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Accused Deputy Wants Case Moved
Michael Fogle was indicted April 29 on charges of Forgery, Theft, Attempted Theft, Obsruction of Justice, Official Misconduct and Perjury. He allegedly turned in time sheets which included hours he had not worked for federally funded overtime.
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:40A
Report: Mets are 'bleeding cash'
Fred Wilpon, in an interview with Sports Illustrated, acknowledged that the Irving Picard lawsuit could cost him the ownership of the Mets. "I think the club became in jeopardy when [Picard] filed [for] this billion dollars," Wilpon,
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:39A
Zahra's stepmother indicted on drug charges
Zahra Baker's stepmother has been charged with selling drugs from the North Carolina home where the murdered Australian schoolgirl went missing. Elisa Baker has already been charged with Zahra's murder, obstruction of justice for writing a fake ransom
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:39A
Out-of-line pensions
Having just read an article about new lawsuits on the ill-fated Tribune buyout of 2007, the thought struck me that a lawsuit against the grantors of these excessive pensions, and the recipients of them might be in order. The article stated, that if the
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:38A
Is this what you call justice Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Is it any wonder I and others are losing respect for our so-called justice system? Who's the bigger offender here? The notorious sexual groper, a man who fathers a child while married to someone else – or a teenager who was drunk and got into a fight?
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:38A
Secure Communities investigation planned
The program requires local law enforcement agencies to share the fingerprints of all arrested illegal immigrants with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It is supposed to allow ICE to determine when someone currently being held on any charge
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:38A
Prison watchdog warns about crowding
John Howard Association executive director John Maki tells the Chicago Tribune that in order for Illinois not to mirror California, the state must have a more effective justice system, “and heavy sentencing is not the best way of preventing crime.
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:38A
Russian court upholds guilty verdict against oil tycoon Khodorkovsky
The internationally condemned guilty verdict against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky has been upheld, although the appeals court did reduce his sentence by one year. A Moscow appeals court on Tuesday upheld the guilty verdict against former oil
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:37A
Garda probe Africa sex abuse claim
The minister said the Sexual Offences Act allows, in certain circumstances, for people to be tried here for sex crimes against a child carried out abroad. But he warned investigations and bringing prosecutions for offences overseas were very difficult.
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:37A
Anatomy of an injunction: CTB v News Group Newspapers and Imogen Thomas
On 16 May 2011 Mr Justice Eady granted a superinjunction protecting the identity of a man known to the court as CTB. Would you have done the same?
Updated: 05/24/2011 10:37A
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