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In news that has rocked the entire Marvel fandom, actor Jonathan Majors was convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari. On Monday he was found guilty by a Manhattan jury of two misdemeanour counts of harassment and assault but was acquitted on two other counts. The verdict was reached by a six-person jury after roughly four hours of deliberation spread across three days. Majors was found not guilty on one count of intentional assault in the third degree and one count of aggravated harassment in the second…

Trevor Milton, founder and former CEO of Nikola Corporation, has been sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding investors with false statements about the company’s electric trucks. Milton was found guilty last year of three out of four counts of securities and wire fraud, but sentencing did not happen until today. His sentence includes four years in prison, seizure of property and a $1 million fine, and three years of supervised release after serving the sentence. The verdict and…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJonathan Majors has been found guilty of assaulting his former girlfriend Grace Jabbari.The Marvel star, 34, was arrested in March in New York after Ms Jabbari accused him of slapping her and throwing her into the car after she exited it, twisting her arm and grabbing and injuring her hand.He previously pleaded not guilty to charges of misdemeanour assault, aggravated harassment,…

The founder of an electric truck company is expected to face significant prison time when he is sentenced Monday in a fraud case that highlights the financial carnage left behind by a crop of electric vehicle startups and their promoters.A federal judge in Manhattan will sentence Trevor Milton, founder and former CEO of the truck company Nikola, after a jury found him guilty last year of one count of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud. Milton was accused of pumping up the value of Nikola stock by making…

Trevor Milton, the disgraced founder of Nikola, was just sentenced to four years in prison on three counts of fraud.In October 2022, a jury found Milton guilty of one count of securities fraud and two counts of wire fraud. Milton faced up to 60 years in prison. Prosecutors asked the judge for an 11-year prison sentence and a $5 million fine, according to The New York Times, while the defense argued for probation.After announcing the sentence at a federal court hearing in New York City, U.S. District Judge Edgar Ramos…

Self-proclaimed free speech absolutist Elon Musk claims that he is prepared to go to prison and won't give in to the FBI's 'requests' to censor X, should they come asking again. He also claimed that although people believe he may be assassinated, he is not afraid to die…

A spokesperson for the Russian activist said on Monday that authorities are refusing to disclose his current whereabouts Allies of Alexei Navalny say the imprisoned Russian opposition leader has been missing for days.  On Monday, Navalny’s spokesperson ​​Kira Yarmysh wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that “the lawyers tried to get to IK-6 and IK-7 —  two colonies in the Vladimir region where Alexey  might be. They have just been informed simultaneously in both colonies that he is not there.…

The teenager who killed four of his classmates at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021 was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday, the New York Times reported. Ethan Crumbley, who was 15 years old at the time of the shooting, also injured seven others. The victims who died were Madisyn Baldwin, Justin Shilling, Tate Myre, and Hana St. Juliana; all were between the ages of 14 and 17. Crumbley pleaded guilty to all of the charges leveled against him, including murder and terrorism. He shot the…

May the years ahead be filled with love and joy… and prison?A fairytale wedding seemingly hid a terrible secret, as a woman who went viral for sharing a glimpse of her $56 million ceremony will now have to stand by her husband, who is currently facing life in prison.Madelaine Brockway has since deleted her TikTok account and made her Instagram page private, but people who got a chance to see what the grandiose event looked like will remember her four-day bachelorette party at a five-star Utah resort before heading to…

Gareth Pursehouse was given life in prison without possibility of parole following first-degree murder conviction in Amie Harwick's February 2020 death The man convicted of killing Hollywood sex therapist Amie Harwick in February 2020 was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison Wednesday. Gareth Pursehouse, who in September was found guilty of first-degree murder in his ex-girlfriend Harwick’s death, potentially faced the death penalty, but was given a life sentence without the…