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DEA Names Colombian President ‘Priority Target’ as US Prosecutors Probe Ties to Drug Traffickers

DEA Names Colombian President ‘Priority Target’ as US Prosecutors Probe Ties to Drug Traffickers

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press. DEA records show Petro has surfaced in multiple investigations dating to 2022, many based on interviews with confidential informants. The alleged crimes the DEA has investigated include his possible dealings with Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and a scheme to leverage his “total peace” plan to benefit prominent traffickers who contributed to his presidential campaign. The records also suggest the use of law enforcement to smuggle cocaine and fentanyl through Colombian ports. The “priority target” label is reserved for suspects DEA deems to have a “significant impact” on the drug trade. It’s unclear when the DEA gave Petro that designation. Petro denied all ties to drug traffickers and maintained he never accepted their funds during his campaign. Writing on X Friday, he argued that U.S. legal proceedings would ultimately dismantle …

Former FBI Director Comey subpoenaed in Trump-appointed prosecutor’s conspiracy probe 

Former FBI Director Comey subpoenaed in Trump-appointed prosecutor’s conspiracy probe 

Published by Sam Flores

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Exclusive-Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, four execs over alleged .4 billion tax evasion

Exclusive-Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, four execs over alleged $1.4 billion tax evasion

Published by Sam Flores

MILAN, March 12 : Milan prosecutors have requested trial for Amazon’s European unit and four of its managers over alleged tax evasion worth around 1.2 billion euros ($1.38 billion), two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. The move is unprecedented for a case of this kind in Italy, as Amazon agreed in December to pay 527 million euros, including interest, to Italy’s Revenue Agency to settle the tax dispute. In all previous cases involving other international groups, once a settlement was reached and payment made, prosecutors closed related criminal investigations, either through plea deals or by dropping the cases. This time, however, Milan prosecutors did not share the tax authority’s approach and decided to press ahead with their probe, leading to a request that the suspects be sent to trial. Amazon was not immediately available for comment. After the tax settlement in December, the U.S. tech giant said it would “forcefully defend its position on the potential ungrounded criminal case”. “Unpredictable regulatory environments, disproportionate penalties, and protracted legal proceedings are increasingly …

Anger over RV dwellers fueled killing, L.A. County prosecutors charge

Anger over RV dwellers fueled killing, L.A. County prosecutors charge

Published by Sam Flores

From his second-floor apartment that overlooked a stretch of road in Sylmar lined with broken-down RVs, Vincent Wolf fumed. “They s— and piss on the street,” Wolf, 23, wrote on Instagram in August, according to a search warrant affidavit. “They do drugs in the middle of the night. They f—ing screamed for no reason. And most importantly violent.” Wolf, a construction worker who lived with his mother and aunt in a run-down apartment complex off Foothill Boulevard, vented in Instagram comments about the city’s handling of the homelessness crisis. “It’s all corrupt politicians left nor right,” he was quoted as writing in the affidavit, which was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in August. “Elderly people in the young don’t deserve none of this.” Many Angelenos believe the city’s leaders have squandered billions in funds meant to alleviate the homelessness crisis and allowed unhoused people to take over public space. But authorities say Wolf took things to an extreme the morning of Aug. 5 when he left his apartment and double-parked next to an …

Taipei prosecutors charge 62 in massive Prince Group laundering case

Taipei prosecutors charge 62 in massive Prince Group laundering case

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Prosecutors in Taipei have filed charges against dozens of people in a sprawling money laundering case tied to the Cambodia-based Prince Group, wrapping up a months-long investigation into a network authorities say moved billions of New Taiwan dollars through the island’s financial system. The Taipei District Prosecutors Office announced Wednesday (March 4) that 62 defendants and 13 companies have been indicted. The charges include alleged organized crime activity, money laundering, illegal gambling operations, accounting violations and document forgery. This agency immediately initiated an investigation the following day (October 15, 2015) and directed the aforementioned judicial police agency to conduct a 140-day investigation, carrying out eight waves of search operations. The prosecutor applied to the court for the detention of nine defendants, which was granted, and bail was granted to 732 other defendants. Luxury goods, cars, mansions, and financial accounts with a total value exceeding HK$5.5 billion were seized. The investigation concluded today (4th). Taipei District Prosecutors Office Investigators say more than NT$10.7 billion ($340 million), flowed through the suspected network in Taiwan. The indictment identifies …

Brooklyn prosecutors signal plea deals as discovery expands in federal NBA case

Brooklyn prosecutors signal plea deals as discovery expands in federal NBA case

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Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say they are continuing to turn over massive volumes of evidence and preparing plea deals for numerous defendants in a sweeping federal criminal case tied to an FBI investigation into illegal sports gambling connected to the NBA. The update comes from a March 3, 2026 status report submitted to U.S. District Judge Ramon E. Reyes Jr. in United States v. Ernest Aiello, et al., a multi-defendant prosecution pending in the Eastern District of New York. Prosecutors filed the letter ahead of the case’s second status conference scheduled for March 4 at 2 p.m. The filing, seen by ReadWrite, provides the court with an overview of the investigation’s progress, detailing the government’s ongoing evidence production, emerging plea negotiations with several defendants, and the need for additional time to review the records. “The government respectfully submits this status report in advance of the second status conference scheduled for Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.,” prosecutors wrote in the filing. Looks like plea deals are expected in the #NBA case against Chauncey Billups. …

French prosecutors probe late Harrods owner Al-Fayed, brother over alleged sex trafficking

French prosecutors probe late Harrods owner Al-Fayed, brother over alleged sex trafficking

Published by Sam Flores

The probe, opened by French magistrates earlier this year, points to practices described by investigators as bearing similarities to the methods seen in the late US convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s case, according to judicial sources. French authorities began investigating the late Egyptian businessman and his brother Salah last year amid allegations of a vast system of sex trafficking and abuse on French soil. Read moreSome 60 more women accuse Mohamed Al-Fayed, ex-owner of Harrod’s and the Paris Ritz, of sex abuse “Every time I met Mohamed Al-Fayed, he tried to assault me,” his former personal assistant Kristina Svensson told French police of her two years working at the Ritz. Her testimony is all too familiar. The alleged crimes of Mohamed Al-Fayed, who died in 2023 aged 94, first came to light in a BBC investigation in September 2024. In it, several young women who worked at his upmarket London department store Harrods accused him of rape and sexual assault. British police said that 154 victims have so far come forward to say the former …

High Museum Executive Resigns as 0,000 Case Referred to Federal Prosecutors

High Museum Executive Resigns as $600,000 Case Referred to Federal Prosecutors

Published by José Betancourt

The chief operating officer of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art has resigned after an internal investigation found that approximately $600,000 was allegedly misappropriated over several years and the matter was referred to federal prosecutors, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Brady Lum, who had served as COO since 2019, tendered his resignation on Dec. 9 amid the probe. On Tuesday, the board of the Woodruff Arts Center, which oversees the High, voted to refer the matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia for possible criminal prosecution, the newspaper reported. Related Articles Woodruff Arts Center President and CEO Hala Moddelmog told the AJC that Lum allegedly misappropriated the funds over a period of three to four years. The organization believes he acted alone, she said. The Woodruff board approved Atlanta law firm King & Spalding to refer the case to federal authorities. The organization also retained the firm and an independent forensic accountant to conduct a review after financial irregularities were discovered in early December, according to the AJC. Moddelmog said the alleged misconduct will not …

Judge In Kirk Murder Case Refuses To Disqualify Prosecutors

Judge In Kirk Murder Case Refuses To Disqualify Prosecutors

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Stacy Robinson via The Epoch Times, A judge ruled on Feb. 24 that a Utah deputy attorney general could continue prosecuting the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk. Defense attorneys for Tyler Robinson, the accused shooter, had asked the judge in January to disqualify that member of the prosecution team—along with his entire office—after it was revealed that his daughter had been in the crowd when Kirk was killed. The young woman did not see the shooting, but texted “CHARLIE GOT SHOT” to a family group chat. Robinson’s defense attorneys had argued that the prosecutor’s relationship with someone in the crowd might have influenced his decision to seek the death penalty. The prosecution said in a court filing in Utah’s Fourth Judicial District Court for Utah County that she did not have “any lasting trauma from the event.” “In fact, nearly everything [she] knows about the actual homicide is hearsay,” the filing said, adding that any testimony she gave would consist of “generic, uncontested details available from literally thousands of other witnesses.” Utah …

Austrian Climber and Prosecutors Appeal Sentence for Girlfriend’s Death

Austrian Climber and Prosecutors Appeal Sentence for Girlfriend’s Death

Published by Sam Flores

VIENNA, Feb 24 (Reuters) – A 37-year-old climber ⁠and ⁠Austrian prosecutors are both launching ⁠appeals of his suspended prison sentence and fine ​for manslaughter over his girlfriend’s death on the country’s highest mountain while he ‌had gone to fetch help. The ‌couple, identified as Thomas P and Kerstin G, were running ⁠far behind ⁠schedule as they approached the summit of the Grossglockner mountain ​on a freezing, windy night in January of last year. When she was unable to go on out of exhaustion, he left her to fetch help ​in a shelter on the mountain, but also failed to make clear ⁠to ⁠the mountain police that ⁠they ​needed help, and did not respond to calls back and instant messages from ​the police. By ⁠the time rescuers arrived hours later, she had died of cold. A court in the western city of Innsbruck ruled last week that Thomas P should have realised long before they got stuck that his girlfriend ⁠would be incapable of completing the climb, adding that as the ⁠far more experienced mountaineer he …