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The week in Crime and Criminal Justice
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Brazilian authorities sought to restrict Flávio Bolsonaro’s passport as corruption, money-laundering, and tax-evasion allegations advanced, but he left for Miami after receiving a U.S. visa. His departure turned a domestic investigation into a diplomatic complication and may make cooperation harder to secure.
U.N. findings on Russian strikes in Ukraine and alleged Israeli abuses in Gaza and the West Bank added international legal pressure, while courts and investigators pursued war-crimes accountability in Liberia, Colombia, Ukraine, and Sudan. The week showed both expanding documentation and institutional threats to that work.
Haiti postponed presidential elections because gang violence made organizing a vote impossible. The delay extended the governing vacuum and gave armed groups more time to consolidate power.
The Justice Department brought a third case against James Comey while courts blocked or narrowed prosecutions of former FBI officials and a grand jury rejected another indictment effort. The cases sharpened disputes over prosecutorial independence and alleged political retaliation.
Arrests over demonstrations against the Palestine Action ban coincided with looting across several German cities and an attempted-murder investigation after petrol-bomb attacks on French police. Authorities increasingly treated protest-related disorder as serious criminal conduct while courts and officials tested the limits of protest restrictions.
The Alexander brothers each received 30-year prison terms after convictions for drugging, raping, and trafficking women over an extended period. Victims’ testimony placed the coordinated abuse and its consequences at the center of sentencing.
Utah first won authority to enforce its anti-gambling laws against Kalshi and then filed 14 criminal charges against the company and two executives. The prosecution directly challenges Kalshi’s claim that its prediction contracts are financial products rather than bets.
Eight people were charged in an alleged scheme that used stolen SNAP data and cloned EBT cards to steal about $7 million from thousands of New Yorkers. Follow-up coverage underscored the scale of the alleged theft and the threat to recipients’ access to food assistance.
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