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NEW YORK (AP) — Ex-NBA player Damon Jones set to become first person to plead guilty in gambling sweep that led to more than 30 arrests. (h/t @pathurtado37 who was on this development from the jump... ball)

Former Cleveland Cavalier Damon Jones, who was charged with rigging poker games and giving inside information about National Basketball Association player injuries, will plead guilty to federal charges. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Live Nation Monopolized Live Events, Jury Says bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

SantaCon was really a con, US says bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Davey Lopes as one thing on his mind, and that’s to beat the throw at home.

The Dodgers mourn the loss of Davey Lopes, who passed away today at age 80. Lopes was a member of the team’s record-setting infield of the 1970s and 1980s and one of the finest basestealers in MLB history. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.

Following marathon arguments at the 2nd Circuit on Diddy’s appeal, running almost 2 hrs, Judge Nardini calls the case “exceptionally difficult.” “This is a question of first impression, not only for this court but apparently for any federal court of appeals in the country.”

Hoo boy. Judge Carro just rescheduled Mangione’s state trial for Sept 8, a month before jury selection in his federal trial. Chaos!

Luigi Mangione’s federal trial over the killing of a UnitedHealth Group executive was tentatively delayed by about a month to Oct. 5 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The New York judge presiding over Luigi Mangione’s state murder case over the shooting death of a UnitedHealth executive has pushed back the trial by three months to Sept. 8 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Will Smith is unbelievable. He goes down 0-2. He takes two balls. He fouls two off. He then hits a go-ahead, two-run home run on his birthday and bobblehead night. Dodgers lead 3-2 in the 8th. Smith is as clutch as it gets.

When Vin Scully and Fernando Valenzuela threw out the first pitch before Game 2 of the 2017 World Series 💙

Timeline: It took less than a minute for a routine landing to spiral into a deadly crash a week ago at LaGuardia Airport apnews.com/article/laguar…

The arrest of a former director of the KinderHaus preschool in Brooklyn’s southern Park Slope for alleged embezzlement is ricocheting through the world of New York City private schools bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

ICE has been citing a May ‘25 memo to justify arrests in immigration courts. An agency lawyer told prosecutors yesterday that it doesn’t include such authorization. This means ICE has not provided any legal justification for the mass arrests at EOIR courts in NY or other states.

Elizabeth Holmes got a year knocked off her 11 1/4-year prison term for the Theranos fraud under a change in sentencing guidelines that applies to convicts with no previous criminal history bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A case underway in Brooklyn federal court may finally force the US government to provide some answers about its seizure of a mysterious $15 billion crypto hoard bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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Well before DOJ workload crisis defending detained migrant petitions spilled into public view in MN, 6 US attorneys warned judiciary of the resource-draining flood. Predictably, it has since exploded. Story w/ @cecelou18 & @crepeau: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/us…

I was really lucky for a really long time to work with some of the best in the business. But today I was one of those let go by The Post. After nearly 25 years, it wasn’t the way I expected to leave but onward. Next steps TK.