"Musk's status as the world's richest man is not a free pass," a lawyer for the shareholders said in a statement.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal jury found Elon Musk liable on Friday for claims he defrauded Twitter shareholders by trying to drive down the social media company’s stock price so he could renegotiate or back out of a $44 billion takeover in 2022.
The verdict from a jury in San Francisco federal court came in a closely watched civil trial where Musk, the world’s richest person, was accused of falsely claiming on social media that Twitter underreported how many fake and spam accounts, known as bots, were on its platform.
Former President Donald Trump has been convicted in his "hush money" trial in New York, with a jury returning a guilty verdict on all 34 cou
Former President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felonies by the jury in his "hush money" trial in New York on Thursday, making him the first former president in U.S. history to be convicted of a crime.
The jury, composed of 12 Manhattan residents, found that Trump illegally falsified business records to cover up a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. They found him guilty on all counts on their second day of deliberations.
The presumptive Republican nominee for president is now also a convicted felon, a label that could reverberate across the electorate in the months between now and Election Day in November.
The verdict was handed down in the same Manhattan courtroom where Trump has been on trial for the past six weeks. Trump stared at each juror as they confirmed their vote to convict and angrily denounced the decision in the hallway outside the courtroom, vowing to fight the conviction.
Jurors sided with prosecutors who said that Trump authorized the plan to falsify checks and related records in an effort to prevent voters from learning of an alleged sexual encounter with Daniels. Prosecutors from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office said the conspiracy spanned his 2016 campaign and continued well into his first year in the White House. Trump denied having sex with Daniels and pleaded not guilty.
Justice Juan Merchan set a sentencing date of July 11, just four days before the start of the Republican National Convention, where Trump will be formally nominated as the party's standard-bearer. He could face up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each count, but Merchan has broad discretion when imposing a sentence, and could limit the punishment to a fine, probation, home confinement or other options...
The Biden campaign warned that former Trump's conviction doesn't prevent him from winning another term in the White House from a legal standpoint.
"There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box. Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president," the campaign's communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement.
-via CBS News, May 30, 2024. Live updates: 7:36 pm, 7:23 pm Eastern Time
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Note: Even if Trump gets reelected, he cannot pardon himself in this case, because this is a state-level conviction. The president can only pardon people convicted of federal crimes, not people convicted by the states. (x, x)
Identity: Bisexual, Word of God
Notes: Referred to as bisexual by Vivienne Medrano and in official promotional pride materials.
Propaganda: N/A
vs. Aaron Victon/Jury/Verdict (Heroes Rise/The Hero Project)
Identity: Bi/Pansexual, explicit
Notes: Can be romanced by the protagonist regardless of gender.
Propaganda: 1. "so much of his whole deal is posturing, bitterness, and trying to be harder than he actually is, which makes it very satisfying when the cracks start to show. he’s not lovable because he’s nice, he’s lovable because there’s clearly something sad and angry and badly handled underneath all that rivalry energy. he starts out as the player character’s rival, and later goes through redemption and a new identity, which is a big part of why people stayed attached to him."
2. "He’s arrogant, touchy, competitive, and constantly making everything more personal than it needs to be, which is exactly the kind of character people get obsessed with in interactive fiction. And because it’s Heroes Rise, that rivalry can carry a ton of weight depending on how you play it. There’s a reason people kept talking about him long after the trilogy - he has that very specific “annoying little freak with hidden depths” energy that works incredibly well in a character people can push against or soften toward. Fandom spaces around the series kept treating him as one of the big emotionally loaded rival figures for exactly that reason."
