A Justice Department directive to dismiss a corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams has led to high-profile resignations within the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office and DOJ headquarters. The move has intensified concerns over political influence in federal prosecutions. Manhattan’s Interim U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned Thursday, February 13, 2025, after refusing to…
A Colorado special education paraprofessional has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old student and encouraging him to bring a gun to school to shoot a fellow teacher. Kay Ewer, 28, admitted to felony charges, including sexual assault on a child “by one in a position of…
Two Estonian nationals have pleaded guilty in the United States to operating a $577 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme through their company, HashFlare. The scam deceived hundreds of thousands of investors worldwide, falsely promising cryptocurrency mining profits. How the Scheme Worked Between 2015 and 2019, Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both 40, sold contracts through HashFlare,…
A New York real estate investor has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a $62.8 million investment fraud scheme involving commercial properties in Atlanta and Miami Beach. According to updates provided by Department of Justice, Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz, 46, admitted in the Northern District of Georgia that he misappropriated investor funds raised through CrowdStreet Marketplace,…
The Trump Administrations new Attorney General Pamela Bondi has announced a lawsuit against the State of New York. The lawsuit targets NY Attorney General Letitia James and Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Mark Schroeder over immigration policies that Bondi claims prioritize undocumented immigrants over American citizens. At a press conference, Bondi stated that New York’s…
Houston attorney Tony Buzbee has dropped a civil lawsuit accusing Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. The case was dismissed with prejudice, preventing it from being refiled. Jay-Z, who strongly denied the allegations, called the lawsuit a “money grab” and criticized the legal system for allowing baseless claims.…
Sean “Diddy” Combs, the embattled music mogul, faces yet another explosive lawsuit alleging he drugged and anally raped a 17-year-old boy in a New York City nightclub in 2012. The lawsuit, filed in New York State Supreme Court by an anonymous plaintiff identified as “John Doe,” accuses Combs of sexual assault and describes the alleged…
A 19-year-old California man has been arrested and charged with murder after allegedly striking and killing a pregnant 16-year-old girl in a hit-and-run incident in Riverside, approximately 55 miles east of Los Angeles. The victim, identified by her family as Kaylie Corona, was reportedly confronting the suspect, Issac Blackhorse Garcia, for having sex with her…
Taylor Wright, a former police officer turned private investigator, dedicated her career to solving crimes. But in a shocking twist of fate, she became the victim of a crime that stunned the Florida legal community—a murder orchestrated by her own close friend, Ashley McArthur, a crime scene investigator-turned-business owner. Wright disappeared on September 8, 2017,…
Tom Goldstein, the renowned Supreme Court litigator and founder of SCOTUSblog, was arrested Monday after prosecutors argued he posed an “urgent risk of flight” due to his undisclosed cryptocurrency transactions, according to court filings. Federal prosecutors allege that Goldstein, who was charged in January in a 22-count indictment for tax fraud and making false statements…