Associated Press (AP) — Seven Moroccan taxi drivers were sentenced to up to six months in prison and fined $1,070 each for aiding irregular mi…
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — At least 308 people abducted in different attacks in the northern part of Nigeria were rescued, the country’s president …
NEW YORK (AP) — A Harvard-educated former managing director at Citigroup Inc. who blamed autism for his actions was sentenced Tuesday to 30 ye…
Supreme Court litigator gets 6 years in prison for tax evasion case after gambling millions on poker
A prominent Supreme Court litigator has been sentenced to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar IRS tax debt and engaging in mortgage fraud in a case that cast a spotlight on his secretive lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player. A federal judge in Maryland also ordered SCOTUSblog publisher Thomas Goldstein to pay more than $3 million in restitution as part of his sentencing on Friday. A jury found Goldstein guilty of 12 of 16 counts after a six-week trial. Goldstein argued over 40 cases before the Supreme Court before retiring in 2023 at age 52.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is set to be sentenced in a U.S. court Monday to life in prison, a punish…
MIAMI (AP) — A famous Cuban dissident artist and musician, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, arrived in Miami on Saturday after being released from…
