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Accused 'kingpin of cockfighting' arrested in Texas
Thu,26 Apr 2012 07:21 PM PDT
Reuters - EDINBURG, Texas (Reuters) - Deputies arrested a purported "kingpin of cockfighting" who they said profited off a Texas cockfighting ring that was the scene of an ambush last week where masked gunmen killed three men and wounded eight others, the local sheriff said on Thursday. Guadalupe Garza Herrera, who owns a chain of transmission repair shops in South Texas, was arrested and charged with cockfighting and engaging in organized criminal activity. Garza Herrera, 41, doubled as the "kingpin of cockfighting" locally, Sheriff Lupe Trevino said. ... Full Story | Top |
Head of Serious Fraud to step up crime fight - FT
Thu,26 Apr 2012 05:14 PM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - David Green, the incoming director of Britain's Serious Fraud Office, said in a newspaper interview published on Friday that he intends to step up the regulator's crime-fighting strategy. Green outlined his intention to investigate "significant strategic targets" and revamp the agency that has been criticised for its perceived failures in the last few years. "I would like to look to rebalance the relationship between prosecution and civil settlement. We are primarily a crime-fighting agency, and we've got to remember that," Green said in an interview with the Financial ... Full Story | Top |
Los Angeles Optimistic About Race, Crime 20 Years After Riots
Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:58 PM PDT
PR Newswire - LOS ANGELES, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Twenty years after Los Angeles burned in riots stoked by ethnic tensions and animosity between the police and many residents, Angelenos show signs of optimism about race relations and crime in their city, according to a new poll. Full Story | Top |
Crane owner acquitted in fatal Manhattan accident
Thu,26 Apr 2012 12:09 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Manhattan state judge on Thursday acquitted a construction company owner of manslaughter for a crane collapse that killed two workers in May, 2008 and raised fears about high-level building projects in New York. James Lomma, who owned the nearly 200-foot-tall crane that snapped in half and crashed onto a building on the Upper East Side, was acquitted of all charges. His companies, New York Crane & Equipment Corp. and J.F. Lomma, were also acquitted. The accident came two months after another crane operated by Lomma's company in Manhattan collapsed and killed seven ... Full Story | Top |
Illinois man's ire over Martin case prompts hate crime -police
Thu,26 Apr 2012 10:51 AM PDT
Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - An 18-year-old black man has been charged with a hate crime after he told police he punched and kicked a white man during a robbery in a Chicago suburb because he was angry about the Trayvon Martin slaying, authorities said on Thursday. Alton Hayes III and a 15-year-old boy attacked the man last week in Oak Park, Illinois. Hayes told police he chose the man because he was white and beat him because he was angry about the Martin case, Andy Conklin of the Cook County prosecutor's office said. ... Full Story | Top |
Executive to admit to auto parts price-fixing plot
Thu,26 Apr 2012 10:30 AM PDT
Associated Press - The Justice Department says an executive of Japanese-headquartered DENSO Corp. has agreed to plead guilty and to serve 14 months in prison in a probe of bid rigging, price fixing and other anticompetitive conduct in the auto parts industry. Full Story | Top |
85 arrested as Canadian students protest tuition
Thu,26 Apr 2012 10:26 AM PDT
Associated Press -  The Quebec government said Thursday it will resume talks with university student leaders after 85 people were arrested in riotous protests by thousands of people in Montreal over planned tuition hikes.
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Japan political power broker acquitted in scandal
Thu,26 Apr 2012 07:23 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Ichiro Ozawa, the veteran Japanese lawmaker who engineered the ruling party's rise to power, was acquitted Thursday in a political funding scandal that has damaged his chances of becoming prime minister.
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Warlord Convicted: Liberia's Charles Taylor Found Guilty of War Crimes
Thu,26 Apr 2012 02:50 AM PDT
Time.com - Once the commanding and charismatic warlord, Charles Taylor cut a distant, bewildered, even pathetic figure in the courtroom on Thursday as he listened to the verdict in his landmark trial by a U.N.-backed tribunal in The Hague. Taylor, the former Liberian president, was unanimously found guilty of sponsoring murderous rebel groups in neighboring Sierra Leone's civil war and orchestrating a macabre catalogue of war crimes in the volatile West African region. ... Full Story | Top |
Cheers, relief in S. Leone as Taylor found guilty
Wed,25 Apr 2012 05:54 PM PDT
AFP -  Sierra Leoneans cheered or quietly let the news sink in on Thursday as ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor was convicted of aiding and abetting a terror campaign by rebels during their country's 11-year civil war.
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NY, Fla. associates of 'mini-Madoff' arrested
Wed,25 Apr 2012 05:37 PM PDT
Associated Press - Four associates of a New York businessman convicted in a $400 million Ponzi scheme were arrested Wednesday on charges they pocketed nearly $38 million in commissions for their efforts in advancing the fraud, federal prosecutors said. Full Story | Top |
Los Angeles airport screeners arrested on drug, corruption charges
Wed,25 Apr 2012 05:15 PM PDT
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two security screeners at Los Angeles International Airport have been arrested on drug trafficking and corruption charges, accused of taking bribes to allow large narcotic shipments through the airport, authorities said on Wednesday. The pair were arrested along with two former airport screeners. Authorities said the screeners allowed drugs to pass through x-ray machine checkpoints in five incidents in exchange for payments of as much as $2,400. ... Full Story | Top |
John Edwards' defense attacks aide's credibility
Wed,25 Apr 2012 04:42 PM PDT
Reuters -  GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator John Edwards' defense on Wednesday accused an ex-aide of lying about critical facts in the federal campaign finance prosecution stemming from Edwards' failed 2008 presidential bid. Andrew Young, who wrote a tell-all book about efforts to hide Edwards' pregnant mistress during the campaign, is now the government's key witness. He denied being untruthful, but admitted having described his former boss as "despicable." "You really hate him, don't you?" defense attorney Abbe Lowell asked. ...
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Los Angeles airport screeners arrested on drug, corruption charges
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:50 PM PDT
Reuters -  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two security screeners at Los Angeles International Airport have been arrested on drug trafficking and corruption charges, accused of taking bribes to allow large narcotic shipments through the airport, authorities said on Wednesday. The pair were arrested along with two former airport security workers linked to five incidents in which authorities said they took payments of up to $2,400 to facilitate the passage of suitcases filled with drugs through X-ray machine checkpoints. ...
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Accused drug dealer says paid off fugitive Venezuela judge
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:32 PM PDT
Reuters -  CARACAS (Reuters) - An accused Venezuelan drug lord wanted by the United States said on Wednesday he made monthly payments to a former judge who recently embarrassed President Hugo Chavez with accusations of widespread manipulation in the OPEC nation's justice system. The statement by Walid Makled, considered a major trafficker who is now on trial in Venezuela, is likely to fuel criticism by opposition leaders and U.S. authorities over the socialist government's alleged complicity with the drug trade. ...
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Chained AIDS protesters arrested in Wall St. area
Wed,25 Apr 2012 02:17 PM PDT
Associated Press -  Longtime AIDS activists who have chanted in the streets for a quarter century joined supporters of the much newer Occupy Wall Street movement Wednesday in a march through lower Manhattan to demand better health services.
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