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Elizabeth Warren held a swanky fundraiser at a winery in Boston in June 2018, new reports revealed over the weekend, raising questions over her criticism of her fellow Democratic presidential candidate's fundraiser at a wine cave. Just a few months before announcing her candidacy for president – and about two years before she called out South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg for his fundraiser – Warren held an event at City Winery Boston that gave the VIP experience to donors who gave $2,700. 'Billionaires in wine caves should not pick the next president of the United States,' Warren shot at...

Fox News: Cruz Campaign accused of "dirty tricks"

GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz lashed out at Fox News over coverage of Donald Trumpafter a heated interview with Sean Hannity earlier this week. When asked on “The Dom Giordano Program” about coverage of Trump’s claims of unfair “voterless elections” in states like Wyoming and Colorado, Cruz said, “They know it’s not true.” “Donald doesn’t handle losing well, and when we loses, he cries and he screams and he whines and he curses and he insults everybody,” Cruz said. “So when Donald lost five states in a row in landslide elections, that’s when they began making up this nonsense about...

John Edwards Revisits His Past, Hanging Law Shingle Again BY PETER LATTMAN AND KIM SEVERSON Before he served as a United States senator, before he made a run at the presidency and before his political career collapsed amid a sex scandal and fraud trial, John Edwards was a trial lawyer. Now, Mr. Edwards is returning to his roots and opening a new law practice. The plaintiffs’ firm, Edwards Kirby, reunites him with his former partner, David F. Kirby, and includes on its payroll his eldest daughter, Cate Edwards. “The reason we formed this firm is because we all believe in...

The lawyer for a woman who settled a sexual harassment complaint against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain in the late 1990s says that Cain may have violated the confidentiality terms of the agreement by commenting on its specifics over the past 24 hours. "Herman Cain and others have already disclosed that there was a confidential settlement," says Joel P. Bennett, a Washington-based attorney specializing in employment law, who also represented the woman when she negotiated her settlement. (snip) "I don't know if she'll ever go public," he said Tuesday. (snip) Without having the agreement in hand, Bennett says he doesn't...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, a Democratic candidate for the Senate, has apologized for exaggerating his history of military service. "At times when I have sought to honor veterans, I have not been as clear or precise as I should have been about my service in the Marine Corps Reserves,'' Blumenthal said in a statement e-mailed to the Hartford Courant late Sunday. "I have firmly and clearly expressed regret and taken responsibility for my words." "I have made mistakes and I am sorry. I truly regret offending anyone,'' Blumenthal added. "I will always champion the cause of Connecticut's and our...

(Washington, D.C.) - Presidential candidate Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) responded today to Senator John Edwards’s comments that the War on Terror is nothing more than a "bumper sticker slogan." "If Senator Edwards is saying that the war on terror doesn’t exist, I would agree", Congressman Tancredo said. "Terror is a tactic used by the enemy with which we are at war. The enemy is radical Islam, and if he does not believe that, then he is delusional. America can’t afford a president that is an ostrich, with his head in the sand on this issue." Edwards, in a speech to...

IT NOW appears that defense attorneys for Michael Morales, who is scheduled to be executed Feb. 21 for the 1981 rape and murder of 17-year-old Terri Winchell, submitted phony affidavits in their attempt to win clemency or otherwise prevent the execution. One of those attorneys is Ken Starr, who worked so hard investigating allegations that President Clinton committed perjury. Now Starr has fallen so low as to present documents that, according to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer's office, were "false and forged." Will there be any consequences? There should be. Last week, as The Chronicle reported, Starr and longtime Morales...

Morales' roommate says she did not withdraw testimony. Prosecutors opposing clemency for Michael Morales, scheduled to be executed Feb. 21 for the 1981 murder of a young woman near Lodi, accused his lawyers on Monday of fabricating a statement by a witness that purported to withdraw her trial testimony against Morales. In papers filed with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Charles Schultz called the document submitted by Morales' lawyers last month "an outright forgery" and said it showed that none of the assertions in his appeal for clemency were believable. They backed up their claim with...

A once-prominent San Francisco lawyer convicted of stealing from his poor and sickly clients to support his luxurious lifestyle was sentenced Tuesday to more than 14 years in prison, after a federal judge upbraided him for disgracing the legal profession. Nikolai Tehin "looked his victims in the eye," U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said. "Those people relied upon his skills, his reputation and, most of all, his integrity. And Mr. Tehin took gross advantage of that trust. He abused that trust in the most flagrant and in the most reprehensible way." Tehin, who is free on $3 million bail, was...

SAN FRANCISCO - The former Alameda County prosecutor who claimed he conspired with a trial judge to exclude Jewish jurors in a capital case that sent the defendant to death row is a liar, a judge ruled Tuesday in an opinion forwarded to the California Supreme Court. Judge Kevin Murphy, appointed by the Supreme Court to investigate the allegations from John Quatman, said the former prosecutor's assertions "are not true" and that he is "dishonest and unethical." Last month, Quatman testified before Murphy that he colluded with now-deceased Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stanley Golde to exclude Jews so it...

AN alleged attempted rape victim has denied dousing a hitchhiker with petrol and trying to set him alight because he failed to live up to the image of "the amorous, randy Irishman". The woman dismissed as "extraordinarily bizarre" a suggestion by defence counsel that she tried to set the man alight because he was "sexually inadequate." She might have been naive but was "most certainly not a pyromaniac with a voracious sexual appetite", she told the Central Criminal Court jury on the fourth day of the trial. She "would not, at any stage, consent to the act of sex with...