Prosecutors

In the criminal case against Rep. George Santos, prosecutors said they delivered about 80,000 pages in documents to the defense earlier this week. Santos’s attorney said that Congress’s upcoming recess in August would be a good time to review those documents. The judge set Santos’s next court date for Sept. 7, one week before Congress […]

President Biden’s son Hunter Biden plead guilty to federal tax crimes according to prosecutors. He has also agreed to a special deal in which gun charges leveled against him surrounding his possession during times of alleged drug use will be dismissed if he abides by certain conditions. NTD spoke with former prosecutor and retired FBI […]

Attorneys representing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have taken legal action against several Texas House Republicans and two Houston attorneys prosecuting Paxton, demanding they stop covertly contacting witnesses related to what they say is a meritless impeachment proceeding. The letter (pdf) was sent on June 8 to Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, the co-chairs of […]

The Texas Legislature passed a bill on May 28 that could pave the way for locally elected prosecutors to be removed from office for misconduct if they fail to enforce certain laws. House Bill 17 (pdf) was introduced by Republican state Sen. Joan Huffman earlier this year and it passed the Senate Sunday in a 20–11 vote after passing both […]

Security footage shown to the public for the first time this month by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson does not exonerate Jan. 6 defendants, prosecutors argue in a new court filing. Republicans gave Carlson access to tens of thousands of hours of footage from Jan. 6, 2021, and he broadcast clips on his show, including footage […]

BUCHAREST—Internet personality Andrew Tate said on Wednesday there was no justice in Romania and that the case file against him in a criminal investigation for alleged human trafficking and rape was empty. Tate, his brother Tristan, and two Romanian female suspects have been in police custody since Dec. 29 pending an ongoing criminal investigation on […]

The Washington D.C. police officer who beat a Minnesota woman with a metal baton at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is a 19-year veteran with a history of use-of-force complaints. Victoria C. White, of Minnesota, was struck nearly 40 times in a four-minute span in the Lower West Terrace tunnel leading into the […]

Officials have completed their examination of documents that were taken during a raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and that possible “attorney-client privileged information” was seized by FBI agents, said the Department of Justice in a Monday filing. The Department of Justice filed a response on Monday morning in response to a motion […]

In March, a top prosecutor in Chicago’s Cook County made a “desperate” plea for help as a steady stream of prosecutors left in droves. The high turnover has left State’s Attorney Kim Foxx with a significant backlog. A former state prosecutor says it’s her own fault.

Two illegal aliens from Mexican allegedly linked to the deadly smuggling operation that left 51 men and women dead in the back of a sweltering semi-trailer in Texas were charged by federal prosecutors with firearm-related offenses on Tuesday. According to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Texas, Juan […]

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday said the court should consider a 30 to 55 year sentence for socialite Ghislaine Maxwell who was convicted of sex trafficking young girls to her long-time associate and one-time boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. “Ghislaine Maxwell played an instrumental role in the horrific sexual abuse of multiple young teenage girls. As part of […]

After a mass shooting in Philadelphia over the weekend that killed three people and injured at least 11 more, authorities have brought one suspect into custody and issued an arrest warrant for another. The mass shooting on late June 4 involved multiple shooters who opened fire into a crowd on a busy street, police previously said. […]

Federal prosecutors investigating Hunter Biden in a tax probe served a subpoena to obtain financial documents from a paternity lawsuit involving President Joe Biden’s son, according to attorney Clint Lancaster. Lancaster, who represented Lunden Roberts, an Arkansas woman who filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging Hunter Biden was the father of her daughter Navy Joan […]

FRANKFURT, Germany—German prosecutors have charged the former CEO of payments company Wirecard and two other ex-managers with fraud and false accounting in connection with the firm’s collapse last year amid allegations that much of its revenue and assets were faked. Prosecutors in Munich said Monday that ex-CEO Markus Braun signed off on financial reports he […]

Warning: article contains graphic content Authorities are considering charges against a man attacked by a tiger after entering an unauthorized area after hours at a Naples, Florida, zoo, leaving a deputy no choice but to kill the critically endangered cat. Zoo officials’ thoughts are with the badly injured man—identified as 26-year-old River Rosenquist of Naples—who […]

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and prosecutors in her office lied and misled the public about the case against Jussie Smollett, according to a special prosecutor’s case released Monday. Foxx, a Democrat whose campaign was backed by billionaire George Soros, initially said there was a “strong case” against Smollett for faking a hate crime […]

NEW YORK—Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the United States that would allow her to return to China nearly three years after her arrest and detention in Canada, a U.S. prosecutor said before a Brooklyn district court on Sept. 24. Under the agreement, the government would put the prosecution on […]