Edvard Pettersson

3 days ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

LOS ANGELES (CN) — A 73-year-old Southern California man has been charged with making a series of death threats against President Donald Trump on Facebook last year around the time of the presidential election. "This defendant is charged with threatening the life of our president — a man who has already survived two deranged attempts on his life,” U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement Tuesday.

4 days ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

LOS ANGELES (CN) — Disgraced plaintiff attorney Tom Girardi was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison on Tuesday following his conviction last year for stealing millions of dollars from his clients' settlements to fund a lavish lifestyle for himself and his reality-TV wife Erika Jayne. U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton rejected the request by Girardi's lawyers to let him serve his sentence in the closed memory care facility in Southern California where he has been residing since his arrest.

4 days ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

LOS ANGELES (CN) — Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Durk tried to persuade a federal judge to let him out on bail while he awaits trial on charges that he put a bounty on a rival rapper, resulting in an August 2022 shooting in Los Angeles in which a cousin of his rival was killed. U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald didn't issue a ruling at a hearing Monday afternoon in downtown LA, where a large number of friends and family of Durk Banks, as he's legally named, packed the courtroom.

5 days ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

LOS ANGELES (CN) — Disgraced plaintiff attorney Tom Girardi won't be spared prison time for defrauding his clients when he's sentenced Tuesday, the day of his 86th birthday. U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton ruled at a hearing Monday morning in Los Angeles federal court that Girardi's evident mental decline was not so severe that he can't serve his sentence in a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility.

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Edvard Pettersson

LOS ANGELES (CN) — SpaceX was allowed to proceed with its retaliation lawsuit against the California Coastal Commission, claiming that the commissioners' dislike of CEO Elon Musk's political views prompted them to oppose an increase in rocket launches from a federal air base in the state. U.S. District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr., a Donald Trump appointee, denied in part California's request to dismiss the case at a hearing Friday in Los Angeles federal court.