Bail
Just one of the 19 co-defendants in the Georgia election fraud case that involves former President Donald Trump is being held without bail. He is a black man. Harrison Floyd was booked into the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta on Thursday, charged with violating the Georgia RICO Act. He is also charged with conspiracy to commit solicitation of […]
A U.S. judge revoked Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail due to probable cause that he tampered with witnesses at least twice. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected a defense request to delay SBF’s detention pending appeal of the bail revocation. Reuters reports: The decision could complicate Bankman-Fried’s efforts to prepare for trial, where the 31-year-old former billionaire […]
Graffiti is seen at the edge of Weelaunee People’s Park, the planned site of a controversial “Cop City” project, days after protestor Tortuguita died during a police raid, near Atlanta, Georgia, Jan. 21, 2023. Photo by Cheney Orr/REUTERS ATLANTA (AP) — Police on Wednesday arrested three key Atlanta organizers who have been aiding protesters against […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met his commanders in two regions of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed. The Kremlin said Putin attended a military command meeting in Kherson and visited a national guard headquarters in Luhansk on Monday. Putin also heard reports from commanders of the airborne forces and the Dnieper army group, […]
NEW YORK, March 17 (Reuters) – Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried are nearing an agreement with U.S. prosecutors on revised bail conditions for the indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder, who is trying to convince a skeptical judge he should remain free. In a letter filed on Friday night in Manhattan federal court, Bankman-Fried’s lawyer Christian Everdell […]
NEW YORK, March 4 (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried should be allowed while on bail to have a flip phone with no internet capability and a basic laptop with limited functions, but be forbidden from using other electronic communication devices, the U.S. Department of Justice said. The proposal to limit the indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder’s […]
NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday is set to hear arguments on whether FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried will be able to contact employees of companies he once controlled while out on bail ahead of his trial on fraud charges. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan last week
The family of an African-American man who starved to death in an Arkansas jail because he was unable to pay his $100 bail sued Sebastian County, which runs the detention center where the man died. The lawsuit accused the jail and its medical provider of criminal neglect. Larry Eugene Price Jr., 51, died at […]
NDOLA, Zambia (AP) — A magistrate in Zambia on Thursday granted bail to eight Croatian nationals charged with child trafficking. Magistrate David Makalicha in Ndola, in the mineral-rich Copperbelt province, said the eight should each pay 20,000 Kwacha (about $1,000) bail and surrender their passports to the court. The eight were named as Damir Magic, […]
CHAMBERY, France (AP) — A Ukrainian billionaire and former legislator suspected of embezzling tens of millions of dollars was ordered freed from French custody on $1 million bail Thursday, after he called the Ukrainian case against him politically driven and declared he wants to fight Russians who invaded his country. Mining magnate Kostiantyn Zhevago, 48, […]