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Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg ordered into detention pending trial - Cointelegraph

A United States Magistrate Judge determined that it was necessary to detain the Mango Markets exploiter before finishing the trial.

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In a new update to the Mango Markets exploit saga, the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico has issued an order of detention to the infamous Mango Markets exploiter Avraham Eisenberg.

After holding a detention hearing, United States Magistrate Judge Bruce McGiverin decided that it was necessary to detain Eisenberg for several reasons. According to court documents, there is no condition or combination of conditions of Eisenberg’s release that will reasonably assure his appearance as required.

In addition to this, the court also specified other reasons. This includes Eisenberg being subject to a lengthy period of incarceration if he gets convicted, has significant family or other ties outside of the United States and has an unverified background.

A detention order is a court order that could be made at a bail hearing. If a judge decides to issue a detention order, the defendant will remain in custody until the case is finished or if they are released through a bail review.

On Dec. 28, Eisenberg was arrested on fraud charges despite describing his attack on the crypto exchange as a legal open market action. The Mango Markets exploiter was caught in Puerto Rico and was charged with market manipulation and fraud.

Related: $100M drained from Solana DeFi platform Mango Markets, token plunges 52%

On Oct. 15, Eisenberg posted a thread on social media claiming that the Mango Markets exploit was a legal act. According to him, he was using the protocol as it was designed, and the act was simply a “highly profitable trading strategy.”

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Biden renominates 25 judicial nominees, including longest pending ones - Reuters

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• Biden to resubmit other stalled candidates for the bench later this month
• President has won confirmation for 97 judicial nominees

(Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday renominated 25 candidates for the federal bench who failed to win Senate confirmation last year and plans to resubmit other stalled judicial nominees later this month.

On the first day of the new Senate, Biden resubmitted more than half of his 45 picks to serve on federal circuit and district courts whose nominations were still pending when the last Congress came to a close.

The candidates included many of the 150 judicial nominees Biden has announced since he took office two years ago whose nominations had been pending the longest. A White House official said the other half would be renominated later in January.

Tuesday's nominees include Dale Ho, a voting rights lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union nominated to be a federal judge in Manhattan, and Nancy Abudu of the Southern Poverty Law Center, nominated to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Their nominations, along with six others in Tuesday's batch, had been pending since January 2022 or longer. In the previously, evenly divided Senate, the Judiciary Committee deadlocked on both of their nominations, with Republicans opposed.

Julie Rikelman, an abortion rights lawyer at the Center for Reproductive Rights who argued for the Mississippi clinic that was on the losing side of the case in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, was also renominated.

She's been tapped for the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Judiciary Committee deadlocked on her nomination as well in December.

She and the others could face fewer hurdles in the new Congress, with Democrats now holding a clear majority, ensuring the Judiciary Committee can avoid deadlocked votes that can complicate a nominee's path to winning approval on the floor.

The Senate during the last Congress confirmed 97 of Biden's judicial nominees, a majority of whom were women and people of color.

Biden has announced plans to nominate another six candidates. He formally nominated three of them on Tuesday.

John Collins, a law professor at George Washington University, on Twitter on Tuesday predicted just two of Biden's nominees from the last Congress would not be re-submitted.

One is William Pocan, a state court judge in Milwaukee whose nomination to be a district court judge in Wisconsin was blocked by his state's Republican senator, Ron Johnson, who declined to return a necessary "blue slip" supporting him.

The other is Jorge Rodriguez, a lawyer in the New York attorney general's office whose nomination was derailed when the judge he was nominated to succeed in the state's Northern District rescinded his decision to take senior status, eliminating the vacancy.

Pocan and Rodriguez did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.

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Supreme Court refuses to transfer pending criminal cases against Azam Khan outside Uttar Pradesh - The Tribune India

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to transfer criminal cases against Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, pending in a Rampur special court, outside Uttar Pradesh on grounds of alleged "persecution".

A bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice SA Nazeer and Justice PS Narasimha said it needed more cogent reasons for transferring the ongoing criminal cases against Khan.

"I will not get justice in the state. I am being persecuted... It is not a judge... It is the state. Everywhere, the situation will be the same inside the state," senior advocate Kalip Sibal, appearing for Khan, said.

"When we transfer (a case), we need far more cogent reasons for the transfer. Sorry. We are giving you the liberty to approach the Allahabad High Court," the bench said.

The Samajwadi Party leader had sought transfer of several ongoing criminal cases against him in a special trial court in Rampur outside Uttar Pradesh.

Khan was recently convicted in a criminal case relating to hate speech and disqualified as a lawmaker in the state assembly. 

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Bung, Zizie’s corruption trial suspended pending appeal | Free Malaysia Today - Free Malaysia Today

Sabah deputy chief minister Bung Moktar Radin and wife, Zizie Izette, are facing corruption charges in connection with the receipt of almost RM2.5mil in 2015.

KUALA LUMPUR: Kinabatangan MP Bung Moktar Radin and wife, Zizie Izette, were granted a temporary reprieve from entering their defence on charges of corruption and abetment after the High Court allowed an application to stay the trial pending the outcome of their appeals to the Court of Appeal.

Judicial commissioner Azhar Abdul Hamid allowed the couple’s application after deputy public prosecutor Sophian Zakaria informed the court that the prosecution had no objection to their request for a stay.

Bung was scheduled to open his defence by taking the witness stand this morning.

The decision prompted sessions court judge Rozina Ayob, who is presiding over the trial, to fix the case for mention on Jan 27 pending a proceeding in the Court of Appeal scheduled two days earlier.

DPP Law Chin How, who is appearing with Sophian, said a deputy registrar of the appeals court is expected to fix a hearing date for the appeals when the matter comes up for case management on Jan 25.

Early last month the couple filed their respective appeals to the Court of Appeal after Azhar rejected their mode of challenging a Sept 2 order issued by Rozina calling for their defence.

Azhar allowed the prosecution’s preliminary objection, holding that Bung and Zizie were wrong to file motions, supported by affidavits, seeking a revision of Rozina’s decision.

The prosecution had successfully contended that the couple ought to have requested the review by a letter to the High Court.

Bung, a Sabah deputy chief minister, is charged with two counts of receiving bribes amounting to RM2.2 million and RM262,500 as gratification when he was Felcra’s chairman.

He is alleged to have done so to obtain Felcra’s approval to make a RM150 million Public Mutual unit trust investment in June 2015.

Zizie faces three charges of abetting him in the matter.

Bung and Zizie were represented by lawyers M Athimulan and K Kumaraendran.

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Supreme Court pauses SAFE-T Act's elimination of cash bail across Illinois pending appeal - Shaw Local

The much-debated cashless bail provision of the SAFE-T Act will not take effect anywhere in Illinois on Jan. 1, 2023, after a last-minute state Supreme Court order issued Saturday.

The controversial no-cash bail provision of the SAFE-T Act already had been put on hold in many counties based on a Kankakee County judge’s decision and other counties that won a court order this week as they sought to stop the implementation of the state legislation.

The Supreme Court ruling bars implementation of the act statewide, including those counties that welcomed it.

The court indicated it did not want to see a patchwork of court procedures around the state until it made a decision on the constitutionality of the SAFE-T Act.

The Supreme Court order delays the implementation of the act “in order to maintain consistent pretrial procedures throughout Illinois.”

A Kankakee County judge on Wednesday ruled that the state Legislature went too far in the SAFE-T Act by prohibiting cash bail and interfering with the authority of county courts to administer justice. The ruling blocked the implementation of the no-cash bail provision in the nearly 60 counties, including Will County, that signed onto the lawsuit.

It did not apply to Cook County and other counties that did not contest the SAFE-T Act.

The Supreme Court ruling, however, delays the implementation of no-cash bail in all 102 Illinois counties.

The order was issued in response to Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s appeal of the Kankakee County decision.

The Supreme Court order calls for “an expedited process for this appeal,” although it is not clear how long it will take for hearings and a final decision.

“As we have stated previously, my office filed an appeal with the Illinois Supreme Court because in this matter, only the Supreme Court’s final decision on the merits will be binding on all Illinois courts,” Raoul said in a written statement Saturday night. “It is important to note that the order issued today by the court is not a decision on the merits of the constitutionality of the SAFE-T Act, and I appreciate the court’s interest in expediting the appeal. We look forward to mounting a robust defense of the constitutionality of the law and ensuring that it goes into effect across the state.”

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Wichita cop put on desk duty pending investigation of fight with teens at roller rink - Wichita Eagle

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