HOUSTON — A Texas woman was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of threatening a Florida judge who is overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents. Tiffani Gish, 50, of Houston, pleaded guilty in November to threatening U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. The […]
Prosecutors called it a “digital Pearl Harbor.” In a domestic espionage case that hasn’t gotten nearly the public attention it deserves, a former CIA employee who worked in an elite computer intelligence unit has been sentenced to four decades in prison for crimes that included exposing United States secrets in the cyberintelligence world. And the […]
A medical biller has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in a massive insurance fraud scheme that involved posing as an NBA player and other patients to harangue the companies for payments that weren’t actually due, prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert called Matthew James’ actions “inexcusable” as she […]
News By The Associated Press January 29, 2024 at 10:30am A former contractor for the Internal Revenue Service who pleaded guilty to leaking tax information to news outlets about former President Donald Trump and thousands of the country’s wealthiest people was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday. Charles Edward Littlejohn, 38, of Washington, […]
TALLINN, Estonia — The Moscow City Court on Thursday convicted a former Ukraine rebel leader who called President Vladimir Putin cowardly of extremism and sentenced him to four years in prison. Igor Girkin, who used the surname alias of Strelkov (shooter), was the most prominent leader of Russian-backed separatist fighters in Ukraine’s Donetsk region in […]
A California woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death 108 times during a “cannabis-induced psychosis” was sentenced to community service in a shocking case critics are slamming as a gross miscarriage of justice. On Tuesday, Bryn Spejcher, 32, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and two years probation for the May 2018 death […]
The First Amendment guarantees Americans the right to free expression without fear of prosecution, stating, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech …” This free speech tradition protects even offensive or distasteful commentary about elected politicians and government leaders — let alone unelected monarchs. While certain limitations apply to speech posing […]
Former Erie County Democratic Chairman Steven Pigeon was sentenced to 364 days imprisonment Friday over charges of first-degree sexual assault against a child. The upstate New York Democrat will also be required to register as a sex offender as part of a plea agreement, The Buffalo News reported. The sentencing came a month after Pigeon […]
A Pennsylvania man who was sentenced in secret for his role in the U.S. Capitol riot cooperated with authorities investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and an unrelated case, according to court documents unsealed this week. The documents provide insight into the unusual secrecy in the case of Samuel Lazar, who had been released from […]
On Dec. 8, convicted murderer Chad Allen Reed, 56, of Battle Creek, Michigan, learned his fate. According to WXMI in West Michigan, Reed received two life sentences for the October 2020 slayings of his tenants, 34-year-old Joseph Soule and Soule’s girlfriend, 31-year-old Jaclyn Lepird. Trinity McAllister, Lepird’s sister, applauded the judge’s sentence, which included life […]
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