Paul Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison in Virginia trial, sentencing in Washington DC case next week
Trump's former campaign chief faced up to 25 years in prison, was sentenced to less than four.
Mueller tells judge Roger Stone's Instagram post may violate gag order
Special counsel Robert Mueller today notified a federal judge that yet another Instagram post by Donald Trump's longtime friend Roger Stone may have violated Stone's gag order. If Judge Amy Berman Jackson agrees, Stone is going to jail. Read the rest
Matt Gaetz investigated over threatening Michael Cohen tweets
Witness tampering conviction? Lose your bar license? Why not both!
Facebook to launch 'Patreon killer' that grabs 30% of fan money vs. Patreon’s 5%
Just when you thought Facebook couldn't get any sillier. Read the rest
List of thousands of criminal cops accidentally released under public records laws, now CA AG threatens 2 reporters with legal action for having a copy
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra told two Berkeley-based reporters that it is against the law to even possess a copy of this never-before-publicly-released list of convicted cops.
How Roger Stone's backfired testimony proves Judge Amy Berman Jackson is a damn boss
In an epic blog post, writer and law expert @emptywheel (Marcy Wheeler) dissects Thursday's hearing in court for Trump ratfucker and reckless Instagrammer Roger Stone. Read the rest
Trump's former Moscow associate David Geovanis targeted in Senate Russia investigation
He's the guy with the half-nude woman in this photo.
Supreme court curbs states' power to levy fines and seize property through civil forfeiture
The Supreme Court today unanimously rules for Tyson Timbs, a small-time drug offender whose $42,000 Land Rover was seized by the state of Indiana as a civil forfeiture. Read the rest
Trump will sign funding bill and declare national emergency in attempt to fund border wall
The only national emergency in America is Trump.
Maybe Amazon HQ2 won't happen in New York after all?
Amazon's plan to bring 25,000 jobs to a NYC campus is under fire from locals, as more details are revealed of what was promised to Jeff Bezos' empire.
Could the National Enquirer—Bezos scandal end AMI's federal plea deal?
Prosecutors "are reviewing the National Enquirer's handling of their Jeff Bezos reporting to determine if the company may have violated a cooperation deal reached with prosecutors last year," per Evan Perez and Kara Scannell of CNN, citing two sources familiar with the matter. Read the rest
'Hitler just wanted to make Germany great,' Candace Owens of Trump-aligned TPUSA says in London
Well alrighty then.
Amazon at times used Flex drivers' tips to cover promised base pay, investigation finds
Amazon sometimes dipped into tips earned by contracted delivery drivers for its 'Flex' service to cover the base pay they'd been promised, a Los Angeles Times review of emails and receipts shows. Read the rest
Snap Filter 2019 State of The Union
Oh. My. God. Genius. Read the rest
NOAA says 2018 was 4th warmest year on record, in an undeniable global warming trend
2018 was the fourth warmest year ever recorded on planet Earth, NOAA reported today. Read the rest
Mark Zuckerberg's 15-year Facebook anniversary post dunks on journalism, omits Myanmar
On the 15th anniversary of Facebook's launch, Mark Zuckerberg says his company will spend more on safety and security in 2019 than the total amount of revenue his company had on hand at the date of its IPO. In a Facebook post today, Zuckerberg takes a swipe at America's technology journalists, and complains about news coverage in 2018 that was critical of Facebook. Read the rest
Mueller seized terabytes of data from Roger Stone
In a federal court filing making the rounds on Thursday, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller says the evidence seized from Roger Stone's residences is "voluminous and complex," and includes computer storage devices that contain “terabytes” of data representing decades of communication records from Stone's numerous mobile devices and online accounts. Read the rest
