An ex-Boston Police Sergeant and a former street police officer have pleaded guilty in an overtime fraud investigation case that has been ongoing at the Boston Police Department’s evidence warehouse this year. Gerard O’Brien, 62, and Diana Lopez, 56, agreed … Read More

Law enforcement in Boston expects to make dozens of arrests this summer related to serious and violent crimes in the area of Newmarket Square. It’s part of a growing effort to deal with violent crimes and public safety and health … Read More

The founder of drug company Insys Therapeutics yesterday became the top drugmaker executive in the country go be convicted in a case that is related to the US opioid crisis. He and four other top executives were found guilty of … Read More

Lawyers for the defendants in the Operation Varsity Blues cases have claimed that the Boston US Attorneys Office is steering cases in an improper manner to one specific judge – US District Judge Nathaniel Gorton. Gorton is known to hand … Read More

Actress Felicity Huffman is one of 14 defendants who will plead guilty in the Operation Varsity Blues college admissions cheating scandal that has slammed elite universities this spring. (ABCnews.com) Huffman, 56, and the others each plan to plead guilty in … Read More

Michael Avenatti, the attorney who represented porn film star Stormy Daniels in her legal fights with President Trump, was federally charged this week with extortion, in what one federal prosecutor said was an effort to shake down Nike for more … Read More

At least 50 people across the country, including celebrities, financiers and university coaches, have been indicted in a shocking and massive admissions bribery scam that shows how great wealth and fraud allowed students with mediocre academic pedigrees to be admitted … Read More

A valuable piece of Cape Cod property could be seized as part of a national college admission cheating scandal, according to federal authorities. One of the 50 people who has been accused by federal prosecutors of participating in a national … Read More

Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort received a sentence of 47 months in federal prison this week after a federal jury convicted him on eight counts of tax and bank fraud in 2018. Manafort’s conviction made him the initial campaign associate … Read More

Generally, the state or federal prosecution bears the burden of proving the crime beyond a reasonable doubt. You as the defendant are not required to prove your innocence to be not convicted, but the prosecution also does not have to … Read More