Category: guilty

Former Olympic Speed-Skater Found Guilty of Pandemic Loan Fraud in Utah

A federal jury found a former Olympic speedskater guilty of fraud Thursday, ruling that the Utah native gave false information to banks to receive a fraudulent $10 million small business loan from government pandemic relief funding. Allison Marie Baver, 42, a retired Olympic short track speedskater who was on a team that won a bronze…


Former Raider Henry Ruggs Pleads Guilty to Driving Drunk at 156 Mph, Causing Fatal Crash

LAS VEGAS—Ex-Las Vegas Raiders player Henry Ruggs pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving his sports car drunk at speeds up to 156 mph on a city street before causing a fiery crash that killed a woman and her dog. “Guilty,” said the former first-round NFL draft pick, 24, who will avoid trial and is expected to…


California Man Found Guilty of Killing 3 After Doorbell Prank

RIVERSIDE, Calif.—A Southern California man accused of killing three teenage boys by intentionally ramming their car after they played a doorbell-ringing prank on him was found guilty Friday of murder. Anurag Chandra was convicted in a Riverside County courtroom of three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder. “The murder of these…


Man Pleads Guilty to Robbery-Killing of Rapper Pop Smoke

INGLEWOOD, Calif.—One of four men charged in the killing of rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills mansion pleaded guilty Thursday to voluntary manslaughter. The 20-year-old man, who was 17 when the killing occurred, also pleaded guilty in Inglewood juvenile court to home invasion robbery. He was sentenced to four years and…


LIVE NOW: Roman Balmakov and Epoch Times Reporters Recap Today’s Arraignment of Donald Trump

Earlier Tuesday, President Donald Trump was formally arraigned and pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal a crime. However, the question that remains unanswered is: what crime was being concealed? …


Roman Balmakov and Epoch Times Reporters Recap Today’s Arraignment of Donald Trump

Earlier Tuesday, President Donald Trump was formally arraigned and pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal a crime. However, the question that remains unanswered is: what crime was being concealed? …


LIVE NOW: The ‘Crime Without a Name’: Trump Pleads Not Guilty To 34 Felony Counts

Earlier today, President Donald Trump was formally arraigned, and pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal a crime. However, the question that remains unanswered is: what crime was being concealed? …


Former FTX Executive Is 3rd to Plead Guilty in Cooperation Deal

NEW YORK—The former engineering director at FTX pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy and wire fraud Tuesday, becoming the third executive from the collapsed cryptocurrency giant to strike a cooperation deal with prosecutors building a case against the company’s founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. The plea by Nishad Singh, 27, in what authorities have labeled one of…


Connecticut Man Pleads Guilty Again in 2020 Killings

MILFORD, Conn.—A 26-year-old Connecticut man pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and kidnapping charges in connection with a series of crimes in 2020 that led to a six-day multistate manhunt. Peter Manfredonia admitted to shooting a former high school classmate to death, kidnapping the man’s girlfriend and stealing a car, two days after he had killed…


New Year’s Eve Machete Attack Suspect Pleads Not Guilty

NEW YORK—A Maine man charged with attacking police officers with a machete near New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve pleaded not guilty Wednesday to attempted murder and assault charges in a new state indictment. Authorities have said Trevor Thomas Bickford of Wells, Maine, began studying radical Islamic ideology last summer. They say the…