Courts & Law
In the rough: Felony convictions could cost Trump liquor licenses at 3 New Jersey golf courses
The state’s attorney general’s office is looking into whether Trump’s recent felony convictions make him ineligible to hold liquor licenses at his three N.J. golf courses.
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New Jersey businessman tells jury that bribes paid off with Sen. Bob Menendez
The businessman told a jury Monday that Menendez told him he'd look into a state criminal probe threatening his business and later assured him there was no threat.
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Closing arguments presented in Hunter Biden’s federal firearms trial
Biden's attorney told jurors Monday the prosecution has not proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. A prosecutor told jurors that "no one is above the law."
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A Superior Court ruled in February that early voting and permanent absentee ballot laws were unconstitutional. The state Supreme Court is now considering.
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Listen :48Widow of Beau Biden tells jurors in Hunter Biden’s gun trial that she threw firearm in a trash can
She described Thursday how she put it into a leather pouch, stuffed it into a shopping bag and tossed it in a trash can outside a market near her home.
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Gurbir Grewal told the Manhattan federal court jury on Thursday that he refused to discuss it with Menendez. He called Menendez's effort “pretty unprecedented."
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Letters obtained by WHYY News acknowledge state oversight responsibility while arguing that not disclosing the embezzlement was the right move.
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Listen 1:01Sen. Bob Menendez’s wife excused from court after cancer surgery
Nadine Menendez was scheduled to attend a pretrial hearing next Wednesday in Manhattan federal court. Judge Sidney H. Stein said she can skip the hearing.
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Philly City Council advances legislation requiring eviction contractors to carry licenses
The bill was introduced following a string of violent incidents involving deputy landlord-tenant officers last year.
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A judge dismissed felony charges against Cpl. Michael Perillo, who in 2021 hit the loose animal multiple times and pinned it to the pavement, where it was then euthanized.
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FBI investigator gives jury at Sen. Bob Menendez’s trial an inside account of surveillance
William-Thompson's testimony about the Washington dinner highlights a key facet of the indictment against Menendez.
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Wisconsin AG files felony charges against attorneys, Pa. aide in fake electors scheme
Mike Roman is accused of delivering Wisconsin’s fake elector paperwork to a Pa. congressman’s staffer in order to get them to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6.
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Young group facing charges for high-end thefts in Philly and suburbs
The young people without previous criminal records were recruited in North Philadelphia and used to target high-end retail stores in Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs.
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The trial will feature testimony from three of Biden’s exes — Zoe Keston, ex-wife Kathleen Buhle and Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter’s brother.
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Listen 1:22Jury chosen in Hunter Biden’s federal firearms case, opening statements are set for Tuesday
The president's son has been charged in Delaware with three felonies stemming from a firearm purchase when he was, according to his memoir, in the throes of a crack addiction.
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