PoliticsandGovernment
MIAMI — While the ex-premier of the British Virgin Islands remains locked up in Miami after being convicted of cocaine smuggling, a federal judge still cannot figure out how to resolve doubts raised by a couple of jurors about their guilty verdicts nearly two weeks ago. U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams said this week that she wants both sides — federal prosecutors and defense attorneys who are at loggerheads — to return to her courtroom on March 7 with a potential legal solution to the seemingly intractable problem. “From the start, this has been an unusual case in many respects,” William...
Miami Herald
CHICAGO — To stave off a “significant shrinkage” in the city’s available pool of money, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration Wednesday rolled out a new $1.25 billion borrowing plan to help fund a slate of progressive housing and economic development initiatives, funded in part by winding down reliance on special taxing districts, or TIFs. Johnson’s plan would require City Council approval, but, if passed, would provide $250 million per year for projects helmed by the city’s housing and planning departments every year through 2028, Johnson said. The city would pay off $2.4 billion in accumula...
Chicago Tribune
OAKLAND, California — Multiple efforts are underway on both sides of California’s political divide to short-circuit a 2022 law that would impose new income-based fixed fees on customers of PG&E and other utility leviathans. Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature have crafted separate measures designed to quash a plan to implement the fee that lawmakers hastily approved in an 11-hour proceeding. PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric would be able to impose the new charge on their customers if the state Public Utilities Commission gives the plan a final OK — p...
The Mercury News
The Illinois State Board of Elections rejected Wednesday a request to reconsider or lower more than $100,000 in fines levied against a political action committee that helped expand the Democratic Party’s majority on the Illinois Supreme Court. The board’s unanimous bipartisan vote followed a request by All for Justice, an independent expenditure PAC backed by Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, after it was fined $108,500 by the board last year for failing to timely file detailed expenditure reports in spending $7.3 million to help elect Elizabeth Rochford and Mary Kay O’Brien to the state’s...
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK — The federal government knows who killed Jam Master Jay — and the killer’s not one of the two men on trial for the Run-DMC icon’s murder, the suspects’ defense attorneys said Wednesday. In their closing arguments, the lawyers for Karl Jordan Jr. and Ronald “Tinard” Washington blamed the DJ’s 2002 murder on another man, Jay Bryant — who confessed to his uncle about the killing, and whose DNA was on a hat found at the murder scene. “Who is Jay Bryant? Well, Jay Bryant is literally reasonable doubt in this case,” Jordan’s lawyer, Michael Hueston, told the jury. “We have a single person ...
New York Daily News
CHICAGO — A United Airlines flight headed to Los Angeles made an unplanned landing at O’Hare International Airport Wednesday morning after a passenger wrote in the plane’s restroom that a bomb was on the aircraft, another traveler said. United Flight 1533 took off from Newark, New Jersey, at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday and landed in Chicago just before 8 a.m. local time, authorities said. Michael Wilson, 57, was one of the 211 people on board when flight attendants began “yelling” over the plane intercom that passengers needed to take their seats. “They were announcing the seat belt light was on and e...
Chicago Tribune
American voters are broadly skeptical that President Joe Biden is mentally fit to serve a second term, and most do not think his potential general election rival Donald Trump is mentally fit either, according to a Quinnipiac University poll published Wednesday. Sixty-four percent of respondents in the poll said Biden was mentally unfit for another term, a bleak data point for the president in a survey where he nonetheless outperformed his topline numbers in many other polls. Fifty-one percent of voters told the pollster they did not think Trump was mentally fit for a second term on Pennsylvani...
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams called off a plan Wednesday to cut all city agency budgets by 5% this spring — but also announced he’s going to slash nearly $600 million in projected spending on housing and services for newly arrived migrants. Under a plan first rolled out by City Hall in fall 2023, all agencies were supposed to face 5% budget reductions in April — on top of two previous rounds of 5% cuts in November and January — in order to offset costs associated with caring for the migrants. But in a statement Wednesday afternoon, the mayor said he’s canceling the April cuts thanks to “better-...
New York Daily News
CHICAGO — As the fight over the future of police discipline in Chicago carries on, attorneys for the largest Chicago police officers’ union have asked a county judge to extend a moratorium on more than a dozen pending disciplinary cases involving CPD officers. The motion to extend the stay on police board hearings was filed Tuesday by attorneys for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, the union representing active rank-and-file CPD officers and detectives, as well as retirees. The union is now asking Judge Michael T. Mullen to indefinitely extend his previous order that paused all pending ca...
Chicago Tribune
PONTIAC, Mich. — An attorney for the father of the Oxford High School shooter is arguing prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to introduce evidence about his son's mental health, his journal entries or text messages between the teen and his friend if the shooter does not testify at his dad's upcoming trial. Since the shooter is debating whether to file an appeal of his sentence and plea, he has said through his attorneys that if he is called to testify, he will assert his Fifth Amendment right to stay silent to avoid self incrimination. Ethan Crumbley also refused to waive privilege of his medical...
The Detroit News
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