Judge jails ex-Trump campaign chair Manafort ahead of trial
Politics and Crime
President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is going to jail.
Politics and Crime
June 6, 2018
Stanford rape case judge who gave perp slap on the wrist is kicked off bench
Judge who sentenced swimmer recalled amid #MeToo movement By PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The beginning of the end for the first California judge recalled since 1932 began almost exactly two years ago, when Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexual assault to six months in …
Politics and Crime
May 24, 2018
Judge suspended for courthouse affair with social worker
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts judge who engaged in sexual acts with a social worker in his courthouse chambers will be suspended indefinitely, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday, setting in motion the judge’s possible removal from the bench. The Supreme Judicial Court said Judge Thomas Estes’ “grave, willful and …
Politics and Crime
May 17, 2018
Missouri ‘Lov-Gov’ walks free after sex-related charges dropped
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, 43, who was accused by a news station of blackmailing his mistress with a racy half-nude, S&M photo to keep her from exposing a 2015 affair to his wife, declared victory after prosecutors dropped a felony invasion-of-privacy charge on Monday. “Today the prosecutor has dropped the false charges against me. This …
Politics and Crime
May 15, 2018
Missouri ‘Lov-Gov’ walks free after sex-related charges dropped
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens declared victory as prosecutors abruptly dropped a felony invasion-of-privacy charge alleging he had taken a revealing photo of a woman with whom he has acknowledged having an affair. The St. Louis circuit attorney’s office said it still plans to pursue the case, either through a special prosecutor …
Police
May 9, 2018
‘That’s Wakiesha. She’s going to stay with you!’: Irate aunt throws niece’s ashes at police chief: Report
The aunt of a woman who died while in the custody of the Los Angeles Police Department reportedly threw her niece’s ashes at the police chief during a meeting Tuesday morning. Wakiesha Wilson, 36, was found dead in her cell at the LAPD Metropolitan Detention Center in March 2016. A day earlier, Wilson was arrested for assaulting …
Politics and Crime
April 16, 2018
Trump seeks to limit access to records seized in FBI raid
NEW YORK (AP) — A legal fight over what should happen to records the FBI seized from President Donald Trump’s personal attorney took a surprise twist Monday when the lawyer, Michael Cohen, was forced to reveal in court that he had also secretly done legal work for Fox News host Sean Hannity. The disclosure came …
Politics and Crime
April 15, 2018
Kentucky Gov. Bevin apologizes for ‘explosive’ child sex abuse remarks
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin apologized Sunday for saying that children were sexually abused because they were left home alone while teachers rallied to ask lawmakers to override his vetoes. The Republican issued his apology in a nearly four-minute video posted online, saying “it is not my intent to hurt anybody in …
Politics and Crime
April 14, 2018
Missouri governor’s scandal ensnares unwitting hairdresser
By TAMMY WEBBER, Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — She was a St. Louis hairdresser whose marriage was on the rocks. He was a handsome, educated and ambitious client who bedazzled her with talk of his time as a Navy SEAL, author and volunteer. What began as a crush on future Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, the woman …
Politics and Crime
April 9, 2018
Court filing says woman at center of Missouri governor scandal unsure of memory
By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Attorneys defending Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens against a felony invasion-of-privacy charge have raised new doubts about a key allegation that he took a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman with whom he had an affair. In a court filing dated Sunday, Greitens’ attorneys say …
Mass shooting
April 4, 2018
Doctor treating YouTube shooting victims speaks out against gun violence: ‘The reality is we have to deal with this all the time’
A trauma surgeon treating three people shot Tuesday at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno expressed frustration with the current state of gun violence, lamenting that mass shootings have become a common occurrence. According to SFGate, Dr. Andre Campbell, a trauma surgeon at San Francisco General, spoke with reporters outside the hospital’s emergency department. There, he revealed …
Politics and Crime
March 25, 2018
Porn star describes threat over alleged Trump encounter
By KEN THOMAS and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Adult film star Stormy Daniels says she was threatened to keep silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006, telling her story in a highly anticipated interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday. Daniels said she was threatened by an unidentified man …
