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Prosecutors have asked for a September retrial for disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein during a hearing yesterday (Wednesday 1 May) in Manhattan. Weinstein’s first court appearance since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals court last week – a ruling which shocked and disappointed women who celebrated historic gains during the era of #MeToo, a movement that ushered in a wave of sexual-misconduct claims in Hollywood and beyond. One of Weinstein’s accusers, Jessica Mann, was in the courtroom on Wednesday and is prepared to testify again, Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blu...
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Prosecutors in the United States on Tuesday are asking a judge to hand Changpeng Zhao, the founder of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, a three-year prison sentence for allowing rampant money laundering on the platform. Zhao pleaded guilty and stepped down as Binance CEO in November as the company agreed to pay $4.3 billion (€4 million) to settle related allegations. US officials said Zhao deliberately looked the other way as illicit actors conducted transactions that supported child sex abuse, the illegal drug trade, and terrorism. Binance CEO 'CZ' Changpeng Zhao steps dow...
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Prosecutors have announced that French actor Gérard Depardieu will face a criminal trial in October over the alleged sexual assaults in 2021 of two women on the set of a film. This follows the news yesterday that the 75-year-old actor had been taken into custody by police for questioning in Paris. Depardieu’s lawyer, Christian Saint-Palais, declined to comment to reporters other than to say that the actor was no longer in custody. The Paris public prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the actor has been “summoned to appear before the criminal court” after the questioning. A trial will s...
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The trial - which opened on Monday in Stuttgart - is the first to open in relation to the purported conspiracy, which came to light in late 2022. It is focused on those defendants of the Reich Citizens group who allegedly were part of its so-called military arm, German news agency dpa reported. Federal prosecutors in December filed terrorism charges against a total of 27 people, one of whom has since died. Nine other suspects, among them a self-styled prince and a former far-right lawmaker, will go on trial on 21 May at a Frankfurt state court in the most prominent of the three cases. The othe...
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New York (AFP) - New York's highest court on Thursday overturned disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction on sex crime charges, a stunning about-face in the case that launched the #MeToo movement. Here are the key moments in the case: 2017: Scandal erupts - The New York Times publishes a bombshell investigative report featuring numerous on-the-record sexual harassment and assault accusations against Weinstein over a period of nearly three decades. Actresses Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan are the highest-profile accusers. The Times reveals that Weinstein reached non-disclo...
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Moscow (AFP) - A Moscow court on Tuesday denied US journalist Evan Gershkovich's appeal against the extension of his pre-trial detention in the espionage case that he and American authorities have rejected as false. Gershkovich, 32, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, has been in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo prison for more than a year after he was arrested while on a reporting trip to Russia. He is the first Western journalist since the Soviet era to be arrested by Moscow on spying charges -- accusations that he, his employer and the US government reject. "The first court of appeal ruled ...
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Maxwell Azzarello succumbed to his injuries, the New York City Police Department stated on Saturday. He had been pronounced dead at a nearby hospital in Collect Pond Park at around 1:30 p.m. on Friday. Eyewitnesses reported that the man had distributed pamphlets promoting conspiracy theories before immolating himself with an accelerant. “You can smell burning flesh,” Laura Coates, an anchor and CNN's chief legal analyst, said as she stood at the scene with reporter Evan Perez. Law enforcement officers and bystanders rushed to aid the victim, who was initially hospitalised in critical condition...
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New York (AFP) - Donald Trump could not have made his feelings clearer: he would rather be anywhere else than in a New York courtroom Tuesday, on trial for business fraud. Dressed in a blue suit with a blue tie, former US president shifted between discomfort and anger, as he sat through the second day of the historic proceeding, the first criminal trial of a US president. "This is a trial that should have never been brought," Trump told reporters outside the courtroom, as he lashed out against President Joe Biden, his Democratic rival in the November presidential election, and what he called t...
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The weapons supervisor on the set of the Western film “Rust” was sentenced to 18 months in prison during a hearing on Monday (15 April), over the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin. A New Mexico judge found that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed’s recklessness amounted to a serious violent offence, noting few indications of genuine remorse from the defendant since she was convicted in March. Prosecutors blame Gutierrez-Reed for unwittingly bringing live ammunition onto the set of “Rust”, where it was expressly forbidden, and for failing to follow basic gun-safety protocols. ...
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O.J. Simpson, the NFL player and actor whose career was overshadowed by his acquittal from charges that he murdered his wife Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman in 1994, has died aged 76. The Buffalo Bills running back was later found liable for their deaths in a separate civil trial. His family confirmed yesterday that Simpson died after battling prostate cancer “surrounded by his children and grandchildren”. OJ Simpson dies at 76 after decades lived in the shadow of ex-wife's murderCulture Re-View: OJ Simpson freed after being found 'not guilty' of murderSimpson’s highly publicised arrest and conse...
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