Maricopa County officials have agreed to a $4.05 million settlement for the family of Akeem Terrell, a 31-year-old man who died in 2021 while restrained in a Phoenix jail cell. The settlement comes nearly four years after the incident, which sparked a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging excessive force and...

Two former correctional officers from West Virginia have pleaded guilty to federal civil rights violations stemming from the death of Quantez Burks, a 37-year-old inmate who died less than a day after being booked into the Southern Regional Jail in Beaver. Johnathan Walters entered his plea on Monday, followed by...

A Tennessee man, Jadon Hardiman, has been convicted for his role in a deadly shooting that took place during a high school basketball game in 2021. The 21-year-old was found guilty on charges of second-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, and weapons offenses. The verdict was delivered in Gibson County,...

A federal judge has ruled against Pfizer in its effort to recover $75.2 million from a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) insider trading settlement involving billionaire Steven A. Cohen’s former hedge fund, SAC Capital Management. The decision, issued by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan, determined that Wyeth,...

Nearly a decade after the tragic deaths of Bud and June Runion, a Georgia man has pleaded guilty to their murders, ending a case that has haunted their family and community. Ronnie “Jay” Towns admitted to killing the couple in January 2015 after luring them to rural Telfair County under...

Dell Technologies and Iron Bow Technologies have agreed to pay the U.S. government a combined $4.3 million to resolve allegations that they fraudulently inflated prices on technology products sold to the U.S. Army, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Lawsuit Allegations: Inflated Prices and Collusion The lawsuit accused the...

New court filings from federal prosecutors in Minnesota shed light on an elaborate and desperate attempt to bribe a juror during a high-profile pandemic fraud trial. The alleged scheme involved encrypted messaging, surveillance, and a significant sum of cash, all aimed at securing an acquittal. $120,000 Bribe Discussed via Encrypted...

Prosecutors urged a Michigan judge on Tuesday to reject school shooter Ethan Crumbley’s attempt to withdraw his guilty plea for the 2021 Oxford High School shooting that killed four students. Crumbley, 18, pleaded guilty to multiple charges at 16 and is serving a life sentence. His new appellate attorneys argue...

Survivors and families of victims in the 2022 mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, have filed lawsuits alleging that the tragedy could have been avoided if local authorities had enforced Colorado's red flag law. The law, passed in 2019, allows officials to temporarily confiscate firearms...

Gary Wang, a former executive at the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, avoided prison time after a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced him Wednesday for his involvement in the massive fraud orchestrated by Sam Bankman-Fried. Role in the FTX Fraud Wang, the former Chief Technology Officer of FTX, pleaded guilty to...

Alexander Giannakakis, the brother of a deceased suspect in a series of arson attacks on Boston-area Jewish institutions in 2019, has pleaded guilty to charges of obstructing the federal investigation. The plea, entered in federal court on Monday, concludes years of international legal proceedings following his extradition from Sweden earlier...