Laurel Wamsley | NPR|Thousands of Texas patients with long-term diseases like Alzheimer's were falsely told they had just six months to live. Rodney Mesquias and others were convicted last year.
Former police captain Mark Anthony Aguirre was paid $266,400 by the right-wing Liberty Center for God and Country to investigate an alleged ballot fraud scheme in Harris County, Texas.
Jacques Yves Sebastien Duroseau, 34, was found guilty of five counts related to gun smuggling charges. Court filings say he wanted to "train the Haitian police, and run for president of Haiti."
A judge in St. Louis ruled that in sending fundraising emails seeking re-election, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner raised jeopardized Mark McCloskey's right to a fair trial.
The case – Tanzin v Tanvir — involved three Muslim men who said their religious-freedom rights were violated when FBI agents tried to use the no-fly list to force them into becoming informants.
Following the conviction, prosecutors said Michael Hari's goal in bombing the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in 2017 "was to spread hatred" and "instill fear" in the community.
Johnny Roman Garza, 21, pleaded guilty in September to conspiring with three other members of a group called the Atomwaffen Division to identify and threaten journalists and activists.
