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Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

Mar. 28, 2024 19:50 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for a massive fraud on hundreds of thousands of customers that unraveled with the collapse of FTX, once one of the world’s most popular platforms for exchanging digital currency. ...

Donald Trump assails judge and his daughter after gag order in New York hush-money criminal case

Mar. 27, 2024 19:54 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the New York judge who put him under a gag order ahead of his April 15 hush-money criminal trial, making a fallacious claim about his daughter and urging him to step aside from the case. In a social media post, the former...

A $15 toll to drive into part of Manhattan has been approved. That's a first for US cities

Mar. 27, 2024 17:45 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York is on track to become the first U.S. city with congestion tolls on drivers entering its central business district after transit officials approved a $15 fee for most motorists headed to the busiest part of Manhattan. Members of the Metropolitan...

A man has been arrested for randomly assaulting a young woman on a New York City street

Mar. 27, 2024 16:39 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A man has been arrested for randomly assaulting a young woman who was walking down a New York City street earlier this week, police said Wednesday. The arrest comes after several videos went viral on social media showing women describing being suddenly hit by a...

Judge issues gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting on witnesses, others in hush money case

Mar. 26, 2024 18:18 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York judge Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting publicly about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial, citing the former president's history of “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating" remarks...

US prosecutors try to send warning to cryptocurrency world with KuCoin prosecution

Mar. 26, 2024 14:03 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A top U.S. prosecutor announced criminal charges Tuesday against a once-ascending company in the cryptocurrency world and two of its founders in a bid to send a message to other players in the industry to follow U.S. laws. U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said...

Trump's New York hush money case is set for trial April 15

Mar. 25, 2024 20:43 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The first of Donald Trump’s four criminal trials will begin April 15, a Manhattan judge ruled Monday after tearing into the former president’s lawyers for what he said were unfounded claims that the hush-money case had been tainted by prosecutorial misconduct. ...

New York City owl Flaco was exposed to pigeon virus and rat poison before death, tests show

Mar. 25, 2024 18:43 PM EDT

New York City’s celebrity owl Flaco was suffering from a severe pigeon-borne illness and high levels of rat poison when he crashed into a building and died last month, officials at the Bronx Zoo said Monday. The Eurasian eagle-owl was found dead in a Manhattan courtyard on Feb. 23,...

Prosecutors say Donald Trump's hush money trial should start April 15 without further delay

Mar. 21, 2024 17:07 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors on Thursday urged a judge to start Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial on April 15, saying the defense's calls for further delays or dismissal of the former president’s case because of a last-minute evidence dump were a “red herring.” ...

Judge says Michael Cohen may have committed perjury, refuses to end his probation early

Mar. 20, 2024 15:20 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge suggested Wednesday that Michael Cohen committed perjury under oath, giving fresh support to former President Donald Trump’s claims that his onetime personal lawyer — poised to be a star prosecution witness at his upcoming New York criminal trial — is an...