(This story was updated to include additional information.) BOSTON — Federal authorities arrested a Natick man on Monday after he allegedly sold U.S. technology that was later used in a fatal drone attack in Jordan that killed three U.S. soldiers. The arrests of Mahdi Mohammed Sadeghi, 42, of 85 Woodland Road, Natick, and Mohammad Abedini…
Rhode Island’s public benefits computer system was shut down Friday after it was breached by hackers, potentially exposing the personal information of hundreds of thousands of Rhode Islanders, Gov. Dan McKee said. Deloitte, the information technology vendor that built and runs the computer system known as RIBridges and UHIP, first alerted the state and police…
A 33-year-old Milwaukee man is in custody in Fond du Lac after authorities say he crashed his way out of a parking lot as they closed in on him and then led authorities on a chase before crashing into a civilian. The man had 10 felony warrants, he recently led Dane County authorities on three…
More than three dozen federal inmates initially processed in Michigan were among the nearly 1,500 who had their sentences commuted Thursday by President Joe Biden, including several charged with involvement in drug rings and health care fraud schemes and, in one case, a Ponzi scheme that prosecutors said cost thousands of investors millions. Early Thursday,…
BLOOMINGTON — Former Indiana basketball team physician Dr. Brad Bomba Sr. invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 45 times in a deposition on Dec. 4, according to a transcript of his testimony. He sat for a deposition via video conference that lasted less than 75 minutes in relation to a federal class action…
President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoning 39 others in “the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history,” the White House announced Thursday. The amnesty will be extended to roughly 1,500 people who were placed on home confinement during the COVID pandemic and 39 others who were convicted of…
The recent buzz around preemptive presidential pardons — especially considering President Joe Biden’s expansive pardon of his son Hunter — should alarm anyone who values justice and accountability. This month, Biden pardoned Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing after pleading guilty to federal tax and gun charges. The president also granted his son clemency for any…
A license plate reader camera helped investigators identify the 43-year-old man they believe drove a vehicle that struck and killed a pedestrian and injured another person in late November, according to court records. A Lubbock County grand jury on Tuesday returned an indictment against Julian Mercado on a second-degree felony count of failure to stop…
President Joe Biden’s senior aides are reportedly discussing potential preemptive pardons before President-elect Donald Trump’s promised “retribution” once taking office on Jan. 20. Trump has threatened legal action against many of his political opponents, from former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney to Sen.-elect Adam Schiff of California. It’s unclear whether Trump would follow through on his campaign rhetoric, but his pick of Kash…
There’s an age-old concept – in crisis, opportunity – that should be deployed as President Joe Biden winds down his administration by signing off on pardons, commutations and other acts of clemency. By now, you must have heard the cacophony of controversy after Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday, giving him a get-out-of-jail-free…