Daily News Alert | Wednesday, May 30, 2012 8:30 PM PDT |
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Jurors in Edwards case finish 8th day of talks
Wed,30 May 2012 03:52 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The judge overseeing the campaign corruption trial of former-U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards sent the jury home Wednesday after eight days of talks without a verdict and released the four alternate jurors, who have garnered attention for their matching shirts but have not participated in the deliberations.
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Ex-Cameron aide arrested, charged with perjury
Wed,30 May 2012 03:18 PM PDT
Associated Press -  The former top media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron was arrested and charged with perjury Wednesday in the trial of a flamboyant ex-Scottish lawmaker — the latest case tied to allegations of wrongdoing by British tabloid newspapers.
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Attorneys want some Sandusky sex-abuse charges dropped
Wed,30 May 2012 01:21 PM PDT
Reuters -  BELLEFONTE, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Attorneys for former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with sexually abusing 10 boys, urged a judge on Wednesday to toss out the charges for three of the alleged victims. Defense attorney Joe Amendola told Judge Joseph Cleland the charges involving Victims 2, 6 and 8 should not be tried because evidence was hearsay and not allowed. But prosecutors in the high-profile case argued the circumstantial evidence was strong and should be presented to the jury when it convenes next month. ...
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Hedge fund boss found guilty in $600 million fraud
Wed,30 May 2012 10:01 AM PDT
Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Magnus Peterson, the boss of collapsed hedge fund business Weavering, has been found guilty of defrauding investors and ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. London's High Court ruled that Peterson, manager of the Weavering Macro Fixed Income fund, deceived clients and breached his duty of care to investors with a strategy that could not cope with the vagaries of markets at the height of the global credit crisis. ... Full Story | Top |
Thai webmaster sentenced for not removing comments
Wed,30 May 2012 06:27 AM PDT
Associated Press -  A court sentenced a Thai webmaster Wednesday to an eight-month suspended sentence for not moving quickly enough to delete online comments deemed insulting to the country's royalty in a case widely seen as a test of freedom of expression in Thailand.
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Timeline - UK top court decides WikiLeaks founder can be extradited
Wed,30 May 2012 04:45 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - April 5, 2010 - WikiLeaks releases a video showing a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Baghdad. Eight days later U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates criticises WikiLeaks, saying it released the video without providing any context explaining the situation. June 7 - The U.S. military says that Army Specialist Bradley Manning, who was deployed to Baghdad, has been arrested in connection with the release of the classified video. The U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
British PM's former spokesman arrested
Wed,30 May 2012 02:21 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's former spokesman has been detained on suspicion of committing perjury in a court case in Scotland, Scotland's Crown Office said on Wednesday. Andy Coulson told a court case in 2010, while he was working for Cameron, that he had had no knowledge of illegal activities by reporters while he was editor of the News of the World. Coulson has since been arrested over allegations of phone hacking at the tabloid. Coulson stood down in January 2011 after police reopened the hacking case. He has denied any knowledge of the crime. ...
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Ex-Cameron aide arrested over alleged perjury
Wed,30 May 2012 02:17 AM PDT
Associated Press - Police say the ex-top media adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron has been arrested on suspicion of perjury — the latest case tied to allegations of wrongdoing by British tabloid newspapers. Full Story | Top |
Thai webmaster sentenced in free speech case
Wed,30 May 2012 02:05 AM PDT
Associated Press - A Thai court sentenced a local webmaster Wednesday to an eight-month suspended sentence for failing to act quickly enough to remove Internet posts deemed insulting to the country's royalty in a case widely seen as a test of freedom of expression in this Southeast Asian nation.
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UK Supreme Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited to Sweden
Wed,30 May 2012 01:36 AM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has rejected an appeal by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, declaring that he can be on his extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault charges. Assange has been under house in Britain for months since being arrested on an international warrant. Assange has been fighting the warrant on the grounds that the Swedish judge who issued did not have the proper authority, a claim rejected by the British courts.
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