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[Link] SBF tries to revise bail conditions after judge noted suspicious VPN use
Read: 3/3/2023 arstechnica.com
A few weeks ago, disgraced FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried was in danger of losing his bail package and potentially being jailed until October.
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[Link] Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1m over false Sandy Hook claims
Read: 5/8/2022 www.theguardian.com
The jury in Alex Jones’s defamation trial on Thursday ordered the far-right conspiracy theorist to pay $4.1m in damages over his repeated claims that the deadly Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
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[Link] Catalan leaders targeted using NSO spyware, say cybersecurity experts
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Dozens of pro-independence Catalan figures, including the president of the north-eastern Spanish region and three of his predecessors, have been targeted using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a report from cybersecurity experts.
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[Link] Ghislaine Maxwell sex-trafficking trial adjourned after attorney becomes ill
Read: 9/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Ghislaine Maxwell’s New York sex-trafficking trial was unexpectedly adjourned early Thursday because an “ill” attorney needed medical care.
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[Link] Prosecution gets Elizabeth Holmes to admit she was in control of Theranos
Read: 2/12/2021 arstechnica.com
At this point in her criminal trial, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' best chance for acquittal is for the jury to believe that she was a puppet being controlled by her boyfriend, company president Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. Yesterday, the prosecution attempted to pick apart that defense.
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[Link] The billionaire, the socialite and the 'little black book': Ghislaine Maxwell's trial finally begins
Read: 28/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Sixteen months after FBI agents swooped in on her remote hideaway to arrest Ghislaine Maxwell on sexual abuse charges, the trial of the British socialite and former partner of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is beginning in New York.
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[Link] Tolkien estate vanquishes Lord of the Rings themed cryptocurrency
Read: 25/11/2021 arstechnica.com
The estate of JRR Tolkien, the author of the Lord of the Rings, has successfully vanquished a cryptocurrency that styled itself as “The One Token That Rules Them All.
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[Link] The Brutal Racism of the Trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Whether the defense likes it or not, the trial of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan is all about race.
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[Link] Darwin shooter left without lawyers after sacking expert legal team
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Confessed killer Benjamin Hoffmann could be left to represent himself when he is sentenced over the killing of four men in 2019, after his high-profile legal team withdrew their services.
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[Link] The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense
Read: 9/11/2021 slate.com
As the California state bar considers whether to initiate disciplinary proceedings against John Eastman for his role in Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, the former dean of Chapman Law School has begun to mount a defense of his infamous legal memo on the “January 6 scenario.
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[Link] Lawyers for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Really Want to Stay Away From Race
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
During opening statements in the murder trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers, defense attorneys avoided mentioning race almost entirely.
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[Link] House Democrats Back Off Targeting Billionaire Tax Schemes and Swap in New Nicotine Levy
Read: 6/11/2021 theintercept.com
A new version of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning.
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[Link] 'Sovereign citizen' posts video after failing to appear in court on firearms offences
Read: 2/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Solange Goodes, 42, was arrested at her farm in Sandy Creek earlier this year, after police allege she threatened them when they came to the property to check if registered guns were properly secured.
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[Link] Trump Invokes Presidential ‘Absolute Immunity’ in Electric Avenue Copyright Suit
Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
Last month, lawyers acting for Donald Trump failed to have a court dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by musician Eddy Grant over the unlicensed use of his track Electric Avenue in a campaign video.
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[Link] Mastodon Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public
Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lawyers for the social network codebase Mastodon have sent a formal letter to former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social network ‘Truth Social’ asking the site to make its source code publicly available, according to an announcement from Mastodon today.
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[Link] Lawyer Who Told Trump Pence Could Block the Election Says Riot Was FBI ‘Setup’
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
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