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The mother and stepfather of Travis King said that the charges against him do not align with the person they know. The mother of Travis King, a U.S. Army private charge d by the Army with desertion for crossing the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea this summer, said that her family plans "to fight the charges and fight the charges hard." In an exclusive interview with ABC News Tuesday, Claudine Gates and Dan Jovanovic, King's mother and stepfather, said the eight counts leveled against King last week that include desertion, possession of child pornography, assaulting fellow soldiers, and disobeying a superior officer shock them because they do not align with the "peaceful person" they know. "The actions that the Army is saying that he's doing is not Travis. He's not like that. He's a good boy," Gates said. Claudine Gates and Dan Jovanovic are speaking with ABC News' Linsey Davis in an interview airing in full on Wednesday n...

New York prosecutors say Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers made meritless arguments in a bid to convince a judge to toss out criminal charges alleging that the FTX founder stole from investors in his multibillion dollar cryptocurrency fund NEW YORK -- Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers made meritless arguments in a bid to convince a judge to toss out criminal charges alleging that the FTX founder stole from investors in his multibillion dollar cryptocurrency fund, federal prosecutors said Monday. In papers filed in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors responded to early May filings in which Bankman-Fried’s lawyers insisted that the United States overreached in its case against Bankman-Fried, making federal crimes out of regulatory issues. “These motions are meritless,” prosecutors wrote in a nearly 100-page filing. “The charges track the relevant statutes and the defendant’s alleged misconduct falls within the heartland of what these statutes prohibit.” Bankman-Fried, 31, has been living with h...