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Los Angeles district attorney charges city councilmember with embezzlement and perjury

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Los Angeles District Attorney George Gasc ón announced formal charges against Los Angeles Councilmember Curren Price Jr. According to the felony criminal complaint , the state charges Price with two counts of conflict of interest. on Tuesday.

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Off-duty Virginia police officer sentenced to 87 months for January 6 riot

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Attorney Matthew M. Moerschel is additionally charged with destruction of government property and aiding and abetting. Now, Robertson and Fracker must serve 87 months in prison, complete 36 months supervised release and pay restitution of $2,000. The men were sentenced in the District of Columbia.

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Appellate Court Upholds $25 Million Award Against Oberlin in Mob Action Against Family Grocery

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Aladin was charged with robbery, which is a second degree felony, and Whettstone and Lawrence were charged with first degree misdemeanor assault. million payment in attorney fees. Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo reportedly joined the massive protests and even handed out a flier denouncing the bakery as a racist business.

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Texas city council member argues retaliatory arrest

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Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of a 76-year-old Texas woman , Sylvia Gonzalez, who was arrested on charges that she had violated a state law that prohibits tampering with government records. But the defendants in the case counter that Gonzalez’s approach would “wreak havoc on law enforcement.”

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Hunter Biden’s 7% Solution: Using Addiction to Excuse Corruption

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” (He did not explain why a message legally acquired by the government from the cloud account of his client would be illegal to include in the report of a congressional investigatory committee.) His lawyer, Chris Clark, first insisted that the release of the messages “are not only irresponsible, they are illegal.”

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California Dreaming: Newsom’s Kidnapping Claim Against DeSantis is Long on Politics and Short on the Law

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to be charged criminally for transporting 36 people to Sacramento. California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) chimed in, declaring the flight from Florida might be “ State-sanctioned kidnapping.” Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, announced that she was taking a look, “long and hard,” at potential charges.

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“Patently False”: Special Counsel Files Blistering Reply to Hunter Biden Motion to Dismiss

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Notably, Weiss said that it was Hunter Biden’s legal team that inexplicably shut down negotiations by playing hardball in seeking to preserve the original agreement: “The government proposed changes to the agreements that addressed only the issues identified during the hearing.

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