WASHINGTON– A prominent Supreme Court litigator was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for evading a multimillion-dollar tax debt to the IRS and engaging in mortgage fraud, a case that shed light on his secret lifestyle as a high-stakes poker player and featured trial testimony from a Hollywood movie star. Thomas Goldstein, who also
Snap is the latest major technology company to settle a lawsuit that claimed social media platforms are harmful to children and young adults. The company reached a “tentative” settlement in a case that was set to go to trial later this month. TikTok recently settled its side of the case with the plaintiff, known by
Rebel Wilson has prevailed in a defamation case brought by Charlotte MacInnes, the lead actress in Wilson’s directorial debut, “The Deb.” Judge Elizabeth Raper of the Federal Court of Australia in Sydney on Wednesday dismissed MacInnes’ claims of defamation and breach of trust and ordered him to pay Wilson’s legal costs. MacInnes sued over four
Rebel Wilson has been cleared of allegations she defamed a young Australian actress, a Sydney court has found. Charlotte MacInnes, who starred in Wilson’s film The Deb, is suing the Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect actress for allegedly damaging her reputation in Instagram posts in 2024 and 2025. In the posts, Wilson accused MacInnes of retracting
The defamation case currently focuses on the procedure known as discovery, where both sides provide internal or other records that could serve as evidence. Lawyers for the BBC said the corporation had produced 87,000 pages of documents, while they said the Trump side had published a “false production” of just 735 pages, which they said
Ghana’s main opposition party reacted with anger after one of its most influential leaders was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with hard labor, for illegal mining offences. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) alleged that the historic sentencing against Bernard Antwi Boasiako, the party’s Ashanti Region Chairman, was politically motivated. Boasiako, popularly known as “President