On Friday, Sean “Diddy” Combs proposed a new $50 million bail package, offering his Florida mansion as collateral in hopes of securing his release from the Brooklyn jail where he has been held for eight weeks on criminal sex trafficking charges. Combs has been denied bail three times since his arrest, with judges citing concerns…
In a recent development in the high-profile RICO case against rapper Young Thug, also known as Jeffrey Williams, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Paige Reese Whitaker has denied the artist’s request for release from jail. Williams has been held without bond for nearly two years amid ongoing proceedings. The ruling came during a hearing on…
Donald Trump’s lawyers urged the judge who oversaw his hush money trial to lift a gag order now that he has been convicted, arguing that his opponents were using the restrictions on his speech as a “political sword.” In a court filing earlier this week, defense lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove noted that Democratic…
On Tuesday, Donald Trump asked the judge who oversaw his criminal trial on charges related to hush money paid to a porn star to lift a gag order on the case. The former U.S. president was convicted last week. Before the trial began in April, Justice Juan Merchan restricted Trump’s public statements about jurors, witnesses,…
A federal judge on Tuesday rejected prosecutors’ request to issue a gag order barring Donald Trump from making inflammatory comments about law enforcement. Trump’s campaign had falsely claimed the FBI had authorization to assassinate him when it searched his Florida resort for classified U.S. documents. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, based in Florida, rebuffed Special…
On Monday, Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a federal judge to reject prosecutors’ request for a gag order limiting what the former president can say about law enforcement officers involved in his sensitive documents case. Trump’s team also requested that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon in Fort Pierce, Florida, impose sanctions and pursue civil contempt findings…
It’s been five weeks of the first criminal trial of a former president of the United States, where Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer and lawyer who is at the center of the hush money payment deal, was on the stand all…
On Monday, Justice Juan Merchan fined Donald Trump $1,000 and held him in contempt of court for the tenth time for violating a gag order. Merchan warned that further violations could result in jail time for the former president. Merchan stated that the $1,000 fines he had previously imposed did not appear to deter Trump…
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