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Conrad Black has lost an appeal of fraud and obstruction of justice convictions and will have to serve out his sentence in a Florida prison for what the court described as a “misuse” of his position as Hollinger’s chief executive “for private gain.” The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal in Chicago affirmed the convictions Wednesday, […]

Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday. The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what

As Thursday brought the first criminal indictments tied to the subprime mortgage crisis, attention inevitably has swung to the prosecutors who are leading the charge. In the cases of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin, two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers, their chief adversary is Benton J. Campbell, the United States attorney for the Eastern

Senior Pentagon lawyers played a more active role than previously known in developing the aggressive interrogation techniques approved for use in 2002 at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to officials familiar with a Senate investigation. Investigators with the Senate Armed Services Committee have found documents from July 2002 showing that Pentagon lawyers

Sixty-seven individuals ranging from mortgage brokers to attorneys have been charged in the Chicago-area portion of a sweeping nationwide crackdown on mortgage fraud, officials announced Thursday. “The hundreds of millions of dollars of fraud, particularly home mortgage fraud, that we’re seeing around the country, not only damages financial institutions but more importantly makes like more

In the end, says the lawyer who defended the Milberg firm for more than four years, he had no choice: If Milberg was to survive as a law firm, it had to reach a deal with Los Angeles prosecutors to avoid a guilty plea or conviction in the federal probe of kickbacks to lead plaintiffs

Abu Qatada, the radical Islamic cleric described as Osama bin Laden’s “right-hand man in Europe”, has been released from jail after a judge ruled that there were no grounds to keep him in prison. The decision to allow him to return to his home in London – where he will receive around £1,000 per month