A Fraudster Pardoned by Trump Gets 37 Years for Running Ponzi Scheme

A New Jersey man convicted of defrauding investors of roughly a quarter-billion dollars is among a growing number of people granted clemency only to to be charged with new crimes.

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Henry Todd, LSD Kingpin Turned Everest Guide, Dies at 80

He helped make and distribute millions of LSD tablets in the 1970s. After seven years in prison, he ran mountain climbing expeditions in the Himalayas.

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Calvin Duncan, Self-Taught Jailhouse Lawyer, Runs for Court Clerk in New Orleans

Calvin Duncan was cleared of murder after he became a legal authority in prison. In New Orleans, his campaign for clerk of criminal court has struck a nerve.

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Woman Gets 15 Years to Life in Actress’s Death From Silicone Shots

Cindyana Santangelo had an embolism after receiving injections of silicone oil into her buttocks by Libby Adame, the second fatal augmentation procedure connected to her.

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Santos Thanks Trump During TV Appearances After His Release From Prison

Mr. Santos, the disgraced congressman from Long Island, lashed out at the warden of the prison where he had been held and suggested he was now free to get Botox.

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They Demanded Democracy. Years Later, They Are Still Paying the Price.

Thousands of young people lost careers, friends and dreams after taking part in mass antigovernment protests that erupted six years ago in Hong Kong.

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Billy McFarland Says Fyre Festival Is for Sale

In a post on Instagram, Mr. McFarland announced he was selling the Fyre brand and its “cultural capital,” a month before Fyre Festival 2 was scheduled to begin.

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The Formerly Incarcerated Person Who Turned Down Columbia’s Ph.D. Offer

After 30 years in prison, Ibrahim Rivera was headed to the Ivy League. Then he realized that because of Trump administration threats, the university could not guarantee his funding would survive.

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Bourbon, a Hog Farm and a Nun’s Van: Man Charged in Bizarre Murder Plot

Jeal Sutherland, of Colonie, N.Y., hatched a deadly scheme with a convicted killer who was an F.B.I. informer, court documents say.

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Hochul Installs New Leader at Prison Where Inmate Was Fatally Beaten

Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York moved to try to contain the fallout from the death of Robert Brooks, in which 14 corrections workers have been implicated.

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