The FBI’s former Deputy Director walked out of federal service and into Royal Caribbean within days. A former Coast Guard officer joined CLIA as their regulatory chief. The industry has spent an estimated $70 million lobbying Congress. This is how Read more…
Alex Murdaugh’s defense team filed a seventeen-page Section 1983 civil rights complaint against former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill in federal court in Charleston — five days after the South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously overturned his murder convictions Read more…
The question people keep asking has a simple answer. Yes, Alex Murdaugh is serving 40 years federal. Yes, he’ll die in prison regardless of what happens in a retrial. And no, that is not a reason to walk away from Read more…
Jane Whaley’s 2004 assault conviction was the only time the legal system came close to holding her personally accountable. Five years of appeals later, it was overturned. And according to former members, the church learned it could outlast the courts. Read more…
The prosecution’s sentencing memo included a message Kouri Richins wrote before the judge even ruled. She said she’d “expose this county, the prosecution, the judge, the Richins, the investigation.” She wrote “they picked the wrong one” and “they haven’t seen Read more…
Kouri Richins told her three sons at sentencing that she’d appeal her conviction and fight “no matter how long it takes.” Her defense attorneys got the deadline to file a motion for a new trial extended from fourteen days to Read more…
The D4vd case keeps getting framed as a celebrity scandal. In this one, Tony Brueski goes somewhere harder. The death of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, and the charges against David Anthony Burke, sit next to a body of work that Read more…
Before she opened her mouth, Kouri Richins had already told the room everything. The eye rolls during her children’s statements. The disgust during Eric’s sisters’ grief. The immediate tears the moment her own family proclaimed her innocence. Every reaction was Read more…
Why were zero charges filed after Operation Tidal Wave? Why does the New York Times find only 13 prosecutions in a decade? Why do settlements come with NDAs? This is the architecture of the justice gap: foreign-flag registration placing ships Read more…
She said it multiple times. “Be like your dad.” The father a jury found she poisoned with five times the lethal dose of fentanyl. She said it to three boys who had just finished describing, through their therapists, a childhood Read more…
