A federal grand jury returned a 34-count indictment against Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar on Thursday, alleging he accepted bribes, concealed income, evaded taxes and lied to investigators.Huizar, 61, is accused of accepting $1.5 million in "illicit financial benefits," the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles said in a statement. He was arrested last…
After a year of "systematic defunding and crawling back" of the New York Police Department (NYPD), it's "tough to see" how conditions in New York City could devolve further, New York City Councilman Joe Borelli said Wednesday.EX-NYPD COMMISSIONER WARNS OF 'VERY BLEAK' FUTURE FOR NYC, SAYS DE BLASIO 'EVISCERATED' THE FORCEIn an interview on "America's Newsroom" with…
A former top aide to Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar agreed to plead guilty to racketeering in an ongoing $1 million federal bribery investigation, a report said.George Esparza, 33, is the closest aide to Huizar of the four who have pleaded guilty in the investigation.In his plea agreement, he will admit to attempting to sell influence…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…