(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Despite finding that the FBI indeed encouraged them, the Sixth Circuit Appeals Court has nevertheless upheld the convictions of the alleged “ringleaders” who were accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020.
“The Defendants are correct that the government encouraged them to settle...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Virginia Giuffre, one of the most vocal survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, might die before she ever sees Epstein’s co-conspirators brought to justice.
Giuffre said on Sunday that she was recently hit by a bus, and has fewer than four days to live.
“They've given...
(Headline USA) Norfolk Southern wants two other companies to help pay for the $600 million class-action settlement it agreed to over its disastrous 2023 train derailment near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border and the toxic chemicals that were released and burned.
The railroad filed the motion that is set to go to trial...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On Feb. 25, defense attorneys for alleged would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh visited the FBI to inspect the physical evidence against their client, including the rifle Routh was allegedly going to use against the President.
But according to the defense attorneys, the FBI disassembled Routh’s rifle...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Earlier this month, Judge Beryl Howell unsealed the four-year-old search warrants from the FBI’s stagnant investigation into who planted pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic national committees’ offices the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising.
The unsealed records, first reported on by CourtWatch.News, show that the FBI...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) U.S. Judge Daphne Oberg has blasted the FBI’s “woefully inadequate” response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit about its involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing—ordering the bureau to increase the rate that it’s been producing the nearly 70,000 pages of documents that exist on...
(José Niño, Headline USA) Does the United States District Court for the District of Columbia have excessive foreign influence?
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which has presided over numerous high-profile cases challenging President Donald Trump’s executive authority, consists of 15 active judges, including Chief Judge...
(Headline USA) A once-powerful former North Dakota lawmaker was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor.
Former state senator Ray Holmberg's attorney, Mark Friese, confirmed the sentence to The Associated Press but declined to comment after...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) An individual was arrested on Tuesday after allegedly beating two college students with a metal bike lock—likely in protest of their ties to the conservative nonprofit Turning Point USA.
Liam Thanh Tam Nguyen, a transgender-identified individual, was caught on video swinging the lock at Paige Neumann, the TPUSA...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Former Justice Department lawyer Jessica Aber, who was the top prosecutor in the Eastern District of Virginia, was reportedly found dead in her home at the age of 43 by Virginia authorities on Saturday.
As U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Aber, 43, was...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A former official for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond was sentenced on Tuesday to 24 months imprisonment for misappropriating internal Fed information to engage in insider trading.
The defendant, Robert Brian Thompson, 43, of Mosley, worked as a bank examiner and senior manager with supervisory...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The FBI disclosed a batch of records to Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue earlier this month as part of his ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for documents about undercover federal informants linked to the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing.
However, at least eight of the...