The United States has joined the community of developed and democratic nations to have launched a prosecution of a former government leader.  In this final episode of "Objections," host Adam Klasfeld gauges the reaction to the indictment of former President Donald Trump from Italy, whose former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi died shortly after that event. A front-page headline of a recent international edition of The New York Times read: "Berlusconi gave Trump a template," comparing their...

Law&Crime Network’s twisted series ‘Devil in the Dorm’ is free and live on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by actress Elisabeth Rohm, the six-part podcast dives into the horrifying sex cult case involving Larry Ray, a disturbing man, who moved into his daughter’s college dorm to prey on young students. LISTEN NOW: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/devil-in-the-dorm/id1667678268 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...

Former President Donald Trump likely sexually abused author E. Jean Carroll in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-1990s, then defamed her by denying it, a federal jury found in an historic civil ruling. The panel, composed of six men and three women, reached their verdict in less than three hours and awarded $5 million. On this week's episode, "Objections" revisits the only testimony at trial that has an audio record: Trump's deposition, annotating key passages with excerpts...

The arrest of 21-year-old Jack Texeira in connection with the Discord leaks once again raises questions about what the United States is doing to protect its secrets. This time, by all accounts, the suspecting leaker isn’t someone who even has any pretensions of acting in the public interest.  A young airman in the Massachusetts National Guard, Texeira reportedly wanted to impress a group of teenagers in a chat room for gamers. Experts believe his online boasting could put Ukrainians at risk...

After Fox's $787.5 million settlement averted a historic defamation trial, pundits across the political spectrum rushed to play down the deal. For Fox News critics on the left, the payout amounted to less than half of what Dominion Voting Systems demanded, averted an embarrassing six-week trial, and would be dusted off the shoulders by an unrepentant news giant. The Atlantic flatly declared: "Fox News Lost the Lawsuit but Won the War," and a prominent reporter for Mother Jones poo-pooed it...

Fox has been fighting to prevent Dominion Voting Systems from landing a $1.6 billion judgment for conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election that the network aired, as the case heads for jury selection this week. Even before trial begins, Fox heads into court with stinging defeats. A judge found, in a rare summary judgment ruling, that the broadcasts at issue in the case were false. Dominion only has to prove that Fox acted with actual malice. In the latest episode, First...

The world was watching the arraignment of former President Donald Trump, but only 60 spectators were allowed in the courtroom. Some 210 others received the next best thing: seats in the overflow courtroom, where the proceedings streamed via closed-circuit TV. This week's episode of Objections begins with host Adam Klasfeld's brief observations from inside the courtroom. The episode then turns to an interview with former Manhattan prosecutor Diana Florence, who spent some 25 years inside the...

Thirteen people were randomly shot across Washington D.C. — in just three weeks — back in October 2002. As each new victim was gunned down, the FBI and local detectives struggled to track down a killer — until a tip helped them piece together the murder mystery. Journalist Tony Holt hosts Law&Crime Network’s 10-part series, Chasing Ghosts: The Hunt for the D.C. Snipers, which takes a magnifying look at one of the most devastating killing sprees in U.S. history. All 10 episodes are...

Former President Donald Trump predicted he would be arrested a little more than a week ago. He was wrong, but the press has been on high alert for what would be a history-making indictment of a former president. Still, nobody knows whether Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg will indict him — or with what charges, if he does. That’s up to a grand jury. If this is about hush money to Stormy Daniels, there's an extensive public record about what happened. In this episode, "Objections" breaks down the...

Jeffrey Epstein survivors and the Virgin Island government can pursue claims that JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank knowingly benefited from participating in a sex trafficking venture. The ruling ratchets up pressure on JPMorgan, whose CEO Jamie Dimon was recently served with a subpoena. Some of its former senior executive Jes Staley's roughly 1,200 messages with Epstein have spilled into the public sphere as a result of this lawsuit. This week, "Objections" rebroadcasts a previous episode...

Just one month shy of a trial in E. Jean Carroll's rape case, a federal judge revealed, without explanation, that he is considering empaneling an anonymous jury. A relatively recent phenomenon, anonymous juries became an increasingly relied upon tool to protect those called to serve in high-profile trials, including mafia, terrorism, and sex trafficking cases. In theory, they’re supposed to protect jurors from intimidation and safeguard their privacy from too much media scrutiny. In...

One of Marilyn Manson’s accusers has recanted her sexual abuse allegations against him, and her sudden reversal has raised a number of questions — including about the shock rocker’s attorney. Named in court papers by his birth name Brian Warner, Manson has been in the middle of an aggressive counteroffensive against women accusing him of sexual misconduct. The saga started when his ex-girlfriend, actress Evan Rachel Wood, accused him of rape, physical abuse and cult-like behavior.  Now,...

Before he became Oath Keepers spokesperson, Jason Van Tatenhove had been an aspiring gonzo journalist with a sense of adventure. So, he set out to the Bundy ranch with hopes to embed with Stewart Rhodes in 2014. He says that journey ended when he overheard a disturbing conversation with members engaging in Holocaust denialism. Van Tatenhove left the group long before the attack on the U.S. Capitol, but he shared his insights from his time there as a witness for the Jan. 6th Committee. In...

Top Fox News executives, right up to Rupert Murdoch, were quoted deriding the same 2020 election conspiracy theories some in their network pushed, in an explosive new legal brief unsealed last week. Those revelations could prove damaging to Fox in defending a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion, one of the two voting machine companies scapegoated to explain Donald Trump’s defeat in the last presidential race.  On the latest episode, Professor Jeff Kosseff — a prominent First...

For nearly half a decade, a battle to unseal the names of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged victims, witnesses and accomplices has been raging in federal courtrooms in Manhattan. Now, attorneys for Ghislaine Maxwell and one of Epstein's most prominent survivors have created a list of more than 150 people whose names may be unsealed in that open records case. They are the "John and Jane Does" at issue in Virginia Giuffre's long-settled lawsuit against Maxwell, who weren't parties to the litigation...

Some of the videos of the horrendous abuse suffered by the first victim of “cult” leader Larry Ray are horrific to describe, let alone to watch. One of them shows Ray striking writer Daniel Barban Levin in the gut with a hammer, pulling on his tongue with a set of pliers and, in the same video, threatening to get even "more severe." In a lengthy sit-down interview for Law&Crime’s podcast “Objections: with Adam Klasfeld,” Levin emphasized that these were blackmail videos, which used to...

The firearm enhancement statute laying a possible five-year prison sentence over actor Alec Baldwin's head was revised after the "Rust" shooting. On the latest episode of "Objections," former prosecutor Mitch Epner explains why that matters: the ex post facto clause of the U.S. Constitution, handing the actor a powerful tool to eliminate by far the most stringent possible penalty against him. In a wide-ranging interview, Epner reviews the documents released by prosecutors against Baldwin...

In late 2010, a middle-aged man moved into his daughter's college dorm and created what has all the hallmarks of a cult. Over the decade that followed, he extorted millions of dollars from vulnerable young adults through violence, psychological torture, and forced sex work. Actress and Director Elisabeth Rohm narrates Law&Crime's 6-part investigative series, which draws from thousands of pages of transcripts, exhibits, audio files, and video recordings from a federal trial and explores...

The Georgia prosecutor investigating former President Donald Trump and others over attempts to overturn the 2020 election results told a judge that "decisions on imminent" on charges. Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti analyzes what such a case could look like — and warns against Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) pursuing a case under Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. "I think there's this belief that Trump is like a crime boss and...

More than a century after the Tulsa race massacre decimated “Black Wall Street,” the survivors are still waiting for justice — and their attorney says that their courtroom opponents have adopted a grim strategy. “Don’t make any mistake about it: Their strategy is for these people to die,” attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons declared on the podcast. The lawyer explains why he believes that, the status of his clients’ case, and how the public’s understanding of the massacre changed since the...

It’s a quadruple homicide case out of Idaho that has captivated much of the nation. Bryan Kohberger, a criminology student pursuing his Ph.D., stands accused of murdering four University of Idaho students, all between the ages of 20 and 21 years old. The students were found stabbed to death on the second and third floors of an off-campus house in the college town on Nov. 13, 2022. The slayings brought an uncommon amount of national attention to Moscow, Idaho, a city of roughly 25,000 people...

Almost exactly one year ago, a federal jury convicted Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking minors for Jeffrey Epstein’s predation. Maxwell received a 20-year sentence this past June, in a prosecution largely sparked by civil litigation by survivor Virginia Giuffre.  In the year's final episode, Giuffre's lawyer Sigrid McCawley and the partner at her law firm Kenya Davis talk about what's next for the Epstein saga — and explain how New York's Adult Survivors Act has unleashed a flood of...

We all want to believe that we are good judges of character; that if someone close to us was a bad person, we would know. But how well do you know your neighbors? How much can you trust those around you? What does a killer look like? Monsters don’t live under the bed; they walk among us. From the award-winning team behind the UK true crime podcast — They Walk Among Us — They Walk Among America provides a unique and in-depth account of some of the most puzzling and polarizing cases from the...

The prisoner swap that traded Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout for WNBA star Brittney Griner inspired commentary across the political aisle. It also revealed how long Bout had been on the international bargaining table, for other U.S. citizens in Russian prisons.  In the podcast, Bout's lawyer Steve Zissou confirms that former President Donald Trump passed on an opportunity to trade his client for former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan. He also responds to a Twitter post from Donald Trump Jr....