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Strengthening the Cooperation Bargain: A Call for Institutional Integrity
A major drug seizure, two federal districts, and a cooperator whose supporters say extraordinary assistance went unrecognized.
A major drug seizure, two federal districts, and a cooperator whose supporters say extraordinary assistance went unrecognized.
The April 2025 trial of Bernhard Fritsch in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on two counts of wire fraud may represent a critical point in defining the Sixth Amendment protections. Despite securing millions to retain private counsel, a federal judge compelled Fritsch to
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Update: Andre Brown was supposed to turn himself in to Bronx Criminal Court on March 14, but got a temporary reprieve by the district attorney’s office when he filed a clemency petition with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul. The victims’ families have opposed that petition, which is still being reviewed.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of Carlos Watson, co-founder of Ozy Media, just hours before Watson was due to report to prison for a nearly ten-year sentence. Watson was on a plane headed to prison when Trump granted clemency seemingly putting his foot down on t
The arrest of Toni Fly came without warning: no explanation or warrant. On a Friday in July—2016—in Idaho Falls, Fly was taken into custody by local police on orders from an unnamed federal agency. “They say it’s federal,” an officer told Fly as she sat handcuffed, the skin on her wrists beginning t
The Catskills rise like an old promise, rolling hills thick with pine and shadow, where the air smells of wet earth and woodsmoke. The towns are small, tucked between valleys, their pasts stitched together with fading postcards of grand hotels, ghost resorts, and summer crowds that never came back.
The road to D.E.L.T.A. Rescue wound up a California mountainside, past sun-scorched brush and brittle dirt, through desolation where things—dogs, cats, people—could disappear without a trace.
Judge Conflict or Innocence: What Matters More?
Nick Pinto of Hell Gate, an online, worker-owned publication focused on local New York City news, wrote a story about Eric Komitee, the federal judge in the Eastern District of NY.
I have been covering the story of conflicted Judge Eric Komitee and his show trial of Carlos Watson.
Carlos Watson was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, as well as aggravated identity theft.
