Lawyer Jennifer Bonjean argued that prosecutors didn’t prove Kelly headed up a racketeering organization that recruited underage girls for his sexual pleasure.
The lawyer for R. Kelly pleaded for the overturning of his sexual abuse conviction, claiming that prosecutors misused racketeering laws. On Monday (March 18), the attorney for disgraced singer R. Kelly was in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals which convened in Manhattan, NY, to appeal his convictions for running a decades-long scheme to recruit women and underage girls whom he sexually abused under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act or RICO law. Attorney Jennifer...
The IRS is warning taxpayers that they may be leaving more than $1 billion on the table.
The IRS is warning taxpayers that they may be leaving more than $1 billion on the table.
The IRS is warning taxpayers that they may be leaving more than $1 billion on the table.
The IRS is warning taxpayers that they may be leaving more than $1 billion on the table.
Donald Trump has faced financial difficulties throughout his adult life. In May 2019, The New York Times shined a light on the Republican’s finances from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, when the future president went from one failed venture to another, losing money at an extraordinary pace. At one point, the report noted, Trump “appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer.” That said, conditions now are significantly worse. In fact, in the wake of a $464...
Friday’s Hawaii men’s volleyball match was about much more than just the start of Big West Conference play.
A new chapter in the Sam Bankman-Fried saga: On Friday, federal prosecutors asked a New York judge to sentence the founder and former head of cryptocurrency exchange FTX to between 40 and 50 years in prison. They cited claims that Bankman-Fried participated in a “historic fraud” and cost customers and investors at least $10 billion as the rationale behind the hefty jail time. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers have argued that five or six years behind bars would be appropriate, maintaining that he’s not an...
The IRS is warning taxpayers that they may be leaving more than $1 billion on the table.
NEW YORK >> Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers kept pressing an appellate court today to excuse him from covering a $454 million fraud lawsuit judgment for now, saying he’d suffer “irreparable harm” before his appeal is decided.
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial was supposed to begin Monday. Instead, his lawyers will get the chance to argue for a lengthy postponement and even a dismissal of the charges. Judge Juan Merchan is holding a pre-trial hearing in New York on Monday to discuss the discovery issues that led to the delay of the trial on charges brought by the Manhattan district attorney related to hush money payments until at least the middle of next month. Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business...