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Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 45 | Friday, November 11, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump urged a federal appeals court Thursday to leave in place an independent arbiter who was assigned to review documents seized by the FBI in an August search of the former president’s Florida estate. The Trump… Continue reading Trump team urges court to leave Mar-a-Lago arbiter in place

VOL. 46 | NO. 45 | Friday, November 11, 2022 Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is casting herself as a Silicon Valley scapegoat who overcame an abusive relationship to become a loving mother in an effort to avoid a lengthy prison sentence for duping investors in her failed blood-testing company. In an 82-page document filed… Continue reading Elizabeth Holmes asks for leniency for her Theranos crimes

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 45 | Friday, November 11, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and lawyers for Donald Trump are at odds over whether the former president can assert executive privilege over documents seized from his Florida estate to shield them from investigators and over whether he can treat the… Continue reading Trump team, Justice Dept. spar over seized Mar-a-Lago docs

VOL. 46 | NO. 45 | Friday, November 11, 2022 NEW YORK (AP) — An executive at Donald Trump’s company testified Monday he was afraid he’d hear those famous words — “you’re fired!” — if he went to the big boss with concerns that two top company officials were scheming to dodge taxes on company-paid… Continue reading Trump exec says he feared firing if he spoke up about scheme

VOL. 46 | NO. 45 | Friday, November 11, 2022 NEW YORK (AP) — Just days after cryptocurrency’s third-largest exchange collapsed, the public is starting to get an idea of how messy FTX’s bankruptcy case could be. Other crypto firms are failing as a result of FTX’s unraveling, events reminiscent of the domino-like meltdowns of… Continue reading Size, scope of FTX failure gets clearer as users fear worst

Home > Article VOL. 46 | NO. 45 | Friday, November 11, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — A defendant charged alongside members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol played down his message about ferrying “heavy weapons” across the Potomac River, calling it “creative writing” in testimony… Continue reading Oath Keepers defendant downplays ‘heavy weapons’ message

VOL. 46 | NO. 35 | Friday, September 2, 2022 KNOXVILLE (AP) — Chloe Akers considers herself a grizzled criminal defense attorney. Until a few months ago, she didn’t spend much time thinking about abortion — for all her 39 years, abortion was not a crime, so she’d never imagined having to defend someone accused… Continue reading Lawyer’s mission: Translate Tenn.’s bewildering abortion ban

VOL. 46 | NO. 35 | Friday, September 2, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump isn’t the first to face criticism for flouting rules and traditions around the safeguarding of sensitive government records, but national security experts say recent revelations point to an unprecedented disregard of post-presidency norms established after the Watergate era. Document dramas… Continue reading America’s secrets: Trump’s unprecedented disregard of norms

VOL. 46 | NO. 35 | Friday, September 2, 2022 WASHINGTON (AP) — In a legal victory for former President Donald Trump, a federal judge on Monday granted his request for a special master to review documents seized by the FBI from his Florida home and also temporarily halted the Justice Department’s own use of… Continue reading Judge grants Trump bid for special master in document search