There’s no business like show business, and there’s no city like New York City when it comes to getting sued. The ongoing saga of New York’s pied-à-terre tax continued this week, when attorney Randy Mastro, the former first deputy mayor under Eric Adams, filed a lawsuit last week challenging the city’s rollout of the tax.
Several people have been arrested in Egypt over an alleged plot by fake judges to defraud people of their money. Egypt’s Ministry of Interior said the alleged scam involved fabricated scenes in court and impersonating a judge on social media. The main suspects, an unemployed man and a student residing in Cairo and Giza, have
Topline Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba argued in a court filing Monday that the judge overseeing writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Trump had a conflict that resulted in Carroll receiving “preferential treatment” —but legal experts say she’s unlikely to succeed, and Carroll’s attorney has denied the “baseless allegations.” Former U.S. President
TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia and we’re partnering with Stripe to find the most interesting early-stage startups in the country. On August 19, eight Australian startups will take to the Stripe Tour Sydney stage to present live in front of investors, press and the tech community. Three will win prizes. One will win
On Friday, a group of retired judges will step off a tour bus in an upscale Michigan suburb after three days of touring cornfields, cities and coal towns in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They carry a message with them. In courthouses and public squares, they have commemorated the nation’s 250th anniversary with a dire warning: the