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Arguments to free FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried get rough reception from federal appeals panel

A federal appeals court in Manhattan seems unreceptive to arguments that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should be released before his trial starts in two weeks

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Former U.S. Rep. Steve Buyer of Indiana sentenced to 22 months in prison for insider trading

A former U.S. congressman from Indiana has been sentenced to 22 months in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information while working as a consultant after he left office

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Ex-CIA computer engineer gets 40 years in prison for giving spy agency hacking secrets to WikiLeaks

A former CIA software engineer has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for what the government called the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos

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70 arrests highlight corruption in nation's largest public housing authority, US Attorney says

A federal prosecutor says 70 corrupt employees of the nation's largest public housing authority accepted over $2 million in bribes to dispense small repair-job contracts to contractors doing work on nearly a third of the city's public housing buildings

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Rewritten indictment against Sen. Bob Menendez alleges new obstruction of justice crimes

New obstruction of justice crimes have been alleged against Sen. Bob Menendez

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US prosecutors try to send warning to cryptocurrency world with KuCoin prosecution

A top U.S. prosecutor has announced criminal charges against a once ascending company in the cryptocurrency world and two of its founders in a bid to send a message to other players in the industry to follow U.S. laws

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Self-exiled Chinese businessman's chief of staff pleads guilty weeks before trial

The chief of staff of a Chinese businessman sought by the government of China has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges weeks before her boss goes to trial in New York in a fraud case

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Financial executive convicted of insider trading in case over acquisition of Trump's media company

A financial executive has been convicted of enabling his boss and others to make millions of dollars illegally by trading ahead of the public announcement that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trump's media company public

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Maine man sentenced to 27 years in prison in New Year's Eve machete attack near Times Square

A Maine man who admitted trying to kill three police officers with a machete near New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve 16 months ago has been sentenced to 27 years in prison

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Prosecutors in Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial rest; Judge rejects defense request for acquittals

After prosecutors finished presenting their bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez, lawyers were poised to call witnesses starting Monday to defend the Democrat and two New Jersey businessmen against multiple federal charges

Prosecutors in Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial rest; Judge rejects defense request for acquittals
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Former Honduran president sentenced to 45 years for helping traffickers get tons of cocaine into US

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined $8 million for enabling drug traffickers to use his military and national police force to help get tons of cocaine into the United States

Former Honduran president sentenced to 45 years for helping traffickers get tons of cocaine into US
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Gold bars and Sen. Bob Menendez's curiosity about their price takes central role at bribery trial

Prosecutors have shown jurors at Sen. Bob Menendez's trial multiple instances when he researched the value of gold as he tried to help a New Jersey businessman who authorities say bribed him with gold and cash

Gold bars and Sen. Bob Menendez's curiosity about their price takes central role at bribery trial
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Indian national pleads not guilty in plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York City

An Indian national extradited to the United States has pleaded not guilty to charges arising from an alleged failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York

Indian national pleads not guilty in plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York City
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Sen. Bob Menendez decides not to delay May trial with appeal of judge's ruling

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has decided not to appeal a judge's ruling on Constitutional grounds that would have delayed his May trial

Sen. Bob Menendez decides not to delay May trial with appeal of judge's ruling
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Judge rejects Sen. Menendez's claims that legislative immunity protects him from bribery charges

A New York judge has rejected Sen. Bob Menendez's attempt to toss out four charges against him on grounds that he has legislative immunity

Judge rejects Sen. Menendez's claims that legislative immunity protects him from bribery charges
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Judge rejects Sen. Bob Menendez's claims that search warrants in bribery case were unconstitutional

A federal judge has rejected U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez's claims that search warrants leading to corruption charges and the discovery of gold bars and cash at his New Jersey home were unconstitutional

Judge rejects Sen. Bob Menendez's claims that search warrants in bribery case were unconstitutional
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New Jersey's top federal prosecutor testifies for government in Sen. Bob Menendez prosecution

New Jersey's top federal prosecutor says Sen. Bob Menendez sought to discuss the prosecution of a New Jersey real estate developer with him before recommending him to be nominated as U.S. attorney after Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election

New Jersey's top federal prosecutor testifies for government in Sen. Bob Menendez prosecution
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New Jersey businessman testifies he promised up to $250,000 in bribes for Sen. Bob Menendez's help

A New Jersey businessman who pleaded guilty and cooperated in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez has testified that he believed he had a deal worth $200,000 to $250,000 for the Democrat to make criminal probes of his friends and family vanish

New Jersey businessman testifies he promised up to $250,000 in bribes for Sen. Bob Menendez's help
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At bribery trial, ex-US official casts Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain in Egyptian meat controversy

At a bribery trial, a former top U.S. agricultural official has cast Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain who tried to stop him from disrupting an unusual sudden monopoly that developed five years ago over the certification of meat exported to Egypt

At bribery trial, ex-US official casts Sen. Bob Menendez as a villain in Egyptian meat controversy
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Trial of Sen. Bob Menendez takes a weeklong break after jurors get stuck in elevator

The New York trial of Sen. Bob Menendez grinded to a weeklong break after Manhattan federal court jurors were treated to a brick-by-brick build of the prosecution’s bribery case before getting stuck in an elevator

Trial of Sen. Bob Menendez takes a weeklong break after jurors get stuck in elevator
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Witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial says meat-export monopoly made costs soar

A witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial says the cost of certifying that meat sent to Egypt follows Islamic dietary requirements skyrocketed after a single U.S. company was given a monopoly in a cozy deal prosecutors say Menendez arranged

Witness at Sen. Bob Menendez's bribery trial says meat-export monopoly made costs soar
Economy|News

Hedge fund operators go on trial after multibillion-dollar Archegos collapse

A federal fraud trial has begun for the owner and chief financial officer of a hedge fund that collapsed

Hedge fund operators go on trial after multibillion-dollar Archegos collapse
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Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption trial begins, his second in the last decade

The corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez has begun in Manhattan federal court as dozens of prospective jurors who claimed jury service would be a hardship were questioned one by one over a six-hour stretch

Sen. Bob Menendez's corruption trial begins, his second in the last decade
Entertainment|News|World

Harvey Weinstein is back at NYC's Rikers Island jail after hospital stay

One-time movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was returned to a New York City jail in what his publicist said was a move resulting from a published report saying he was getting VIP treatment during his 10-day stay at a hospital

Harvey Weinstein is back at NYC's Rikers Island jail after hospital stay
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Trial begins for financial executive in insider trading case tied to taking Trump media firm public

An insider trading trial has begun for a financial executive charged with enabling his boss and others to make millions of dollars illegally on news that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trump's media company public

Trial begins for financial executive in insider trading case tied to taking Trump media firm public

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