Guilty Plea Date Set for Ponzi Scheme Case
A judge has set a Jan. 27 date for a disbarred South Florida lawyer to plead guilty to charges stemming from what authorities call a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. The date was set at a hearing Wednesday after Scott Rothstein’s attorney announced he will plead guilty. Rothstein had initially pleaded not guilty to racketeering, fraud [...]
Man Pleads Guilty to 1982 Murder
A Vermont man has admitted to killing an 18-year-old girl in 1982 in a plea deal with prosecutors. Forty-seven-year-old Theodore Caron of Barre was arrested in February in the strangulation death of Pamela Brown. A DNA sampled linked Caron to the slaying. Caron initially pleaded innocent to first-degree murder. On Wednesday, he pleaded guilty to [...]
Bail Hearing for Cops Accused of Cover-up
Three police officers charged with participating in a cover-up of the fatal beating of a Mexican immigrant in Pennsylvania are facing a bail hearing. The three officers have been charged by federal prosecutors with altering evidence and lying in a case against two white high school football players. An indictment says one officer dated the [...]
Beaten Homeless Men were ‘Easy Prey’
Prosecutors in a recent case said that two homeless men were viciously beaten by a group of Michigan teens because they were “easy prey.” Assistant prosecuting attorney Gregory Townsend told a jury on Thursday that evidence presented at the trial will show that fifteen-year-old Thomas McCloud was involved in the attacks on Wilford Hamilton and [...]
Judge Revokes Bail for NYC Ex-Commissioner
A federal judge revoked bail for the former New York City Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik on Tuesday. Kerik is currently awaiting trial for charges of corruption. Judge Stephen Robinson called Kerik “a toxic combination of self-minded focus and arrogance.” Judge Robinson then revoked the five hundred thousand dollar bail because Kerik had disclosed sealed [...]
Mom Charged with Locking Teenage Son in Closet
The mother of a fourteen-year-old boy in Oklahoma has been charged with twenty-nine counts of child abuse for illegally torturing and imprisoning her son. The boy says that he was repeatedly locked in apartment closets over the course of four years. Prosecutors also allege that LaRhonda McCall, thirty-seven, and her friend Steve Hamilton, thirty-eight, repeatedly [...]
DC Woman to be Sentenced for Slaying Four Children
A woman in D.C. convicted of killing her four daughters and keeping their decomposing bodies for months will return to court for sentencing on Friday. Banita Jacks was found guilty of the four first-degree murders in July. She is currently expected to be sentenced to life in prison. Defense lawyers are still questioning Jacks’ refusal [...]
Ky. Nurse Pleads Not Guilty to Killing Veteran
A nurse in Kentucky that was charged with killing a ninety-year-old World War II veteran three years ago recently pleaded not guilty to murder. Attorney for the defense, Patrick Nash, entered the plea for the thirty-two-year-old nurse, Maria Kelly Whitt, at her arraignment in the federal court of Lexington on Friday. She has been accused [...]