Whatever prosecutors hoped to achieve by calling Michael Jackson’s former wife to the witness stand, it was the defense lawyers who left happy at the end of the day Thursday. Deborah Rowe, mother of two of Jackson’s children, testified that her former husband was “generous to a fault, a good father, great with kids, puts
The Supreme Court has heard its last argument of the session. Now the question is whether ailing Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has heard the last argument of his 33-year career on the high court. Rehnquist, 80, has been the focus of retirement speculation since disclosing in October that he had thyroid cancer. He defied
The deal market has returned, as big as Bill Clinton’s fabled appetites. Not since 2000, the last year of the Clinton presidency, have the transactional and equity markets been so fat. The bounce isn’t taking the markets back to the frothy levels of the late 1990s, but will certainly help inflate the revenues of dealmaking
New York State’s attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, filed a lawsuit against an Internet marketing company today, saying Intermix Media Inc. is the source of secretly installed spyware that has illegally sent pop-up advertisements and other intrusions to millions of computer users. Mr. Spitzer said the Los Angeles-based company failed to properly inform people that along
The federal government had a hard time three years ago obtaining a conviction of Arthur Andersen for having shredded its Enron documents as the energy company, its major client, was imploding. A jury in Houston took 10 days and declared itself deadlocked before convicting the accounting firm of a single criminal count of witness tampering.
A note taped to a Moscow courthouse door was all that awaited the hundreds of family, friends, lawyers, journalists and human rights activists who arrived on Wednesday expecting to hear the verdict in the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man. The long-awaited judgment had been postponed to May 16, the note said without
How did an erudite 60-year-old London lawyer married to a member of the British Cabinet get embroiled in the Italian Prime Minister’s tax trial? The prosecution alleges that Silvio Berlusconi used a complex network of offshore companies to boost artificially the price of film rights to reduce the business’s tax liabilities. By the time David
Jury selection for former Bank of America broker Theodore Sihpol III is set to begin today in Manhattan Supreme Court. In a 40-count indictment, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, as part of his office’s ongoing efforts to curb alleged abuses in the mutual fund industry, charged Sihpol for late-trading by helping hedge fund Canary Capital Partners
Michael Jackson’s legal team is undergoing a shakeup just days before the defense is expected to start presenting its case to jurors in the pop star’s trial on child molestation charges. Brian Oxman is no longer representing Jackson, according to a notice filed Monday in Santa Barbara County Superior Court. The document did not give
Arthur Andersen, the once-venerable accounting firm indicted, convicted and destroyed after the collapse of Enron, has reached an agreement to pay $65 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit filed against it by investors in WorldCom in the wake of an $11 billion accounting scandal. The terms of the settlement, which requires court approval, are to
