Federal Court

A man charged with threatening to kill members of Congress testified on Tuesday that his disturbing social media rants were the work of a stoned and wasted provocateur — not someone actually out for blood. Brendan Hunt did not deny creating the posts. But he told jurors at his trial in federal court in Brooklyn he believed what he called “rhetoric”...

A man who sent anthrax hoax letters to federal offices and courts in New York and Connecticut has been sentenced to time served, more than than two years in jail. Joseph Pantone, 36, was sentenced in Albany federal court on Monday for sending envelopes containing white powder and a note that read “anthrax” to more than a dozen government offices in...

A hedge fund founder pleaded guilty Wednesday to a criminal charge alleging he defrauded Neiman Marcus creditors by pressuring an investment bank not to bid against his hedge fund to buy securities from them. Marble Ridge Capital founder Daniel Kamensky, 48, entered the plea to a single count of bankruptcy fraud in Manhattan federal court. A plea agreement suggested a…

The Queens man was arrested after threatening to murder, or calling for others to murder, some of the top Democratic members of Congress and urging violence on Inauguration Day. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

A federal judge in Philadelphia has joined others around the country in ordering the U.S. Postal Service to halt recent service cuts

A federal judge on Sunday postponed a Trump administration order that would have banned the popular video sharing app TikTok from U.S. smartphone app stores around midnight.

A federal appeals court says Florida cannot bar felons who served their time from registering to vote simply because they have failed to pay all fines and fees stemming from their cases

The family of rapper Kodak Black is planning to sue a federal Department of Justice agency after the treatment their son said he and other inmates received in a Florida federal prison. In a lengthy Instagram post, the Florida native alleged that a Bureau of Prisons supervisor played a role in him being laced, bruised and brutally beaten. He also…

The Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers urged a federal court to overturn their client’s death sentence, arguing Thursday that intense media coverage and signs of juror bias led to an unfair trial. The three-judge panel didn’t render a decision after hearing from both sides for about an hour each.  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of all 30 charges against him,...

A federal judge has ruled the U.S. government was correct when it determined a New Jersey-born woman who joined the Islamic State group was not an American citizen despite where she was born.

A New Jersey man faces manslaughter charges following a car crash in Maine’s Acadia National Park that killed three people from New York City, authorities say.

A suspended New Jersey sheriff’s deputy accused of having sex with a 17-year-old Pennsylvania girl and posting the video online is now facing federal charges.

President Donald Trump lost a major Twitter fight Tuesday when a federal appeals court said that his daily musings and pronouncements were overwhelmingly official in nature and that he violated the First Amendment whenever he blocked a critic to silence a viewpoint. The effect of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision is likely to reverberate throughout politics after...

President Donald Trump lost a major Twitter fight Tuesday when a federal appeals court said that his daily musings and pronouncements were overwhelmingly official in nature and that he violated the First Amendment whenever he blocked a critic to silence a viewpoint. The effect of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision is likely to reverberate throughout politics after...

A federal magistrate has ordered a 23-year-old man charged with lying to federal agents about being a missing child from Illinois continue to be held without bond. Authorities on Friday charged Brian Michael Rini of Medina, Ohio, a day after DNA testing ruled him out as being Timmothy Pitzen, who disappeared in 2011 at age 6. Magistrate Karen Litkovitz had...

The wife of actor Geoffrey Rush cried as she told a Sydney court on Wednesday how he had wept and curled up in the fetal position following newspaper allegations he had behaved inappropriately toward a female co-star. Rush himself also admitted to the court he may have described the co-star, Eryn Jean Norvill, as “yummy,” but denied this was accompanied...

Both Hunter and his wife Margaret were indicted for misuse of campaign funds Tuesday afternoon. NBC 7’s Rory Devine reports from the courthouse.

A federal judge has awarded San Diego Comic Con $3.9 million in legal fees in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed in 2014 against Salt Lake City’s comic convention.

Are there quotas in the NYPD for arrests and summonses? The Department says no. Officers disagree.

It has been two years since 12 NYPD officers went public with stunning claims about being pressured to make arrests and issue summonses in minority neighborhoods and they are still saying quotas exist. The I-Team’s Sarah Wallace reports.