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Today's Crime and Trials News Headlines - Yahoo! News: Fugitive Snowden short-listed for European rights prize Jury selection begins in insider trading trial of Mark Cuban N.Y. accountant sentenced to 18 years in prison for aiding al Qaeda Trial set for alleged Navy charity scammer in Ohio

Fugitive Snowden short-listed for European rights prize  Monday, Sep 30, 2013 12:25 PM PDT BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Fugitive U.S. intelligence analyst Edward Snowden has made the shortlist for a European human rights prize whose past winners include Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi. Snowden was nominated for the Sakharov Prize by the Green group in the European Parliament for what it said was his "enormous service" to human rights and European citizens when he disclosed secret U.S. surveillance programs. Snowden, who is in hiding in Russia, said in a statement read out to parliament that he was grateful lawmakers were "taking up the challenge of mass surveillance". ... Full Story	Top
Jury selection begins in insider trading trial of Mark Cuban  Monday, Sep 30, 2013 11:14 AM PDT By Jana J. Pruet DALLAS (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Monday in the civil trial of Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team, who faces charges of insider trading in shares of a little-known Internet search company nearly a decade ago. Cuban, 55, is accused of selling his 600,000 shares of the former Mamma.com Inc on June 28 and 29, 2004, soon after learning from Chief Executive Guy Fauré that the company was planning an equity offering that could dilute his 6.3 percent stake. The U.S. ... Full Story	Top
N.Y. accountant sentenced to 18 years in prison for aiding al Qaeda  Monday, Sep 30, 2013 09:56 AM PDT By Nate Raymond and Bernard Vaughan NEW YORK (Reuters) - An accountant who scoped out the New York Stock Exchange as a potential target for al Qaeda was sentenced on Monday to 18 years in prison. Sabirhan Hasanoff, a dual U.S. and Australian citizen living in New York, provided financial support to al Qaeda and conducted surveillance of the New York Stock Exchange in 2008, prosecutors said. He also sought to travel overseas to receive military training to fight Americans, they said. U.S. intelligence officials said in June that Hasanoff's arrest was indirectly the result of monitoring by the ... Full Story	Top
Trial set for alleged Navy charity scammer in Ohio  Sunday, Sep 29, 2013 11:19 PM PDT CLEVELAND (AP) — A one-time fugitive is headed to trial on charges of masterminding a $100 million multi-state fraud under the guise of helping Navy veterans. Full Story	Top

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