The extraordinary admission on Tuesday came the same day as Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failure to disclose a foreign bank account. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on the remaining 10 counts, and the judge declared a mistrial on those charges.
Thiruvananthapuram-born Dr Zachariah P Zachariah, a prominent cardiologist in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been exonerated of all charges in a long-standing US Securities and Exchange Commission insider trading case.
A judge on Monday dismissed David Beckham's $25 million libel lawsuit against a celebrity magazine that ran an article saying the married, British soccer star slept with a call girl.
The lawyer of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana, co-accused with Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Headley in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, on Monday informed a federal court in Chicago that he was preparing for his client's February trial.
An Indian-American doctor has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a United States court for committing health care fraud with his wife and has been ordered to forfeit over $ 43 million (Rs 196.21 crore) in cash and property gained through the fraud.
Sushil Sheth, a Chicago area physician, was sentenced on Wednesday by US District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer and ordered to begin serving the 60-month prison term in two months.
The ruling by a federal judge in Oregon means that there will be no change in the H-1B visa issuance process for the fiscal 2018 which begins on April 3.
The trial of Tahawwur Hussain Rana, co-accused along with Lashkar-e-Tayiba terrorist David Headley in 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been postponed from February 14 to May 16 at the request of defence.
US District Judge Beryl Howell in Minneapolis denied Ranbaxy's request, the court filing showed.
Martoma, 40, was ordered by US District Judge Paul Gardephe to surrender by Thursday afternoon, after he lost his bid last week to remain free on bail pending appeal of his conviction.
Nelash Mohamed Das, a resident of Hyattsville in Maryland, he faces 20 years in prison on conviction.
A United States court in New York has set a pre-trial hearing in April in the lawsuit filed by a Sikh rights group asking that Indian right wing organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh be designated as a "foreign terrorist organisation" for alleged violent acts against religious minorities in India.
Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American accused of trying to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, told the court that he was pleading guilty because of the US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.
The news comes just three days after M&M received certification from the US Environmental Protection Agency allowing it to sell pick-up trucks in that country.
Noted laywer Ujjwal Nikam had asked the court that Headley should be tried along with Abu Jundal.
In a major victory for Facebook, a United States court has ruled that it can block content without any explanation after a Sikh group filed a lawsuit challenging the blocking of its social media page.
An Indian-American physical therapist has been sentenced to 57 months in prison and ordered to pay US $ 2.3 million as compensation for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme. Michigan resident Baskaran Thangarasan would also undergo three years of supervised release following his prison term.
The trial of Pakistani-Canadian terror suspect Tahawwur Rana, charged with involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks, is expected to begin on November 1, with a US district court judge in Chicago saying on Tuesday that the process should start "sooner than later".
In a six-page motion filed in the US District Court, Northern District of Illinois, his lawyer Patrick Blegen sought "particulars" regarding the charge in the indictment that says Rana, a Chicago-based businessman, conspired to provide material support to terrorism in India and Denmark.
Terror suspects David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Rana, indicted on charges of being involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, will be arraigned in a court in Chicago next week. The arraignments of Rana and Headley were initially scheduled for Wednesday, but have now been rescheduled. While Pakistani-Canadian citizen Rana will be arraigned on January 25, Pakistani-American Headley's arraignment has been set for January 27.
Dr Reddy's Laboratories received a major setback in the US, as a court there granted a motion seeking a preliminary injunction to block the launch of its generic version of Sanofi-Aventis' anti-allergic drug, Allegra D24.
Trump nominated Thapar for the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
Headley has been charged with conspiring in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people. The FBI charges also allege he had made several trips to India prior to the attacks to scout for terror targets and then shared the information with conspirators in Pakistan.
Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley, accused of plotting the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and conspiring to target a Danish newspaper, pleaded guilty on Thursday before a United States court. Headley, 49, who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's joint terrorism task force on October 3, 2009, told US District Judge Harry Leinenweber that he wanted to change his plea to guilty, in an apparent bid to get a lighter sentence.
In a volte-face, Pakistani-American Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative David Coleman Headley, accused of plotting the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks and conspiring to target a Danish newspaper, pleaded guilty on Thursday before a US court in Chicago.
Pakistani-American David Coleman Headley, a Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative charged with conspiring in the 26/11 Mumbai terror strike, will plead guilty before a United States court on Thursday, five months after he was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
US District Judge William Duffey Jr of federal court in Atlanta sentenced Pakistan-origin Syed Haris Ahmed of Atlanta and Bangladesh-American Ehsanul Islam Sadequee of Roswell, Georgia, following their convictions earlier this year in separate but related criminal trials.
US prosecutors have filed a memorandum, opposing the bail petition of terror suspect Tahawwur Hussain Rana, charged with plotting terror attacks in India and Denmark.
The arraignment for Pakistan-origin US national David Coleman Headley charged with criminal conspiracy in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks has been scheduled for December 9.
A Californian couple has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a United States court for their role in a hate crime against an Indian American in 2007. Joseph Silva, 56, and his wife Georgia Silva, 52, have been sentenced to 18 months jail-term and three years of supervised release after the US district court in Sacramento, California found them guilty of beating an American national of Indian origin in July 2007.
Pakistani-American LeT operative David Coleman Headley on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to the 12 counts filed against him in the superseding indictment returned on January 14, including charges he conspired in plotting the terror attacks in Mumbai and a Danish newspaper.
A Pakistani-origin taxi driver indicted on charges of providing material support to terror group the Al Qaeda and accused of having links with Hasrkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami chief Ilyas Kashmiri pleaded not guilty in a US court on Monday.
A United States federal judge on Friday dismissed criminal charges against five guards of Blackwater security firm, who were accused of killing 17 civilians in Baghdad in an incident that sparked widespread criticism of the army's use of private contractors. US district judge Ricardo Urbina threw out the case not on merit but on the way the prosecutors had handled it by wrongly using defendants' 'statements compelled under a threat of job loss'.
A 50-year-old Indian, who was residing illegally in the United States, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court for conspiracy and attempting to provide material support to Lebanese group Hezbollah.
A US court again turned down the bail plea of terror suspect Tahawwur Rana, accused of plotting terror attacks in India at the behest of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, on Thursday saying the Pakistani-Canadian is charged with "very serious crimes" which give him a motive to flee.
Sandeep Kaur had pleaded guilty to four counts of bank robberies earlier this year. Ritu Jha/Rediff.com reports from California.
The patent relates to the manufacturing process for the active ingredient in Sanofi-Aventis' Allegra and Allegra-D drug products. Both Dr Reddys and Sandoz are known to be marketing these products in the US.
The detention hearing of terror suspect David Coleman Headley, arrested by the Federal Bureau of Ivestigation for plotting attacks in India at the behest of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba, scheduled for December 4 at a court in Chicago has been indefinitely deferred.
In a bid to seek bail, Mumbai terror attack terror suspect Tahawwur Rana on Thursday told a Chicago court that his escape from the United States will only force him to live as an 'international fugitive' and his knowledge of immigration business will not help him run from a 'federal indictment'. Charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists in India, Rana filed in the US District Court his 7-page reply to the government's response to the motion made by him
'The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!' Trump said in a tweet.
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