The reading of the verdict in the fraud and tax evasion trial of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was still continuing on May 26, and is expected to last into next week as Judge Irina Kolesnikova reads through the 1,000-page document. But no one is paying much attention to her words anymore: They repeat the prosecution’s
John Yoo doesn’t come across like a war criminal, though that’s one of the charges leveled against the smooth young law professor from the University of California at Berkeley’s storied Boalt Hall. With his even tones and calm demeanor, his natty suits, and warm charm, the 37-year-old constitutional scholar seems the embodiment of ”reasonable.” He’s
Alberto Vilar, who built a fortune after arriving in America as a refugee from the Cuban revolution, loved the opera more than anything. And he loved giving his money away almost as much. The investor Alberto Vilar in his East Side apartment. He is charged with defrauding a client of $5 million. Mr. Vilar, a
The prosecution and defense in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial both ended their cases on Friday, opening the way for closing arguments as early as Wednesday. The prosecution rested its rebuttal phase of the trial after showing jurors a videotape of Jackson’s young accuser being questioned by police. Jackson’s lead attorney, Tom Mesereau, had
Linsday Murdoch was in the Denpasar courtroom as Schapelle Corby’s guilty verdict and 20-year jail sentence were handed down. As the judges neared the end of their summing up at Denpasar District Court, close-up footage of Corby showed her biting her lip, talking to herself as if in prayer and looking distressed. She appeared short
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York and the state’s Insurance Department filed a civil lawsuit this afternoon against the insurance giant American International Group and its former top executives, accusing them of manipulating the company’s finances to deceive regulators and investors. The lawsuit, which was filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, said A.I.G.’s
Stung by the mass defection of all of its partners in London and Moscow, New York-based Coudert Brothers is exploring a possible lawsuit against San Francisco’s Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, the firm that hired the partners away. Coudert Brothers has retained Barry Ostrager, the co-head of the litigation department of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, to
Three years ago, West Palm Beach, Fla., plaintiffs attorney Jack Scarola was coming off a big civil fraud suit against Prudential Insurance in which three of his clients had received only $66,106 in damages and nine others had received nothing. At the time, a dejected Scarola described the verdict as “the highest-profile defeat I’ve sustained.”
British authorities have signed a court order after months of delay to extradite three former NatWest bankers to the US. The extradition order, requested by the Enron task force, comes after intense criticism of the Extradition Act 2003, rushed through parliament two years ago in the hope of expediting terrorist cases. The home secretary now
Jay Leno, the host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” testified today that the young accuser in the Michael Jackson child molesting trial called him several times to say he was a big fan of the talk show host, but that he never asked him for any money. Mr. Leno’s testimony did not bolster the strategy
