Criminal Justice

  What Was Lost First Brands, a Cleveland-based auto parts company, went into bankruptcy last year. It employed 26,000 people on five continents. About 6,000 of those workers were Americans in Midwestern factories. The other 20,000 were in China, Mexico, Europe, and other pl

Two Czech businessmen — Marek Čmejla and Jiří Diviš — placed their trust, and a great deal of money, in a real estate operator named Radovan Vítek. Vítek ran the company. They called it a “parity partnership.” With Čmejla and Diviš’s money Vitek bought buildings, land, hotels, an

The more one examines it, the more obvious it becomes that Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez not only because it was in America’s geopolitical interest but also because it was in the interest of justice. It will take many stories to explain how the U

Part 2: The Case Part 1 made the geopolitical argument. President Juan Orlando Hernández was an ally of the United States. The Biden DOJ indicted him the day a Chinese-aligned Honduran government took his place. Trump’s pardon was part of a multi-pronged intervention in the Novem

Part 1 On December 1, 2025, Donald Trump pardoned the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández. He was in a US prison. Hernández had served less than four years of a 45-year sentence when he was pardoned. He was 57. Hernández walked out of FCI Hazelton on the day Trum