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Michael R. Sisak

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Luigi Mangione faces federal charge that’s eligible for death penalty in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing

The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO was whisked back to New York by plane and helicopter Thursday to face new federal charges of...

20.12.2024 7

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Trump’s lawyers claim they have ‘evidence of juror misconduct’ in bid get hush money conviction dismissed

President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers are raising a new claim in their fight to overturn his hush money conviction.

18.12.2024 10

Fortune

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Gun found on accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione matches shell casings at scene, police say

Luigi Mangione ’s fingerprints also matched a water bottle and a snack bar wrapper that police found near the scene in midtown Manhattan.

12.12.2024 6

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Accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione shouts and struggles on way into courthouse—and fights extradition to New York

The man charged with murder in the killing of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare made it clear he wasn’t going to make things easy on authorities.

11.12.2024 10

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New York prosecutors charge Luigi Mangione, 26, with UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder

Manhattan prosecutors filed murder and other charges against Mangione, according to an online court docket.

10.12.2024 8

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Police have amassed troves of evidence, but the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare’s CEO remains an enigma

Police released additional photos of the suspected shooter that appeared to be from a camera mounted inside a taxi.

08.12.2024 10

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of assaulting men, women, and a teen in new lawsuits

One of the John Does alleges that Combs fondled his genitals when he was 16 at one of the rapper’s famous white parties in Long Island’s Hamptons...

14.10.2024 4

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Jailed Harvey Weinstein taken to hospital for emergency heart surgery

NEW YORK (AP) — Jailed ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein underwent emergency heart surgery at a New York City hospital on Monday, his representatives...

09.09.2024 8

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Donald Trump will be sentenced for his hush-money conviction after the election

The judge postponed the sentencing “to avoid any appearance—however unwarranted—that the proceeding has been affected by or seeks to affect the...

06.09.2024 10

Fortune

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Trump request to move hush money conviction to federal court rejected hours after petition

The ruling upends Trump's plan to move the case to federal court so that he could seek to have his conviction overturned in the wake of the U.S....

04.09.2024 10

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Rudy Giuliani’s creditors are going after his cash, Yankees collectibles, watches, a TV and furniture

Two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation judgment against Rudy Giuliani asked a court Friday to award them his...

01.09.2024 20

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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigns after campus turmoil

The announcement also comes just days after the school confirmed that three deans had resigned after officials said they exchanged disparaging texts...

15.08.2024 7

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Trump’s lawyers push New York appeals court to overturn ‘erroneous’ nearly $500 million civil fraud verdict

Trump’s appeal arguments echoed many of the gripes he delivered during his trial to TV cameras outside the courtroom.

23.07.2024 10

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NRA ex-finance chief who approved Wayne LaPierre’s lavish spending fined millions in damages

Wilson “Woody” Phillips agreed to a 10-year bar from serving as fiduciary at a nonprofit.

10.07.2024 50

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Donald Trump will be interviewed by probation officials ahead of his sentencing for N.Y. felony convictions

Trump will do the interview via a computer video conference from his residence at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.

10.06.2024 9

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New York jury finds Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts in hush-money trial

A New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to...

31.05.2024 10

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Trump hush money trial jurors ask to rehear crucial testimony by Michael Cohen and David Pecker

Trump struck a pessimistic tone after leaving the courtroom following the reading of jury instructions, repeating his assertions of a “very unfair...

30.05.2024 10

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Trump's hush money case heading to jury deliberations after marathon day of closing arguments

The lawyers' dueling accounts, wildly divergent in their assessments of witness credibility, Trump's culpability and the strength of evidence, offered...

29.05.2024 20

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Trump lawyers accuse former fixer Michael Cohen of lying to jury

Whether the defense is successful in undermining Cohen's testimony could determine Trump's fate in the case.

17.05.2024 20

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Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen’s testimony in hush money trial was pivotal. Here’s what he said

Cohen is expected to be on the witness stand for several days, and face intense grilling by Trump's attorneys.

14.05.2024 50

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What porn actor Stormy Daniels testified in Trump trial over hush money paid to keep her silent

Jurors appeared riveted as Daniels offered a detailed and at times graphic account of the encounter Trump has denied.

08.05.2024 20

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New York judge hits Trump with $1,000 fine for gag order violation in hush money case

The reprimand opened a revelatory day of testimony, as jurors for the first time heard the details of the financial transactions at the center of the...

07.05.2024 40

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Hush money, gag order and catch and kill: A dictionary for Trump’s New York criminal trial

Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial is full of terms you don’t typically hear in a courtroom.

06.05.2024 40

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New York jury hears tape of Trump and Michael Cohen debating how to buy Playboy model’s silence

The second week of testimony in the case will wrap up Friday after jurors heard a potentially crucial piece of evidence: a recording of Trump and...

03.05.2024 30

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‘What have we done?’ Stormy Daniels’ lawyer reveals his 2016 election night epiphany

The attorney Keith Davidson was texting the editor of the National Enquirer on election night. “Oh my god,” came the response as they realized...

02.05.2024 20

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New York's highest court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction: 'An abuse of judicial discretion'

The court ordered a new trial for Weinstein, 72, who is serving a 23-year sentence.

25.04.2024 30

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Trump’s ex-CFO Allen Weisselberg will be sentenced for lying under oath in ex-president’s New York civil fraud case

He is expected to be sentenced to five months in jail after pleading guilty last month to two counts of perjury.

10.04.2024 30

Fortune

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Trump hangs onto New York assets—for now—by posting $175 million bond in civil fraud case

The bond Trump is posting with the court now is essentially a placeholder, meant to guarantee payment if the judgment is upheld.

02.04.2024 10

Fortune

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Billionaire known for high-interest loans to car buyers with poor credit chairs the insurance group that underwrote Trump's $175 million bond

The bond Trump is posting with the court now is essentially a placeholder.

02.04.2024 60

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Trump says he’s struggling to come up with a bond for his $454m court judgment. Here’s what happens next if he misses the Monday deadline

Trump’s lawyers said freeing up cash by offloading some of Trump’s properties in a “fire sale” would result in massive, irrecoverable losses.

20.03.2024 10

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Trump is struggling to come up with the cash for a bond on his $454 million court judgment, lawyers say

Trump's lawyers wrote that “obtaining an appeal bond in the full amount” of the judgment “is not possible under the circumstances presented."

19.03.2024 30

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Trump's request to halt his $454m fraud penalty while he appeals is denied by New York judge

The judge however granted a stay pausing part of the Feb. 16 verdict that barred Trump, his company and co-defendants from borrowing money from New...

29.02.2024 10

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Trump is prepared to post $100 million bond but not the full $454 million judgment, lawyers say

New York AG Letitia James has said that she will seek to seize some of Trump's assets if he's unable to pay the judgment.

28.02.2024 20

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Trump appeals $454 million civil fraud judgment in New York

Trump maintains that he's worth several billion dollars and testified last year that he had about $400 million in cash. His appeal was expected.

26.02.2024 6

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Trump’s property could be seized if he can’t pay $454 million civil fraud debt, New York AG says

Here's a look at where things stand in the wake of Trump’s costly verdict.

22.02.2024 20

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Inside Donald Trump’s $355M civil fraud verdict and what comes next

The ruling cuts to the core of Trump’s image as a wealthy, shrewd real estate mogul turned political force.

19.02.2024 20

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Trump hit with $364 million civil fraud judgment in New York over yearslong scheme to inflate his wealth

Trump also was barred from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation for three years.

16.02.2024 20

Fortune

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#MeToo undone? Top New York court considers overturning Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction

He would remain locked up because of his California conviction.

15.02.2024 8

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Trump threatened with ejection from courtroom over loud remarks—‘it is a witch hunt’—as E. Jean Carroll testifies

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan told the former president that his right to be present at the trial will be revoked if he remains disruptive.

18.01.2024 6

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Donald Trump has to pay The New York Times $400,000 in legal fees over their story about his wealth and taxes

The story won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018.

13.01.2024 20

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Trump defies judge with 6-minute courtroom speech on tense final day of New York civil fraud trial: ‘I’m being persecuted by someone running for office’

Judge Arthur Engoron let him continue almost uninterrupted for what amounted to a brief personal summation, then cut him off for a scheduled lunch...

12.01.2024 8

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‘King of the NRA’ Wayne LaPierre’s lavish spending at center of New York civil trial into whether executives violated nonprofit laws at gun group

LaPierre’s methods as the NRA's chief executive officer allowed him to operate the powerful gun rights organization “as Wayne’s World for...

09.01.2024 10

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NRA chief LaPierre announces resignation days before trial accusing him of corruption

New York AG Letitia James said the resignation “validates our claims against him" and confirmed that the trial will go on as scheduled.

06.01.2024 10

Fortune

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Rudy Giuliani, worth less than $10 million and facing a $148 million defamation judgment, files for bankruptcy

The man once known as "America's mayor" was recently found guilty of defaming two election workers who faced abuse and death threats.

21.12.2023 6

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Donald Trump's civil fraud case enters the final phase after 40 witnesses and a judge wistfully saying, 'In a strange way, I'm gonna miss this trial'

The judge has already ruled that Trump is liable for making fraudulent statements, but other claims and a potential final penalty still need to be...

16.12.2023 3

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Trump reverses day before expected New York fraud trial appearance and says he won’t testify again because he has nothing more to say

“I will not be testifying on Monday," Trump wrote in an all-capital-letters, multipart statement on his Truth Social platform less than 20 hours...

11.12.2023 10

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Former gang leader who stabbed Derek Chauvin in prison 22 times charged with attempted murder, prosecutors say

The Bureau of Prisons said employees performed “life-saving measures" on Chauvin after John Turscak stabbed him repeatedly in the prison law...

04.12.2023 40

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