Luigi Mangione slams 'Marvel movie' perp walk in bid to block death penalty @ninapullano.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/luigi-mangio...

One short Substack dinner getting stuck across from this woman made it dead clear to my wife and I that she was both a bamboozler and was being willfully bamboozled. “It is hurtful to get miscast as a hack,” she says. Pro tip: Then don’t be such an elaborate one. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

an agent on the roof of the broadview ice facility is filming the crowd of protesters below with a dslr. a protester joking asked, “does it shoot 4k?” and the agent nodded his head yes.

State Sen Jabari Brisport says federal agents on the 10th floor “zip tied the doors closed and then used duct tape to cover any cracks for people to see.” “And then, they laughed.”

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

SDNY Judge Arun Subramanian reopens one of the several Jeffrey Epstein victims civil cases against Epstein's estate, and directs parties, including Boies Schiller, to propose trial dates for an early 2026 trial.

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

Mahmoud Khalil lost his bid for a waiver of removability, making him one step closer to deportation. He claims his immigration judge took Marco Rubio's "misrepresentations" about him as gospel, and is asking a NJ judge to step in. Here's some of the immigration judge's ruling:

More from the suspect Tyler Robinson's alleged messages: * Nothing about him being a groyper. * For why he did it, he wrote, "I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can't be negotiated out." * Had only been planning it "a bit over a week." * Was his grandfather's rifle. His dad gave it as a gift.

MANHATTAN (CN) — A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed the state-level first-degree murder charges against Luigi Mangione, finding the evidence to support them “legally insufficient.” 100 Centre Street scene report:

New: George Santos loses his appeal in the Jimmy Kimmel “Will Santos Say It?” copyright claim. Santos sued in 2024 after Kimmel got him to say outlandish things on Cameo, then aired the clips on his late-night show. More @courthousenews.bsky.social

Maurene Comey, the former assistant U.S. attorney who handled the feds’ Jeffrey Epstein case, sued the Trump administration Monday over her “politically motivated” July firing from the Southern District of New York prosecutors’ office. @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/former-prose...

New: A federal judge is allowing ICE courthouse arrests in NYC to continue, denying a challenge brought by immigrant rights groups and @ACLU . But he DID block immigration judges from tossing cases to reduce caseload — a limited win for the groups. More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

Kash Patel fired the 'legendary' special agent in charge of Utah's FBI division a month ago. Her colleagues say she was “absolutely the best” agent in the bureau but she was a woman of color so she had to go: www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...

It gets even crazier

The wife of disgraced ex-NJ Sen. Bob Menendez, Nadine Menendez, was sentenced Thursday to 54 months (4.5 years) in prison for her role as backchannel conduit in the "Gold Bar Bob" Menendez federal bribery and corruption case. (My guess for the sentence was 50 months)

Feds across the board are now less equipped to solve certain crimes. Over the summer, a Homeland Security official testified that he had to pull agents from counterintelligence + terrorism units to focus on the White House’s initiative to deport pro-Palestine student protesters.

There it is. Free link www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Trump's initial response to the dire jobs report is ... posting about Epstein

Mohamed Bahi pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy related to organizing illegal campaign contributions, putting to bed one of the outstanding indictments that stemmed from multiple investigations into New York City Mayor Eric Adams. @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/ex-eric-adam...

Former NYC community affairs aide Mohamed Bahi, the first person other than Mayor Eric Adams to be charged in one of Adams' then-several ongoing corruption probes, is back in Manhattan federal court today, to plead out in case brought by the SDNY U.S. Attorney's office.

Masked federal agents apprehending people as they leave mandatory immigration court hearings at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday morning.

DIDDY RULING: Sean "Diddy" Combs's motion for release from a federal jail on bail to await his October sentencing has been DENIED.

Flowers and signs on the fence in front of the immigration offices at 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan, where ICE has routinely been making arrests and disappearing people after they leave routine visa hearings in immigration court cases.

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

After meeting with Trump's Deputy AG Todd Blanche last week, Ghislaine Maxwell has been transferred from a Florida prison to the Texas prison where fraudsters Elizabeth Holmes and 'Real Housewives of SLC' Jen Shah are serving out their respective bids.

Diddy hinges bid for acquittal or new trial on porn defense @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/diddy-hinges...

Donald Trump’s hush money trial defense lawyer Emil Bove has been confirmed as a federal appeals judge on the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit court of appeals.

Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here. Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre? Trump: I think so. He stole her.

Diddy’s lawyers asked a judge Tuesday to release him from jail on a $50 million bail package while he awaits sentencing on prostitution-related convictions. @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/diddy-renews...

Prison possible as rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine pleads guilty to probation violations @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/prison-possi...

RIP OZZY www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPJX...

The Second Circuit overturned the 2017 conviction of the man who confessed to kidnapping and killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 and ordered he get a new trial, finding the juror instructions had been “manifestly prejudicial.” @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/second-circu...

Pedro Hernandez’s attorney on the 2nd Circuit overturning the 2017 retrial conviction for the kidnapping and murder of 6-year-old SoHo child Etan Patz.

I'm not sure but I think Todd Blanche just gave ... somebody carte blanche to ask to unseal the Mueller, Jan6, and stolen docs grand juries. 😄 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche files motion to unseal documents in the long dormant SDNY Jeffrey Epstein case.

New York agrees to settle Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment suit @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/new-york-agr...

Bondi reportedly put 1,000 people in 24-hour shifts for two weeks in March to review the Epstein files. She made them flag mentions of Trump. And then ... She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯

"Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought," fired federal prosecutor Maurene Comey writes in letter to colleagues at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

NEW: In an email to her now-former colleagues today, veteran SDNY prosecutor Maurene Comey says she was “summarily fired” by “Main Justice” and urges that fear not “seep into the decisions of those who remain.” Read her whole email here: www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS. MOVE ALONG.

Trump’s DOJ has reportedly fired Maurene Comey, one of the Manhattan prosecutors who handled SDNY’s case against Ghislaine Maxwell for Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network. Comey delivered the government’s final rebuttal argument in that trial. www.courthousenews.com/maxwell-clos...

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired Wednesday from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan US Attorney’s office.

Ex-NYPD commissioner sues mayor, top brass for corruption @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/ex-nypd-comm...

If the rescissions don't pass the Senate by Friday, July 18, the effort fails and CPB keeps the $1.1 billion that Congress already allocated for the next two years. Public media advocates are left to hope that time will simply run out. More here: cnn.it/4eKnHYa

On Tuesday, the Second Circuit upheld the constitutionality of amendments to a New York City zoning ordinance that clamped down on the X-rated porn shops and neon-lit sex clubs that once filled the Times Square neighborhood. @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/second-circu...

the great @jaywbabcock.bsky.social‬ has finished loading pdfs of his legendary culture rag, arthur. although i never made a pence, i'm proud to say i wrote for every ish and arthur remains a shockingly solid documentation of sub-underground woofery of an era: 2002-2013 arthurmag.com/read-the-mag...

As law enforcement struggles to grasp why Luigi Mangione is garnering sympathy, I spoke to a man who says UnitedHealthcare denied vital treatment for his blood clots. Doctors amputated his leg as a result. Read it @courthousenews.bsky.social 🫵

Diddy used ‘power, violence and fear’ in criminal conspiracy, feds insist in closing @jrussjruss.bsky.social www.courthousenews.com/diddy-used-p...

Nearing a conclusion after two months of testimony, federal prosecutors will mount their closing argument to jurors in the Sean "Diddy" Combs sex trafficking and RICO criminal trial on Thursday morning. Combs' defense will make the final summation argument on Friday.