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Sean ‘Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial begins with NYC jury selection
Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of engaging in sex trafficking and presiding over a racketeering conspiracy.
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Prosecutor who quit after refusing to drop Adams case is confident he ‘committed the crimes'
The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigned after refusing a DOJ order to drop corruption charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Before quitting, Danielle Sassoon told President Trump’s new attorney general that she was “confident” Adams had committed the crimes.
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NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on federal charges. So what comes next?
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has vowed to stay in office after federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment accusing him of letting Turkish officials and businesspeople buy his influence with illegal campaign contributions and lavish overseas trips. Here’s what is expected to come next in the case.
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Sean ‘Diddy' Combs denied bail, judge cites possibility of witness tampering
A second judge has refused to grant bail to Sean “Diddy” Combs after the disgraced entertainment star’s lawyers had requested he be allowed to await his sex trafficking trial at his luxury home on an island near Miami Beach, rather than a grim federal jail in Brooklyn.
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Judge rejects Menendez's claims search warrants in bribery case were unconstitutional
A federal judge on Monday rejected U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez’s claims that search warrants that led to corruption charges and the discovery of gold bars and cash at his New Jersey home were unconstitutional.
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Sen. Bob Menendez says gold bars and cash at his home were illegally found and seized
New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez wants a New York judge to toss out much of the evidence in the bribery prosecution against him, saying investigators illegally searched his residence as revenge because the Democrat defeated a prior prosecution in his home state.
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Sen. Bob Menendez and wife seek separate trials on bribery charges
Nadine Menendez’s lawyers asked for the severance on the grounds that Sen. Bob Menendez may want to testify at a trial scheduled to start in May and may divulge marital communications that she plans to keep secret.
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At a NY trial, a Russian billionaire blames Sotheby's for losing millions on art by Picasso, da Vinci
Sotheby’s defended itself at a trial Monday against accusations that it helped defraud a Russian oligarch out of tens of millions of dollars, saying it knew nothing of wrongdoing by an art buyer who advised the billionaire on buying works by famed artists like Amedeo Modigliani and Leonardo da Vinci. Sotheby’s attorney Sara Shudofsky told a jury in an...
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Giuliani files for bankruptcy days after being ordered to pay $148 million in defamation case
Rudy Giuliani has filed for bankruptcy, days after being ordered to pay $148 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by two former election workers in Georgia who said his targeting of them led to death threats that made them fear for their lives. In his filing Thursday, the former New York City mayor listed nearly $153 million in existing or potential debts, including close...
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Official from India plotted to assassinate Sikh separatist leader in NYC: Prosecutors
U.S. authorities announced murder-for-hire charges against a man from India who they say plotted to pay an assassin $100,000 to kill a prominent Sikh separatist leader living in New York City after the man advocated for the establishment of a sovereign state for Sikhs.
