It is a feat most Grammy winners never achieve: billions of streams across the world’s largest platforms. But for Michael Smith, a 54-year-old North Carolina resident, the “fans” didn’t exist. They were lines of code, and the music was “AI slop.”Smith has officially pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, marking the first-ever criminal […]
Kouri Richins, the self-published author of children’s book ‘Are You With Me’ dealing with grief, was convicted of aggravated murder of her husband, whom she poisoned with fentanyl. Her husband Eric Richins was killed in March 2022 and Kouri Richins published the book a year later. She slipped five times the lethal dose of fentanyl […]
54-year-old Ganesh Shenoy who fled to India after causing a deadly crash in Hicksville in 2005 pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Just 14 days after the crash, Shenoy boarded a plane at John F Kennedy International Airport to Mumbai, India and stayed in India for […]
59-year-old Rajan Babbar, an Indian-origin owner of a medium-sized grocery store in Lynchburg, Virginia, has pleaded guilty to one count of fraud involving the federal government’s food stamp program SNAP and one count of transacting in criminally derived property. His store Taste of India was registered as a SNAP retailer in 2016, which means SNAP […]
In big cities, housing disputes can take unusual turns. The case, centred on a Manhattan hotel room, has drawn attention for years. A man who reportedly managed to live rent-free in a well-known hotel for nearly 5 years. What began as a single overnight stay gradually evolved into a complicated legal saga involving tenant laws, […]
Indian man Nikhil Gupta pleads guilty to plotting to kill Gurpatwant Pannun in the US. 54-year-old Nikhil Gupta, an Indian man, pleaded guilty to plotting to kill Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a Khalistani separatist leader and a US citizen. Gupta pleaded guilty to all three charges of murder for hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy […]
A Florida handyman who was pardoned by US President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 US Capitol riot has now been found guilty of multiple child sex abuse charges.Andrew Paul Johnson was convicted on Tuesday by a jury in Florida of five offences. These included molesting a child under 12, molesting another […]
31-year-old Sukhwinder Sidhu, an Indian-origin trucker in Ontario, pleaded guilty before the trial of the August 2023 crash is scheduled to begin this month. Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul was killed in the crash as Sidhu’s speeding truck crashed into the back of several vehicles, including Paul’s. It was a multiple-vehicle pileup caused by Sidhu, […]
27-year-old Jashanpreet Singh has pleaded guilty to unlawfully dealing firearms and unlawfully possessing a machine gun, the US Department of Justice said. Singh was arrested last year at the San Francisco International Airport as he was trying to flee to India. He was charged with unlawful dealing of firearms, unlawful possession of a machine gun, […]
A former nurse has pleaded guilty to fraud and drug possession after admitting to defrauding a Quebec medical clinic of more than $55,000 to obtain opioid medications.Lovedip Sandhu, a 35-year-old Canadian national and resident of Pierrefonds, entered her guilty plea in mid-January to charges of fraud over $5,000 and simple possession of narcotics. The offences […]
