Marco Antonio Delgado, 46, a former trustee at Carnegie Mellon University and Texas lawyer, faces charges of laundering more than $600 million for a Mexican drug cartel. Delgado was arrested on November 2 at a restaurant in El Paso and was indicted in federal court in El Paso Thursday and…
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New York nanny charged with the murder of two young children
A brother and sister were found in a Manhattan apartment fatally stabbed and nine days later a New York nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, was charged with the double-murder. Ortega was arrested and charged with first and second-degree murder in each of the October 25 stabbing deaths. Ortega now remains at Weil…
Nephew of Robert and Ethel Kennedy was denied parole after 10 years in prison
Martha Moxley was beat to death with a golf club outside her home in 1975 and Michael Skakel, the nephew of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, was tried and convicted as an adult twenty-seven year after the commission of the crime. Skakel was 15 at the time of the murder and…
Faulty drug-testing procedures call into question hundreds of DUI cases
Broward Medical Examiner Craig Mallak told State Attorney Mike Satz on Tuesday that his office improperly validated its drug testing procedures in all DUI cases in which Medical Examiner’s office performed the testing, before Aug. 24, 2012. Officials have no way of knowing at this stage how many cases may…
Former CIA officer accused of revealing classified information
John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer, has pleaded guilty to revealing classified information to reporters, the identity of a covert intelligence officer. The Justice Department has revealed that Kiriakou also admitted to other allegations; that he illegally told reporters the name of a different CIA employee involved in a 2002…
Matthew Bent is denied request for a new trial
Matthew Bent, the teenager accused of ordering Denver Jarvis to pour a container of isopropyl alcohol on Michael Brewer, who was subsequently lit on fire and left with second and third degree burns over two-thirds of his body. Bent was not convicted of the attempted murder charge, however, he was…
Florida Circuit Judge has ruled that Trayvon Martin’s school records can be provided to George Zimmerman’s defense team
George Zimmerman, the 28 year-old charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Martin on February 26 in Sanford, Florida seeks to admit evidence of the victim Trayvon Martin’s school records. Despite the efforts of the deceased Trayvon Martin’s family to keep school and social media records private, a Florida…
Teas mother sentence to 99 years in prison
A 23-year-old Texas mother, Elizabeth Escalona, super glued her 2-year-old daughter’s hands to a wall and beat her because her daughter was having difficulties potty training. The child urinated on herself during the ordeal, during which she was hit in head and kicked in the groin, among other forms of…
Sandusky sentenced to minimum of 30 years in prison
Jerry Sandusky is likely to spend the rest of his lie in jail as he was recently sentenced to at least 30 years in prison after being convicted of sexual abuse. Sandusky had faced a maximum sentence of 400 years for dozens of charges related to his sexual abuse charges,…
Three high school teachers accused of having inappropriate relationships with female students
Three New Jersey high school teachers were arrested Thursday on charges of having sexual relations with their students, along with thee principal and vice-principal for failing to report the illegal and inappropirate relationships to the proper authorities. Camden County authorities announced the charges Thursday. The teachers were arrested after a…