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Top Justice officials linked to mortgage banks
US Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies at the center of alleged foreclosure
Updated: 01/20/2012 09:42A
Megaupload Charged with Widespread Online Copyright Infringement
The indictment alleges that the criminal enterprise is led by Kim Dotcom, aka Kim Schmitz and Kim Tim Jim Vestor, 37, a resident of both Hong Kong and New Zealand. Dotcom founded Megaupload Limited and is the director and sole shareholder of Vestor
Updated: 01/20/2012 09:31A
US AG Eric Holder, DoJ Head Lanny Breuer Linked To Banks Accused Of
By Scot J. Paltrow Jan 19 (Reuters) - US Attorney General Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's criminal division, were partners for years at a Washington law firm that represented a Who's Who of big banks and other companies
Updated: 01/20/2012 09:28A
Megaupload assembles worldwide criminal defense
The US Justice Department has accused DotCom, 37, along with six other people, of operating a huge criminal enterprise as part of his cyberlocker service Megaupload, which over the past several years has emerged as one of the most popular destinations
Updated: 01/20/2012 09:23A
Megaupload shut down for copyright infringement
“This criminal case, more than two years in development, shows that law enforcement can take strong action to protect American intellectual property stolen through sites housed in the United States. Similar tools are needed to go after foreign-based
Updated: 01/20/2012 09:16A
Why we need a law against online piracy
A great deal of misinformation about the bill has been spread around the Internet. This information does a disservice to consumers, and it is being disseminated by those who have profited from working with illegal websites that steal and sell America's
Updated: 01/20/2012 09:08A
Court ruling ignored studies that show that eyewitness testimony is unreliable
For his 2011 book, "Convicting the Innocent: Where Criminal Prosecutions Go Wrong," University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett researched the cases of 250 people who first were found guilty - some sentenced to be executed - and later found
Updated: 01/20/2012 08:50A
7 Charged as FBI closes a top file-sharing site over piracy
By BEN SISARIO, The New York Times NEW YORK — In what the US authorities have called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have seized the Web site Megaupload and
Updated: 01/20/2012 08:44A
Law Commission for Making Honour Killing Non-Bailable
"Such a move will be against the cardinal principles of jurisprudence accepted and absorbed into our criminal justice system. If burden of proof has to be shifted in such a case, logically, it will have to be done in a large number of other heinous
Updated: 01/20/2012 08:42A
Maldives vice president wants release of detained top judge, in sign of
Vice President Mohammed Waheed Hassan criticized the “extrajudicial arrest” this week of Criminal Court Chief Justice Abdulla Mohamed after he ordered the release of a detained government critic. Hassan told The Associated Press the detention sets a
Updated: 01/20/2012 08:31A
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