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Sacred Heart Academy volleyball coach accused of rape has died by suicide

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Mar 22, 2024, 10:50amUpdated 2d ago A high school varsity volleyball coach who was facing charges after being accused of raping a teenager while working at Sacred Heart Academy died by suicide. Attorney John Carman confirmed Saturday afternoon that his client, defendant Jason Maser, died Friday night. The MTA told News 12 that he stepped in front of a train in Syosset at 10:35 pm Police say 22-year-old Maser, of Syosset, is accused of raping a 15-year-old multiple times during his employment at the school. He was arrested on Thursday. News 12’s Krista McNally’s Friday evening report on the Sacred…
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NY district attorney supports 30-day delay in Trump hush money trial

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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a court filing Thursday that his office doesn’t oppose Donald Trump’s request to delay his hush money trial — just days before the former president was scheduled to face his first criminal trial while simultaneously running to return to the White House House. The surprise move came after federal prosecutors began turning over tens of thousands of documents this month relating to their investigation and their prosecution in 2018 of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen, who is expected to be a key witness in the trial. Bragg’s filing said that “although the People…
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Fulton County hearing: Trump case hangs in balance as judge mulls DA Willis’ disqualification

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DA Fani Willis’s office on Tuesday urged the judge to reject the disqualification effort against her, arguing in a filing that Trump and his co-defendants failed to meet the “high” standard required by law to disqualify an elected district attorney. Willis’ office, in the filing, told the judge the law requires him to find a “high standard of proof” that he has an actual conflict of interest or that he is engaged in forensic misconduct — which he says he did not do. She urged the judge to reject the arguments from Trump and others that the judge could disqualify…
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Donald Trump’s attorney: New York AG bond suggestions ‘unjust’

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1 of 3 | Former President Donald Trump enters the courtroom in his civil fraud trial in New York City in January. File Photo by Louis Lanzano/UPI | License Photo March 21 (UPI) — Attorneys for Donald Trump called proposals from the New York attorney general to satisfy his bond judgment for civil fraud “impractical and unjust” in a filing on Thursday. Dennis Fan, senior assistant solicitor general to the attorney general, suggested in a filing on Wednesday that Trump could seek the services of multiple agencies to combine funds and pay the $454 million bond. Trump’s attorneys say this…
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Trump has been unable to get bond for $464 million judgment, his lawyers say

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Former President Donald Trump has not been able to obtain a bond to secure the $464 million civil fraud judgment against him and his co-defendants, his attorneys said in a court filing Monday. Trump and his company need to post a bond for the full amount by next week in order to stop New York Attorney General Letitia James from being able to collect while he appeals. They’ve asked an appeals court to step in in the meantime and said Monday that they haven’t had any success getting a bond. “Defendants’ ongoing diligent efforts have proven that a bond in…
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Former US Attorney Rachael Rollins has law license suspended

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Former Massachusetts US Attorney and Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins has had her law license suspended for nonpayment of registration fees. The Board of Bar Overseers recommended license suspensions for Rollins and dozens of other attorneys for nonpayment of fees. The state Supreme Judicial Court approved the suspensions. Rollins resigned as the state’s top federal prosecutor last year after two federal ethics investigations. The investigators found that Rollins tried to influence the campaign for Suffolk County District Attorney in favor of Ricardo Arroyo who lost the race to Kevin Hayden. The US Office of Special Counsel called Rollins’ actions…
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Terminated Prattville library director demands reinstatement, name-clearing hearing in attorney’s letter to library board

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The recently terminated director at the Autauga/Prattville Library is demanding his reinstatement as director, restoration of library privileges, and a “name-clearing hearing.” Earlier this month, the Autauga/Prattville Library Board voted to terminate then-Library Director Andrew Foster for “revealing confidential information in violation of criminal law.” The confidential information Foster was accused of sharing involved a public records request filed with the library by the far-left website Alabama Political Reporter (APR). APR writer Jacob Holmes then used the information in an articles highlighting perceived ambiguity and confusion with the new board’s policies involving “weeding,” removing or relocating books. The story contained…
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Pro-Trump attorney returns to Michigan to turn himself in on outstanding warrant

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By COREY WILLIAMS and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press .PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — An attorney who unsuccessfully sued to overturn former President Donald Trump’s 2020 loss in Michigan was ordered held on $10,000 bond Thursday after he appeared in a Michigan court on an outstanding warrant. Stefanie Lambert turned herself in Thursday morning after being arrested in Washington, DC earlier this week as a result of a bench warrant issued by a Michigan judge. Lambert is facing felony charges of improperly accessing voting equipment in a search for evidence of a conspiracy to steal the 2020 election from Trump. She had…
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