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Huawei CFO faces fraud accusations from US in Canadian bail hearing
Chinese tech manufacturer Huawei’s chief financial officer is facing fraud charges in the United States and faces up to 30 years in prison if found guilty, according to the New York Times. Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, is accused of “conspiracy to defraud multiple financial institutions” including breaking American sanctions on […]
To Bail or Not to Bail … Your Brother From Jail
We pull into the parking lot. My daughter sits beside me, shoving Pringles into her mouth. This is a reconnaissance stop, before our official visit. We park for a moment, hardly breathing as we sit there. A few weeks ago, the headline of the local newspaper read, “Man charged with having 5 illegal guns.” The […]
Judge orders package bomb suspect Cesar Sayoc, Jr. held without bail
Broward County The man suspected of sending mail bombs to several prominent Democratic leaders last week, including former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama, was charged in federal court on Monday and ordered held without bail. Cesar Sayoc Jr. was charged with five felony counts over sending 14 bombs to high-profile […]
Federal court orders alleged hacker to pay for bail with cryptocurrency
Defendants in US federal court cases now have another option for staying out on bail: emptying their virtual wallets. A district court in San Francisco has ordered alleged hacker Martin Marsich to pay the equivalent of $ 750,000 in cryptocurrency if he wants to live in a halfway house while facing trial. It’s not clear […]
When do Republicans start to bail on Scott Pruitt? When Trump finally starts to care
Al Drago-Pool/Getty Images Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has managed to stay alive in Washington, despite a laundry list of scandals and allegations of taxpayer abuse and improprieties. Republican lawmakers shrug off the scandals as unhelpful and distracting, but by and large support the policies that Pruitt is implementing at the EPA. President Donald […]
A federal judge could soon revoke Paul Manafort’s bail after Mueller charged him with witness tampering
AP Photo/Matt Rourke US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson has scheduled a hearing for June 15 to decide whether to revoke bail for Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign. Manafort has been on supervised release since he was first indicted by the special counsel Robert Mueller’s office last year. But the […]
Perry seems in favor of emergency order to bail out coal, nuclear plants
Enlarge / US Energy Secretary Rick Perry in the East Room of the White House in 2018. (credit: Getty Images) At a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Energy Secretary Rick Perry expressed his willingness to help coal and nuclear plants out with an emergency order similar to one requested by energy firm FirstEnergy earlier […]
US man who hunted for a child ‘sex slave’ he could ‘cannibalize’ is released on bail
A Myrtle Beach man who voiced his perverse criminal intentions to an undercover cop has been released on $ 20,000 bond. He was among 40 suspects arrested in South Carolina’s largest crackdown on prostitution and sex trafficking. Justin Teeter Bensing, 36, was apprehended by Greenville county police during Operation Milestone, after he solicited sex from […]
Paul Manafort’s efforts to renegotiate his bail just got him into deeper trouble
Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman who was charged with money laundering last fall in the Russia investigation, is facing a new claim of bank fraud. The claim surfaced in a document released Friday night that details bail negotiations between Manafort and special counsel Robert Mueller. The document says Manafort wants to withdraw two […]