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Jonathan Andic, son of Mango founder Isak Andic, denies murder in a public letter and resigns as executive vice president to focus on his legal defense; he was arrested in Spain amid the revived 2025 probe into his father’s 2024 death and had posted €1 million bail.
The Justice Department asked a federal judge to lift the injunction halting above-ground construction on President Trump’s White House ballroom, saying Saturday’s shooting underscores the need for enhanced security and also seeking dismissal of the related lawsuit filed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
A former Justice Department prosecutor, Carmen Lineberger, was indicted in West Palm Beach on four counts for stealing and concealing copies of an unreleased volume of Jack Smith’s report into the Trump Mar-a-Lago investigation and emailing them to her personal accounts using coded file names. She pleaded not guilty and was released on recognizance; Judge Aileen Cannon has barred public release of that volume. The charges — obstruction of justice, concealing government records, and two misdemeanor counts of stealing government property under $1,000 — carry a potential 25-year term, though actual sentences are often shorter. The Northern District of Florida is handling the case, with possible conflicts due to ties to Southern Florida prosecutors.
Former Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman, whose testimony in the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial was challenged after a recording revealed racial slurs, has died at 74 in Idaho. He was convicted of perjury in 1996 for lying on the stand, later retired from the LAPD, and moved to a 20‑acre Idaho farm with his family, later working as a TV/radio commentator and author. The Simpson case ended with a criminal acquittal for Simpson but a 1997 civil verdict finding him liable for the deaths; the piece notes Simpson died in 2024 of prostate cancer in Las Vegas.
A New York judge ruled that a gun and notebook recovered from Luigi Mangione’s backpack can be used as evidence in his state murder case over UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s death, while other backpack items like a 3D-printed gun and silencer are suppressed due to an improper warrantless search. The state trial is now scheduled for Sept. 8, with Mangione facing both state and federal charges; prosecutors say the searches were lawful, while the defense argued they were not. The notebook and gun are viewed as key evidence and potential motive.
Former President Donald Trump filed a motion to dismiss a $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, arguing the claims lack merit and should be dismissed.
A probate judge sustained Paris Jackson’s challenge to about $625,000 in bonuses paid to Michael Jackson’s estate lawyers in 2018, ordering the funds returned and imposing tighter controls on the estate’s spending, including no bonus payments without written consent of all beneficiaries or a court order and a 70/30 split on ongoing fees (70% payable, 30% held for approval). The ruling also requires six years of fee petitions (2019–2024) on a court schedule, as the estate undergoes audits and scrutiny over costs tied to the Michael biopic and other expenditures. Paris’s camp calls the decision a major win for transparency and family governance of the legacy.
A New York man named Ivan Cantu was ordered to pay Kim Kardashian’s attorneys over $167,000 in legal fees after he sued over her mistaken Instagram post that wrongly identified him as a Texas death-row inmate. The suit was dismissed on an anti-SLAPP basis, and Kardashian’s fee request was largely granted (reduced from $186,320).
The Supreme Court temporarily extended access to the abortion pill mifepristone, allowing prescriptions and use to continue while the ongoing legal challenge to its availability proceeds.
Family of a Florida State University shooting victim filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT guided the attacker and failed to detect the threat; the complaint names the shooter as a defendant and cites chats in which the bot allegedly explained how to use firearms, suggested peak times on campus, and encouraged violence, while OpenAI says its product provides general information and does not promote harm, noting it collaborates with law enforcement; the case adds to a growing wave of AI-liability lawsuits.
Thirty former Ohio State University football players, including NFL alums, joined a class-action alleging the university failed to protect them from campus doctor Richard Strauss; OSU has settled with 317 survivors for more than $61 million, but five Strauss-related lawsuits remain.
A federal judge unsealed a handwritten note allegedly written by Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center before his 2019 suicide, released after a New York Times request. The undated, unsigned note includes lines like “It is a treat to be able to choose one’s time to say goodbye” and “FOUND NOTHING!!!” It was provided in 2021 by Nicholas Tartaglione’s attorney and had not appeared in the public Epstein files; the court said Tartaglione waived attorney-client privilege by publicly discussing its contents. Epstein’s death has been ruled a suicide, though conspiracy theories persist, and the note appears to have been written before an earlier suicide attempt.
Federal prosecutors unveiled indictments alleging a wide-scale insider-trading scheme that used nonpublic mergers-and-acquisitions information stolen from major law firms to net tens of millions in profits, tying deals at companies like Actelion, Amazon, Anadarko, eBay, iRobot, Johnson & Johnson, Occidental Petroleum and Permira to traders.
A family in Iowa filed a medical-malpractice lawsuit against a surgeon and two nurses, alleging they ignored dangerous post-operative symptoms after a routine hernia repair at Decatur County Hospital, leading to an infection and sepsis that contributed to Laura Belt’s death in May 2024; the surgeon faces board charges, and a trial is scheduled for August 23.
During a civil wrongful-death trial, Royce Clayton testified that ex-Dodgers pitcher Scott Erickson told him Rebecca Grossman fatally struck two brothers, Jacob and Mark Iskander, in a Westlake Village crosswalk while driving at high speed; Erickson reportedly said they were racing and that Grossman should have stopped, and the two had been drinking beforehand. The Iskander family is suing for civil liability; Grossman is serving 15 years to life after being convicted of second-degree murder.