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The financier had asked to be placed on house arrest in his New York City home, and offered to pay for private armed guards there. Federal Judge Richard Berman had expressed skepticism about the proposal.
Massachusetts prosecutors dropped a case accusing Kevin Spacey of groping a young man at a Nantucket bar in 2016 after the accuser refused to testify about a missing cellphone the defense says contains information supporting the actor’s claims of innocence.
Federal prosecutions for sex trafficking of children declined 26.7 percent over the past year, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. The decline raises questions about whether the administration’s focus on the issue has slipped.
A federal judge said Monday he needed more time to make a decision. Federal prosecutors said evidence against the financier is growing “stronger by the day” after several more women contacted them to say he abused them when they were underage.
Michael Johnson, a former college wrestler convicted of failing to disclose to sexual partners that he was HIV-positive in a racially charged case that reignited calls to re-examine laws that criminalize HIV exposure, walked out of a Missouri prison 25 years earlier than expected after an appeals court found that his 2015 trial was “fundamentally unfair.”
With Alex Acosta at his side, President Donald Trump made the announcement as he left the White House for a trip to Wisconsin and Ohio. The president said Acosta had been a “great” labor secretary, and claimed he did not ask him to leave the Cabinet.
Federal authorities in Chicago arrested R&B singer R. Kelly on a 13-count indictment alleging child pornography and obstruction of justice. Kelly already faces separate sexual assault charges in state court, and a separate federal case was filed on Friday in Brooklyn, N.Y.
U.S. Labor Secretary Alex Acosta accused former Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer of forcing federal prosecutors to cut what many have described as a sweetheart deal with Jeffrey Epstein to assure the financier would be punished for molesting dozens of teenage girls more than a decade ago. Krischer says Acosta “is completely wrong.”
Labor Secretary Alex Acosta defended his handling of a controversial plea deal with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as top congressional Democrats called on him to quit.
The federal Violence Against Women Act required any state that wants to be eligible for certain federal grants to cover the cost of medical forensic exams for sex assault victims. Still, there’s often a disconnect between the emergency room and the billing department.