Moroccan who posed as Pablo Escobar's son guilty of extortion, had mixed with Chicago power brokers

Jawad Fakroune told people he was the son of Escobar, the late Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin. On Tuesday, a jury convicted Fakroune of charges of using violence to try to collect $1.5 million from ...

FACT FOCUS: Images of NYC mayor with Jeffrey Epstein are AI-generated. Here’s how we know

Multiple AI-generated photos falsely claiming to show New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a child and his mother, filmmaker ...

Is Dave Filoni bringing Darth Talon back to Star Wars canon?

But as excited as fans are to get another taste of Maul, some are already focusing on another possible character who’s only ...

Jury convicts man who posed as drug lord’s son in beating, extortion of Chicago restaurateur

A federal jury deliberated for two hours before finding Jawad Fakroune guilty of two extortion-related charges alleging he attacked Adolfo Garcia in an effort to collect on hundreds of thousands ...