In his drive to seek higher office, the prosecutors’ filing said, Mr. Santos fabricated his past and engaged in deceitful schemes, including inflating his fund-raising numbers and stealing from donors. “He lied to his campaign staff, his supporters, his putative employer and congressional colleagues, and the American public,” the prosecutors wrote. “Santos’s conduct has made…
Reuters The RSF has been accused of committing a genocide in Darfur – against the region’s non-Arabic groups Sudan is taking the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of supporting Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the civil war. Khartoum argues the UAE is “complicit in the…
A young woman is due to testify in a Spanish court today in a bid to persuade a judge to let her die voluntarily against the wishes of her father, in the first case of its kind. The 23-year-old woman who wants to end her life is paraplegic due to injuries suffered when she tried…
Former Fifa president Sepp Blatter and French football legend Michel Platini are back in court in Switzerland to face accusations of fraud. In 2022, the pair were acquitted in a trial over a payment of 2m Swiss francs (£1.6m) made to Platini and authorised by Blatter in 2011. Both men denied wrongdoing and said the…
Relations between Europe and the US are unquestionably in crisis, so merely keeping things together as French President Emmanuel Macron did at the White House on Monday stands as an achievement. He did that by praising, flattering and gently cajoling the US president as they took questions in the Oval Office and held a joint…
Coinbase announced Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to drop its enforcement case against the company, pending the approval of the regulator’s commissioners. In 2023, the SEC charged Coinbase with operating an unregistered securities exchange and for failing to properly register its crypto staking program. However, the case was started under former…
Francesca Gillett BBC News Getty Images Andrew Tate pictured inside court in Romanian capital Bucharest for a hearing last December Four women who allege they were sexually abused by the social media influencer Andrew Tate have urged the US not to interfere in his case in Romania. The women said they were “extremely concerned” by…
The top US prosecutor in Manhattan has resigned after refusing an order to drop a corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Danielle Sassoon, a conservative lawyer recently promoted by President Donald Trump, said dismissing the case would set a “breathtaking and dangerous precedent”. Sassoon’s departure – along with two other top justice…
Switzerland’s highest court has convicted the commodities trading giant Trafigura and one of its senior executives of bribery over payments made by the firm to gain access to Angola’s lucrative oil market. In a landmark case, the court handed the company’s British former chief operating officer Mike Wainwright – who has also competed as a…
A Florida man whose Jan. 6 charges were dropped as part of President Trump’s sweeping clemency grant this week was arrested on Wednesday on pending weapons charges, court documents show. The man, Daniel Charles Ball, 39, was arrested on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., according to a warrant filed with the U.S. District Court for the…
