Tag: witness

Prosecutors Say FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Is Harassing a Key Witness at His Upcoming Trial

NEW YORK—FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is harassing a key witness against him at his upcoming trial by giving a newspaper personal things she wrote while she was the chief executive of his cryptocurrency hedge fund trading firm, prosecutors say. They asked a judge late Thursday to order trial participants not to make statements that might…


Uneven Ground: The Melissa Witt Story

Determined to find answers behind the abduction of Melissa Witt, LaDonna Humphrey and her investigative team spent eight years on a journey like no other, with never before seen case files, interviewing witnesses and potential suspects, and working alongside retired detectives to find justice. …


Witness in Trump Grand Jury Case: ‘I Think I Got Through to Them’

An attorney in former President Donald Trump’s orbit who testified in front of a Manhattan grand jury earlier this month believes that there has been a shift in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against the 45th president. “Well, I think I got through to them, because [Monday] I understand they called back another witness…


The Push to Berlin | WWII Liberation of Europe Ep6 | Documentary

In the spring of 1945, battle-weary GIs moved east, crossing the River Rhine to reconvene with paratroopers of one of the largest airborne assaults in history. Witness the Allied forces push east to Berlin and conquer it in the spring of 1945. …


Air War Over Europe | WWII Liberation of Europe Ep2 | Documentary

Watch the complete history of airborne combat over Europe in World War II unfold in this action-packed program. Witness the early days of Allied bombers and devastating Luftwaffe gunfire to the winning airborne strategies the Allies used to end World War II. …


Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Takes Witness Stand in FTC Case

SAN JOSE, California—Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook’s parent company Meta, took the witness stand Tuesday in a trial over U.S. antitrust regulators’ effort to stop the tech giant from buying a virtual reality startup called Within Unlimited. At issue is whether Meta’s acquisition of the small company that makes a VR fitness app called…


Big Sonia | Documentary

Ninety-one-year-old Sonia Warshawski runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to revisit her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” –…


Man Free After 37 Years Due to ‘Sex for Lies’ False Witness

PHILADELPHIA—A Philadelphia man was freed from prison Tuesday after 37 years in a case marred by detectives who allegedly offered a witness sex and drugs at police headquarters in 1983 in exchange for false testimony. The trial witness was charged with perjury just days after Willie Stokes was convicted of murder in 1984. But Stokes…


Witnesses: Threat, Lunge for Gun From 1st Rittenhouse Victim

KENOSHA, Wis.—The first man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha was “hyperaggressive” that night, threatened to kill Rittenhouse and later lunged for his rifle just before the 17-year-old fired, witnesses testified Thursday. The testimony at Rittenhouse’s murder trial came from two witnesses who had been called to the stand by the prosecution…


George Floyd’s Friend and ‘Key Witness’ in Chauvin Trial Invokes 5th Amendment, Declines to Testify

A self-described key witness to the death of George Floyd—a longtime friend who was in the car with Floyd when police approached him—said through a lawyer that, if forced to testify about the incident, he’ll invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and remain silent. Morries Lester Hall, who in a June 2020 interview with…