July 12, 2024
US Senator Bob Menendez’s lawyer told jurors that the politician’s wife failed to tell him details of how she got a Mercedes Benz from a convicted felon who testified during the lawmaker’s corruption trial that the car was a bribe. …
September 27, 2023
Donald Trump was found liable for fraud for exaggerating his net worth by billions of dollars a year on financial records submitted to banks and insurers, a major blow to the former president in the biggest civil case against him …
May 10, 2023
A federal jury in New York found Donald Trump liable for sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll and then defaming her by calling her a liar, the first verdict against him in a string of legal cases that threaten to …
March 15, 2023
Signature Bank was hit with its first investor suit since the bank went into receivership Sunday, accused of making misleading statements about its financial health and risks. Matthew Schaeffer said he bought call options and was “economically damaged” by the …
August 26, 2022
Harvey Weinstein has been granted a request to appeal his rape and sexual assault conviction to New York’s highest court. Chief Judge Janet DiFiore granted the request on Aug. 19, said Gary Spencer, a spokesperson for the Court of Appeals …
June 1, 2022
Glock Inc. and its parent company were sued by a New York City woman who was seriously injured when she was seriously wounded by a gunman who opened fire aboard a crowded morning rush-hour subway train in Brooklyn last month. …
August 11, 2021
A fund to compensate victims of Jeffrey Epstein is concluding its claims process after awarding more than $120 million, its administrator said. The announcement Monday comes one day before the second anniversary of Epstein’s death in a New York jail …
October 9, 2020
Yale University was sued by the U.S. Department of Justice, which claims the Ivy League school illegally discriminates against White and Asian-American applicants in undergraduate admissions by favoring Black and Hispanic ones. The lawsuit appears to be a part of …
January 5, 2020
More than two years and a lifetime ago, Hollywood’s open secrets about Harvey Weinstein finally spilled into public view. Few back then could have predicted all that would follow or where the #MeToo movement would go. Now, for Weinstein, a …
December 12, 2019
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced film mogul charged with rape, reached a tentative $47 million settlement with accusers, potentially putting an end to many of the civil complaints against him, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The money …