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Giuliani associate gets year in prison in foreign donor case
Read full article: Giuliani associate gets year in prison in foreign donor caseA Florida man who helped Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information against Joe Biden in Ukraine has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined $10,000 in an unrelated campaign finance case.
Months after raid, review of seized Giuliani files continues
Read full article: Months after raid, review of seized Giuliani files continuesRudy Giuliani’s legal team has asked a court-appointed monitor to block prosecutors from seeing some of the thousands of electronic files that were seized from his phones and computers during an FBI raid in April.
Giuliani gets first shot at excluding materials from raids
Read full article: Giuliani gets first shot at excluding materials from raidsRudy Giuliani and his lawyers will get to designate which materials seized from him will be reviewed by a court-appointed expert reviewer to determine what should never be seen by federal prosecutors.
Judge appoints ex-judge to oversee Giuliani devices' review
Read full article: Judge appoints ex-judge to oversee Giuliani devices' reviewA New York judge has formally appointed a former judge to ensure attorney-client privilege is protected in an examination of multiple electronic devices seized from Rudy Giuliani.
Cuomo sorry for remarks aide 'misinterpreted' as harassment
Read full article: Cuomo sorry for remarks aide 'misinterpreted' as harassmentBy day's end, Cuomo acquiesced to demands that Attorney General Letitia James control the inquiry. Calls for an investigation mounted after a second former employee of Cuomo's administration went public Saturday with harassment claims. AdHer accusation came days after another former aide, Lindsey Boylan, a former economic development adviser, elaborated on harassment allegations she first made in December. New York’s two U.S. senators, Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both said an independent investigation was essential. AdJames fueled some of that criticism by issuing a report saying the Cuomo administration had undercounted deaths.
2nd former aide accuses Cuomo of sexual harassment
Read full article: 2nd former aide accuses Cuomo of sexual harassmentCuomo subjected her to an unwanted kiss during years of sexual harassment have spurred calls for an investigation and questions about who might meaningfully conduct one. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool, File)NEW YORK – A second former aide said she was sexually harassed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who responded with a statement Saturday saying he never made advances toward her and never intended to be inappropriate. “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me, and felt horribly uncomfortable and scared,” Bennett told the Times. Bennett told the newspaper she decided not to push for any further action by the administration.
Mexico killing highlights confusion over Mormon groups
Read full article: Mexico killing highlights confusion over Mormon groupsThat the faith widely known as the Mormon church would feel the need to make such a clarification amid a tragedy underscored the conundrum the church faces when big news happens with splinter groups that practice polygamy. Early church members practiced polygamy in the 1800s at the instruction of founder Joseph Smith, but the church disavowed it in 1890. The Mexican community is one of a handful of Mormon splinter groups who still practice plural marriage. A recent push by church President Russell M. Nelson to eradicate the use of previously embraced shorthand terms for the faith — "Mormon," ''LDS" and "Mormon church" — has added an interesting wrinkle to the discussion, said W. Paul Reeve, the Simmons Professor of Mormon Studies at the University of Utah. Also muddling the issue is Smith's revelation that God told him to practice plural marriage remains canonized in church scripture, the scholars noted.