The US is to drop its charges against a Mexican former minister accused of drug trafficking and laundering money. Gen Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda – who was Mexico’s defence secretary from 2012 to 2018 – was […]
A US federal judge has dismissed an effort by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to defend President Donald Trump in a case brought by a woman who accuses him of raping her. Columnist E Jean […]
The maker of OxyContin painkillers has reached an $8.3bn (£6.3bn) settlement and agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges to resolve a probe of its role in fuelling America’s opioid crisis. Purdue Pharma will admit […]
A US software tycoon has been charged over the biggest alleged tax evasion scheme in American history. Robert Brockman, chief executive of Reynolds and Reynolds, is alleged to have hidden $2bn (£1.5bn) in income from […]
The US Department of Justice has taken legal action to defend President Donald Trump in a defamation case from a woman who accuses him of raping her. Under a court filing, the department is moving […]
The US government says Yale University is illegally discriminating against white and Asian-American applicants. The results of a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice found the Ivy League university had breached civil rights law […]
The Duke of York has been requested by the US authorities to testify about his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the BBC has been told. It was first reported in the Sun that the US Department […]
More than $300m (£230m) seized from Nigeria’s former dictator is set to be returned to the country from Jersey. The money was laundered through the US under the presidency of Sani Abacha in the 1990s, […]
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 […]
US authorities have filed charges against two Russian nationals alleged to be running a global cyber crime organisation named Evil Corp. An indictment named Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev – who remain at large – […]
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