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Former cryptocurrency executive Nishad Singh is set to receive his sentence on Wednesday for his involvement in the theft of about $8 billion in customer funds from the now-bankrupt FTX exchange, a scheme orchestrated by his imprisoned former boss, Sam Bankman-Fried. Singh pleaded guilty to six felony counts of fraud and conspiracy. Last year, he…
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On Monday, Republicans petitioned the Supreme Court to block a Pennsylvania judicial decision that mandates counting provisional ballots cast by voters who made errors on their mail-in ballots. This ruling could influence thousands of votes in the upcoming November 5 presidential election. The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania requested the justices…
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Donald Trump’s Republican allies have faced a series of courtroom defeats in key U.S. presidential election states as Election Day approaches, potentially boosting voter turnout and expediting the certification of the eventual winner. In the past three weeks, these allies have suffered at least 10 court losses in battleground states that will play a critical…
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CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, filed a lawsuit against Delta Air Lines in U.S. District Court in Georgia on Monday. The lawsuit follows a faulty software update that caused a global outage in July. On July 19, the incident resulted in widespread flight cancellations and affected various industries, including banking, healthcare, media, and hospitality. CrowdStrike aims…
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A federal judge in Michigan rejected claims that the National Labor Relations Board’s structure is unconstitutional, stating that existing legal precedent blocks the arguments from a hospital operator. U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker, based in Grand Rapids, ruled that NLRB administrative judges and the board’s five members do not face improper protection from at-will removal…
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Mike Jeffries, the former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of running an international sex trafficking scheme while leading the clothing retailer. Jeffries, 80, who headed Abercrombie from 1992 to 2014, entered his plea to one count of sex trafficking and 15 counts of prostitution before U.S. Magistrate…
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A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Virginia from removing individuals it claimed had not proven their citizenship from its voter rolls. The judge stated that this action violated a federal prohibition on purging large numbers of voters within the final 90 days before an election. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered the state…
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A federal appeals court on Friday seemed unlikely to overturn a jury’s verdict that cleared Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his company of liability regarding allegations that they misled investors. This case stems from Musk’s 2018 social media post claiming he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private. During oral arguments at the San Francisco-based…
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A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that states cannot count mail-in ballots received after Election Day, siding with Republicans in a case that challenges Mississippi’s five-day grace period. The conservative three-judge panel from the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did not strike down Mississippi’s law, but it raised questions about mail-in…
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A Texas federal judge with a history of supporting conservative causes has introduced uncertainty into Boeing’s agreement to plead guilty over two fatal 737 MAX crashes. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor seized on a single sentence in the deal regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) diversity policy. Last week, O’Connor unexpectedly asked the parties…
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