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Hizo historia en el atletismo paralímpico y fue condenado por asesinar a su novia: el caso de Oscar Pistorius
Durante años, el atleta paralímpico Oscar Pistorius fue considerado como un símbolo de superación. Había nacido sin peronés en ambas piernas y, tras ser amputado cuando era apenas un bebé, logró convertirse en una de las figuras más admirables del deporte mundial.
Incluso, sus prótesis de fibra de carbono y sus marcas en la pista le valieron el apodo de “Blade Runner” y lo llevaron a hacer historia: fue el primer atleta amputado en competir en unos Juegos Olímpicos junto a deportistas sin discapacidad.
Sin embargo, su imagen inspiradora cambió con un hecho inesperado. En la madrugada del 14 de febrero de 2023, en el Día de San Valentín, Pistorius asesinó a tiros a su novia, Reeva Steenkamp, dentro de su casa en la ciudad de Pretoria, en Sudáfrica. El crimen generó conmoción en todo el mundo y dio inicio a uno de los juicios más mediáticos de las últimas décadas.
La madrugada del crimen
Era el Día de los Enamorados cuando vecinos de un exclusivo complejo residencial escucharon disparos que provenían de la casa del atleta paralímpico. Minutos después, Steenkamp, que se dedicaba al modelaje, sufrió varios disparos en el brazo, la cadera y la cabeza, y quedó gravemente herida en el baño de la propiedad. Murió antes de poder ser trasladada a un hospital.
La escena generó dudas desde el principio, porque la puerta del baño estaba destruida. Según determinó la investigación, Pistorius disparó cuatro veces a través de ella con una pistola 9 milímetros. El atleta aseguró que creyó que había un ladrón escondido detrás de la puerta y que actuó por miedo.
Steenkamp murió por los múltiples disparos que le propinó Pistorius. (Foto: El Mundo)
En su declaración, explicó que se despertó durante la madrugada, escuchó ruidos y pensó que un intruso había ingresado a la casa. Dijo que tomó su arma sin ponerse las prótesis y avanzó hacia el baño. Según su versión, disparó sin saber que Steenkamp estaba allí porque creyó que seguía en la cama.
Sin embargo, la fiscalía construyó una hipótesis completamente distinta. Los investigadores sostuvieron que la pareja había tenido una discusión previa y que Pistorius disparó intencionalmente contra la modelo. Algunos vecinos declararon haber escuchado gritos antes de los disparos, un punto que se volvió clave durante el juicio.
La muerte de Steenkamp tuvo enorme repercusión en Sudáfrica y en el resto del mundo. La víctima no era una desconocida: además de modelo, tenía una creciente carrera en televisión y participaba activamente en campañas contra la violencia de género. Antes del crimen, Oscar Pistorius era una de las figuras más reconocidas del atletismo paralímpico. (Foto: Reuters)
La investigación avanzó en medio de una presión mediática enorme. Los peritajes se centraron especialmente en reconstruir qué ocurrió dentro de la casa durante aquellos minutos previos a los disparos. La fiscalía intentó demostrar que Pistorius actuó con intención homicida, mientras que la defensa insistió en que todo había sido una trágica confusión.
Uno de los puntos más debatidos fue la personalidad del atleta y su relación con las armas de fuego. Durante el proceso surgieron testimonios que lo describían como una persona obsesionada con la seguridad y temerosa de sufrir robos.
La reconstrucción de la escena del crimen fue otro aspecto central. Los investigadores analizaron trayectorias de bala, manchas de sangre, la posición del cuerpo de la víctima y hasta los movimientos del atleta dentro de la vivienda.
El juicio, la condena y la libertad condicional
El juicio, que empezó el 3 de marzo de 2014, fue transmitido en vivo desde el Tribunal Superior de Pretoria y convirtió al caso en un fenómeno global. Millones de personas siguieron las audiencias en tiempo real, incluyendo los testimonios de los peritos, policías y vecinos del complejo donde ocurrió el crimen.
Mientras tanto, Pistorius alternaba entre momentos en los que se mostraba con frialdad y escenas de profundo quiebre emocional. En varias audiencias vomitó, lloró y se tapó los oídos mientras se describían las heridas sufridas por Steenkamp.
Oscar Pistorius durante el veredicto. (Foto: AP)
En septiembre de 2014, la jueza Thokozile Masipa dio a conocer el primer fallo. Contra lo que esperaba gran parte de la opinión pública, Pistorius fue declarado culpable de homicidio culposo. La magistrada concluyó que la fiscalía no había podido probar que hubiera existido intención directa de matar a Steenkamp.
La decisión provocó una fuerte polémica internacional, debido a que muchos sectores consideraron que el atleta había recibido un trato privilegiado por su fama y posición social. Finalmente, Pistorius fue condenado a cinco años de prisión.
Sin embargo, la historia judicial estaba lejos de terminar. La fiscalía apeló el fallo y un tribunal superior revisó el caso. En 2015, la Corte Suprema de Apelaciones de Sudáfrica anuló la condena inicial y determinó que Pistorius sí había cometido asesinato.
Los jueces argumentaron que, más allá de quién estuviera detrás de la puerta, el atleta sabía que disparar cuatro veces con munición letal contra una persona encerrada en un baño podía causar la muerte. La nueva calificación cambió completamente el rumbo del caso. June Steenkamp, la madre de Reeva Steenkamp. (Foto: Reuters/Alet Pretorius)
Tras nuevas revisiones judiciales, la pena fue elevada a 13 años y cinco meses de prisión. Pistorius fue trasladado nuevamente a la cárcel y permaneció detenido durante varios años.
La familia de Reeva Steenkamp insistió reiteradamente en que nunca creyó en la versión del accidente y reclamó justicia desde el primer momento. La madre de la joven, June Steenkamp, llegó a publicar un libro llamado Reeva: la historia de una madre, en el cual escribió sobre el impacto que tuvo el crimen de su hija y cuestionó duramente al deportista.
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Finalmente, en enero de 2024, Oscar Pistorius obtuvo la libertad condicional después de cumplir parte de la condena. La Justicia sudafricana autorizó su salida de prisión bajo estrictas condiciones: no puede consumir alcohol, debe realizar terapia y tiene limitaciones para desplazarse y dar entrevistas públicas.
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Vance-led task force cuts off $1.4B from home health, hospice providers suspected of fraud
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EXCLUSIVE: Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force has withheld $1.4 billion in federal funding from home health and hospice providers nationwide, following a wave of suspensions enacted by an anti-fraud task force targeting operations in California, Minnesota and several other states.
Approximately 90% of the suspended providers have not reached out to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency tasked with combating fraud, waste and abuse, since payments have been suspended.
Trump administration officials told Fox News Digital that they believe lack of communication between alleged fraudulent providers and CMS indicates that the providers were not legitimate enterprises.
The suspended group includes long-term providers who have been pocketing federal funds for years while failing to communicate with CMS, a senior Trump administration source told Fox News Digital.
«The Vice President’s task force continues to stop the flow of taxpayer funds before they fall into the hands of fraudsters and deliver savings to the American people,» a spokesperson for Vice President JD Vance told Fox News Digital. «This is great momentum in the fight for the President’s War on Fraud.»
LOS ANGELES COUNTY FACES SCRUTINY AFTER ALLEGED WIDESPREAD HOSPICE FRAUD EXPOSED
Vice President JD Vance hosted the first meeting of The Task Force To Eliminate Fraud on March 27. The task force has suspended hundreds of hospices suspected of fraud in Los Angeles alone. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump has made the eradication of systemic fraud a cornerstone of his administration’s domestic policy. On Monday, CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz blasted California officials over the state’s hospice crisis, charging that the fraud is «stealing your lives» and pointing to a sophisticated web of international graft.
«We’ve got Russian government involvement, we believe, in Los Angeles. We’ve got the Chinese government involved in a big fraud ring in New York,» Oz told guest host Kayleigh McEnany on «Jesse Watters Primetime.» «And, of course, the Cuban connection… pointed out to me by former Miami Mayor Francis Suarez. We’ve got twice as many durable medical equipment suppliers—selling wheelchairs and canes—as there are McDonald’s in South Florida. The owners often flee back to Cuba with the money the moment we move in on them.»
Last month, Fox News Digital uncovered the suspension of 447 hospices and 23 home health agencies suspected of fraud in Los Angeles alone, with the total theft estimated at more than $600 million.
Days later, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) referred 562,000 suspected fraudulent loans — totaling over $22.2 billion — to the U.S. Department of the Treasury for collection. These loans largely originated from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program.
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The SBA noted these files were flagged for suspected fraud during the Biden administration but were never sent to the Treasury Department for recovery.
«The task force has made clear that the Biden Administration’s policy of giving direct cash payments to fraudsters is over,» a senior White House official told Fox News Digital.
In April, the head of a California hospice advocacy group warned congressional lawmakers that industry fraud is flourishing across the state. Sheila Clark, president and CEO of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association (CHAPCA), questioned how these «ghost» providers managed to evade regulators for so long.
«You’d be amazed at how many hospices… you can walk up to the door in California and there is nobody there. You can see five months’ worth of mail stacked up,» Clark told the House Ways and Means Committee during an April 22 hearing. «And yet, they passed a survey. How did that happen?»
«How do you put a hospice in a burrito stand? How do you put a hospice in a retail store?» she quipped. «That all had to be vetted through licensure, certification and accreditation.»
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta recently announced the arrest of five individuals linked to an alleged multi-million-dollar hospice scheme that reportedly raked in $267 million through fraudulent billing to Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program.
The Trump administration has intensified its focus on the abuse of taxpayer funds following last year’s arrests connected to the «Feeding Our Future» scheme in Minnesota—a massive «sham meal» operation that allegedly defrauded the government of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Singham-backed, pro-China group drops huge sum on Manhattan HQ as feds probe shadowy network
People’s Forum’s recently purchased $5M Manhattan building
The exterior of the People’s Forum’s newly purchased Manhattan building on May 12, 2026. The three-story mixed-use building has a black storefront, covered windows and removed signage. The group is looking to raise $5 million to renovate it.
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NEW YORK — The People’s Forum Inc., a pro-China nonprofit that has been funded by Shanghai-based Marxist mogul Neville Roy Singham, bought a rundown building in Manhattan for $5.15 million and is now urging supporters to raise another $5 million to renovate the building — and to turn it into a «permanent home» for its far-left organizing efforts in the U.S.
The fundraising drive comes as lawmakers and federal officials investigate Singham’s network over what they have described as a foreign-aligned influence operation promoting Chinese Communist Party narratives in the U.S. Scrutiny of China’s influence has intensified in recent days, including the resignation of a California mayor who agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China.
The People’s Forum, a central organization within the Singham network, says it serves as a hub for more than 200 organizations and has helped coordinate left-wing protests across the U.S. since its founding in 2017.
The group told supporters on X Friday that it is urgently seeking to raise $2 million from individual donors by a December 2026 deadline, its first major fundraising target since it launched a broader $5 million campaign in September.
The group hasn’t publicly disclosed the address of the new building, but property records obtained by Fox News Digital show it purchased a three-story building at 137 W. 14th Street in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood for $5.15 million in December 2024. Sources familiar with the transaction told Fox News Digital that the W. 14th Street building is the new nonprofit’s new headquarters. The details of the transaction and the records documenting the sale are being reported here for the first time. The records don’t detail how the purchase was financed.
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Property records show a nonprofit funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham purchased a Manhattan building for $5.15 million as part of operations under congressional scrutiny. (Michael Dorgan/Fox News Digital; Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for V-Day)
The fundraising and expansion drive comes as Congress is investigating what lawmakers have described as a «foreign-aligned influence network» tied to Singham. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., said the nonprofit’s funding structures raise «significant concerns» about «foreign influence or control.»
According to a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham has funneled $285 million into the broad network of nonprofits since 2017, and Justice, State and Treasury Department officials are investigating financial activity tied to the network, including $22.5 million in funding directed to the People’s Forum.
Since 2017, the Singham network has led volatile protests across the country, with organizations including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition, CodePink and BreakThrough News working with the People’s Forum to organize demonstrations and coordinate messaging, Fox News Digital has reported.
The People’s Forum, which brags about publishing «over 25 revolutionary texts» and organizing «over 6,000 events,» said on its website that it initially relied on support from a «generous donor» to establish its operations in 2017, but that new cash injections are desperately needed.
«Our initial donation is running out,» the organization wrote in a September appeal, adding that it now faces a «critical new stage.» The organization said the new building «right now is just a shell» and would require millions in renovations to become operational.
The narrow, mixed-use property appeared vacant when Fox News Digital visited the location on Tuesday.
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The storefront, previously occupied by a curtains and shades business, was painted black, with its signage removed and the front windows covered by a dark tarp. The entrance doors appeared to be covered with brown paper and a metal fire escape runs along the exterior, tan-colored facade. Property records describe the building as a roughly 2,580-square-foot lot with a footprint of approximately 25 feet wide by 96 feet deep.
«We need your help to make this urgent project come to reality,» the group wrote on Friday amid a renewed fundraising drive, sharing images of the building’s interior in disrepair, including exposed wires and other structural damage.
The purchase and fundraising push reflect the group’s effort to expand its organizing infrastructure, raising questions about the scale and reach of its operations.
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The group previously said the decision to purchase the new building was driven in part by the need to replace its current leased space and create what it described as a permanent base that «cannot be threatened by landlords or political attacks.»
The building previously sold for about $4.3 million in 2022, meaning the People’s Forum paid $850,000 more just over two years later.
City records also show the building has active violations, including issues tied to elevators and the boiler system, with about $20,000 in civil penalties currently outstanding, suggesting the building requires substantial repairs.
«The condition of disrepair in this building will take millions of dollars to renovate,» the group said in the Friday post. It has so far raised around $570,000 for the renovations, according to its website.
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FAR-LEFT NONPROFITS IN THE HOT SEAT AS LAWMAKER EXPOSES THEM FOR ‘SOWING CHAOS’ IN US
The People’s Forum operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, allowing it to receive tax-deductible donations under U.S. law.
While the property is owned by the People’s Forum, city filings show David Chung, the group’s organizing director, signed a property ownership certification tied to the building in October 2025.
Chung, who was born in South Korea and grew up in New York City, has also been identified in prior Fox News Digital reporting as directing protest activity in New York City. In one protest, he referred to supporters as «comrades.»
He has also appeared at protests where he referred to the «brutality of this imperialist system» in the U.S. and led chants of «Free Palestine,» according to a video posted by the organization. In a caption accompanying the video, the group described the conflict in Gaza as a «genocide.»
The group said it has «trained over 40,000 people» through political education programs, positioning the space as a central node for activist organizing.
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David Chung, organizing director at The People’s Forum, left, and Manolo De Los Santos, the group’s executive director, right, are shown in a split image. Both have been involved in organizing protest activity tied to the group. (Nikolas Lanum/Fox News Digital)
In a video released as part of the fundraising push, Manolo De Los Santos, the group’s executive director, said the 200 organizations that make up the People’s Forum are «united in the struggle» for racial, gender, climate, and economic justice, with the new building aimed at playing a vital role in the group’s future operations.
De Los Santos, who was born in the Dominican Republic and grew up in The Bronx, described the People’s Forum as a «hub for learning and for organizing» and where «we strategize… and build solidarity to fight back.»
«Your contribution isn’t just a donation, it’s an investment in our collective future of freedom,» he said. «It’s a direct act of resistance. It’s how we protect spaces that allow us to organize and to win.»
The People’s Forum, De Los Santos and Chung didn’t respond to requests for comment.
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