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| Convict Berlusconi braces for key court date Wednesday, Apr 09, 2014 07:08 PM PDT  Italy's Silvio Berlusconi braced for a crucial court date on Thursday that will result in the three-time former prime minister losing freedom of movement for a few months although avoiding actual prison time. The court in Milan has to issue its ruling by April 15, deciding whether the disgraced billionaire tycoon will do community service or be placed under house arrest following a conviction for tax fraud from last year. The court appointment is a further humiliation for Berlusconi, who has already been expelled from parliament over his conviction and is banned from standing as a candidate in elections for six years. The hearing in Milan is due to start at 1500 GMT and Berlusconi's presence cannot be excluded, although he most often skips his many court appointments as defendants in Italy are not compelled to attend. Full Story | Top |
| Miami internal affairs cop arrested on cocaine trafficking charges Wednesday, Apr 09, 2014 02:49 PM PDT By Kevin Gray MIAMI (Reuters) - An internal affairs officer with the Miami-Dade Police Department has been charged with helping drug smugglers and orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot to have assassins dressed as cops kill their rivals, officials said. Ralph Mata, 45, appeared in a federal court in Miami on Wednesday, a day after he was arrested in connection with a scheme to smuggle cocaine from the Dominican Republic to New Jersey and elsewhere, according to federal prosecutors. Mata, a 22-year law-enforcement veteran known as "The Milk Man," discussed a plot with the drug dealers to arrange for two people to wear police uniforms and badges and to kill two of their rivals, according to a criminal complaint. Full Story | Top |
| Attorney Carl David Ceder Selected for List of Top Rated Lawyers in TX Wednesday, Apr 09, 2014 11:30 AM PDT PLANO, Texas, April 9, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 2014 list of top rated attorneys in TX as published in the April, 2014 issue of Texas Monthly includes The Law Offices of Carl David Ceder of Plano, TX. Carl David Ceder, Attorney at Law, is a DFW Criminal Defense Attorney dedicated to protecting the rights of the accused, throughout all phases of the criminal justice system process in Texas. Full Story | Top |
| Armed Russian female 'spy' arrested in Ukraine: official Wednesday, Apr 09, 2014 11:25 AM PDT  Ukraine on Wednesday detained a young Russian activist on suspicion of organising sabotage during pro-Kremlin protests in which she claims to have shot and wounded several people. Ukraine's SBU security service said that 22-year-old Maria Koleda had been arrested in southern Ukraine "while carrying out a mission from the (Russian) secret services to destabilise the situation". When arrested, Koleda was carrying written instructions on how to train sabotage groups, as well as a non-lethal pistol that had been adapted to fire live ammunition, the SBU said. It said Koleda had told her Russian "spymaster" that her fighters had an "unlimited supply" of home-made explosives. Full Story | Top |
| Crime breeds mob 'justice' in Argentina Wednesday, Apr 09, 2014 11:05 AM PDT  Argentina has been shaken by a recent wave of incidents of mob "justice," underscoring public frustration with rising crime and ineffectual police work. What do you expect?" 64-year-old Jose Villalba, the superintendant of a building in downtown Buenos Aires told AFP, expressing sympathy with the vigilantes. So far, only one person has died in the mob attacks, an 18-year-old who was beaten to death after a purse snatching in a poor part of the city of Rosario, 300 kilometers north of Buenos Aires. But reports of mob justice have surged in the past two weeks in places like Buenos Aires's upscale Palermo neighborhood and five provinces. Full Story | Top |
| Anglo Irish ex-chairman found not guilty on some charges of illegal lending Wednesday, Apr 09, 2014 10:17 AM PDT By Sarah O'Connor DUBLIN (Reuters) - A court has found former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick not guilty of six charges of illegally lending money, the trial judge said on Wednesday. Judge Martin Nolan at the Circuit Criminal Court also found another former executive of the now-liquidated bank, Pat Whelan, not guilty of seven charges that he was privy to the fraudulent alteration of loan facility letters. FitzPatrick was found not guilty of charges of having provided loans to the wife and five children of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn to enable them to buy shares in the bank, boosting its stock price. FitzPatrick, who was previously chief executive of the bank until 2005, still faces a further 10 counts of providing unlawful assistance to investors known as the "Maple Ten". Full Story | Top |
| Crime king Jo Nesboe's tale of revenge has echoes of his own father Wednesday, Apr 09, 2014 07:16 AM PDT  By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) - Jo Nesboe, one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers, explores revenge and father-son dramas in his latest thriller "The Son", which tracks his own story of learning his father had fought with Hitler's army. Together with Sweden's Stieg Larsson and fellow Norwegian Karin Fossum, Nesboe is one of the biggest stars of the Nordic Noir genre that has enthralled legions of international readers by exploring the darker side of these prosperous societies. Full Story | Top |
| Officials sentenced in tomato price-fixing scam Wednesday, Apr 09, 2014 07:03 AM PDT Two former officials with one of the nation's leading tomato processing companies have been sentenced in a federal case. Randall Rahal of Nantucket, Mass., was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison. ... Full Story | Top |
| Death penalty phase next in Arizona murder case Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 11:04 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — The same jury that convicted an Arizona woman of murder in the hammer-bludgeoning death of her husband will immediately begin hearing testimony to decide whether she lives or dies for the crime. Full Story | Top |
| Woman found guilty in 1996 killing of ex-husband Tuesday, Apr 08, 2014 11:03 PM PDT  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — After spending years abroad living a lavish lifestyle across Europe, a once-prominent socialite has been convicted in the 1996 car bomb killing of her ex-husband in southern Arizona. Full Story | Top |
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