Michael Kunzelman

August 02, 2024 | Daily Business Review

A Florida attorney pleaded guilty on Friday to using a rifle to try to detonate explosives outside the Chinese embassy last year in Washington, D.C.

By Michael Kunzelman | Associated Press

2 minute read

August 28, 2023 | Daily Report Online

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan rebuffed claims by Trump's attorneys that an April 2026 trial date was necessary to account for the huge volume of evidence they say they are reviewing and to prepare for what they contend is a novel and unprecedented prosecution. But she agreed to postpone the trial slightly beyond the January 2024 date proposed by special counsel Jack Smith's prosecution team.

By Eric Tucker, Lindsay Whitehurst and Michael Kunzelman | The Associated Press

5 minute read

August 09, 2023 | Daily Business Review

Criminal defendants routinely try to have their cases moved to increase their chances of getting a favorable jury. Former President Donald Trump and his attorney say they're eyeing West Virginia, which Trump easily won in 2020.

By Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael Kunzelman

6 minute read

May 30, 2023 | Daily Report Online

An Associated Press review of court records shows that prosecutors in the more than 1,000 criminal cases from Jan. 6, 2021, are increasingly asking judges to impose fines on top of prison sentences to offset donations from supporters of the Capitol rioters.

By Michael Kunzelman | The Associated Press

6 minute read

July 08, 2020 | Daily Business Review

A Maryland man threatened to kill U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, who represents Florida's 24th District, because she sponsored a bill requiring vaccinations for public school students.

By Michael Kunzelman

5 minute read

September 18, 2014 | New York Law Journal

After Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast nearly two years ago, the federal government quickly sent out $1.4 billion in emergency disaster aid to the hurricane's victims. Now, thousands of people might have to pay back their share.

By Michael Kunzelman and David B. Caruso

4 minute read

September 04, 2014 | Daily Report Online

BP bears the majority of responsibility among the companies involved in the nation's worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge ruled Thursday, citing the energy giant's reckless conduct in a ruling that exposes the company to billions of dollars in penalties.

By Michael Kunzelman and Janet McConnaughey

4 minute read

January 06, 2014 | Daily Report Online

NEW ORLEANS -- A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday on whether the state of Texas can enforce a law that led to the closing of several abortion clinics, a case that ultimately appears bound for the U.S. Supreme Court.

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

4 minute read

December 18, 2013 | Daily Report Online

A former BP drilling engineer was convicted Wednesday of deleting text messages from his cellphone to obstruct a federal investigation of the company's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

By Michael Kunzelman

4 minute read

December 12, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Three years ago, a jury heard lurid testimony about a burned body and a brazen cover-up before convicting a former New Orleans police officer of fatally shooting a man without justification in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

By Kevin Mcgill and Michael Kunzelman

6 minute read