Tag: Human trafficking
Judge denies Ghislaine Maxwell’s motions to toss sex charges
NEW YORK — A judge on Friday rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s arguments to toss charges that she recruited three teenager girls from 1994 to 1997...
Judge: R. Kelly to be moved to NYC for sex-trafficking trial
NEW YORK — A federal judge gave the green light Thursday to move jailed R&B singer R. Kelly to New York City to go...
Ghislaine Maxwell, citing new charges, seeks trial delay
NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer asked Thursday that her July trial be delayed until next year, saying sex trafficking charges recently added to...
Libyan officials say UN-sanctioned human trafficker freed
CAIRO — Libyan authorities released one of the country’s most wanted human traffickers less than four months after his arrest in the capital, Tripoli,...
195 arrested in vast international human trafficking sweep
PARIS — Interpol says police in Africa and Europe arrested 195 people and rescued nearly 500 victims of human trafficking in a vast crackdown...
Senegal, Spain leaders seek to encourage legal migration
DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal and Spain signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to discourage illegal migration that has been increasing amid the coronavirus...
Lawyers raise a stink over British socialite’s jail care
NEW YORK — The rancorous fight over jail conditions for Ghislaine Maxwell is reaching new lows, with prosecutors blaming the British socialite and Jeffrey...
Gaetz sex probe suddenly threatens a speedy Washington rise
WASHINGTON — Compared with most congressional newbies, it didn't take Rep. Matt Gaetz long. Phone calls from the president. Rides aboard Air Force One....
Sex trafficking crimes brought against Epstein ex-girlfriend
NEW YORK — Sex trafficking charges and another alleged victim were added to a superseding indictment returned Monday in the criminal case against financier...
Harvard punishes professor who had ties to Jeffrey Epstein
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Harvard University professor who had close ties with Jeffrey Epstein and is accused of giving the disgraced financier an office...
