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Former US ambassador to plead guilty for spying for Cuba over decades

Former US ambassador to plead guilty for spying for Cuba over decades

A former U.S. ambassador will plead guilty to charges of spying for Cuba for decades, court records showed, in what the Justice Department described as one of the highest-reaching and longest-lasting infiltrations of the U.S. government by a foreign agent. WHY IT IS IMPORTANT Victor Manuel Rocha, who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia from 2000 to 2002, was charged in December with committing multiple federal crimes, including acting as an illegal foreign agent and using a fraudulently obtained passport. The U.S. had accused Rocha of having secretly supported Cuba and its clandestine intelligence-gathering mission against Washington since 1981. KEY QUOTES…
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US says it no longer deems Donald Trump immune from E. Jean Carroll lawsuit

US says it no longer deems Donald Trump immune from E. Jean Carroll lawsuit

DONALD Trump suffered a legal defeat as the U.S. government reversed its earlier position that the former president could be immune from the writer E. Jean Carroll's $10 million defamation lawsuit against him. In a letter to Trump's and Carroll's lawyers, the U.S. Department of Justice said it no longer believed Trump acted within the scope of his office and employment as president in June 2019, when he denied having raped Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. The department late in Trump's presidency had reached an opposite conclusion, which the Biden administration adopted to the…
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U.S. imposes sanctions on 14 men for ties to al Shabaab

U.S. imposes sanctions on 14 men for ties to al Shabaab

THE U.S. government imposed sanctions on 14 men, including six it said were part of a network that has engaged in weapons procurement, financial facilitation and recruitment for the al Shabaab militant Islamist group. "Treasury is focused on identifying and disrupting al Shabaab's illicit networks operating in Eastern Africa," Brian Nelson, the Treasury's under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a statement. "We will continue to take action against the weapons smuggling and fundraising activities of al Shabaab and other (al Qaeda) affiliates." The Treasury named the six as Abdullahi Jeeri, Khalif Adale, Hassan Afgooye, Abdikarim Hussein Gagaale, Abdi…
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