Sean Piccoli

UPDATED with additional details: Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, is challenging his streaming competitors to be as “transparent” as his company is when it comes to publicizing what viewers are watching. Touting Netflix's next viewer report, due on Thursday, Sarandos said on Wednesday at the Fast…

UPDATE, 1:10 PM: Donald Trump is on the hook legally and financially for using Eddy Grant's 1982 hit song, "Electric Avenue," without the musician's permission in an online video promoting Trump's 2020 re-election campaign, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Friday.  District Court Judge John G…

UPDATED throughout with attorney comments: Harvey Weinstein has been indicted by a new grand jury on additional charges, prosecutors said in a New York courtroom Thursday. "We informed the defense just prior to being present in court this morning … the grand jury has indicted Mr. Weinstein,"…

With little more than a slap on the wrist, Justin Timberlake will now not face drunk driving charges after all thanks to a plea deal. Under the agreement, the ‘Can't Stop the Feeling’ singer will enter a guilty plea of a traffic violation, a far lesser charge. Additionally, Timberlake will have to…

It felt like a flashback to the summer of 2023 along a crowded stretch of Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. A brass band played Bob Marley's “Get Up, Stand Up” on the sidewalk as pedestrians streamed by, a man with a bullhorn led unison chants, and demonstrators held up picket…

UPDATED with details throughout: In a virtual court appearance in Sag Harbor, NY, Justin Timberlake pleaded not guilty Friday to a revised misdemeanor charge of driving drunk in June in the waterfront village about 100 miles from New York City. Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace also officially…

UPDATED throughout with details: Justin Timberlake will be arraigned next Friday on a misdemeanor charge of driving drunk in June in this waterfront village about 100 miles from New York City, and the pop singer will appear for the hearing virtually, by a remote link while he is on tour in Europe, a judge…

UPDATED, 2:15 PM: A Manhattan judge today set a tentative start date of the rape retrial of convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein. With the disgraced former movie mogul in the courtroom briefly, Judge Curtis Farber penciled in November 12 but said he was open to earlier trial date depending on how…

Two trials play out in the new Apple TV+ adaptation of lawyer-novelist Scott Turow's 1988 bestselling legal thriller, Presumed Innocent: the criminal case against a Chicago prosecutor charged with murdering a colleague, and the nightmare at home that the murder trial visits on the family of the…

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, marking his successful prosecution and conviction of former President Donald Trump, credited the result as an example of his department’s enforcement of the law “without fear or favor.” “While this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we…

A jury in New York City today found former president Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a conspiracy to keep a potential sex scandal from derailing his first presidential campaign.  He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, just days before the start of…

UPDATED, 2:10 PM: Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial. UPDATED, 1:39 PM: Jurors deliberating in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial have reached a verdict. Judge Juan Merchan announced that the jurors had sent a note informing them of…