U.S. extradites businessman accused of drug ties to Mexico
NEW YORK/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday extradited to Mexico a businessman accused of working with drug cartels after $205 million in cash was found at his Mexico City home, ending a years-long legal battle.
Ex-sports marketing executive to plead guilty in FIFA bribe case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former sports marketing executive who was arrested last year in a U.S. corruption probe involving soccer’s global governing body FIFA is scheduled to plead guilty on Thursday, according to a court filing.
U.S. judge signals likely approval of VW diesel buyback settlement
(Reuters) – A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday said he was “strongly inclined” to approve a record-setting $10.033 billion proposed buyback and compensation offer from Volkswagen AG for 475,000 owners of polluting 2.0-liter diesel vehicles.
Massachusetts latest to bar Wells Fargo as underwriter
(Reuters) – The state of Massachusetts will stop using Wells Fargo & Co as a bond underwriter for a year, joining a growing list of state and local governments to suspend business with the bank after revelations it opened millions of unauthorized accounts.
Colorado clinic gunman says being drugged against his will
DENVER (Reuters) – A gunman deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for killing three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last year said in a courtroom outburst on Tuesday that he is being “forcibly” drugged at a state hospital.
Former Virginia dean accuses Rolling Stone of defamation in trial
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) – An attorney for a former associate dean of students at the University of Virginia accused Rolling Stone magazine of defaming her in a retracted 2014 story about an alleged gang rape on campus in the first day of a feder…
Kansas man sentenced for foiled plot to bomb U.S. military base
(Reuters) – A man from Topeka, Kansas, on Tuesday was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for helping a would-be jihadist’s unsuccessful plot to bomb a U.S. military base, prosecutors said.
Missouri man gets five years in prison for mosque, clinic fires
(Reuters) – A Missouri man was sentenced in federal court on Tuesday to five years and three months in prison for setting a fire that destroyed a mosque and two attempted arson attacks of a Planned Parenthood clinic, prosecutors said.
Arizona execution procedures face review in U.S. court
(Reuters) – A federal judge in Phoenix will hear arguments this week about resuming executions in Arizona, where a 2014 lethal injection that took nearly two hours raised questions about the state’s death chamber protocols and the chemicals it uses to …
Lawsuit filed over student exposure to lead in Flint, Michigan, schools
(Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan sued the state education department and Flint schools on Tuesday, saying they had violated federal education laws by exposing students to high levels of lead in their drinking water.
