US Senator Bob Menendez to resign after corruption conviction | Corruption News
New Jersey Democrat faces decades in prison following his conviction for taking bribes and acting as an agent for Egypt’s government.United States Senator Bob Menendez…
Sen. Robert Menendez is resigning following corruption conviction
TRENTON, N.J. — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is resigning from office Aug. 20 following his conviction for taking bribes for corrupt acts including acting as an…
Sandra Hemme freed after 43-year murder conviction overturned
1 of 2 | Sandra Hemme walks out of prison in Chillicothe, Mo., after 43 years. Photo courtesy of the Hemme legal team July 20…
Trump wants judge to overturn felony conviction after immunity ruling
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers are imploring a New York judge to overturn his hush money felony conviction and dismiss the case, arguing his historic…
Will Trump’s conviction be undone by the Supreme Court?
It was only hours after the Supreme Court issued its staggering term-ending opinion on presidential immunity when Donald Trump invoked it in an attempt to…
Angry Biden: ‘Go ahead. Challenge me at the convention’
WASHINGTON — As angry Democrats pile onto President Biden, he has a message: He’s angry too.“I’m getting so frustrated by the elites ... the elites in…
Man found guilty of headbutting ex-football hardman Roy Keane is appealing his conviction
A MAN found guilty of headbutting football hard man Roy Keane is appealing his conviction.Scott Law, 43, was convicted last month of assaulting the former…
Biden pardons former U.S. service members convicted under gay sex ban
WASHINGTON — President Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying Wednesday that…
Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down part of a federal anti-corruption law that makes it a crime for state and local officials to…
Conviction: Free after 25 years of unjust imprisonment | Human Rights
After a quarter-century behind bars, Brandon Jackson is fighting back against Louisiana’s last Jim Crow law. In 1997, Brandon Jackson was convicted for a crime…
N.Y. prosecutors urge judge to keep gag order against Trump
NEW YORK — Prosecutors on Friday urged the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold provisions of a gag order that bar him…
Appeals court refuses to delay Bannon’s prison sentence
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court panel on Thursday rejected longtime Donald Trump ally Stephen K. Bannon’s bid to stay out of prison while he fights…
Supreme Court upholds Californian’s drug trafficking conviction
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a California woman’s drug smuggling conviction that was based in part on an expert’s testimony that criminal gangs…
N.Y. court declines to hear Trump gag order appeal in hush money case
NEW YORK — New York’s top court declined Tuesday to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last…
Trump tells group that calls for banning all abortions to stand up for ‘innocent life’
INDIANAPOLIS — Donald Trump on Monday urged a staunchly anti-abortion Christian group to stand up for “innocent life,” ambiguously revisiting an issue that Democrats want to…
Donald Trump to virtually attend pre-sentencing interview for hush-money conviction
Former President Donald Trump is expected to virtually attend a pre-sentencing interview following his conviction for falsifying business records. Pool Photo by Steven Hirsch/UPI |…
Trump, at rally, demands appeals courts reverse his felony conviction
PHOENIX — Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Thursday with a trip to Arizona, his first appearance in a battleground state since he was convicted…
Trump’s lawyers ask judge to lift gag order imposed in New York trial
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers are asking a New York judge to lift the gag order that barred the former president from commenting about witnesses,…
Trump felony conviction offers a character test for America
When he isn’t fetishizing the fictive cannibal Hannibal Lecter — “a wonderful man” — Donald Trump rhapsodizes over the gangster Al Capone. “He was seriously…
Could the guilty verdict cost Donald Trump the election?
How much will Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York hush money case matter come November? The obvious answer is that nobody knows. Still, I…