A federal judge spared the former executives of the classified ads website of more than half the convictions they were handed by a jury in November.
Case file: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/usa-v-lacey-order-of-acquittal.pdf
A jury convicts them then the judge just throws out some of the convictions??
Yes. The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure gives judges immense power.