On an elegant residential block in Brooklyn Heights stands what once may have been the most famous church in America. Plymouth Church, on Orange Street, was founded in 1847 with just twenty-one members. The New York businessmen who established the church, practicing Congregationalists, wanted it to grow, so they offered the job of minister to … Read more
A Vanity Fair reporter was booted from the jury in a federal murder-for-hire trial after she posted an item on the social media platform X about a “hot FBI agent” who was working the case. Delia Cai confirmed on her X account that she was removed from the Brooklyn jury in the case against Antony … Read more
Tesla has settled a lawsuit over a car crash which killed an Apple engineer in 2018 after his car veered off a highway near San Francisco, court documents showed on Monday. The settlement would help Tesla avoid a lengthy jury trial over what role its Autopilot driver-assistance technology may have played in the crash. The case involves a … Read more
A jury in Manhattan found Singapore-based Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon liable on civil fraud charges on Friday, agreeing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that they misled investors before their stablecoin’s 2022 collapse shocked cryptocurrency markets. The jury delivered the verdict in federal court after a two-week trial after hearing closing arguments earlier in the … Read more
Donald Trump skulked into a wood-paneled courtroom on Monday morning that was packed with reporters and onlookers waiting to see when his Manhattan hush-money trial might finally begin. It was an unceremonious setting and atmosphere for a procedural affair. The prospect of some resolution in one of the four criminal indictments the former president faces … Read more
The men and women who run Gotham’s big banks and financial firms have had a long and somewhat tortured history with the former president dating back from his days as a real estate mogul. Yet they see what’s happening to Donald Trump in the byzantine Letitia James bank-fraud prosecution and the over-the-top penalties issued by a … Read more
At Donald Trump’s first criminal arraignment, in April, the security measures were out of a Hollywood action movie. Several blocks surrounding the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse were closed off, as were entire floors of the building itself. Lower Manhattan was flooded with police. A few days before the hearing, Trump had warned of “potential death and … Read more
US prosecutors said Friday they do not plan to proceed with a second trial against Sam Bankman-Fried, who was convicted last month of stealing from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange. In a letter filed in federal court in Manhattan, prosecutors said the strong public interest in a prompt resolution of the case outweighed the … Read more
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have kept a low profile as the Big Tech firm weathers a series of critical antitrust court battles – and it’s part of a long-running pattern of avoiding federal scrutiny, experts say. The search giant is reeling after a shocking court loss to “Fortnite” maker Epic Games that … Read more
