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| Former Fiesta Bowl chief sentenced in scheme Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 08:29 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — A former longtime Fiesta Bowl chief executive was sentenced to eight months in federal prison on Thursday after acknowledging that he participated in an illegal campaign contribution scheme. Full Story | Top |
| One of U.S. Army's '15 Most Wanted' fugitives arrested in Florida Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 06:04 PM PDT One of the U.S. Army's "15 Most Wanted" fugitives was arrested in Florida on Thursday, more than 36 years after the man escaped from a federal prison in Kansas and went on the run. James Robert Jones, a U.S. Army private, was arrested as he showed up for work near Deerfield Beach, Florida, the U.S. Marshall's Service said in a statement. He had been living in Florida under an alias and admitted his real identity shortly after he was arrested. Four years later, Jones obtained a fake Florida driver's license, changed his birthdate but listed his actual address, the Marshals Service said. Full Story | Top |
| Contractor to plead guilty to giving Chinese woman secrets: U.S. Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 03:47 PM PDT A U.S. defense contractor in Hawaii was expected to plead guilty on Thursday to charges he passed national defense secrets, including classified information on joint training and planning exercises with South Korea, to a Chinese woman with whom he was romantically involved, prosecutors said. Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 60, a former U.S. Army officer, was working as a civilian employee of a defense contractor at U.S. Pacific Command in Oahu when he was arrested last year and charged with one count of communicating national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it and one count of willfully retaining documents related to national defense. He is expected to plead guilty to those charges in court on Thursday afternoon, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Tong, spokesman for the Honolulu-based U.S. Attorney's Office. Full Story | Top |
| Ohio man sentenced to five years in prison for enslaving woman and child Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 03:28 PM PDT By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - An Ohio man was sentenced on Thursday to five years in federal prison for his role in holding captive a cognitively disabled woman and her child and forcing the woman to perform manual labor and eat dog food, prosecutors said. Daniel J. Brown, 34, was one of four people charged with keeping the woman and child in an apartment in Ashland, Ohio, from 2010 to 2012 by using violence, threats and sexual assault. "The manner in which this young lady and her small child were treated during two years of involuntary servitude is beyond disturbing," Special Agent Stephen Anthony of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. Full Story | Top |
| Malian pleads not guilty in killing of U.S. diplomat in 2000 Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 02:45 PM PDT By Victoria Cavaliere NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Malian national pleaded not guilty in a New York federal court on Thursday to charges of assassinating an American diplomat in the Republic of Niger in Western Africa and attempting to kill a U.S. Marine who tried to intervene. The government of Mali extradited Alhassane Ould Mohamed, 43, to New York this week to face charges in the 13-year-old case. Wearing a blue prison jumpsuit, the bearded Mohamed, also known as "Cheibani," entered his not guilty pleas in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn with the help of a court-appointed attorney and an Arabic interpreter. Mohamed was charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with the fatal carjacking of Department of Defense official William Bultemeier as he left a restaurant in Niamey, Niger, on December 23, 2000. Full Story | Top |
| European lawmaker sentenced to three-and-half years after bribery retrial Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 01:11 PM PDT  A former member of the European Parliament was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in jail by a Vienna court on Thursday after his retrial in a cash-for-laws case, Austrian media reported. Ernst Strasser, also an ex-Austrian interior minister, originally got a four-year term in 2013 after he was filmed by reporters from Britain's Sunday Times newspaper offering to propose amendments to European laws in exchange for 100,000 euros ($139,000) a year. Full Story | Top |
| SEC sues Canadian fugitive for 'scalping' investors Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 12:59 PM PDT The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued and won an asset freeze against a Montreal man who in 2012 became a fugitive after being charged in Canada with tax evasion, and accused him of securities fraud known as "scalping." John Babikian, 26, was accused by the SEC of reaping an illegal $1.9 million profit by selling shares of a thinly traded coal mining company he touted online without revealing he had already bought the shares, and planned to sell them after his touts boosted their price. According to the SEC complaint filed on Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Babikian had scalped investors by amassing America West Resources Inc shares before touting the stock on February 23, 2012 through two websites he controlled, AwesomePennyStocks.com and PennyStocksUniverse.com. The SEC said the touts contained America West's stock ticker and headlines such as "Brand new pick coming March 1st!", and caused other investors to quickly drive up the stock's price. Full Story | Top |
| Philly abortion tech is sentenced to 5-10 years Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 12:35 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former medical technician at a Philadelphia abortion clinic that authorities called a "house of horrors" was sentenced to five to 10 years in prison for her role in the 2009 overdose death of a patient. Full Story | Top |
| Lawyer: Conn. home invasion convict tried suicide Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 11:26 AM PDT NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — One of two convicts sentenced to death in a Connecticut home invasion sent suicidal letters before he was found unresponsive in his cell Monday, his attorney said Thursday. Full Story | Top |
| Bayern Munich president sentenced to prison Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 11:09 AM PDT  Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness was found guilty and sentenced to 3½ years in prison on Thursday for evading millions of euros (dollars) in tax through an undeclared Swiss bank account. The 62-year-old ... Full Story | Top |
| Former Berlusconi secretary arrested with 24 kg of cocaine Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 10:50 AM PDT Italian police on Thursday arrested Federica Gagliardi, a woman who acted as Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's secretary at two international summits in Canada in 2010, on suspicion of smuggling 24 kg of cocaine on a flight from Venezuela. Gagliardi, who is in her early 30s, was taken into custody at Rome's Fiumicino airport shortly after arriving on a flight from Caracas after police found the drugs in her carry-on luggage, a finance police spokesman said. Officials provided no further details, but according to Italy's anti-drug police estimates the local street value of 24 kg of pure cocaine, after it is cut with other substances to be sold on, would be about 6.7 million euros ($13.21 million). The police did not say whether they found pure cocaine. Full Story | Top |
| Ukrainian gas oligarch Firtash arrested in Vienna on FBI warrant Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 10:46 AM PDT  By Michael Shields and Angelika Gruber VIENNA (Reuters) - Industrialist Dmytro Firtash, one of Ukraine's most influential oligarchs with close links to Russia through his gas interests, has been arrested in Austria at the request of the United States. Austria's Federal Crime Agency said on Thursday that Firtash was held on Wednesday on suspicion of violating laws on bribery and forming a criminal organization in the course of foreign business deals. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry said: "Our embassy in Austria has confirmed that Dmytro Firtash has been detained at the request of the (U.S.) Federal Bureau of Investigation. Full Story | Top |
| Bolivian anti-corruption cop found guilty of extortion in Miami Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 10:34 AM PDT A former anti-corruption official in Bolivia's government has been found guilty in a U.S. federal court of trying to extort tens of thousands of dollars from the former owner of a Bolivian airline. A jury convicted Mario Ormachea Aliaga, a high-ranking police officer and ex-deputy chief of Bolivia's anti-corruption unit, on two counts of extortion on Wednesday. FBI agents arrested Ormachea in a sting operation in Miami on August 31 after he met with Humberto Roca, the former president of AeroSur, once Bolivia's largest private airline. According to court documents, Ormachea traveled to Miami to meet with Roca, who faces charges of illegal enrichment in Bolivia. Full Story | Top |
| French journalist arrested in Ukraine's Crimea Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 10:17 AM PDT A French television journalist was arrested in Ukraine's Crimea on Thursday, a spokesman for his station said, days after Reporters Without Borders warned media were being targeted in the region. David Geoffrion, working for Canal+, was detained by pro-Russian gunmen at a military installation in the Ukrainian town of Simferopol, said a French source with knowledge of the situation who asked not to be named. Tension in the Black Sea peninsula has been growing since pro-Russian separatists took control of the regional parliament, declaring Crimea part of the Russian Federation and announcing a referendum for March 16 to confirm this. In little more than a week, Russian forces have taken over military installations across Crimea, home to the Russian Black Sea fleet. Full Story | Top |
| Wealthy Ukrainian businessman arrested in Vienna Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 09:16 AM PDT VIENNA (AP) — Dmytro Firtash, one of Ukraine's most influential oligarchs, was under arrest in Vienna and facing possible extradition to the U.S. Thursday, after being detained in the Austrian capital on an American warrant charging him with bribery and other offenses. Full Story | Top |
| Sudan rebel chiefs sentenced to death in absentia: lawyer Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 09:10 AM PDT  These include Malik Agar and Yassir Arman," said Al-Tigani Hassan, a lawyer who was present for the verdict in Singa town, the capital of Sennar state. Agar, formerly the elected governor of Blue Nile state, is chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), and Arman is secretary general of the movement. The rebels have been fighting in South Kordofan and Blue Nile for almost three years. "It is a drama, baseless drama," SPLM-N spokesman Arnu Ngutulu Lodi told AFP after the verdict. Full Story | Top |
| Bollywood's Saif Ali Khan pleads not guilty to assault Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 09:10 AM PDT  Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan appeared in court on Thursday and denied breaking the nose of a South African businessman at a luxury hotel two years ago, a report said. The alleged incident happened in Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace hotel in February 2012, where the businessmen accused Khan of pushing him and punching him in the face in the Japanese restaurant Wasabi. "The court today framed charges against Khan and his two friends -- Shakeel Ladak and Bilal Amrohi -- under section 325 (assault) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code," public prosecutor Wajeed Sheikh said, according to the Press Trust of India news agency. The trio pleaded not guilty after the charges were read out against them in the Mumbai court, PTI said. Full Story | Top |
| AFGE Union Expresses Disappointment in Plea Deal in Case of Murdered Correctional Officer Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 08:35 AM PDT WASHINGTON, March 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Federation of Government Employees today expressed its profound disappointment regarding a plea deal that will allow one of two inmates charged with killing a correctional officer in 2008 to escape the death penalty. The case involves Jose Rivera, a 22-year-old correctional officer and Navy veteran, who was stabbed to death while working at U.S. Penitentiary Atwater in California. Two inmates were charged in the murder: James Ninete Leon Guerrero and Joseph Cabrera Sablan. Leon Guerrero agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence, under a plea bargain approved by Attorney General Eric Holder and made public by the Justice Department on March 7. Full Story | Top |
| Eric Cantona arrested for assault in London Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 07:50 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested former Manchester United great Eric Cantona and cautioned him for assaulting a man in London. Full Story | Top |
| Cantona 'arrested over assault' Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 07:31 AM PDT  Former Manchester United star Eric Cantona has been arrested and cautioned by police for assaulting a man in London, British media reported on Thursday. "Police were called to Regent's Park Road, NW1, at 12.55hrs (1255 GMT) on Wednesday, 12 March, following reports of an assault," the Metropolitan Police said in a statement sent to AFP. "Officers from Camden borough attended and a man in his mid-40s was arrested on suspicion of common assault. He was taken into custody and subsequently cautioned for common assault. Full Story | Top |
| Ukrainian oligarch Firtash arrested in Vienna: sources Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 05:41 AM PDT VIENNA (Reuters) - The Ukrainian businessman arrested in Vienna this week at the request of U.S. authorities is Dmytro Firtash, Austrian government sources said on Thursday. Firtash, 48, is one of Ukraine's richest men, an oligarch whose close links to Russia and involvement in the gas, chemicals, media and banking sectors gave him substantial influence, notably during the administration of recently ousted, Moscow-backed President Viktor Yanukovich. The Federal Criminal Office, had identified the man taken into custody only as Dmitry F. and said he had been under investigation by the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| New Hampshire Is On Track to Repeal the Death Penalty Wednesday, Mar 12, 2014 11:20 PM PDT  The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to repeal the state's death penalty, leaving only the state Senate standing in the way of the effort to abolish capital punishment. The legislative body voted overwhelmingly, 225 in favor of repeal and 104 opposed. Governor Maggie Hassan has already said that she will sign the appeal, provided that the bill does not apply to the state's only current death row inmate, Michael Addison, who was convicted in 2006 of killing a police officer. An proposed amendment to also apply the law to the Addison case failed by a vote of 245–85, while an amendment to retain the death penalty for the murders of children 12 and under also failed, 243–87. Full Story | Top |
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