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NY businessman gets 20 years for Ponzi scheme

AP News 36 days ago

NY businessman sentenced to 20 years in prison for Ponzi scheme that took in more than $31M A New York businessman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme that took in more than $31 million. Richard ...

NH tax evader appealing sentence, conviction

AP News 52 days ago

NH woman appealing 35-year-sentence, conviction for home standoff A New Hampshire woman is appealing her conviction and 35-year prison sentence for plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at her home. Elaine Brown's lawyer filed a notice of appeal Friday, ...

Tax Evaders

AP News 55 days ago

In this courtroom sketch by Matt Sell, Elaine Brown sits in U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H., Friday, Oct. 2,2009. Brown was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for amassing an arsenal of weapons at her fortress-like home after she and ...

NYC Terror

AP News 63 days ago

,Salima Afzali, right, wife of Ahmad Wais Afzali, a New York City-based imam allegedly associated with terrorism suspect Najibullah Zazi leave U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, after a bail hearing for Afzali. Woman at left is ...

Ex-police officer gets 15 years in drug case

AP News 66 days ago

Ex-police officer in Calif. gets 15 years for taking drugs, supplying to others A former police officer in Southern California has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for taking narcotics from drug traffickers and peddling the drugs to other dealers. Alvaro ...

US Justice Dept wants changes to Google book deal

AFP American Edition 68 days ago

The US Justice Department advised a court to reject a legal settlement between Google and authors and publishers that would allow the Internet giant to scan and sell millions of books online. The Justice Department, in a filing with a US District ...

Pool of jurors evaporating in recession

Las Vegas Sun 83 days ago

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One by one, jurors answered Judge Robert A. Rosenberg when he asked whether serving a trial of four to five weeks would be a hardship. Chemelle Charles, a nurse, said it definitely would: ÒIÕm the only one working ...

Judge puts Fed's bailout revelations on hold

Reuters US Online Report Business News 90 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve won a delay of a federal judge's order that it reveal the names of the banks that have participated in its emergency lending programs and the sums they received. Chief Judge Loretta Preska of ...

Fed urges secrecy on banks in bailout programs

Reuters US Online Report Business News 91 days ago

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve asked a federal judge not to enforce her order that it reveal the names of the banks that have participated in its emergency lending programs and the sums they received, saying such disclosure would ...

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