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| Washington state ex-campaign director sentenced for embezzlement Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 07:35 PM PST By Jonathan Kaminsky OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - The former head of a Democratic Party fundraising committee in Washington state has been sentenced to over a year in prison for embezzling in excess of $300,000 in campaign contributions to feed an alcohol-fueled gambling habit, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Michael King, 32, pleaded guilty in October to four counts of first-degree theft and four counts of second-degree theft. He concealed the theft from the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee in part by reporting it as a series of phony reimbursements for political polling, according to court documents. King County Superior Court Judge John Erlick sentenced King to just over one year in prison to be followed upon his release by an equal term in community custody, the state's version of parole. Full Story | Top |
| Teen pleads not guilty in NYC shooting over 'Biggie' coat Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 01:50 PM PST By Elizabeth Dilts NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City teen accused of shooting two people over a trendy puffy coat at a crowded midtown Manhattan skating rink pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to attempted murder and other charges. At the arraignment of Cory Dunton, 16, in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, a prosecutor said both of the male victims, ages 14 and 20, were struggling to recover from injuries suffered in the November 9 shooting at the ice rink in back of the New York Public Library. The younger victim remains hospitalized and unable to move from the waist down, said New York Assistant District Attorney James Lin. Judge Renee White denied bail for Dunton after prosecutors said he posted several threatening messages on Facebook before his arrest on November 10, including one that said: "I'm going out with a bang." Standing beside Dunton, who wore a black sweatshirt and whose hair was disheveled, defense lawyer Sam Roberts of the Legal Aid Society dismissed the online posts as the remarks of a scared teen. Full Story | Top |
| Romanian ex-ministers sentenced in treason case Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 12:51 PM PST Romania's top court has sentenced former Economy Minister Codrut Seres to six years in prison for commercial espionage and treason in the sale of companies. Former Communications Minister Zsolt Nagy was ... Full Story | Top |
| Dying Iowa inmate, sentenced to life at 15, granted parole Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 11:28 AM PST A terminally ill Iowa inmate, who was only 15 when she was sentenced to life in prison for murdering an elderly relative, is being paroled, authorities said on Tuesday. The Iowa Parole Board decision allows the cancer stricken Kristina Fetters, now 33, to become the first Iowa inmate serving a life term without possibility of parole to have her sentence altered following a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year making life without parole unconstitutional for juveniles. The parole board decision Tuesday requires Fetters to be transferred to a hospice and to remain there unless and until her medical condition changes, said Fred Scaletta, a spokesman for the Iowa Department of Corrections. She also is to have "intense supervision, including regular contact from a parole officer," Scaletta said. Full Story | Top |
| Mississippi man pleads not guilty in ricin-laced letters case Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 09:43 AM PST  (Reuters) - A Mississippi man accused of sending poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and other officials, and pinning them on an Elvis impersonator, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a new charge that he tried to continue the scheme from jail. A federal indictment on November 20 charged James Everett Dutschke with attempting to recruit someone to produce ricin and send it in a letter to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi. The grand jury found that Dutschke sought to make it appear as though the letter was from the same man, Paul Kevin Curtis, whom he previously tried to frame. Dutschke has been jailed since his arrest in April, when authorities first accused him of sending ricin-tainted letters to Obama, Wicker and a Mississippi judge. Full Story | Top |
| Miss. ricin letters suspect pleads not guilty Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 08:01 AM PST JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man charged with sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials has pleaded not guilty to charges that he tried to recruit someone to send another ricin-tainted letter. Full Story | Top |
| Jury selection resumes for ex-BP engineer's trial Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 07:24 AM PST Jury selection has resumed for the Justice Department's case against a former BP drilling engineer charged with deleting text messages and voicemails about the company's response to its massive 2010 oil ... Full Story | Top |
| Bolshoi Ballet Dancer Sentenced for Acid Attack on His Boss Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 04:38 AM PST  A Russian court convicted three men today for a January acid attack that nearly blinded the Bolshoi Ballet's artistic director Sergei Filin, bringing to a close a case that exposed the intricate, ugly internal politics of the artistic behemoth. Soloist dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko received a six-year prison sentence for ordering the strike, which was actually carried out by former convict Yuri Zarutsky, who was sentenced to ten years. The prosecutor representing Filin had asked for a nine-year punishment for Dmitrichenko, who claimed he had asked Zarutsky to harm Filin, but did not expect such a severe assault . Sergei Filin, artistic director of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, attends a meeting with dancers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, September 17, 2013. Full Story | Top |
| Egyptian blogger arrested in widening crackdown Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 02:28 AM PST  A prominent Egyptian blogger said on Tuesday he had been arrested, the latest political activist to be detained in a widening crackdown on dissent by the army-backed government. Egyptian authorities have extended a crackdown on Islamists, in which they have killed hundreds and arrested thousands since President Mohamed Mursi was ousted in July, to cover political activists who have become more vocal against the military. In a recent tweet referring to the detention of another activist, the blogger, Ahmed Douma, described the government as criminal and said it would fall. The state news agency said Douma was detained in connection with violence at a protest outside a courthouse on Saturday where Ahmad Maher, a symbol of the popular uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011, turned himself in. Full Story | Top |
| Bolshoi dancer found guilty in attack on its chief Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 02:12 AM PST  MOSCOW (AP) — A Bolshoi star dancer and two other men on Tuesday were convicted for their parts in an acid attack on the ballet's director which exposed vicious backstage bickering and intrigue at the renowned theater. Full Story | Top |
| Jury selection for ex-officer in Katrina shooting Tuesday, Dec 03, 2013 01:51 AM PST NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge in New Orleans said he expected to seat a jury on Tuesday to hear the retrial of a former New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a man outside a strip mall after Hurricane Katrina. Full Story | Top |
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