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Disbarred Florida attorney Timothy Howard has pled guilty to a racketeering charge for a scheme in which he stole millions of dollars from litigation funders and his own retired NFL player clients, avoiding a federal trial that had been slated to start next week and capping off a bizarre, yearslong saga.
The D.C. federal judge overseeing the new criminal case against former President Donald Trump is a tough former public defender and BigLaw litigator who is no stranger to handling high-profile cases. She has ruled against Trump before and has meted out especially harsh prison sentences to defendants convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Former President Donald Trump wants a Florida federal court to take another look at his racketeering lawsuit against Hillary Clinton in light of the recent Durham report, and to rescind more than $1 million in sanctions imposed after the case was dismissed last year as a poorly drafted "political manifesto."
The nation's largest chicken producers are crying foul over food distributor Sysco's attempt to let litigation funder Burford Capital take over a sprawling series of poultry price-fixing lawsuits, saying the move smacks of "invalid champerty" — the ancient legal doctrine that bars the purchase of civil claims by "strangers."
Donald Trump aide Waltine Nauta is butting heads with the government over his request to push back a hearing that will establish ground rules in the landmark case accusing both men of mishandling classified documents, with Nauta complaining of being railroaded and the government accusing him of unnecessary delay.