Ex-Eaton Vance portfolio manager to plead guilty to fraud in U.S. court
BOSTON (Reuters) – A former Eaton Vance Corp portfolio manager has agreed to plead guilty to having engaged in a fraudulent scheme involving call options that enabled him to illegally make $1.9 million, according to papers filed in Boston federal court…
Trump talks about Mars mission on call with record-breaking astronaut
(Reuters) – U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the 534-day U.S. record for cumulative time in space on Monday and marked the occasion by speaking with President Donald Trump about plans for human trips to Mars.
Ex-Goldman programmer wins right to appeal conviction
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The nearly eight-year legal odyssey of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc programmer Sergey Aleynikov is not over, after New York State’s highest court agreed to review his reinstated conviction for stealing high-frequency trading code…
Liberal U.S. justices lean toward death row inmate in mental health dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday indicated support for a convicted murderer held on Alabama’s death row who argued he had a right to an independent medical expert to assess his mental health and potentially help him …
Former Magyar Telekom executives settle FCPA charges with U.S. SEC
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two former executives at the Hungarian telecommunications company Magyar Telekom will pay financial penalties and accept corporate officer and director bars to settle alleged anti-bribery law violations, U.S. regulators said Mond…
Anti-Semitic acts spiked since Trump election win, watchdog says
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Anti-Semitic incidents, from bomb threats and cemetery desecration to assaults and bullying, have surged in the United States since the election of President Donald Trump, and a “heightened political atmosphere” played a role in th…
U.S. top court won’t review Houston police shooting ‘waistband’ defense
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court, turning down a chance to test the limits of police use of force, declined on Monday to revive an unarmed suspect’s lawsuit accusing a Houston officer of unconstitutional excessive force for shooting him in the back a…
Lawyer representing United passenger takes on American Airlines
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The lawyer representing Dr. David Dao, who was dragged from a United Airlines plane, said he will also represent a woman whose clash with an American Airlines flight attendant went viral over the weekend.
New Orleans removes first of four statues deemed racially offensive
(Reuters) – New Orleans on Monday removed a statue that the mayor said glorified a 19th-century attack on police by white supremacists, the first of four monuments that the city will relocate to send a message of “diversity, inclusion and tolerance.”
U.S. top court preserves Alabama campaign finance curbs
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by an Alabama black-voter outreach group with close ties to the state’s Democratic Party of a lower court’s ruling that upheld a state ban on cash transfers between political actio…
