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Previous bids to loosen home confinement failed The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. (Reuters) - American lawyer Steven Donziger has told a Manhattan federal judge that she should release him from his nearly two years of home confinement in his criminal case arising from his battles against Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest. In a letter filed on Monday in response to Senior U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska s request for a clarification on how the lawyer s release conditions might have changed, Donziger who is charged with criminal contempt challenged the judge s conclusion that he presents a flight risk, arguing that he would not abandon his New York City-based family to become a fugitive over the misdemeanor cha ....
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Martin Garbus has represented Lenny Bruce, Daniel Ellsberg and Nelson Mandela. He is now defending Steven Donziger, who is charged with criminal contempt of court for failing to follow a judge’s orders Donziger’s legal team won an $8.6 billion judgment against Chevron in Ecuador in 2011 after a decades-long battle over pollution in the Amazon rainforest In his six decades as a crusading lawyer for free speech, Martin Garbus has represented Lenny Bruce, Daniel Ellsberg and Nelson Mandela. So why, at 86, is he waging a quixotic battle for a disbarred attorney charged with a misdemeanor? His answer: There’s never been a case like this. ....
The Roger Stone Acolyte Who Trolled Staten Island Politics Intelligencer 6 hrs ago James D. Walsh Late one night in December 2017, Richard Luthmann and his wife settled into their Staten Island living room to watch a movie. Lately, Luthmann, a 38-year-old attorney, had been staying up all hours of the night, stoked by scotch and cocaine, pounding out legal briefs and public-relations work. But that night, Luthmann decided to watch Get Me Roger Stone, a documentary about the infamous strategist whose career Donald Trump had revived. Luthmann chose the film not only because he was friends with one of its producers, local political activist Frank Morano, but also because Luthmann considered himself something of a dirty trickster. ....
Federal investigators have signaled some of the defendants in the attack on the U.S. Capitol could be charged with seditious conspiracy, a law enacted to target those who attacked the federal government during the Reconstruction era. An indictment filed on Jan. 27 charges three of the riot suspects with conspiring to impede Congress certification of the Electoral College vote for the 2020 presidential election. The filing alleges those three are members of the Oath Keepers, a loosely organized collection of militia who believe that the federal government has been co-opted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip Americans of their rights. ....