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Michael Cohen, who worked as an attorney for Trump between 2006 and 2018, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he’s back inside the Federal Correctional Institution in Otisville because of a book he’s working on that criticizes the POTUS. The suit was filed on Cohen’s behalf late Monday in federal court, per the Associated Press, […]
A large portion of Lil Baby‘s commercial appeal is his realistic accounts of things he’s experienced. So while it may have seemed off-brand to some for him to release his pro-Black Lives Matter song “The Bigger Picture,” it actually continues the trend that propelled him to super-stardom. Baby touched on his environment and the current state of […]
A California man was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in federal prison for trying to sell $6 million worth of paintings he claimed were created by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring, ABC News reports. Philip Righter, 43, had already pleaded guilty in March to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft in Miami. […]
An ex-Honolulu police officer who made a homeless man lick a public urinal has been sentenced to four years in prison for the federal civil rights crime. John Rabago pleaded guilty in December to the incident, which happened in January 2018, Vice reports. During Rabago’s sentencing on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi told the 44-year-old, “You […]
Yo Gotti and Jay-Z are continuing to fight for Mississippi prison inmates. According to court documents obtained by Complex, the rappers and Team ROC have procured legal representation for more than 200 prisoners at Mississippi State Penitentiary, aka Parchman Farm. The move ultimately helped inmates file a lawsuit against the state’s new Department of Corrections Commissioner Nathan Burl Cain as well as Centurion, the […]
Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate and confidante of the late Jeffrey Epstein, could reportedly start airing out dirty laundry and “naming some big names” in an attempt to help out her own case following her arrest on multiple charges, Page Six reports. The charges include conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts, enticement of a minor […]
Maya Moore fans were shocked this year when they learned she would miss a second consecutive season to focus on criminal justice reform. The Minnesota Lynx star announced she was putting her career on hold to fight for the release Jonathan Irons—a 40-year-old Black man who was wrongly convicted in the late 1990s. “Basketball has […]
Former inmate Kyle Kennedy is opening up about his alleged romance with Aaron Hernandez while inside the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts, according to People. In the upcoming REELZ special, Aaron Hernandez: Jailhouse Lover Tells All, Kennedy calls the former NFL player “the most [loyal] person I’ve ever met.” In 2017, Hernandez was found dead […]
Eight minority corrections officers in Minnesota have lodged discrimination charges with Minnesota’s Department of Human Rights after they were reprotedly prevented from guarding or coming into contact with Derek Chauvin in late May. After being charged with third-degree murder on May 29 for killing George Floyd, Chauvin was booked in the Ramsey County jail. When Chauvin […]
Spotify has added another big name to its podcast lineup. Just weeks after Spotify secured a $100 million deal with Joe Rogan, The Wall Street Journal reports Kim Kardashian has agreed to produce and host an exclusive podcast for the streaming giant. The program will reportedly focus on Kardashian’s work with The Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that aims to prevent and […]
