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Moscow (AFP) - Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who has spent a year behind bars in Russia, is awaiting a trial on espionage charges the White House says are fabricated but could still see him jailed for decades. The US-born son of Soviet emigres covered Russia for six years, including a stint with AFP, as the Kremlin made independent, on-the-ground reporting increasingly dangerous and illegal. His arrest in March 2023 on charges of spying -- the first such charge against a Western journalist since the Soviet era -- showed that the Kremlin was prepared to go further than ever b...
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Disgraced R&B singer R. Kelly’s lawyer told an appeals court yesterday (Monday 18 March) that all kinds of legitimate organizations — even college fraternities — could be deemed racketeering organizations under a law used to convict the Kelly at his Brooklyn trial of sexually abusing young fans, including children, for decades. Attorney Jennifer Bonjean, seeking to reverse his 2021 convictions or to win him a new trial, tried to persuade three judges on the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan that prosecutors improperly used a racketeering statute written to shut down organized crime ...
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An $11 billion (€10 billion) acquisition that backfired on Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett Packard (HP) more than a decade ago will be resurrected Monday during a trial that will explore whether the deal was an illegal rip-off or a case of botched management. The criminal trial in San Francisco federal court revolves around HP's acquisition of UK software maker Autonomy, a deal that was celebrated as a coup when it was announced in 2011, only to blow up into a costly debacle. Before HP wrapped up the deal, Meg Whitman was hired to be CEO of the company started 85 years ago by Bill Hewlett and D...
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A woman has sued director Roman Polanski, alleging he raped her in his home when she was a minor in 1973. The woman aired the allegations, which the 90-year-old Polanski has denied, in a news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, who has represented the victims of Jeffery Epstein and Bill Cosby, on Tuesday (12 March). The account is similar to the still-unresolved Los Angeles criminal sexual assault case that prompted Polanski in 1978 to flee to Europe, where he has remained since. The unnamed plaintiff who filed the civil lawsuit said she went to dinner with Polanski, who knew she was ...
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Kempten (Germany) (AFP) - A German court handed an American man a life sentence Monday for raping and killing a fellow US tourist near Bavaria's famed Neuschwanstein castle last year. The district tribunal in the southern town of Kempten convicted the defendant, identified only as Troy Philipp B., 31, after he made a wide-ranging confession on the first day of his trial last month. The judges also noted the "particular severity of guilt", meaning he is unlikely to be released after 15 years as is customary with life sentences in Germany. Troy Philipp B. was convicted of raping and murdering th...
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A jury has convicted a movie weapons supervisor of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by actor Alec Baldwin during a rehearsal on the set of the Western movie Rust. The verdict against movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed assigned new blame in the fatal October 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins after an assistant director last year pleaded no contest to negligent handling of a firearm. Gutierrez-Reed also had faced a second charge of tampering with evidence, stemming from accusations that she handed a small bag of possible narcotics to another cre...
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Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski goes on trial in France today over allegations he defamed British actress Charlotte Lewis, who accused him of sexual abuse in the 1980s. The 90-year-old director, who currently resides in Paris, is not due to appear in court, his lawyers have said. Lewis, 56, will be present at the trial. Lewis claimed in May 2010 that Polanski had sexually assaulted her during an audition at his Paris home in 1983, when she was just 16 years old. The actress, who later starred in Polanski's 1986 film Pirates, did not go to the police in the UK, but instead shared...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - "Comme un coup de batte de baseball dans l'épaule": le réalisateur du film "Rust" Joel Souza a raconté vendredi devant un tribunal américain le moment où une arme tenue par l'acteur Alec Baldwin l'a blessé et tué la directrice de la photographie. Le récit a été donné au procès à Santa Fe (Nouveau-Mexique) d'Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, chargée de la gestion des armes sur ce western à petit budget. Le tournage avait viré au drame en octobre 2021 dans un ranch du Nouveau-Mexique, Etat du sud-ouest des Etats-Unis. Alec Baldwin, également producteur du film, avait pointé un revolver ...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Getting shot on the set of "Rust" where a cinematographer was killed "felt like somebody had taken a baseball bat to my shoulder," the movie's director told a court Friday. Joel Souza described his confusion after being hit by a live round that should never have been on the set of the budget Western in October 2021. "There was an incredibly loud bang," he said of the moment that the Colt .45 actor Alec Baldwin was holding discharged. "It felt like somebody had taken a baseball bat to my shoulder. I remember that distinctly. And sort of stumbling back and shouting." Cinemato...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Actor Alec Baldwin waved his gun around and used it "as a pointing stick" on the film set where a cinematographer was shot dead, a court heard Thursday. Footage seen at the trial of armorer Hannah Gutierrez showed Baldwin, who was also a producer on the budget Western "Rust," gesticulating with a pistol loaded with blanks. It also showed him firing the gun within a few feet of camera operators and urging the young armorer to reload his guns quickly, chiding her for not having more weapons ready. "One more! One more! One more! Right away! Let's reload!" Baldwin shouts after ...
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