“Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison Wednesday for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to evade U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents,” the Associated Press reports.

“A federal judge fined her $5,000 and cited her otherwise law-abiding life in issuing the sentence.”

“Andrew Gillum — the ex-politician who lost to Ron DeSantis by a slim margin in the 2018 Florida governor’s race — was arrested last week in Alabama on drug offenses,” TMZ reports.

“A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s expansive pardon of January 6 rioters does not apply to a Virginia man accused of planting two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, the night before the 2021 US Capitol insurrection,” CNN reports.

“Prosecutors say Brian Cole Jr. placed bombs near the Republican and Democratic national committees’ headquarters on the night of January 5, 2021. His attorneys argued in March that Cole should be covered by Trump’s pardon because the alleged conduct is ‘is so inextricably and demonstrably tethered to’ the events at the Capitol on January 6.”

Politico: “Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Sunday aired his frustrations with the continued attention that the botched renovation of the reflecting pool has received and doubled down on the Trump administration’s claim that vandals are to blame for its condition.”

“Federal prosecutors are recommending a relatively light prison sentence for a man who pleaded guilty to securities fraud in the notorious $100 million New Jersey deli stock manipulation case — and some of their reasons for doing so are hidden,” CNBC reports.

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey, in a new court filing, conceded that the sentencing guidelines suggest a prison term between 70 and 87 months for the defendant, James Patten.”

“The Louisiana Supreme Court on Friday halted the criminal case against state Attorney General Liz Murrill a day after she was indicted on accusations that she threatened the jobs of officials in New Orleans,” Associated Press reports.

“The state’s top court said the local court and special prosecutor in the case did not follow proper procedures in the process surrounding the indictment — including multiple local media reports that the court handcuffed and locked out a journalist attempting to report on the grand jury action.”

“U.S. Olympic canoeist David ‘Davey’ Hearn was indicted Thursday on a single count of destruction of property following his arrest last month at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool,” NBC News reports.

“A three-person Minnesota panel including Gov. Tim Walz granted a pardon to an immigrant convicted of sexually abusing a child, drawing accusations that he and other Democrats are impeding federal efforts to expel dangerous foreign criminals eligible for deportation,” the New York Times reports.

“The Minnesota Board of Pardons granted the reprieve on June 10 to Tou Lue Vang, 42, who came to the United States as a child and was set to be deported to Laos imminently. Mr. Vang had submitted a letter to the board expressing regret for the actions that led to his 2005 conviction, and said a pardon could help him stay in the country with his wife and six children.”

“Kash Patel may have flouted legal constraints and the FBI’s disciplinary code in prematurely divulging arrests in an alleged plot to attack this month’s Ultimate Fighting Championship bout at the White House, bureau veterans have alleged,” The Guardian reports.

“The FBI director was accused of ‘jumping the gun’ by posting details on social media of five arrests in an investigation carried out in conjunction with the Secret Service.”

“It subsequently emerged the inquiry was sealed by a court order, theoretically constraining Patel from publicly disclosing it.”

“Guo Wengui, a Chinese businessman who transformed himself from a Beijing insider into an anti-Communist crusader and ally of the American far right, was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday for defrauding investors, including many of his own fervent supporters, of hundreds of millions of dollars,” the New York Times reports. 

“Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false and that he says forced him to spend a night away from his four-year-old twins,” Associated Press reports.

Buttigieg writes about the incident: “Someone decided to hurt our family this week. I’m furious, and I want to share what happened.”

“Federal prosecutors in Washington said Friday that citations have been issued by the U.S. Park Police this month at the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool, which has filled with algae and peeling paint since its $16 million makeover,” the New York Times reports.

“But no records are available, and it remains unclear exactly what those citations were for, or how many people received them.”

“John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser before becoming a vocal critic, is expected to plead guilty in federal court Friday to one count of retaining sensitive government information — a deal that could come with far less potential prison time than if he’d gone to trial and lost,” the Washington Post reports.

CNN: Trump foe John Bolton is set to plead guilty. Here’s why the case didn’t fall apart.

“The Justice Department has announced charges in a ‘sophisticated’ criminal operation that it says used high-powered drones to deliver weapons, drugs, cell phones and escape tools into prisons in east coast states,” CNN reports.

“The US attorney’s office in Chicago is in a five-alarm fire after problems with recent grand jury presentations resulted three dropped criminal cases,” CNN reports.

“The recently discovered problems have prompted Andrew Boutros, the Trump-appointed and judge-endorsed US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, to do his own review of more than 100 transcripts of confidential grand jury sessions, putting a close eye on cases that have been charged in the last year.”

“President Trump’s political appointees quashed an early-stage criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding his clemency grant to a convicted fraudster,” the New York Times reports.

“The investigation, which has not been previously reported, had begun examining whether improper payments were made to help facilitate the commutation awarded to David Gentile, a private equity executive who was convicted in a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of mostly mom-and-pop investors, some of whom lost their retirement savings.”

“Months before Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado freed the felonious election denier Tina Peters from prison, his own clemency board voted unanimously — twice — to reject her bid for early release,” the New York Times reports.

“The first vote, taken under a cloak of secrecy, came in January, when the board reviewed Ms. Peters’s application during one of its meetings…”

“A month later, the board got an unusual request from the Democratic governor’s office, which was under enormous political pressure from President Trump to free Ms. Peters, two board members said — take a second look.”

“The clemency board obliged, but again, its vote was a unanimous no.”

“U.S. senators from both political parties are urging President Donald Trump to reject FTX co-founder Sam Bankman Fried’s pleas for a pardon after the cryptocurrency fraudster applied for clemency last week,” Bloomberg reports.