Many people have their attention on a federal judge in Florida as she’ll decide what happens next in the legal battle over the FBI raid at the Florida estate of former President Donald Trump.

NEW YORK - The brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernndez was found guilty of trafficking cocaine Friday, according to the US Department of Justice. Juan Antonio Hernndez Alvarado, also known as "Tony Hernndez," was arrested in Miami last year on charges of trafficking cocaine, weapons offenses and making a false statement. The guilty verdict means Hernndez is facing 30 years to life in prison. "Hernndez bribed law enforcement officials to protect drug shipments, solicited large bribes from major drug traffickers, and arranged machine gun-toting security for cocaine shipments," said Manhattan US Attorney Geoffrey Berman in a news release. The allegations made in court against the Honduran president have sparked protests in the country and calls for his resignations.

(CNN) - Officials from the US Department of Justice and Manhattan US attorney's office asked a federal judge Wednesday to temporarily block a subpoena by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office for eight years of President Donald Trump's tax returns to allow time for "appropriate briefing of the weighty constitutional issues involved." The Department of Justice hadn't participated in the lawsuit prior to Wednesday's filing. Trump sued the Manhattan District Attorney's Office after it sent his longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA, a grand jury subpoena seeking tax returns and related documents going back to 2011. The district attorney's office, led by Cyrus Vance Jr., is examining hush money paid to two women who, during the 2016 presidential campaign, alleged having affairs with Trump a decade ago. While Trump argued in his lawsuit that a criminal investigation of a sitting president is "unconstitutional," the brief submitted by Department of Justice officials didn't say whether they supported that position.

(CNN) - Three JPMorgan Chase traders in gold and other precious metals have been charged with alleged market manipulation by the US Department of Justice. The alleged conduct spanned eight years, the Justice Department said Monday. The government charged Gregg Smith, an executive director, and Michael Nowak, a managing director and head of the bank's global precious metals desk. The government claims the defendants engaged in "widespread spoofing, market manipulation and fraud" by placing trade orders they planned to cancel before executing them, according to a Justice Department statement. The aim "was to trick" other traders into buying and selling futures contracts at prices and at times they wouldn't have otherwise done, the Justice Department alleges.

GIBRALTAR - The US Department of Justice has made a last-minute application to block the release of the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1, which was seized by authorities in Gibraltar last month, a spokesman for the Gibraltar attorney general told CNN. Gibraltar attorney general Joseph Triay revealed the application had been made at a short hearing at the Supreme Court on Thursday morning. The matter will return to the Supreme Court of Gibraltar at 4:00 p.m. today," the Gibraltar government said in a statement. The US Department of Justice declined to comment and the State Department has not responded to CNN's request for comment. Nearly a month later, the tanker -- and its crew -- remain detained in Iran.