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3 convicted, 6 acquitted in sex trafficking case
Fri,4 May 2012 03:22 PM PDT
Associated Press - A Tennessee federal jury split its verdict Friday against nine people accused of operating a sex trafficking ring across three states run mostly by Somali refugee gang members, convicting three men and acquitting six. Full Story | Top |
Jockey Robby Albarado arrested on assault charge
Fri,4 May 2012 12:22 PM PDT
Associated Press - Jockey Robby Albarado was arrested Friday and charged with accosting a woman who says she was breaking up with him, resulting in the veteran rider losing his spot in the Kentucky Oaks later in the day. Full Story | Top |
Nuclear researcher sentenced in France for plotting attack
Fri,4 May 2012 11:05 AM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris court sentenced a Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist to five years in prison on Friday on charges of helping to plot an attack in France in 2009 with an al Qaeda militant in Algeria. Adlene Hicheur, 35, a former researcher at the prestigious CERN physics lab in Geneva, was found guilty of providing logistical advice to Mustapha Debchi, a militant for al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), using encrypted messages sent via the Internet. ... Full Story | Top |
Nuclear researcher sentenced in France for plotting attack
Fri,4 May 2012 10:42 AM PDT
Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris court sentenced a Franco-Algerian nuclear physicist to five years in prison on Friday on charges of helping to plot an attack in France in 2009 with an al Qaeda militant in Algeria. Adlene Hicheur, 35, a former researcher at the prestigious CERN physics lab in Geneva, was found guilty of providing logistical advice to Mustapha Debchi, a militant for al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), using encrypted messages sent via the Internet. ... Full Story | Top |
Hong Kong tycoons' brother arrested in graft probe
Fri,4 May 2012 06:24 AM PDT
Associated Press -  The former chief executive of Hong Kong developer Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. was arrested in a high profile anti-corruption probe that has already targeted his billionaire brothers and a former top official.
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Third billionaire Kwok brother arrested in HK graft probe
Thu,3 May 2012 11:30 PM PDT
Reuters -  HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong developer Sun Hung Kai Properties said its former chairman Walter Kwok was arrested and later bailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption probe that has already included his two younger billionaire brothers and the former No.2 official in the city's government. Sun Hung Kai said in a statement that Walter Kwok, the eldest of three Kwok brothers and a non-executive board member, told the company he was arrested late on Thursday by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC). ...
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Sky Capital founder sentenced to 12 years prison
Thu,3 May 2012 07:59 PM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - The former chief executive of defunct brokerage Sky Capital LLC was sentenced on Thursday in a Manhattan federal court to 12 years in prison for defrauding investors, Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara said. Last year, Ross Mandell and former Sky broker Adam Harrington were each convicted by a Manhattan federal jury of securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud, as well as conspiracy to commit each of these offenses. ...
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Two arrested after immigrants found stashed in Texas houses
Thu,3 May 2012 05:52 PM PDT
Reuters - EDINBURG, Texas (Reuters) - Two men face charges of harboring illegal immigrants after authorities found 115 migrants inside three small South Texas houses, some of whom had not had access to food or water for days, federal court records published on Thursday showed. Police responded to an emergency call on Wednesday from an immigrant inside one of the stash houses. The home was bound with padlocks and chains from the outside, with bars covering the windows, said Oscar Trevino, a police spokesman in Edinburg, about 15 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. ... Full Story | Top |
Lockheed wins contract to run U.S. cyber crime lab
Thu,3 May 2012 04:46 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp on Thursday said it had won a contract worth up to $454 million to support the Pentagon's Cyber Crime Center, a government facility that investigates the growing number of attacks on U.S. government networks. Lockheed beat out General Dynamics Corp, which previously ran the center, to win the contract in January, but the award was held up by a protest filed with the General Accountability Office. ...
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Two arrested after 115 immigrants stashed in Texas
Thu,3 May 2012 03:37 PM PDT
Reuters - EDINBURG, Texas (Reuters) - Two men face immigrant harboring charges after authorities found 115 undocumented people inside three small South Texas houses, some of whom did not have access to food or water for days, according to federal court records published on Thursday. Police responded to an emergency call on Wednesday from an illegal immigrant inside one of the stash houses. The home was bound with padlocks and chains from the outside, with bars covering the windows, said Oscar Trevino, a police spokesman in Edinburg, about 15 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. ... Full Story | Top |
Amy Senser Found Guilty in Fatal Hit-and-Run Case
Thu,3 May 2012 02:52 PM PDT
Good Morning America -  Amy Senser, the wife of a former NFL star, was today found guilty in two of three felony counts related to criminal vehicular homicide.Senser was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident and failure to promptly report an accident, but was acquitted on the third felony charge of gross negligence. She was also convicted of misdemeanor careless driving.The 45-year-old showed little emotion as the verdicts were read. She stared straight ahead. Jurors looked tense at the conclusion of the highly publicized trial in Hennepin County District Court, in Minnesota. ...
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Former Development Contractor Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison and $10,000 Fine
Thu,3 May 2012 02:46 PM PDT
PR Newswire - KABUL, Afghanistan, May 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Afghan Special Anti-Corruption Tribunal Court sentenced Din Mohammad Ramin, a former employee on a project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine for soliciting and receiving a kickback of approximately $5,000. Full Story | Top |
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