Former president Chen Xuyuan has been sentenced to life in prison for bribery. The 67-year-old previously plead guilty to taking bribes totalling £8.9million. Secrets of Sven Goran-Eriksson's £2,500-a-night suite in Manchester - Listen to the
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...
Prosecutors said Harry Corl III used corporate funds to buy jewelry from Tiffany & Co, lease a Ferrari 599 GTB.
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...
(New York Jewish Week) — An arsonist with a tattoo reading “KILL Rabbi Max” was sentenced to decades in prison for setting fire to a rabbi’s home in 2019. Matthew Karelefsky, 46, was convicted last month of charges including attempted murder, arson and assault for the crime in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Midwood. On Monday, […]
The Menendez brothers, serving life for murdering their parents in 1989, claim media coverage depicted them as criminals rather than abuse victims. Their attorney, Mark Geragos, criticizes the media's portrayal, suggesting they should have been charged with manslaughter and served 8-10 years. Newly uncovered evidence, including a letter detailing abuse, supports their claims and their attorneys have filed a petition to vacate their convictions
BOSTON — The former president of the Wilmington-based NER Construction Management Corp. was sentenced in federal court on Monday in connection with a payroll scheme involving underreporting overtime hours for union employees and failing to collect and pay payroll taxes.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House official Peter Navarro as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report Tuesday to a federal prison for a four-month sentence, after being found guilty of misdemeanor charges for refusing to cooperate with a congressional […]
Federal prosecutors asked a New York judge on Friday to sentence FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to between 40 and 50 years in prison for cryptocurrency crimes they described as a “historic fraud.” Prosecutors made the request as they submitted their presentence recommendations to a federal judge who will sentence a man who at one time dazzled the cryptocurrency world with his promotional skills, including his access to famous people willing to promote his businesses. Bankman-Fried, 32, is...
A man who broke into an 85-year-old woman’s apartment and punched her, leading to her death a week later, was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 to 68 years in prison, according to court records.
Katie Hobbs defeated Trump loyalist Kari Lake in Arizona’s 2022 governor’s race
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST (Associated Press) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to halt a prison sentence for former Trump White House official Peter Navarro as he appeals his contempt of Congress conviction. Navarro is due to report Tuesday to a federal prison for a four-month sentence, after being found guilty of misdemeanor […]