accountability

  • Teenager To Face Court For Attack On Pro-Palestinian Encampment

    Authorities arrested 18-year-old Edan On on Thursday for allegedly attacking a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) last month. Police booked him on a felony charge and are holding him on $30,000 bail, according to UCLA Police and jail records. The media first identified On and other counterprotesters by reviewing hundreds…

  • Republican-Led States Ask Supreme Court To Quash Big Oil Climate Lawsuits

    Nineteen Republican attorneys general filed a rare complaint directly with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change-related litigation against major oil and gas companies in state courts. States including Alabama, Florida, and West Virginia challenged California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Rhode Island, alleging that by suing major…

  • El Nini, Aly Of El Chapo’s Sons To Face US Courts After Extradition

    Authorities extradited Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, known as El Nini or the Slacker, from Mexico to the US. Prosecutors claim that El Nini served as a “lead assassin” for the sons of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The US seeks him on drug trafficking and weapons charges, which he denies. US officials had offered…

  • Trump Hush Money Verdict Nears, Are Americans Paying Attention?

    Authorities prepared for an only-in-America blockbuster trial, featuring a former president in the dock, Donald Trump. This case promised salacious details and forced Trump, once the world’s most powerful figure and now vying for power again, to face allegations of an awkward sexual encounter with a porn actress. The trial became a political and legal…

  • Families Of Uvalde School Shooting Victims Sue Meta, Microsoft, Gunmaker

    On Friday, families of the victims of the 2022 Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting filed two lawsuits against Instagram’s parent company Meta, Activision Blizzard and its parent Microsoft, and the gunmaker Daniel Defense. They claim these companies cooperated to market dangerous weapons to impressionable teens, including the Uvalde shooter. The wrongful death complaints argue that…

  • Live Nation Ticket Buyers Sue Amid Justice Department Case

    Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit face the first in a likely wave of new consumer antitrust lawsuits after the U.S. government and states sued to break up the two companies on Thursday. The first consumer class action, filed later that day in Manhattan federal court, seeks $5 billion in damages on behalf of potentially…

  • FTX Bankruptcy Lawyers Were Not Complicit In Fraud, Report Finds

    FTX’s bankruptcy lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell were not complicit in the fraud that led to the crypto company’s collapse, concluded a court-appointed examiner on Thursday. In November, a court convicted former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried of stealing $8 billion from FTX customers. Creditors and investors accused the company’s lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell of…

  • Georgia Prosecutor To Appeal Dismissal Of Trump Election Case Charges

    On Thursday, Georgia prosecutors announced their decision to appeal a judge’s ruling that dismissed some criminal counts in the 2020 election subversion case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and several of his allies. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who oversees the case, stated that a state appeals court’s decision to review Trump’s bid…

  • Trump’s Hush Money Trial: How Would A Verdict Affect 2024 Election?

    Jurors could render their verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money case as soon as next week, potentially impacting the 2024 White House race. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment that secured the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. Daniels…

  • Exiled Chinese Businessman Guo Wengui Goes On Trial For Fraud

    Jury selection begins on Wednesday in the criminal trial of exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui. U.S. prosecutors accuse Guo of defrauding thousands of investors and supporters out of more than $1 billion. The trial, overseen by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan, could extend into July. Prosecutors aim to prevent Guo, a fierce critic…