SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 19, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — A U.S. District Court judge has sentenced a Midvale man to o 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for crimes committed while on pretrial release for a separate wire fraud case. Chad Leon Sayers, 59, learned his sentence Monday after […] The post Midvale man found guilty of wire fraud while on pretrial release sentenced to 41 months in prison first appeared on Gephardt Daily.
A jury delivered a swift and decisive judgment in a federal corruption case targeting former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, finding Wednesday that Chan secured bribes for himself and for former Councilmember Jose Huizar as part of a sprawling pay-to-play scheme. Within a few hours, the jury found Chan guilty on 12 of 12 counts — racketeering conspiracy, bribery, honest services fraud and giving false statements to investigators — in a case focused on financial benefits provided by real...
The parents of Lacey Ellen Fletcher -- whose body was found "fused" to a sofa by her own excrement -- have been sentenced to 40 years, with a 20-year suspension and 5 years supervised probation. Sheila and Clay Fletcher, both 66, had initially been indicted by a grand jury on second-degree murder charges back in 2022; they pleaded not guilty at the time, before pleading no contest to reduced charges of manslaughter in February 2024. "They were negligent, yes," the couple's...
GENEVA COUNTY, Ala (WDHN) -- A Geneva County man at the center of a “love triangle” deadly shooting has been ordered to spend the next three decades of his life in the Alabama prison system. Earlier this year, Jason Kersey was found guilty of manslaughter in the murder of Tony Dean, who was shot to []
The former head of China’s official soccer association has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in the central Chinese province of Hubei, in the latest crackdown on the country’s corruption-plagued professional football league. The ex-soccer chief, Chen Xuyuan, was jailed on Tuesday alongside multiple senior sporting executives, according to state media, following a months-long investigation. Despite Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s vision to turn the country into a soccer superpower, its...
JACKSON, Miss. >> A federal judge today finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men in an hourslong attack that included beatings, repeated uses of stun guns and assaults with a sex toy before one of the victims was shot in the mouth.
The 52-year-old was convicted by a jury last Friday of phoning in a false bomb threat from prison to the Samaritans in which he claimed there was a bomb planted at the home of Helen McEntee in March 2021
DARLINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) -- One of four men charged in connection with a deadly January 2020 shooting at Mac's Lounge is headed to prison for decades after pleading guilty to several charges, the 4th Circuit Solicitor's Office said on Monday. Davijon McCall was sentenced to a total of 51 years in prison for voluntary []
As Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of defunct crypto exchange FTX readies for his prison sentence, prosecutors have formally requested the court to authorize the sale of two jets linked to the former crypto billionaire. With the defendant and his legal team already in agreement, the final step hinges on […]
Oregon man found guilty of murder in 1980 cold case of college student after DNA link
A St. Augustine man who was accused of multiple charges, including hacking the Jacksonville Jaguars video boards and possessing and producing child sex abuse material (CSAM), has been sentenced by a judge to 220 years in federal prison.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Last of six former Mississippi officers who tortured two Black men sentenced; ex-officer gets about 10 years in prison.