MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal jury was right to convict Canadian fraudster Patrice Runner, a Second Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, rejecting Runner’s argument that it was his customers’ fault for believing false claims of “magic” from his astrology business. The…[Continue Reading...]
A Russian sect leader who claimed he was Jesus Christ reincarnated was sentenced to 12 years in a prison camp on Monday after being convicted of harming his followers' health and financial affairs. Sergei Torop, a former traffic policeman known…[Continue Reading...]
A court in Novosibirsk on Monday sentenced a Siberian cult leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ to 12 years in prison for harming the mental and physical health of his followers. Sergei Torop, a former traffic…[Continue Reading...]
HARRISBURG — Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that Shaun Sheffer has been sentenced to 14 to 34 years in prison for sexually assaulting a pre-teen child, beginning when the victim was seven years old. Sheffer, 47, of Harmony, was previously…[Continue Reading...]
VESTAL, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – A Binghamton psychic is facing criminal charges after a client claimed she left him emotionally and financially devastated. On May 8, Patsy Brown of Binghamton Physic, located at 257 Vestal Parkway in Vestal, pleaded guilty to…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX — A Maricopa County prosecutor says Lori Vallow Daybell’s request for a new trial should be denied because “there was no juror misconduct, no prosecutorial misconduct, no improper exclusion of hearsay testimony and no lack of impartiality by the…[Continue Reading...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A federal court jury deliberated for less than an hour Wednesday before convicting a Texas neo-Nazi for posting an online threat against Nashville District Attorney General Glenn Funk. The jury found David Aaron Bloyed, 60, an…[Continue Reading...]
The court sentenced the New Zealander on Friday to a partial prison sentence of 36 months for multiple sexual assaults and taking advantage of an emergency situation, of which he must serve six months. As he has already served four…[Continue Reading...]
SASKATOON — A Saskatchewan man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the sexual assaults of 12 women while under the guise of being an Indigenous medicine man. Justice John Morrall told a Saskatoon courtroom that it was…[Continue Reading...]
Jersey's Royal Court has found a former Catholic priest guilty on three counts of gross indecency with a child. Piotr Antoni Glas, 61, committed his crimes on multiple occasions against a teenage boy between 2004 and 2007. There were cries…[Continue Reading...]
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