WORCESTER — Jonathan Lind, the man charged with helping Julia Enright hide the body of the man she murdered in an Ashburnham treehouse in 2018, asked a judge to exclude key evidence against him Wednesday, alleging his rights were violated before he testified to a grand jury. “It (was) a perjury trap,” Kevin C. Larson, […]
A Chatham County grand jury on Wednesday indicted two former Savannah Police Department officers on multiple counts of perjury and violating their oaths of public office. These are the first charges brought by Chatham County District Attorney Shalena Cook Jones against local law enforcement. Former detective Ashley Wood was indicted on four counts perjury and […]
GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A former Baltimore city prosecutor who achieved a national profile for charging police officers in a Black man’s death was spared prison time in her sentence Thursday for perjury and mortgage fraud. Former State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s sentence includes 12 months of home confinement, 100 hours of community service and three […]
“Isn’t Trump risking a perjury charge if he testifies? And is perjury a separate charge that would require another trial?” — Matthew Gruskin, Fort Worth, Texas. Hi Matthew, Yes and yes. Given the defendant’s loose relationship with the truth, the odds of him lying on the stand if he testifies seem pretty good. Defendants have […]
LONDON (AP) — Fifteen British soldiers who allegedly lied to an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long Northern Ireland conflict, will not face perjury charges, prosecutors said Friday. There was insufficient evidence to convict the soldiers or a former alleged member of the Irish Republican Army about their testimony […]
Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of perjury last month in his testimony during former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial. The sentencing matched Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s recommendation. After Weisselberg’s sentence was agreed upon […]
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail after pleading guilty last month to perjury charges for lying to investigators and a judge about Donald Trump‘s finances. Judge Laurie Peterson handed down the sentence at a hearing in Manhattan criminal […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Allen Weisselberg, a former longtime executive in Donald Trump’s real estate empire, is set to be sentenced Wednesday for lying under oath in the ex-president’s New York civil fraud case. He is expected to be sentenced to five months in jail after pleading guilty last month to two counts of perjury. […]
STAUNTON — It has been a bad week for Richard E. Moore, a former owner of Nexus Services Inc. On Monday, a federal judge hammered the company that Moore once partly owned, ordering that he and his husband, Nexus majority owner Mike Donovan, along with Evan Ajin, a vice president and part-owner at Nexus, pay […]
STAUNTON — Richard E. Moore, a former Nexus Services Inc. executive who is already under house arrest at his Fishersville residence, could have new digs come Wednesday at the Middle River Regional Jail. Mired in legal woes, the former Nexus executive lost his bid Monday in court to withdraw his plea in an Augusta County […]
STAUNTON — A former Nexus Services Inc. executive who finds himself less than two weeks away from possible jail time after botching a plea agreement with the Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office is now looking to withdraw his plea in a perjury case and allow the case to be heard by another judge. Attorneys for […]
NEW YORK — A federal judge suggested Wednesday that Michael Cohencommitted perjury under oath, giving fresh support to former President Donald Trump’s claims that his onetime personal lawyer — poised to be a star prosecution witness at his upcoming New York criminal trial — is an untrustworthy liar. Judge Jesse M. Furman in Manhattan questioned […]