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A former U.S. Court of Appeals judge who played a critical role in the Jan. 6 committee hearings said he is confident that a potential criminal conviction of former President Donald Trump would be upheld by the Supreme Court and any judge would have no choice but to sentence Trump to federal prison. “I don’t know that a district judge would have any choice but to sentence the former president to imprisonment under the terms and provisions of these various offenses,” retired U.S. Court… Source link

Dave Chapelle Mathieu Bitton/Netflix Dave Chappelle The man who attacked Dave Chappelle onstage during his set at the Netflix Is a Joke Festival in May has been sentenced. Isaiah Lee was sentenced to 270 days in jail after pleading no contest to one charge of misdemeanor battery and one charge of entering a restricted area during a live event, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office confirms to PEOPLE. A judge previously rejected the request of Lee’s attorney, Deputy Public… Source link

The judge who presided over the criminal fraud trials of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her co-defendant and one-time boyfriend, Theranos COO and president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, sentenced Balwani on Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison plus three years of probation. “They misled investors, they misled patients,” U.S. District Court Judge Edward Davila said during Balwani’s sentencing hearing in San Jose, California, according to NBC News. “I think it’s just that enduring… Source link

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of the collapsed Silicon Valley blood testing company, Theranos, has been sentenced to 11.25 years in prison plus three years supervised release for financial crimes she committed while running the once-high flying venture. Holmes was also fined a $400 million special assessment. Holmes must surrender to custody on April 27, 2023. Holmes is expected to appeal. The judge presiding over Holmes’ trial and sentencing said the landmark case, one of the most… Source link

A 25-year-old New Jersey man was sentenced to three years in federal prison for posing as Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady in order to buy and then sell New England Patriots Super Bowl rings. Scott V. Spina Jr., of Roseland, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in February to one count of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. He first bought a Super Bowl LI ring in 2017 from a former Patriots player with a bad check and then flipped it to a “broker… Source link

Former tennis star Boris Becker was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday after he illegally transferred large amounts of money after declaring that he was bankrupt, according to The Associated Press. Becker was convicted in London earlier this month on four charges under the country’s Insolvency Act, per the report. Officials said that the 54-year-old transferred hundreds of thousands of pounds from his business account to other accounts after he declared bankruptcy in… Source link

Don’t miss CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022, the must-attend crypto & blockchain festival experience of the year in Austin, TX this June 9-12. Former Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith will serve 63 months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for helping North Koreans use cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions. In September, Griffith pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate international sanctions against North Korea. Griffith was arrested in November 2019 after giving a talk at a Source link

Sergio Mitre, seen here with the Mexican national team in 2018, was sentenced to 40-to-60 years in prison in Mexico this week. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP/Getty Images) Former MLB pitcher Sergio Mitre was sentenced to prison in Mexico this week after he was found guilty of raping and murdering the 22-month-old daughter of his former girlfriend. Mitre, 41, was found guilty on Wednesday night and sentenced to 40-to-60 years in prison, according to NJ.com. Per the report, Mitre attacked the baby in July 2020… Source link

The Guardian Amber Glenn: America’s pansexual skating star on coming out and breaking through Since coming out as pansexual, the US national silver medalist has delivered a series of career-best performances and thrust herself into the conversation for next year’s Olympics Amber Glenn is believed to be the first ever out woman to actively compete on the international senior circuit. Photograph: Étienne Laurent/EPA “What is your sexuality?” Amber Glenn looked up from the questionnaire at… Source link

Former Tampa Bay Rays prospect Brandon Martin has been sentenced to life in prison after murdering three people, including his father, with a baseball bat, according to Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times. Martin will not be eligible for parole during the sentence. Just in: A Riverside County Superior Court jury has returned a verdict of life in prison without the possibility of parole for ex-Tampa Bay Rays prospect Brandon Martin after he was convicted of murdering three people, including… Source link