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NEW YORK — Former president Donald Trump railed against a woman accusing him of raping her in a New York City department store three decades ago, calling her “mentally sick,” a “liar” — and insisting she later stated on TV that “rape was sexy,” according to testimony from a sworn…

Journalist filed a defamation suit against the former president in 2019 alleging she was raped in the mid-1990s

NEW YORK — A New York City judge on Friday unsealed portions of former President Donald Trump’s deposition in E. Jean Carroll’s rape and defamation lawsuit against him.

E Jean Carroll is suing the former president for sexual assault and defamation

NEW YORK — A federal judge gave former President Donald Trump more time to argue against the partial release of his deposition in a lawsuit by a woman who claims he raped her in the 1990s.

NEW YORK — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the multibillion-dollar fraud case against him in Manhattan Federal Court.

Bankman-Fried tweeted on Dec. 30 that he was not behind the transfers, but federal prosecutors are reportedly looking into the transactions.

The 30-year-old FTX founder, formerly worth an estimated $26bn, could face a sentence of up to 115 years in US prison.

The fraud case against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been reassigned to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan after the original judge in the case recused herself over a potential conflict of interest.

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NEW YORK — New York author E. Jean Carroll, who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s, plans to file a fresh defamation suit against the former president over a Truth Social post in which he doubled down on remarks he made about her in office.