Monday, March 31, 2014

Daily News: Crime and Trials News Headlines - Christie's bridge scandal lawyers to be subpoenaed

Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:35 PM PDT

Christie's bridge scandal lawyers to be subpoenaed 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:35 PM PDT
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey legislative committee probing a political payback operation carried out by Gov. Chris Christie's aides and associates plans to subpoena interview transcripts and other documents from the lawyers the governor hired to carry out an internal investigation, the committee co-chairman said Monday.
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Man who shot at White House sentenced to 25 years 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 04:01 PM PDT
FILE - This Nov. 16, 2011 file photo shows law enforcement officers photographing a window at the White House in Washington, as seen from the South Lawn. A bullet hit an exterior window of the White House and was stopped by ballistic glass, the Secret Service said. An additional round of ammunition was found on the White House exterior. The bullets were found Tuesday morning. An Idaho man who pleaded guilty to shooting at and hitting the White House is set to be sentenced. Prosecutors say Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez should spend 27 years in prison for the 2011 shooting. His sentencing is scheduled for Monday afternoon. No one was injured, but prosecutors say Ortega-Hernandez hit the executive mansion about eight times and did nearly $100,000 in damage. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — An Idaho man who pleaded guilty to firing an assault rifle at the White House in 2011, striking the executive mansion more than half a dozen times, was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison.
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Man who shot at White House sentenced to 25 years in prison 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 03:19 PM PDT
By David Ingram WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Idaho man who fired a rifle at the White House in 2011 was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison, lawyers said. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 23, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., for firing at least eight rounds with a semi-automatic rifle. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were not in Washington at the time, and no one was hurt. Bullets narrowly missed Secret Service officers guarding the White House, U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen said in a statement.
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Jury selection begins in Apple-Samsung case 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 02:47 PM PDT
In this Aug. 27, 2012 photo, the Apple iPhone 4s, left, is displayed next to the Samsung Galaxy S III at a store in San Francisco. Apple already has won nearly $1 billion in judgments against Samsung over patent infringements involving older-model devices. Now Apple is alleging Samsung's newest devices, such as its Galaxy S III, also copied Apple technology. Jury selection for the case begins Monday, March 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The world's two leading smartphone makers were back in federal court on Monday, accusing each other of stealing ideas and features.
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'Ten Most Wanted' suspect pleads not guilty in NY 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 01:32 PM PDT
In this undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Juan Elias Garcia is shown. Garcia, a purported member of the MS-13 street gang charged in the killings of his 19-year-old girlfriend and her toddler son was ordered held without bail during his arraignment Monday, March 31, 2014. Speaking through an interpreter, Garcia, 21, entered a not guilty plea to murder, murder conspiracy and firearms charges before U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Bianco in Central Islip, on Long Island. (AP Photo/FBI)CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (AP) — A purported member of the El Salvador-based MS-13 street gang charged in the killings of his 19-year-old girlfriend and her toddler son was ordered held without bail during his arraignment Monday.
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Jury: White officers falsely arrested black teen 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 01:23 PM PDT
FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2010 file photo, Jordan Miles, then an 18-year-old high school student, talks about his hopes to go to college to study crime scene investigation at his home in Pittsburgh. Three white officers accused in a federal civil rights lawsuit of beating Miles falsely arrested him but didn't use excessive force, a jury found Monday, March 31, 2014, awarding him $119,000 in damages. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three white officers accused in a federal civil rights lawsuit of beating a black performing arts high school student falsely arrested him but didn't use excessive force, a jury found Monday, awarding him $119,000 in damages.
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Cameroon education minister arrested for suspected embezzlement 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 01:13 PM PDT
Cameroon's secondary education minister Louis Bapes Bapes was arrested and remanded in custody on suspected embezzlement of public funds, a court official and state radio in the central African nation said on Monday. Bapes Bapes is the first sitting minister to be arrested under President Paul Biya, 81, one of Africa's longest serving heads of state. Bapes Bapes, who as education minister managed one of the largest ministerial budgets in the country, was taken to the Special Criminal Tribunal in the capital on Monday.
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'Ten Most Wanted' suspect pleads not guilty in US 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 12:39 PM PDT
CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (AP) — An alleged member of a Salvadoran-based street gang suspected in the execution-style killings of his 19-year-old girlfriend and her toddler son has been ordered held without bail in New York.
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Former Italian PM Berlusconi acquitted in Unipol takeover case 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 10:11 AM PDT
Leader of Forza Italia party Berlusconi talks to reporters at the end of the consultations with Italian Prime Minister-designate Renzi at the Parliament in RomeAn appeals court on Monday acquitted former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi due to the statute of limitations in a case related to a 2005 attempt by insurer Unipol to take over bank Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL). In March 2013 Berlusconi was sentenced to one year in jail for allegedly leaking confidential information to a newspaper owned by his brother about an investigation into the takeover attempt. Italian daily Il Giornale published details of a wire-tapped phone conversation about the BNL deal between former centre-left leader Piero Fassino and the former head of Unipol.
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Brits arrested for Nigeria oil theft 'innocent': employer 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 08:07 AM PDT
File photo shows an oil flowstation at Warri South district of the Niger Delta, Nigeria, on June 4, 2004Two British nationals arrested for an alleged plot to steal oil from a pipeline in Nigeria are "totally innocent" and should be released immediately, according to their employer. Maritime security company Port2Port West Africa said the charges against Vincent Haywood and Piers Eastwood were baseless and that it was working with the Nigerian authorities to secure their release. "The arrest of our personnel is completely unjustifiable," company chairman Edward Aina said in a statement seen by AFP on Saturday. Former Royal Marine commandos Haywood, 32, and Eastwood, 39, were arrested on March 21 in Warri, southwest Nigeria, on suspicion of attempting to bribe a senior military commander.
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Libya: Militiamen arrested on Korean tanker freed 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 06:30 AM PDT
TRIPOLI (AP) — An official at the office of Libya's chief prosecutor says authorities have released three militiamen arrested on board a North Korean-flagged tanker that tried to illegally take oil out of the country.
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Factbox: Crime and corruption among Israel's political elite 
Monday, Mar 31, 2014 01:29 AM PDT
Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert was found guilty of corruption on Monday in a case revolving around a contested real estate deal during his time as Jerusalem mayor. Here is a look at some prominent Israeli politicians who were convicted of offences or forced to leave office because of indiscretions. * EHUD OLMERT: Olmert served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003 and became prime minister in 2006, but quit two years later when various allegations of corruption surfaced. He was largely acquitted in one major case in 2012, but any hopes he might have had of a political comeback have been killed off by Monday's bribery conviction tied to the construction of the Holyland apartment complex in Jerusalem.
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