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Steve Bannon, former advisor to President Donald Trump, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court to set his trial date, May 25, 2023, in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s attempt to dismiss his fraud indictment in New York City “bears little resemblance to reality,” Manhattan prosecutors said Tuesday in […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City prosecutors moved on Monday to vacate the convictions of two men who both spent more than 20 years in prison after being convicted in the 1990s in separate murder cases. The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said Jabar Walker, 49, who is also known […]
Joe Buglewicz/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Prosecutors in Fulton County are seeking the testimony of Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel and InfoWars host Alex Jones ahead of the first trial in the Georgia election interference case, set to get underway in two weeks. In court filings Monday, prosecutors said McDaniel and Jones are both “necessary and […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Fulton County prosecutors rebutted claims that three so-called “alternate electors” amounted to federal officials during a hearing Wednesday in District Attorney Fani Willis’ Georgia election interference case. Judge Steve Jones, for a third time, heard arguments during an evidentiary hearing in Atlanta on the issue of federal removal, this time from David […]
Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WILMINGTON, Del.) — Prosecutors for newly minted special counsel David Weiss pushed back on Hunter Biden’s assertion that they “reneged” on an ill-fated plea deal, according to a court document filed on Tuesday in which they also disputed defense counsel’s claim that the diversion agreement on a gun possession charge remains […]
Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Disgraced crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried deserves to have his bail revoked and to be detained before he is tried for fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the collapse of FTX, federal prosecutors in New York said in a new court filing. Prosecutors balked at Bankman-Fried’s sharing with The New […]
Hoover Police Department (NEW YORK) — The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Bessemer Division office has talked with police about potentially pressing charges against Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who told police she was kidnapped after she went missing for two days, prosecutors confirmed to ABC News. Chief Assistant District Attorney Lane Tolbert told ABC News […]
Obtained by ABC News (WORCESTER, Mass.) — Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts airman accused of leaking highly classified U.S. intelligence documents, is asking a magistrate judge to release him from pretrial detention, though prosecutors allege the 21-year-old is a flight risk and, if released on bail, say he could “further disseminate classified information” and “take refuge […]
Obtained by ABC News (WORCESTER, Mass.) — Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira began accessing “hundreds” of highly classified U.S. intelligence documents more than a year before he was arrested for allegedly leaking them, federal prosecutors said in a new court filing Wednesday. Prosecutors said government records show that as early as February 2022, Teixeira […]
Obtained by ABC News (WORCESTER, Mass.) — Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira is a flight risk who took calculated steps to thwart the investigation into his alleged leak of classified information, federal prosecutors argued in a new court filing Wednesday, as they prepare to tell a federal judge Teixeira “must remain detained.” Teixeira, 21, […]