OTTAWA COUNTY — Previous victims of Greg Joseph DuJardine testified during the second day of his trial Wednesday, Jan. 15, in a proceeding to determine whether he targeted a third woman in September. DuJardine, 60, is charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct causing injury, and as a fourth offense habitual offender. His trial under Judge…
A trio of Chinese national con artists pleaded guilty to running an elaborate conspiracy that involved scamming money from elderly and lonely Americans to buy Apple products to sell in East Asia, Department of Justice officials announced. The three – Naxin Wu, 26; Mengying Jiang, 34; and Mingdong Chen, 28 – used stolen gift cards…
A whole floor of a building in New York City was once functioning as an “illegal police station” for the government of the People’s Republic of China, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. New York City resident Chen Jinping, 60, on Wednesday pleaded guilty in connection with the secret police station in Lower Manhattan’s…
The future of TikTok, the social media app, rests with the Supreme Court after the federal appeals court denied the company’s petition to pause and review legislation that would ban the platform in the United States. The saga began when President Joe Biden signed a bill this spring, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Advisory Controlled…
A California man was sentenced to more than three years in prison after being found guilty of running a “birth tourism” business that helped pregnant Chinese women travel to the U.S. in order to deliver babies who would automatically have American citizenship. 59-year-old Michael Wei Yueh Liu was found guilty in September of conspiracy and money…
The University of Delaware has agreed to pay more than $700,000 to resolve claims that it failed to disclose a professor’s “affiliations with and support from” the Chinese government when seeking federal funds for research, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The settlement announced Monday ties to a NASA grant issued back in 2020….
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…