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Facebook pictures helping police catch criminals
By Christine Hsu Facebook pictures are helping German police catch suspected criminals and find missing persons, according to the state's interior minister. Law enforcement in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use social media like their
Updated: 02/07/2012 12:50P
Watchdog group wants criminal investigation of Obama, Romney Super PACs
By NBC's Michael Isikoff A top campaign watchdog group today is calling for a Justice Department criminal investigation into Super PACs supporting President Obama's and GOP front runner Mitt Romney. Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21,
Updated: 02/07/2012 12:29P
Guatemala Traffickers Exploit Legal Tool to Fight Extradition
However, lawyers of some of Guatemala's most notorious suspected organized crime figures are repeatedly employing the amparo in what appears to be an effort to indefinitely delay the extradition of their clients. There at least nine high-profile
Updated: 02/07/2012 11:58A
FBI steps up inquiry into alleged payment of police by Murdoch employees
The FBI is conducting an investigation into possible criminal violations by Murdoch employees of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), a law intended to curb payment of bribes by US companies to foreign officials, a US law enforcement official
Updated: 02/07/2012 11:44A
Prescott hails hacking 'justice'
Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott said he had "finally got justice" after the Metropolitan Police force admitted it failed to warn victims and potential victims of phone hacking at the time of its original investigation into the scandal.
Updated: 02/07/2012 11:23A
Newspaper's detective 'may have broken law'
By Ian Burrell Paul Dacre, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail, yesterday conceded that a private detective the newspaper commissioned hundreds of times may have been engaging in criminal activity. Challenged at the Leveson Inquiry into media
Updated: 02/07/2012 11:07A
US Authorities Looking Into Murdoch Foreign Payments
By Reuters US authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible violations by employees of Rupert Murdoch's media empire of a US law banning corrupt payments to foreign officials such as police, law
Updated: 02/07/2012 11:07A
Senate Committee Clears Bill To Improve Employment Opportunities For Ex-Offenders
Under current law, a person convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude is disqualified from being employed by an alcoholic beverage licensee, unless they have received a Rehabilitation Employment Permit from the Director of the Division of
Updated: 02/07/2012 10:41A
Senate Committee Clears Bill To Improve Employment Opportunities For Ex-Offenders
Under current law, a person convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude is disqualified from being employed by an alcoholic beverage licensee, unless they have received a Rehabilitation Employment Permit from the Director of the Division of
Updated: 02/07/2012 10:41A
16:51 US authorities looking into Murdoch foreign payments
The US official said that if any law enforcement action was pursued by US authorities against Murdoch employees, it would most likely relate to FCPA. US authorities are stepping up investigations, including an FBI criminal inquiry, into possible
Updated: 02/07/2012 09:55A
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