Former banking boss David Drumm has claimed he does not represent a flight risk, despite lawyers arguing he has the means to flee, borne out by his wealthy lifestyle, including the $100,000 (€93,000) annual spend on his children’s education.

A US man looking to acquire ricin so he could sell “simple and easy death pills” and guarantee “risk-free” murder has been convicted of federal charges.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial for his life in the Boston Marathon bombing with his own lawyer bluntly telling the jury he committed the crime. But she argued he had fallen under the influence of his older brother.

Three men have been charged in the US over a Cold War-style Russian spy ring that spoke in code, passed information hidden in bags and magazines, and tried to recruit people with ties to an unnamed New York City university.

The mobile phone video of the last moments of Eric Garner’s life showed a white police officer holding the unarmed black man in a chokehold as he repeatedly gasped, “I can’t breathe.”

Lawyers for a man wanted in the US on terrorism charges have told the High Court that a penalty may be imposed for uncharged conduct, if he is surrendered and found guilty in the US.

An hour after a woman reported her newborn son missing from a home in Wisconsin, police were questioning her step-sister — found with a prosthetic pregnancy belly, baby clothes, and a stroller, but no baby, according to court documents.

The largest bank in the US, JPMorgan Chase, will pay $614m and improve mortgage lending procedures under a new deal.

In the US, criminal charges have been filed against two operators of the virtual currency website, the Bitcoin exchange.

Prosecutors filed a murder charge against the suspected gunman in the deadly shooting at Los Angeles International Airport, and he could face the death penalty.

Few things would be as surprising as the sight of JPMorgan (JPM) Chase & Co pleading guilty in a criminal case. Yet this could be a real possibility, if we are to believe recent news reports about the bank’s settlement negotiations with the Justice Department.

The jury that convicted James “Whitey” Bulger over a series of gangland murders has also left the families of some alleged victims shaken and angry because the panel did not find him guilty in several other killings.

US authorities have accused two New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel.

A funeral home director was today trying to find a cemetery that would bury a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

A high school teacher from Alabama is accused of kidnapping a six-year-old girl from school in Mississippi, sending a frightening text message to the child’s mother and paying to keep her overnight in a hotel.

The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention centre, officials say.

A suspended Roman Catholic priest accused of making more than $300,000 in methamphetamine sales and running an adult video and sex toy shop has admitted a federal drug charge.

A New York man’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit claiming half-ownership of Facebook should be dismissed, a judge said.

A former US city mayor lost more than $1bn (€746.8m) in a 10-year gambling spree.

An Indiana man has agreed to plead guilty to charges alleging that he tricked more than a dozen teenagers into stripping or performing sexual acts for him via webcam and then used recordings of those sessions to coerce them into making even more explicit videos.

Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was “killed by the US government”, his father told mourners.

The brother of imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 10 years in prison for crimes committed in the shadow of his notorious sibling by a judge who said she disbelieved his claims that he did not know about the epic fraud.

The mistress of former CIA head David Petraeus has escaped charges over emails she sent to a supposed rival.

A former US serviceman arrested in Honolulu for sending emails from Thailand threatening to kill Vice President Joe Biden has pleaded guilty.

The brother of Ponzi scheme king Bernard Madoff will plead guilty tomorrow to conspiracy and falsifying records, admitting his role in the multibillion-dollar fraud that destroyed the savings of thousands of investors, US prosecutors told a judge.

Six people have been arrested in Britain as part of an FBI-led sting targeting online financial fraudsters involved in the illegal trade of stolen bank and credit card information, according to the American authorities.

Five men charged with plotting to bomb a US bridge placed what they thought were real explosives at the site and repeatedly tried to detonate them using text messages from mobile phones, according to an FBI affidavit.

Lance Armstrong said today he was “gratified” the US attorney’s office had decided not to bring charges against him after a nearly two-year investigation into whether the champion cyclist and his teammates ran a doping programme.

SWISS private bank Wegelin & Co confirmed yesterday that three employees had been charged by US authorities for helping US taxpayers hide some $1.2 billion (€904m) in assets from tax authorities.

POLICE have arrested a Florida man and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood celebrities following an 11-month federal probe dubbed ‘Operation Hackerazzi.’

Police have arrested the man who allegedly stole naked pictures of Scarlett Johansson from her phone.

AN INTERNET poker company that was blocked from operating in the US last spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was “not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme”, federal prosecutors have claimed.

BOSTON mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger has been captured near Los Angeles 16 years after his run from the law sparked an international manhunt and served as a major embarrassment to the FBI as their onetime informant eluded authorities.

An international child pornography ring that spanned three continents and required members to post explicit images on a secure internet message board has been dismantled with the arrests of more than a dozen people, authorities said today.

FBI agents raided three hedge funds in what one of the targets called a wide-ranging probe of insider trading in the financial industry.

The drug company GlaxoSmithKline PLC will pay $750m (€542m) to settle allegations that it knowingly manufactured and sold adulterated drugs, federal prosecutors in the US said yesterday.

US authorities said the East Coast’s largest shipping port experienced a security breach as eight dock workers were charged in New York with cocaine trafficking and another was charged in a stock fraud scheme.

The man dubbed the Granddad Bandit by the FBI and suspected in 25 bank robberies across 13 US states was captured at his home after a lengthy standoff that ended peacefully, authorities said.

A JUDGE in New York has ordered 10 defendants who admitted acting as Russian spies deported from the United States in a swap that results in four spies being released by Russia.

The largest Russia-US spy swap since the Cold War appeared to be in motion today, with up to 10 guilty pleas planned in New York by defendants accused of spying for Russia in exchange for the release of convicted Russian spies.

Eleven people accused of spying for Russia were formally charged in a US indictment, more than a week after the FBI announced their arrests.

A US-trained Pakistani scientist was convicted of attempting to kill FBI agents and others while detained in Afghanistan.

A US judge declared a mistrial at the racketeering trial of John “Junior” Gotti after a New York jury failed to reach a verdict against the son of the notorious Gambino crime family mob boss – the case’s fourth hung jury in five years.

US Federal prosecutors are seeking to take over four US mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a Muslim organisation suspected of being controlled by the Iranian government, in one of the biggest counter-terrorism seizures in American history.