Former President Donald J. Trump on Sunday defended six Nevada Republicans who were recently indicted in connection with a scheme to overturn his 2020 election loss, claiming without evidence that they were victims of political persecution by the Biden administration. Mr. Trump has repeatedly rebuffed accusations this month that he has antidemocratic inclinations by pointing…
The former speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives was given a 20-year prison sentence, the statutory maximum, on Thursday for his central role in what prosecutors said was perhaps the biggest public corruption scandal in the state’s history. Larry L. Householder was convicted in March of racketeering and bribery for accepting some $60 million…
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said on Monday that it had indicted four men on charges of laundering virtual currency stolen by an infamous North Korean online criminal syndicate as part of a far-reaching scheme to buy goods with U.S. dollars and evade international sanctions. The charges, filed in three cases in federal court in…