesday when Joran van der Sloot, long considered the chief suspect in her daughter’s 2005 disappearance in Aruba, admitted in submitted court filings to bludgeoning Natalee Holloway to death on a […]
NEW YORK—A New York judge sentenced a woman who pleaded guilty to fatally shoving an 87-year-old Broadway singing coach onto a Manhattan sidewalk to six months more in prison than the eight years that had been previously reached in a plea deal. During Friday’s sentencing of Lauren Pazienza for manslaughter, Manhattan state Supreme Court Judge […]
Former Next Media Founder Jimmy Lai Chi-ying and six former Apple Daily executives have been charged with conspiring with others to collude with foreign powers or forces to endanger national security. Six former Apple Daily members except Lai pleaded guilty to the charge at High Court on Nov. 22. The court has adjourned sentencing per […]
One of Apple’s former corporate lawyers, who was in charge of preventing insider trading, recently pleaded guilty to exactly that: insider trading. He earned money, avoided losses, and traded stock when the company didn’t allow it.
WARSAW, Mo.—A man accused of participating in the killing of a 4-year-old Missouri girl in what law enforcement theorized was a religious act has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Ethan Mast, 36, entered the plea Tuesday, admitting to his role in the death of Jessica Mast, television station KYTV reported. The 4-year-old girl was found […]
Former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru officially pleaded guilty to a long-running scheme involving multiple bribes and kickbacks during his time in office from 2011 to 2020. Nuru agreed to plead guilty on Dec. 17 and was scheduled to enter a formal plea on Jan. 14.
A man from Coppell, Texas, was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in prison for running a fraudulent scheme to receive about $24.8 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. Dinesh Sah, 55, pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and money-laundering offenses, according to a press release. […]
