Last August, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for a meticulous reexamination of the oldest missing-teens case in America following a Rolling Stone investigation detailing decades of police incompetence and misfeasance. Fifty-one years ago this week, 16-year-old Brooklyn resident Mitchel Weiser and his 15-year-old girlfriend Bonnie Bickwit disappeared in connection …
Read More »Neutral Milk Hotel's Julian Koster Accused of Grooming, Sexual Assault
Anna “Nesey” Gallons, a musician who has been associated with the Athens, Georgia-based Elephant 6 collective since the 2000s, made an Instagram post on July 9 accusing Neutral Milk Hotel bassist Julian Koster of grooming her as a teenager and sexually assaulting her. “I began to communicate by telephone and …
Read More »Kevin Hart Sex Tape Saga: Former Friend Files $12 Million Breach of Contract Lawsuit
When Kevin Hart jumped on Instagram three years ago to discuss his bizarre 2017 sex tape scandal and the related felony extortion charges filed — and eventually dropped — against his friend Jonathan “J.T.” Jackson, the superstar comedian said he was happy to be “moving on” from that chapter in …
Read More »Reality Star Julie Chrisley Will be Resentenced in Bank Fraud Case
Julie Chrisley, the former star of the reality series Chrisley Knows Best, will be resentenced in her bank fraud and tax evasion case after an appeals court threw out her original seven-year sentence. As The Associated Press reports, a three-judge panel on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found …
Read More »Jon Stewart Calls Out GOP Hypocrisy on Crime, Guns Coming From Red States
Jon Stewart took the opportunity on Monday’s episode of The Daily Show to lay out “a quick state of play” on the upcoming presidential election in November, while also debunking the GOP narrative of crime in major cities. “I guess the election has basically boiled down to each candidate accusing …
Read More »Arizona Man Indicted After Planning Mass Shooting at Atlanta Concert to Incite Race War
An Arizona man was indicted on federal weapons charges after being arrested as part of a sting operation that involved a planned hate crime-related mass shooting at an Atlanta concert. Mark Adams Prieto, 58, was charged with firearms trafficking, transfer of a firearm for use in a hate crime, and …
Read More »Epoch Times Executive Charged in Alleged $67 Million Money Laundering Scheme
The chief financial officer of right-wing media media company, The Epoch Times, has been arrested and charged with heading a $67 million global money laundering scheme. Weidong Guan, also known as Bill Guan, was charged with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering and two counts of bank fraud, …
Read More »Sean Combs Accused of Drugging and Assaulting College Student in New Lawsuit
Another woman has come forward to accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault, alleging the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted her four times between 1995 and the early 2000s, according to court documents filed on Thursday. April Lampros claimed she met Combs in early 1994 while she was a college student …
Read More »Mariah the Scientist Arrested After Alleged Altercation in Atlanta Club
Mariah the Scientist was arrested in Atlanta on Wednesday after she was accused of attacking another woman inside a nightclub on March 28. The rapper was charged with battery and simple battery and released on a $5,000 bond. According to a police report obtained by Rolling Stone, the rapper, real …
Read More »Disney Files Motion to Throw Out Gina Carano Wrongful Termination Suit on First Amendment Grounds
Disney argued that it had the right to fire Gina Carano, the actress who played a bounty hunter on The Mandalorian, following her controversial social media posts that allegedly trivialized the Holocaust. Carano filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in February, where she claimed she was fired for sharing her conservative …
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