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YUCAIPA, Calif. (KABC) — An organization announced it is pulling back its search teams and a reward once offered for information leading to a 7-month-old boy reported missing in Yucaipa. This comes as investigators cast doubt on the mother’s story about her son, Emmanuel Haro, being kidnapped, and court records show a 2018 abuse charge against the boy’s father. Over …

People in entertainment Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Human rights Crime See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Sean “Diddy” Combs has asked the judge who is overseeing his case to acquit him or give him a new trial – before he has even been sentenced. In a 62-page memorandum, filed overnight on Wednesday, Combs’ defense argues that he was unfairly targeted …

Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker and associate of Jeffrey Epstein, has requested that the US supreme court overturn her conviction, saying she was unjustly prosecuted. In 2022, Maxwell was sentenced in Manhattan to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking and other related crimes. Her legal team, however, submitted a request to the supreme court on Monday, seeking to …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, urged the Supreme Court on Monday to take up her pending appeal and overturn her sex-trafficking conviction, claiming she was covered by an agreement Epstein made with federal authorities that shielded her from prosecution. “This case is about what the government promised, not what Epstein did,” Maxwell’s attorneys …

Ghislaine Maxwell files Supreme Court brief appealing Epstein conviction  Axios Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell urges Supreme Court to overturn her conviction  CNN Ghislaine Maxwell Makes Next Supreme Court Move  Newsweek Why the Supreme Court could take up Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal over Epstein agreement  MSNBC News As an uproar over files relating to Jeffrey Epstein engulfs President Donald Trump and Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court …

Bitcoin’s $9B Whale Exit Reignites Questions About OG Conviction and BTC’s Direction  CoinDesk Galaxy Executes One of the Largest Notional Bitcoin Transactions Ever  PR Newswire A mysterious crypto account bought $54,000 worth of bitcoin in 2011 and sold it all for $9.6 billion this week, which means they can now afford one Big Mac a day for 4,971,897 years  Yahoo Finance Satoshi-era Bitcoin …

London Reuters  —  Tom Hayes, the first trader ever jailed for interest rate rigging, had his conviction overturned by Britain’s top court Wednesday after a years-long fight to clear his name. The UK Supreme Court unanimously allowed Hayes’ appeal, overturning his 2015 conviction of eight counts of conspiracy to defraud by manipulating Libor, a now-defunct benchmark interest rate. The court …

Minnesota legislator to resign after conviction for burglary at stepmom’s home  The Washington Post Tolkkinen: Thumbs up for Detroit Lakes jury in Sen. Nicole Mitchell burglary case  Star Tribune Minnesota lawmaker to resign after being convicted of felony burglary  NBC News Sen. Nicole Mitchell says she lied to police during burglary arrest to allay stepmother’s paranoia  Minnesota Reformer Minnesota Lawmaker Convicted of Burglary Plans …

Another possible candidate to replace Mitchell is former Rep. Kelly Fenton, a Republican who held a nearby House seat in the late 2010s. She asked on X after Friday’s verdict, “Is now a good time to make a big announcement?” Republicans, who have been calling for Mitchell to resign for more than a year, on Monday demanded she step down …

NEW YORK (AP) — The man convicted in the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz was awarded a new trial Monday as a federal appeals court overturned the guilty verdict in one of the nation’s most notorious missing child cases. Pedro Hernandez has been serving 25 years to life in prison since his 2017 conviction. He had been arrested in …