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A Malaysian court convicted a Danish citizen on Monday for inaccurate criticism of police on social media, the first person to be prosecuted under a new law against fake news. Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman, 46, was charged with spreading false news after he posted a video on YouTube accusing police of taking 50 minutes to […]
Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. (credit: NEPA Scene/Flickr) A federal judge sentenced former pharmaceutical executive and hedge-fund manager Martin Shkreli to seven years in prison Friday following his earlier conviction on three of eight counts of securities and wire fraud charges. According to reporters present in the Brooklyn courtroom, Shkreli gave an emotional […]
Convicted in 2016 of failing to provide the necessities of life to his son Ezekiel, David Stephan has been invited to speak at a number of Wellness Expos. The organizer of the events stands by that decision.
Enlarge (credit: JD Hancock / Flickr) A jury found body broker Arthur Rathburn guilty on Monday of illegally renting out diseased human body parts and heads to unwitting doctors. He faces up to 20 years in prison for eight crimes, including wire fraud and illegally transporting hazardous materials. Federal prosecutors alleged that from January 2007 […]
A New York lawyer who advised pharmaceutical businessman Martin Shkreli may be heading to prison after a federal jury convicted him of helping his client to defraud shareholders to pay back previously defrauded investors. Evan Greebel, who served as outside counsel to Retrophin Inc., the biopharmaceutical company formerly run by Shkreli, was convicted Wednesday on […]
Paul Sancya/AP Larry Nassar, a former team doctor for Michigan State University and the US national gymnastics team, has pleaded guilty to 7 counts of sexual assault. He will likely serve more than 25 years in prison. Reports of abuse started to surface in 1997, but it took until 2016 to get anyone to take […]
Published time: 23 Nov, 2017 22:39 A 70-year-old man who spent almost 40 years of his life in prison for murders he didn’t commit has been pardoned by Governor Jerry Brown. Craig Coley was granted amnesty by Brown Wednesday after recent investigations proved he was wrongly convicted some 39 years ago. Coley’s case was reopened […]
Published time: 19 Oct, 2017 14:30 A working group of lawmakers headed by United Russia MP Irina Yarovaya has proposed the introduction of life sentences for sex crimes involving victims under the age of 12. Read more “For the first time, we are proposing to make life sentences a punishment for sex crimes against children […]
Texas Department of Criminal Justice via Reuters AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – Texas executed a man on Thursday convicted of murdering a prison guard in 1999, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal to spare his life despite arguments by his lawyers that he was innocent. Robert Pruett, 38, was put to death by […]
Prosecutors in Chicago said this month that they are reviewing the criminal conviction of a man who has served 24 years in prison for a murder he said he did not commit. They could determine that he should be freed. The announcement of the review follows a BuzzFeed News investigation into the case of Roosevelt […]
