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Bill Hwang, the Archegos Capital Management founder accused of saddling banks with $10 billion of losses from highly leveraged trades that went sour, will go on trial in October of next year on racketeering and fraud charges, a U.S. judge said on Thursday. Hwang was arrested in April and pleaded not guilty to charges related…
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The Boy Scouts of America secured approval of a $2.46 billion reorganization plan from a bankruptcy judge on Thursday that will allow the youth organization to exit Chapter 11 and settle decades of claims by more than 80,000 men who say they were abused as children by troop leaders. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Laurie Selber Silverstein…
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Two charges against Katie Price, including one of speeding, have been dismissed. The two charges were heard at a case management hearing at Crawley Magistrates’ Court on Monday, where they were dismissed as “no evidence was offered”. The 44-year-old former glamour model had been charged with one count of exceeding the 60mph speed limit on 13…
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The Department of Justice has said that an American citizen and four Chinese intelligence officers have been charged with spying on Chinese dissidents, human rights leaders and pro-democracy activists residing in the U.S. New York resident Wang Shujun, 73, is accused of using his position in the Chinese diaspora and dissident communities to collect information…
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Pretoria, South Africa – The Vereeniging Magistrates’ Court on Thursday released a man a and his son on R20 000 bail each after allegedly killing a 12-year-old boy for breaking into their car dealership in De Deur, Johannesburg. National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) regional spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana said Shafic Ismael, 64, and Bilal Ismail, 39, are…
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Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez has told a court the Hollywood actor will go to his grave knowing some people will always “believe he abused a woman”. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star and his ex-wife Amber Heard are facing off in court in a multi-million dollar libel trial in Fairfax, Virginia, after Johnny sued…
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A jury on Wednesday found all three suspects guilty in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was chased and shot while running in February 2020. The big picture: Prosecutors only pursued the case after a video of the killing went viral in May 2020 sparking a national outrage. The case preceded the murder of…
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The former governor and several former officials in Iran’s central bank have been sentenced to prison for illegal practices in managing the country’s tumultuous foreign currency market under United States sanctions. Valiollah Seif, who led the troubled central bank for almost five years until his sacking in July 2018, was sentenced to 10 years in…
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A Texas grand jury has declined to indict a former health department doctor who was accused of theft because he took nine doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine that were about to expire and gave them to acquaintances and friends. Hasan Gokal, MD, was fired from his job and charged with theft by a public servant. A judge…
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Facebook Inc. won the dismissal of two antitrust cases filed by the federal government and a coalition of states when a judge threw out the lawsuits. The social media platform shares rose. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington on Monday granted Facebook’s request to dismiss the complaints, filed last year by the U.S. Federal…
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For violating COVID-19 guidelines and also harboring a man who allegedly obstructed the operations of the Enforcement Task force, an Abuja Magistrate Court on Wednesday sealed off a business premises inside the popular Wuse Market. The sealed hair dressing saloon, in shop 1, Block B25, at the time of the seal off operation was packed…
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A High Court judge has criticised Prince Harry at the end of his successful legal action against the Mail on Sunday. The Duke of Sussex’s legal team was granted permission to make a personal statement in court but the judge ruled the costs they demanded were too high and the original draft statement they submitted was…
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Justice Taiwo Taiwo on Tuesday ordered asked the Department of State Service to release Omoyele Sowore on bail. The judge made the ruling after listening to the argument of Sowore’s lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) and the prosecuting counsel. The judge, as part of bail conditions, asked Sowore to drop his passport with the court within…
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More than three decades ago, Alvin Kennard was given a life sentence without parole for robbery. Kinnard, then just 22 years old, has stolen $50.70 from a Bessemer bakery. Kennard has served 36 years of that life sentence, and Wednesday appeared in court for a hearing to change his sentence to life with parole, and…
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A bereaved father whose newborn daughter died at a hospital in Shandong province, China, has been sentenced to death for taking the life of a medical doctor who handled the toddler’s treatment. According to China Daily, the 30-year-old murderer received his death sentence at Laiwu International People’s Court. Chen Jianli was charged with intentional homicide…
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…When hanging was the sentence, on conviction, for crimes – in these days termed offences – which are no punished by imprisonment, some judges from meting out the sentence of death almost indiscriminately came to be known as “hanging judges.” Justice Page was one of them. When he was decrepit he perpetrated a joke against…
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