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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Hunter Biden trial live updates: Hunter Biden guilty on all charges in historic gun case  Yahoo! Voices Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]FAQ: Can Trump still run for president? Can he still vote? Here’s what the guilty verdict means  Yahoo! Voices Source link

Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty to eight different counts of wire fraud, securities fraud, and conspiracy before a U.S. federal court in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday. U.S. prosecutors allege that under Bankman-Fried’s direction, FTX, once considered one of the largest and most-trusted cryptocurrency exchanges, transferred billions in customer assets to his trading firm, Alameda Research. If convicted of these charges, Bankman-Fried faces up to 115 years in prison. A trial… Source link

At the same time as U.S. and Russian diplomats are discussing a potential prisoner exchange involving Brittney Griner, the American basketball star’s attorneys are exhausting all available options to try to reduce her nine-year prison sentence. Griner’s defense team on Monday filed an appeal against the verdict handed down earlier this month by a Russian court, attorney Maria Blagovolina confirmed via email to Yahoo Sports. Blagovolina did not respond to a question seeking an explanation… Source link

Brittney Griner, center, is escorted in a court room prior to a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) Inside her metal courtroom cage, a solemn, stone-faced Brittney Griner learned how long she’ll be locked away in Russian prison if the Biden administration can’t broker a deal to secure her release. A Russian judge handed down a harsh 9-year sentence on Thursday, rejecting the WNBA star’s emotional apology and plea for… Source link

Phoenix Mercury star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty to a drug charge Thursday in a Russian court, a “decision informed by discussion with her legal defense team in Russia,” Griner’s team said in a statement. “I’d like to plead guilty, your honor. But there was no intent. I didn’t want to break the law,” Griner said in court. “I’d like to give my testimony later. I need time to prepare.” In a statement, Griner’s legal team stated that “considering the nature of her case, the insignificant… Source link

Earlier this week, David Harville, one of seven former eBay employees involved in a 2020 campaign to harass the creators of a newsletter critical of the e-commerce company, pleaded guilty to five federal felony charges, ending one of the most bizarre episodes in recent tech history. In June 2020, the US Department of Justice , including Harville, with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses. Of the group, Harville was the final employee to admit involvement… Source link

Shoni Schimmel faces a maximum of 15 years in prison. (Photo by Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images) Two-time WNBA All-Star Shoni Schimmel has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from allegations of assault against her former partner, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. The 29-year-old Schimmel faces charges of assault by strangulation of an intimate dating partner and assault resulting in substantial bodily injury. She faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison,… Source link

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on three counts of criminal wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud Monday, with a jury unanimously finding her guilty of illegally fleecing investors out of millions of dollars through her startup blood diagnostics company.  The jury deadlocked on three counts of wire fraud, and she was found not guilty on four counts of defrauding patients. Holmes, 37, turned toward the judge and jurors as the judge’s deputy read the… Source link

Closing arguments began Thursday in the trial of Elizabeth Holmes, who faces as many as 20 years in prison if convicted of defrauding patients and investors in her failed blood-testing startup, Theranos. In a four-hour closing argument, the prosecution pointed to numerous alleged misstatements about Theranos’ blood-testing technology, which Holmes had suggested could perform hundreds of diagnostic tests with a finger prick of blood. The prosecutor also cast off claims raised in her defense… Source link