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| Former Citibank employee sentenced for Salomon Brothers theft Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 03:33 PM PDT By Daniel Wiessner NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Citigroup Inc employee was sentenced to more than four years in prison for stealing $1.3 million from a 98-year-old former managing partner at investment bank Salomon Brothers. U.S. District Judge William Martini on Tuesday handed the sentence to Karen Febles, 48, an executive assistant at Citibank assigned to work for William Salomon from 2000 to 2011. Salomon Brothers was absorbed by Citigroup as part of a 1997 merger. The judge also ordered Febles to pay more than $1.1 million in restitution. Febles' attorney did not return a call for ... Full Story | Top |
| Manning acquitted of aiding enemy, still may face long jail term Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 02:59 PM PDT  By Medina Roshan and Scott Malone FORT MEADE, Md./BOSTON (Reuters) - A military judge on Tuesday found U.S. soldier Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge he faced for handing over documents to WikiLeaks, but he still likely faces a long jail term after being found guilty of 19 other counts. Colonel Denise Lind ruled the 25-year-old Army private first class was guilty of five espionage charges, among many others, for the largest unauthorized release of classified U.S. data in the nation's history. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bradley Manning acquitted of 'aiding the enemy' but not of espionage Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 01:01 PM PDT Pfc. Bradley Manning was found not guilty on Tuesday of "aiding the enemy" for his role in providing documents to the online site WikiLeaks, a charge that could have sent him to prison for life without possibility of parole. Full Story | Top |
| Accused tipper to SAC hedge fund arrested in insider-trading probe Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 12:24 PM PDT  By Emily Flitter and Dan Levine (Reuters) - A securities analyst accused of leaking secret information in 2009 about a potential partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft to an SAC Capital Advisors hedge fund manager and other traders was arrested and charged in California, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Sandeep Aggarwal, who worked as an analyst covering technology stocks before moving to India to start his own internet company, was arrested on Monday by FBI agents in San Jose while visiting the United States. ... Full Story | Top |
| Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 12:09 PM PDT  U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy — the most serious charge he faced — but was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges Tuesday, more than three years after he spilled ... Full Story | Top |
| SEC lawyer to NY jury: Ignore trader's 'fantasy' Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 11:22 AM PDT A government lawyer said a former Goldman Sachs vice president tried to draw jurors into a "fantasy world" to fend off accusations that he violated securities laws, but a defense attorney countered ... Full Story | Top |
| Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 11:15 AM PDT Army Pfc. Bradley Manning has been acquitted of aiding the enemy by sharing classified documents with the web site WikiLeaks, but he was found guilty of lesser espionage charges. Full Story | Top |
| Alleged tipster arrested in NY hedge fund case Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 10:50 AM PDT A California financial analyst provided inside information about a blockbuster deal between Microsoft and Yahoo to a portfolio manager at a hedge fund that's become the target of a sweeping white-collar ... Full Story | Top |
| Bradley Manning Found Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 10:09 AM PDT  Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private accused of delivering classified document to WikiLeaks, has been found not guilty of the most serious charge of "aiding the enemy." However, he has been found guilty of several violations of the espionage act. Full Story | Top |
| Rapper Kat Dahlia arrested on DUI charges Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 09:39 AM PDT  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Rapper Kat Dahlia has been arrested on charges of DUI and resisting arrest without violence. Full Story | Top |
| Gay men are still being arrested for being gay in Louisiana Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 09:17 AM PDT  Police face criticism over undercover operations aimed at stopping "crimes against nature" Full Story | Top |
| Russian Crime Novel Uses Fake Swedish Blurbs Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 07:27 AM PDT  Since Amazon eclipsed the bookstore, fake online book reviews have become ubiquitous. Eksmo, a publishing company in Moscow, however, has taken it a step further — it included fake quotes from fake newspapers on the cover of a "Swedish" crime novel released this summer. Full Story | Top |
| Judge rejects request to sequester Bulger jurors Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 06:12 AM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a bid by reputed Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger (BUHL'-jur) to sequester jurors while they deliberate racketeering charges against him, including his alleged participation in 19 killings. Full Story | Top |
| Saudi website editor sentenced to seven years in prison, lashes Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 04:41 AM PDT DUBAI (Reuters) - The editor of a Saudi Arabian social website has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for founding an Internet forum that violates Islamic values and propagates liberal thought, Saudi media reported on Tuesday. Raif Badawi, who started the "Free Saudi Liberals" website to discuss the role of religion in Saudi Arabia, has been held since June 2012 on charges of cyber crime and disobeying his father - a crime in the conservative kingdom and top U.S. ally. Al-Watan newspaper said the judge had also ordered the closure of the website. ... Full Story | Top |
| Police: Woman arrested in DC cathedral vandalism Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 02:28 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Police said they are investigating whether a woman arrested in the splattering of green paint inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathedral has any connection to two similar incidents on the National Mall. Full Story | Top |
| Kenyan sentenced to death for murder, kidnap of Britons Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013 12:44 AM PDT  MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - A Kenyan judge has sentenced a man to death for the murder of British tourist David Tebbutt and handed him a separate jail term for abducting the victim's wife from a remote beach resort near the Somali border. The murder and kidnap in 2011 shook Kenya's tourism industry. The wife, Judith Tebbutt, was taken away by boat and held by Somali pirates for six months. Soon afterwards, Kenya's military launched an offensive against al Shabaab militants then controlling much of Somalia. ... Full Story | Top |
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