The tech consultant convicted in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee was sentenced in San Francisco on Tuesday to 16 years to life to prison. A jury in December 2024 found Nima Momeni guilty of second-degree murder. (AP) A jury in December 2024 found Nima Momeni guilty of second-degree murder, rejecting the … Read more
One of Hong Kong’s best-known democracy activists, Joshua Wong, will be sentenced on Thursday for the national security crime of “foreign collusion”, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong to be sentenced for collusion Wong, once a figurehead of youthful dissent in the Chinese city, has spent almost six … Read more
Three brothers convicted of leveraging their wealthy lifestyle to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison after one victim described her attack as an “eternity of terror” and the judge slammed their behavior as shameful, degenerate and monstrous. The Alexander brothers received 30-year prison sentences after 11 … Read more
A Utah couple admitted in court that they used bolt cutters to remove handcuffs and help a suspected illegal immigrant escape from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah said. According to officials, Kelzie Ryann Luna, 21, and George Sanchez-Juarez, 22, pleaded guilty to theft, disposal and conversion … Read more
A once prominent youth gymnastics coach was sentenced to 90 years in prison Wednesday for secretly recording his young female students undressing and using the bathroom at a Mississippi gym, in a case that rocked the sport. US coach who recorded young gymnasts undressing is sentenced to 90 years in prison. (Representational photo) (Unsplash) U.S. … Read more
Douglas Stewart Carter sits in a car after he was released out of the Utah County Jail (Photo: AP) A 71-year-old man who spent 41 years on death row has been ordered released on bail by a Utah judge after new DNA testing excluded him from evidence found at the crime scene. Douglas Stewart Carter … Read more
Florida teenager Julia Grace Egler, 18, has been sentenced to 50 years in state prison after pleading guilty to killing her mother and her mother’s boyfriend in Palm Bay in July 2024. Egler was 16 when Kelley McCollom and Matthew Szejnrok were killed. Prosecutors said she had planned the attack, staged a fake home invasion … Read more
A woman in Kansas City was sentenced to 13 years behind bars for placing her one-month-old daughter in an oven instead of a crib. Mariah Thomas was sentenced for the felony charge of endangering the welfare of a child resulting in death. Who is Mariah Thomas? Kansas City mom sentenced to 13 years in prison … Read more
Aanand Shukla, of Texas, jailed for 5 years in tax fraud case. A Texas man of Indian origin has been sentenced to five years in prison for running a scheme that helped clients avoid paying taxes and facilitating the concealment of more than $27 million in income from the US government.Aanand Shukla was sentenced to … Read more
The US has sentenced Indian citizen Venkateswara Chagamreddy, who was living in the country on a student visa, to 30 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud an elderly Vietnam veteran, the US Justice Department said. Indian student visa holder sentenced in US fraud case. (Representational photo) (Unsplash) Chagamreddy, 37, who … Read more