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Legal expert Alan Dershowitz called out Judge Juan Merchan for his “outrageous” rulings in the New York criminal trial against former President Trump, arguing the case should be broadcast on television so that Americans can see the “spectacle.”On “The Brian Kilmeade Show,” Tuesday, Dershowitz called Merchan a “tyrant” after he threatened to strike the testimony of Bob Costello, the defense’s …

A wealthy Chinese businessman who left China a decade ago and became a U.S.-based outspoken critic of his homeland’s Communist Party went on trial in New York on Wednesday for what prosecutors say were multiple frauds that cheated hundreds of thousands of people worldwide of over $1 billion. Guo Wengui, 57, once believed to be among the richest people in …

Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime.Vindication relies on the right to a fair trial. Regrettably, the Manhattan trial of former President Donald Trump bears no resemblance to that cherished constitutional promise.Almost nothing during this five-week trial can be described as remotely fair. District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s absurd case made a mockery of our legal system.Judge Juan Merchan compounded …

You can now add shameless thief to the many odious descriptions of Michael Cohen, the star witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s grotesquely farcical prosecution of former President Donald Trump. Cohen was already shredded on cross-examination last week as a prodigious liar who is bereft of conscience and devoid of decency.His depravity knows no bounds.Append embezzlement to his menagerie …

The Syrian soldiers came first, at night, for the son, Patrick, a 20-year-old psychology student at Damascus University, and said they were taking him away for questioning. They came back the next night for his father, Mazen. Five years later, in 2018, death certificates from Syrian authorities confirmed to the Dabbagh family that the French-Syrian father and son would never …

A Mississippi woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally taking unemployment benefits, authorities said Tuesday. Misty Burgess, of Plantersville, entered the plea to one count of theft of government funds in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, State Auditor Shad White said in a news release. MISSISSIPPI WOMAN FOUND GUILTY OF THREATENING FEDERAL JUDGE WITH …

MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell went to bat for disgraced ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen after the star witness in the ongoing New York trial admitted to stealing money from former President Trump‘s business. During another brutal day of cross-examination, Cohen was pressed by Trump defense lawyer Todd Blanche on an alleged $50,000 that was supposed to be paid to tech company …

A federal judge will reopen the sentencing hearing for the man who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer after the judge failed to allow him to speak during his court appearance last week. On Friday, District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley sentenced David DePape to 20 years for attempting to kidnap Nancy Pelosi …

Former President Trump’s criminal trial is expected to resume Monday with Michael Cohen on the stand for the third day of cross-examination by defense attorneys. Cohen, who previously served as Trump’s lawyer and described himself as the former president’s “fixer,” is set to take the stand again at 8:45 a.m. Monday in Lower Manhattan. NY V TRUMP: AS ‘STAR WITNESS’ …

As Michael Cohen takes the stand again on Monday, he does so on the heels of Trump-critical mainstream media outlets who expressed derision about his testimony in the former president’s New York trial. While some of his earlier testimony got positive reviews, Cohen had a shaky performance under cross-examination and still has longstanding credibility issues due to his admitted past …