Michael Avenatti, who represented porn star Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against President Trump, has been found guilty of attempted extortion. The lawyer was accused of seeking to extort up to $25m (£18.9m) from Nike. […]
A man accused of abusing his daughter’s university roommates has been arrested in the US and charged with extortion, sex trafficking and forced labour. Prosecutors say Lawrence “Larry” Ray extorted some $1m (£771,000) from students […]
The trial of ex-movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has begun in earnest in New York with graphic prosecution statements on his alleged crimes. Prosecutor Meghan Hast said he was a “seasoned” sexual predator with vulnerable actresses […]
Harvey Weinstein has been charged with sexual assault in Los Angeles on the same day he appeared in a New York court in a separate case. The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said the […]
Tekashi 6ix9ine has been sentenced to two years in prison for crimes he carried out while he was a member of a violent gang. The rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, pleaded guilty to […]
Film mogul Harvey Weinstein has reached a tentative $25m (£19m) settlement with dozens of women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, lawyers have said. About 30 actresses and ex-employees would share the payout in […]
Sweden’s telecoms giant Ericsson has agreed to pay more than $1bn (£760m) to resolve allegations of bribery, the US Department of Justice has announced. It said the company had “admitted to a years-long campaign of […]
R. Kelly has been charged with bribing a government official in order to get a fraudulent identification document to marry an under-age girl in 1994. The girl, named only as Jane Doe in the documents, […]
Two prison guards who were on duty on the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death have been charged with falsifying records. They are accused of failing to check in on him every 30 minutes and fabricating […]
A British woman convicted of killing a US patient by giving her botched buttock-enhancement injections has been sentenced to a year in New York jail. Donna Francis had pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide for […]
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