FTX chief executive blasts Sam Bankman-Fried for claiming fraud victims will not suffer
The chief executive of the cryptocurrency company Sam Bankman-Fried founded attacked the onetime crypto power player in a letter to a federal judge, saying his claim that customers, lenders and investors were not harmed was callously false.
Judge denies Trump relief from $83.3 million defamation judgment
The federal judge who oversaw a defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s is refusing to relieve the ex-president from the verdict's financial pinch.
Trump's lawyers seek to suspend $83M defamation verdict, citing 'strong probability' it won't stand
Donald Trump's lawyers have asked a New York judge to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the former president, saying there was a โstrong probabilityโ that it would be reduced on appeal, if not eliminated.
Testy encounters between lawyers and judges a defining feature of Trump's court cases so far
Testy encounters between lawyers for former President Donald Trump and judges have come to be expected as the attorneys carry into the courtroom the bombastic, and often antagonistic, style that defines his campaign trail demeanor.
Possible Trump testimony in sex abuse defamation trial postponed due to juror illness
A juror's illness has forced a postponement of the defamation trial for former President Donald Trump for at least a day, delaying the question of whether he'll testify about his statements about sexual assault accuser E.
Trump glowers and gestures in court, then leaves to campaign as sex abuse defamation trial opens
Former President Donald Trump left his defamation trial before a lawyer told jurors in an opening statement that Trump had used โthe world's biggest microphoneโ to destroy a New York columnist's reputation after she said he had sexually abused her.
Judge says Trump can wait a week to testify at sex abuse victim's defamation trial
A New York federal judge says former President Donald Trump can wait a week to testify at a defamation trial where he could face millions of dollars in damages after a jury concluded that he sexually abused a columnist in the 1990s.
Notorious 'Access Hollywood' tape to be shown at Trump's defamation trial damages phase next week
A federal judge says the notorious 2005 โAccess Hollywoodโ video in which Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown to jurors deciding what he owes a columnist he defamed.
Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist's rape claim at upcoming defamation trial
A judge says former President Donald Trump's lawyers can't present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial this month on a jury's conclusion that he didn't rape a columnist in the mid-1990s.
Judge, citing Trump's 'repeated public statements,' orders anonymous jury in defamation suit trial
A New York judge has cited former President Donald Trump's โrepeated public statementsโ among reasons why a jury will be anonymous when it considers damages stemming from a defamation lawsuit by a writer who says Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s.
Appeals panel questions why 'presidential immunity' argument wasn't pursued years ago in Trump case
A federal appeals panel wants to know why lawyers for former President Donald Trump didn't try years ago to deflect a defamation lawsuit from a woman who accused him of sexual assault with a presidential immunity claim.
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer fails to hurt credibility of the government's star witness at fraud trial
Sam Bankman-Friedโs lawyer did little to dent the credibility of the governmentโs key witness in the former crypto mogulโs fraud trial Thursday, meandering through a cross-examination of Caroline Ellison that at times left even the judge puzzled and impatient.
Appeals court to quickly consider Trump's presidential immunity claim in sex abuse case
A federal appeals court plans to quickly consider former President Donald Trump's claim that presidential immunity protects him from a New York writer's assertion that he defamed her by saying she fabricated her claim that he sexually attacked her in the 1990s.
Jailed Sam Bankman-Fried can't prepare for trial without vegan diet and adequate meds, lawyers say
Defense lawyers say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried can't adequately prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate, and a better diet than bread, water and peanut butter.
Judge won't delay Trump's defamation claims trial, calling the ex-president's appeal frivolous
A New York federal judge has expressed growing impatience with what he calls ex-President Donald Trump's โrepeated efforts to delayโ a defamation lawsuit, saying he won't stop a January trial for the โfrivolous appealโ of one of his rulings.
Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump in a writer's sex abuse and defamation case
A federal judge has upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the ex-president's claim the jury vindicated him by failing to conclude in a civil case that he raped a columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s.
Judge lets columnist amend defamation claim with over $10 million demand for damages from Trump
A federal judge says a columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation jury award against Donald Trump can update a similar lawsuit in a bid for over $10 million more in damages from the ex-president.
NY jury will have wide latitude to decide civil Trump claims
The jury hearing a columnist's claims that she was raped by Donald Trump in the 1990s is likely to have wide latitude in deciding the merits of the civil allegations against the former president when it begins deliberations as early as Tuesday.
Jury sides with Constellation in Corona hard seltzer case
In a case that hinged on the definition of โbeer,โ a federal jury has ruled that Constellation Brands can continue to sell Corona and Modelo hard seltzers in the U.S. Anheuser-Busch InBev and its Mexican subsidiary, Grupo Modelo, sued Constellation in 2021.
Judge suggests jail to limit FTX founder's communications
A federal judge is showing growing impatience with FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's use of the internet while on bail, suggesting that incarceration might eventually be the most effective way to prevent him from communicating on electronic devices in ways that canโt be traced.
Prince Andrew effort to toss sex assault suit hits roadblock
A judge appears mostly dismissive of arguments by a lawyer for Prince Andrew who wants to win fast rejection of a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was sexually trafficked to the royal by the millionaire Jeffrey Epstein when she was 17.
Prince Andrew: Accuser cannot sue because she isnโt in US
Lawyers for Prince Andrew say a lawsuit by an American who claims he sexually abused her when she was 17 may need to be thrown out because she no longer lives in the U.S. The lawyers said in a Manhattan federal court filing Tuesday that they've recently discovered that Virginia Giuffre has lived in Australia all but two of the last 19 years.
4 men convicted in 1993 WTC bombing have had sentences cut
In the last year, four men implicated in the 1993 bombing have won reductions to their sentences after one part of their convictions was dropped to be consistent with a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling. AdThe bombers who had their sentences reduced were arrested in the intense FBI probe that followed the blast. In a 2012 memorandum, Duffy called Yousef โa cold-blooded killer, completely devoid of conscience.โAdIn a second trial, he was convicted as the mastermind of the 1993 bombing. Now 52, he is serving a life prison term. Eyad Ismoil, 49, also convicted in the 1993 attack, is serving a 210-year sentence.
Judge: US can't replace Trump in accuser's defamation suit
E. Jean Carroll, who says President Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, leaves the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse following a hearing in her defamation lawsuit against Trump, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in New York. A federal judge on Tuesday denied President Donald Trump's request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit alleging he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)NEW YORK โ President Donald Trumpโs request that the United States replace him as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit, which alleges he raped a woman in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, was denied Tuesday by a federal judge. โThe President of the United States is not an employee of the Government within the meaning of the relevant statutes,โ Kaplan wrote. โEven if he were such an employee, President Trumps allegedly defamatory statements concerning Ms. Carroll would not have been within the scope of his employment."
Trump rape accuser 'stunned' at DOJ no-show at court hearing
E. Jean Carroll, who says President Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, leaves the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse following a hearing in her defamation lawsuit against Trump, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020, in New York. โIโm stunned, stunned, and actually speechless, which is unusual,โ Carroll told reporters outside the courthouse. A request for comment to the Justice Department wasn't immediately returned. Justice Department attorneys have said Trump had to respond in June 2019 to accusations Carroll made against him in a book because the claims related to his fitness for office. The Associated Press does not identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly.