By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday a man charged ‌in connection to a mid-July fire at the Northeast ‌Philadelphia Islamic Center had targeted the house of worship because it was a mosque.
DETAILS:
• Vincent Lang, 60, "was charged by indictment with one count of malicious damage by means of fire to a building used in interstate commerce and one count of damage ‌to religious real property," ⁠the DOJ said in a statement.
• The indictment alleged "Lang carried out the act because of ⁠the religious character of that property, that is, because it was a mosque."

#mosque #indictment

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A North Carolina man will spend several years in prison after stealing from at least 64 investors when he was still in his teens and early twenties.
A Maryland federal judge sentenced 25-year-old Hunter Haithcock to 3 1/2 years of incarceration after he pleaded guilty to counts of wire and investment advisor fraud last fall.
According to the court, between September 2019 and October 2022, Haithcock stole at least $655,498 from his victims. Haithcock, who was based in North Carolina, lied to victims, claiming he worked as a registered investment advisor. Though the Justice Department indictment doesn't name the company, a previously filed cease-and-desist order against Haithcock notes that he claimed to be an advisor at TD Ameritrade.
In fact, Haithcock was not registered and did not work at the brokerage firm, but used the name and other personal information of an advisor (including the advisor's CRD number) to interact with clients (the individual is identified only as M.W. in the Justice Department indictment).

#justice #department #years #least

A high-profile election ***** yst said Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) may give Democrats a real shot at finally winning a statewide race in Texas given the electoral weakness of his opponent, state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).
"Since 1994, I've gotten call after call virtually every day from Texans in politics on the Democratic side, saying, 'This is the year. We're finally gonna do it,'" University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato said Thursday in an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett that referenced a Fox News poll showing Talarico with a 51 percent lead over Paxton's 48 percent.
"But you know what? I'm starting to believe it's actually possible this year," he added.
Sabato argued that while Talarico was a "great candidate," the real opportunity for a win hinged on Paxton's political liabilities. "Paxton is so awful," he said.
The political ***** yst pointed to a string of Paxton's legal troubles and scandals, including being impeached by the Texas House, facing 20 charges of misconduct in office, indictments on three felony securities fraud charges and an extramarital affair.

#texas #Politics #real #finally

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal officials involved in the prosecution of James Comey misled judges, submitted false statements and withheld key facts during the course of the investigation, according to new defense filings that seek the dismissal of a case charging the former FBI director with threatening President Donald Trump on social media.
Lawyers for Comey made the allegations of misconduct in motions filed late Tuesday that also call the case a vindictive and selective prosecution, request access to transcripts of grand jury proceedings to expose what they say are "irregularities" in how the indictment was secured, and describe "unlawful" surveillance of Comey by the Secret Service.
Taken together, the new motions, along with an earlier one this week that called Comey's social media post protected speech and not a threat, represent a multiprong defense effort to dismantle a case that defense lawyers say exemplifies a Trump administration retribution campaign targeting one of the president's most vocal critics.
"Ample objective evidence — much of which comes directly from government officials' own public statements and admissions — establishes that the President's animus toward Mr. Comey led to this vindictive and selective prosecution," Comey's lawyers wrote in one of the filings.
Comey was charged in April with threatening Trump through a photo he posted on Instagram a year earlier depicting seashells he said he found on the beach in North Carolina in the numerical arrangement of "86 47."

#defense #case #filings

The preliminary fiscal Q4 2026 update from Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI), which was announced on July 21, serves as a case study in the distinction between a discounted valuation and a 'value trap'. The server manufacturer announced more than $60 billion in new orders during the quarter, a record backlog, and guided gross margins to 15-17%, nearly doubling its previous 8.2-8.4% prediction, citing a better customer and product mix.
Revenue is still expected to be near the low end of its $11-12.5 billion guidance range, below the roughly $11.67 billion ****** yst consensus, though shares rose as much as 20% on the news, with margin and order data clearly outweighing the top-line miss for investors focused on where the business is going.
For the broader technology ecosystem, Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI)'s order increase is an important indicator of downstream artificial intelligence hardware demand. Since Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI) bases its high-performance server clusters on NVIDIA GPU architectures and has historically contributed roughly 9% of NVIDIA's total revenue, the $60 billion order intake provides solid proof that hyperscaler AI infrastructure spending remains strong. At a time when macro experts have questioned the ability of major cloud providers to continue multibillion-dollar capital expenditure cycles, Super Micro's record backlog indicates that customer demand for liquid-cooled AI computing racks is increasing rather than decreasing.
However, Super Micro's own history is why the stock's price can't be evaluated the same way a clean order-book beat generally is. Back in March 2026, federal prosecutors unveiled an indictment charging co-founder and board member Yih-Shyan "Wally" Liaw, along with two other individuals ****** ociated with the company, with collaborating to smuggle $2.5 billion in NVIDIA-powered AI servers to China in breach of US export regulations. Shares plunged more than 28% in a single day as a result of the announcement, and one ****** yst reported by Yahoo Finance at the time described the company as "uninvestable."
That history is reflected in how cheap the company has become, despite the solid order data: Super Micro Computer Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI) trades at a forward P/E ratio of approximately 9x, less than half the hardware sector median of about 24x, and a PEG ratio of around 0.4, both of which would ordinarily indicate serious undervaluation.

#micro #smci #billion #company

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Olympian charged with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is seeking access to all of the closed-door testimony that led to his indictment, pointing to "irregularities" in those grand jury proceedings.
In a court filing Monday, David Hearn's attorneys requested an order for the government to turn over a complete transcript of all grand jury proceedings. They also want prosecutors to disclose the legal instructions they gave to grand jurors about the elements of Hearn's alleged crime.
Hearn pleaded not guilty earlier this month to one felony count of property destruction and has a trial scheduled to start Sept. 28 in D.C. Superior Court. The charge, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years upon conviction, accuses Hearn of causing at least $1,000 in damage to the pool.
But his lawyers question whether prosecutors properly presented the grand jury with adequate evidence to support the amount of damage alleged in Hearn's indictment. A National Park Service official testified that the pool already was damaged before Hearn allegedly touched it, couldn't quantify any damage attributable to Hearn and said the same repairs would have been required regardless of his conduct, defense attorneys said.
"The witness's testimony established that the pool had substantial preexisting damage requiring repair before any alleged conduct by Mr. Hearn," his lawyers wrote. "According to the witness, the pool was leaking more than one million gallons of water per week; its expansion joints had exceeded their service life; and the liner already contained a rip."

#pool #jury #court #service

A special prosecutor on Wednesday dismissed felony criminal charges against Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, who was indicted on accusations of threatening the jobs of New Orleans officials who fought a Republican-led overhaul of courts in the heavily Democratic city.
The case was put on hold almost immediately after the July 2 indictment, when the Louisiana Supreme Court said the local court and special prosecutor did not follow procedures surrounding the indictment. The dismissal by special prosecutor Laurie White came a day after New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams, Democratic Mayor Helena Moreno and five City Council members sent a letter urging her to drop the case.
"What I did was not a crime, it was never a crime," said Murrill, a Republican. "I think this was a malicious prosecution."
At the center of the case are deepening rifts between the state's Republican leaders and Democrats who control Louisiana's most prominent city.
Orleans Parish online court records show White submitted the letters from the elected city officials and the prosecutor to a judge before dismissing each count. The case against Murrill was then ordered "closed."

#orleans

Former Obama White House counsel Kathy Ruemmler said she regrets interacting with the late convicted ******* offender Jeffrey Epstein and believes now it was a mistake, according to opening remarks she delivered to House committee investigators as part of a closed-door interview.
"If I knew then what I know now about who Epstein really was, I never would have accepted an initial meeting with him. It was a mistake to deal with him, and I regret it," Ruemmler said, according to prepared remarks provided to CNN. "But many people ******* ume that given everything we know now about Epstein, everyone who dealt with him before his 2019 indictment must have known everything then. In my case, that ******* umption is completely wrong."
Ruemmler was called to testify voluntarily by the Republican-led House Oversight Committee for a closed-door interview as part of the congressional probe into Epstein after numerous news stories scrutinized her ties to the disgraced financier. Reporting from CNN's KFILE detailed the extent of her relationship with Epstein, including that she was among a small group of advisers to help him ward off legal and reputational risk during the final years of his life.
Ruemmler did not specifically address how she sought to help Epstein protect his reputation in her opening remarks but did say, "even though I wasn't his lawyer, he sought my advice from time to time, as many people do. I was friendly with him in that context, and I dealt with him in my ordinary course — casually, informally, and sometimes irreverently." She also said that Epstein was never her client.
She said that she first met Epstein in 2014 — and explained how she came to learn about how Epstein pled guilty in 2008 to charges that included the solicitation of a minor for prostitution along with other offenses and why she continued to engage with him.

"When you reach a semi-final you need to suffer," said Lionel Scaloni. Although did Argentina need to suffer quite so much? Taken to extra-time by a depleted Switzerland side, just as they had been by the minnows of Cape Verde, and requiring a record-breaking comeback to see off Egypt, the defending champions' route through the knockout stages has seemed based on suffering.
But after Switzerland were beaten in Kansas City, Scaloni kept returning to a reason why it was a struggle, one that could have pertinence for their last-four date with England in Atlanta: physicality. "Physically they are a very strong squad," he said. "It was very difficult for us to win the duels. Switzerland are very good on a physical level."
And perhaps Argentina are not. They have the staying power and spirit to conjure late goals – in their last three games they have scored in the 79th, 83rd, 92nd, 92nd (again), 111th, 112th and 121st minutes – but there are different types of physicality. Their most celebrated player is famously unphysical: a year from his forties, spending much of the match walking, though technically brilliant.
But his teammates may not compensate with running power. Fifa's statistics show Argentina only 10th for sprints made, behind three teams who have played a game fewer. More remarkably, they are 48th out of 48 for average speed at which their players have moved in this tournament. Lionel Messi may be dragging them down in one respect.
Among players, he is 580th for average speed; even Cristiano Ronaldo is 501st, and some of those below him are goalkeepers or centre-backs whose job description involves less movement. But this is no indictment of Messi; the instructive element is that others are not compensating with lung-busting running.

By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - A self-identified white supremacist in Pennsylvania was indicted by a federal grand jury after he threatened violence ‌against a member of Congress, Muslims, transgender people and Democrats, the ‌Department of Justice said on Friday.
Here are the details:
• The 12-count indictment by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh named Robert Hlovchiec, 32, as the sole defendant, the DOJ said in a statement, which did not identify the member of Congress.
• Between February and March, Hlovchiec posted comments to YouTube videos where he threatened violence against the member ‌of Congress, Democrats and ⁠liberals, transgender people, and various minority groups like Muslims, the DOJ said.

NFL redrafts often reveal how quickly priorities can change, especially after the fact. Some teams discover they missed on a player. Others simply recognize that a different position may have offered even greater long-term value. The Baltimore Ravens fell into the latter category during a recent CBS Sports reimagining of the 2024 NFL Draft,
Baltimore passed on its original first-round selection, cornerback Nate Wiggins. They instead used the 30th overall pick on former Georgia Bulldogs offensive tackle Amarius Mims. The massive lineman originally came off the board 18th overall to the division-rival Cincinnati Bengals, but the redraft gave the Ravens another opportunity to strengthen the trenches.
Something of note here. The Mims selection wasn't necessarily an indictment of Wiggins. Instead, it reflected the importance of maintaining one of the NFL's most physical offensive identities. CBS Sports pointed to Mims' size and upside, while noting that he would have been an ideal fit in Baltimore's run-heavy offense. With Derrick Henry serving as the centerpiece of the ground game and Lamar Jackson's mobility constantly stressing defenses.
The theory makes sense. Mims obviously adds another powerful blocker to the offensive front, which is an easy case to make. The projection also benefits from hindsight.
Baltimore eventually found starting right tackle Roger Rosengarten in the second round of the original draft, making the Ravens' offensive line one of the league's strengths. In a redraft, however, Mims' development over two NFL seasons makes him worthy of first-round consideration regardless of positional need.

Louisiana's attorney general was indicted Thursday over accusations she threatened the jobs of New Orleans leaders who fought a Republican-led overhaul of local courts in the heavily Democratic city.
The 16-count indictment against Republican Liz Murrill, handed up by a New Orleans grand jury, charges Louisiana's first female attorney general with intimidation and malfeasance. At the center of the case are deepening rifts between state leaders in Louisiana, which is heavily Republican, and Democrats who control the state's most prominent city.
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry promised a swift pardon, saying Murrill would not have her reputation tarnished by an "Orleans Kangaroo court." Mayor Helena Moreno, a Democrat, was among those who had accused the state's top law enforcement official in May of making threats against public officials.
Murrill called the case against her "retaliatory, meritless, and unconstitutional." Late Thursday, Murrill said she had filed for an emergency stay with the Louisiana Supreme Court.
"I will not back down. I will continue enforcing the law, fighting corruption, and doing the job the people of Louisiana elected me to do," she wrote on X.

Olympian David Hearn has been indicted by a D.C. grand jury on a felony charge related to alleged vandalism at the Washington, D.C., Reflecting Pool, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced Thursday.
Hearn, 67, is accused of ripping out a piece of sealant on the bottom of the Reflecting Pool on June 19, Pirro said. Pirro said National Park Service employees observed him removing the bottom liner of the pool.
"One of the most offensive images that I hold in my mind are the images of national monuments that are being debased, roped, torn down, graffitied, and damaged by individuals," Pirro said at a news conference on Thursday. "This unchecked vandalism and civil disorder turns into criminal behavior, and that's why we are here today."
Hearn, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland, said he stopped by the pool last month while on a 64-mile bike ride, and authorities arrested him after he reached down into the pool. He said he was held for five hours.
Hearn's attorneys issued a statement shortly after Pirro's announcement saying that Hearn is innocent and the "indictment reflects the administration's effort to shift blame for their own failures."

We asked. You answered.
The answers seem to indicate a common thread: Astros fans have more faith in Hunter Brown to have a dominant 2nd half than they do in Mike Burrows, Tatsuya Imai or Spencer Arrighetti to be even decent the rest of the season.
The poll was fashioned in such a way to flesh this out. Arrighetti leads the team currently with 7 wins, but he has struggled badly for a month. Imai has 5 wins, but it seems every time fans feel they are ready to trust his electric stuff that he suddenly has a complete loss of command and lays an egg. Lambert has 6 wins, has clearly been the most consistent of the pitchers not named Brown, but also has never had his current level of success at the major league level and it seems many fans are simply waiting for the bottom to fall out.
Meanwhile, Brown only has 1 win this season in the 25.1 innings that he has pitched this season.
Yet it was Brown most fans believed will finish the season with the most wins. That is a big indictment on fan sentiment towards an overwhelming majority of the rotation, and underscores the idea that despite the outfield’s offensive meekness, adding an impact starting pitcher at the deadline should be the team’s first order of business.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former CIA Director John Brennan sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, demanding a court order that would require officials to preserve records from investigations that he says are targeting him for "phantom criminal conduct."
Brennan said in the lawsuit that the records would be essential for him to mount a defense on vindictive prosecution grounds in the event of a future indictment brought by the administration. Such a defense, his lawyers said, would be supported by the more than 100 verbal or written statements that President Donald Trump has made since 2017 lambasting Brennan and by the Republican president's directives to his Department of Justice to initiate cases "without regard to factual or legal justification."
"To fully consider those motions, the reviewing judge would need to scrutinize the motivations of the Justice Department officials who directed, oversaw, or undertook those actions to determine whether they violated Director Brennan's rights, and specifically whether they were motivated by a desire to vindictively prosecute him as an act of retribution," Brennan's lawyers wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington.

Former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis have been indicted in a federal sports-betting case that prosecutors say involved inside information, player prop bets and alleged manipulation of Beasley’s own NBA performance.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced Monday that Beasley, Davis, current NBA player agent Paolo Zamorano and three other defendants were charged with wire fraud conspiracy, bribery in sporting contests, honest services wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.
Federal prosecutors said the defendants allegedly used non-public information about Beasley’s planned performance to place fraudulent wagers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The charges are allegations. Prosecutors said all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
The indictment alleges that Beasley, then playing for the Milwaukee Bucks, agreed with Davis before certain 2024 games that he would underperform or overperform in specific statistical categories. Prosecutors said Davis then passed that non-public information to other alleged co-conspirators so they could place bets tied to Beasley’s player props.

Two more former NBA players have been pulled into the federal gambling investigation that has hung over the league for the past year.
Malik Beasley and Ed Davis were indicted Monday on charges tied to an alleged sports betting scheme, prosecutors at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced. The indictment, returned in Brooklyn, names six defendants.
Prosecutors allege Beasley manipulated his own on-court performance to help a betting ring cash prop bets, with Davis acting as his go-between.
Beasley, a nine-year veteran, has not appeared in an NBA game since the allegations first surfaced last summer. He is expected to surrender to authorities this week.

What begins in Cleveland, doesn’t stay in Cleveland, allegedly.
At least that’s what’s contended in the indictment of former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis, a former Cavalier, according to The Athletic.
Through nine NBA seasons, Beasley, who last played for the Detroit Pistons, made approximately $60 million, but wrecked his finances due to significant gambling losses.
Those problems came home to roost when Davis, a friend and teammate while at the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2020-21 season, loaned Beasley money. They then collaborated to fix Beasley’s performance, according to the report.
The pair allegedly fixed Beasley’s performance four times beginning with a Jan. 26, 2024 game against the Cavaliers.

The NBA has another gambling scandal.
Via Shams Charania of ESPN, NBA veteran Malik Beasley has been indicted on federal charges for gambling. The charges relate to a sports betting scheme that allegedly included point shaving and prop bets
Beasley's attorney, Steve Haney, has shared the news of the indictment to ESPN. Beasley is expected to voluntarily surrender to authorities this week.
A first-round pick of the Denver Nuggets in 2016, Beasley most recently played for the Detroit Pistons, during the 2024-25 season. Last year, he played professionally in Puerto Rico.
Both the NBA and Major League Baseball have had scandals involving the active manipulation of performances and/or the sharing of inside information for betting purposes.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former NBA players Malik Beasley and Ed Davis have been indicted in the latest round of charges in the government’s gambling investigation, authorities said Monday.
When he was playing for the Milwaukee Bucks in 2024, Beasley agreed to tailor his performance based on betting trends in those games, prosecutors alleged.
“Bribery and insider betting schemes like this one involving former NBA players and a current NBA player agent who exploited inside NBA information for profit erode the integrity of American sports and victimize the sports-watching public,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said.
Nocella said the scheme involved hundreds of thousands of dollars. Six people were named in the indictment returned in Brooklyn.

For a short while, it looked like the market was going to bounce back from its early June setback and rekindle its rally. Now, not so much. The S&P 500 is stumbling again, knocking on the door of a new multi-week low, led lower by many of the same AI stocks that led it higher. There may be more downside in store, too.
Just keep things in perspective. There's nothing particularly unusual about this near-term weakness. In fact, it's an opportunity to plug into some blue chip stocks that have been severely beaten down. Here's a look at three of the best bets among these names.
Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again. In 2009, a "Double Down" signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same "Total Conviction" signal is flashing for a company 1/100th the size of Nvidia. Continue »
Mastercard (NYSE: MA) shares were already falling, for the record. They're now down 14% from their early January peak due to a combination of chatter about interest rate caps on credit cards, decreased consumer spending stemming from geopolitical tensions, and fears of new payment competition. Mastercard's management also expressed mild concern during April's first-quarter earnings conference call, prompting investors to ignore the reported earnings beat.
Matters are far more bullish than the bearish reaction suggests, however. Last quarter's top line improved 12% year over year on a similar increase in transactions, driving even stronger earnings growth that ****** ysts expect to persist through this year and next. The stock's pullback is increasingly looking like more of a right-pricing than an indictment of the company's foreseeable future.

A former New Jersey middle school teacher accused of having a ***** ual relationship with a student was indicted Wednesday on new charges, including manufacturing child ***** ual abuse material, prosecutors said.
Ashley Fisler, 36, of Washington Township, now faces a 12-count indictment that also includes ***** ual ***** ault of a minor and a pattern of official misconduct, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office.
According to prosecutors, the alleged victim, who is now an adult, told police he had an unlawful ***** ual relationship with Fisler while he was a minor and she was his teacher at Orchard Valley Middle School.
Prosecutors said the victim described multiple ***** ual encounters that allegedly took place in Fisler's vehicle and classroom in 2021.
New Jersey Middle School Teacher Charged With Child ***** ***** ault After Alleged ***** ual Relationship With Student

Melissa Gilbert is leaving the Big Apple apartment she shared with husband Timothy Busfield after eight years.
The "Little House on the Prairie" actress announced the move in an Instagram post June 23. The update comes as Busfield continues to contest criminal charges filed earlier this year in New Mexico.
"So long perfect little one bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side. The last eight years here have been so special. A lot of amazing work was done in and around this city," she wrote in the post's caption. "So many theaters and soundstages. So many wonderful dinners with friends and nights out on the town.
Busfield was arrested in January in connection with allegations involving minors on the set of Fox's "The Cleaning Lady." On Feb. 6, a New Mexico grand jury indicted the "West Wing" actor on four counts of criminal ******* ual contact of a child. He is currently seeking to have the indictment dismissed.
Gilbert, who has been married to Busfield since 2013, said she will miss walking around "our neighborhood" as well as the people she has met on subway rides and the New York streets.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged a Texas doctor in an $89 million healthcare fraud scheme, accusing him of billing insurers for medically unnecessary cardiovascular screening tests for college student-athletes and then rubber-stamping the results as normal without reviewing them.
Jason Finkelstein, 53, faces charges of healthcare fraud and conspiracy in what prosecutors describe as a yearslong scheme that preyed on the fears of athletes that they could die on playing fields or courts of sudden cardiac arrest.
Athletes with no preexisting conditions who were concerned about being cleared to compete were administered tests they did not need and, in one case, a patient whose results were falsely certified as normal later died after his significant heart problems were undetected, the indictment says.
The prosecution is among a series of cases that the Justice Department intends to highlight at a news conference Tuesday in announcing what it says are record results in a nationwide crackdown on healthcare fraud, a long-running federal law enforcement priority that the Trump administration over the last year has sought to emphasize.
The department says Finkelstein's case, with allegations not only of unrendered services but also poor medical performance that put patients at risk, represents the type of sophisticated scheme prosecutors are striving to disrupt.

Timothy Busfield has filed a motion to dismiss the grand jury indictment in his child ****** abuse case.
The 69-year-old actor was indicted on four counts of criminal ****** ual contact of a minor (child under 13) by a grand jury in New Mexico in February, and he subsequently pleaded not guilty to all four counts days later.
His legal team filed a motion to dismiss the indictment on Thursday, arguing that the prosecution did not present a fair and impartial case to the grand jury.
"Timothy Busfield is innocent," his civil attorney, Larry Stein, said in a statement to People. "This motion describes egregious prosecutorial misconduct during grand jury proceedings, thereby preventing the jurors from hearing testimony, witnesses and evidence even after repeated requests by the grand jury itself."
Stein continued, "The government repressed and suppressed exculpatory evidence, misstated the law and failed in the most basic due process afforded any person under either Constitutional or State laws designed to protect actual innocence from abuse of government power."
In January, The West Wing actor was accused of inappropriately touching two boys while he was directing them on the set of the TV show The Cleaning Lady in New Mexico between late 2022 and early 2024.

Carlos Mencia, who hosted Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia in the 2000s, was arrested Thursday and charged with a dozen counts of felony state tax evasion. Prosecutors said the comic failed to report $8.7 million in personal and corporate income taxes between tax years 2019-24 and owes the state of California more than $300,000.
Mencia, 58, whose real name is Ned Holness, faces six counts each of failure to file personal and corporate income tax with the intent to evade tax (read the indictment here). If convicted on all charges, he faces up to 11 years and four months in state prison. Mencia remained in custody late Thursday on $250,000 bail and is set to be arraigned Monday at the Van Nuys Courthouse.
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• Timothy Busfield has filed a motion seeking to dismiss the grand jury indictment against him in his New Mexico child ******* abuse case
• Busfield's attorney alleges prosecutorial misconduct and says exculpatory evidence was withheld from jurors
• The actor has pleaded not guilty to four counts of criminal ******* ual contact of a minor and is currently scheduled to stand trial in May 2027
Timothy Busfield is seeking to have the grand jury indictment against him dismissed as he continues to fight child ******* abuse charges in New Mexico.
The West Wing alum, 69, recently filed a motion to quash the grand jury indictment, according to court records obtained by PEOPLE.

Johnny Somali has asked a South Korean court for forgiveness after being handed a six-month prison sentence following his indictment on multiple charges including obstruction of business.
According to The Daily Chosun, the 25-year-old American streamer (born Ramsey Khalid Ismael) appeared before the Seoul Western District Court's Criminal Appeals Division 1 on Thursday morning (June 11).
Somali's legal counsel apologized on behalf of their client for his actions and asked for leniency as prosecutors pushed for a significantly harsher sentence.
"We reflect on our disrespectful behavior toward the Republic of Korea. This will never happen again," Somali told the court via his attorney. "Please consider as a sentencing factor that while I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and took medication in the U.S., I stopped taking it after entering the country."
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A set of quotes purportedly from Jürgen Klopp, eviscerating the World Cup’s commercialized hydration breaks, deluged social media on Friday and were picked up and aggregated by several outlets.
There’s one problem: the former Liverpool manager never said any of it.
The invented remarks portray him delivering a withering indictment of FIFA’s decision to let broadcasters monetize the tournament’s mandatory three-minute breaks, calling football “held hostage by executives ensconced in air-conditioned offices,” dismissing the interruptions as “a golden cage built for sponsors,” and warning that the sport risks degenerating into “background music for an advertising show.”
The quotes were attributed to an appearance on the German broadcaster ZDF, but Klopp has spent the tournament working with Magenta, the German telecommunications company that secured domestic streaming rights to the World Cup, The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand previously reported that Fox pursued several high-profile names for its World Cup studio before landing on Zlatan Ibrahimović, among them David Beckham and Klopp himself, with Klopp at various points appearing close to accepting before ultimately choosing Magenta instead.
So Klopp is working as a broadcaster at this tournament, just not the one the quotes were attributed to, and not for the network at the center of the controversy.

An Ohio police chief is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars after being slapped with a 70-count indictment for alleged **** crimes involving a child.
Bethel Police Chief Chad Essert, 44, was taken into custody without incident Tuesday night in Seminole, Florida, by the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
A Clermont County grand jury indicted the Blanchester, Ohio, resident on 56 counts of **** ual battery and 14 counts of unlawful **** ual conduct with a minor — all third-degree felonies.
Texas Sheriff Arrested By His Own Deputies, Now Faces New Charge For Lying To Grand Jury
If convicted of all charges, Essert faces a maximum penalty of 280 years in prison.