It was the end of a stunning week in which Mr. Craig fell from senior senator to Republican Party outcast amid reports that he had solicited sex in an airport restroom. “What is best for Idaho has always been the focus of my efforts, and it is no different today,” said Mr. Craig, standing with […]
The lawyer for Madeleine McCann’s parents accused sections of the media of “inhumane” scandal-mongering as the couple launched a defamation action against a Portuguese newspaper. Gerry McCann said he and his wife, Kate, were “deeply hurt” by a front-page story in Tal & Qual which claimed Portuguese police now believe they killed their daughter. The
Rebuilding was the developer’s dream-and his right, according to his lawyers from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. But after the towers fell, New York city and state authorities seemed to have done everything possible to elbow him out of the way, even as Silverstein ponied up $100 million a year to rent a hole in
In the moments after Senator Larry E. Craig was arrested in an airport men’s room, he accused an undercover police sergeant of entrapping him, emphasized that he did not want to go to court or to jail and frequently said, “I don’t recall,” when asked about his reported sexual advances to the officer. The tense
LAWFUEL – Survivors of the London bombings in July 2005 have started legal action against the Government over its refusal to set up a public inquiry into the attacks, in which four suicide terrorists murdered 52 people. Lawyers for a group of survivors and relatives of the dead have applied for a judicial review of
Sen. Larry Craig has good reason to regret his guilty plea to a count of disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport bathroom — according to legal experts, a good lawyer could have made it go away. But the Idaho Republican didn’t tell anyone and copped a plea after his now-famous encounter in June with an
Phil Spector has placed an all-or-nothing bet on the outcome of his murder trial as lawyers today completed the last procedural steps before closing arguments begin next week. The defense and prosecution said that the jury should only consider a charge of second-degree murder rather than a lesser charge such as manslaughter. Superior Court Judge
William Lerach, the high-profile plaintiffs’ securities lawyer who long has been a nemesis of corporate America, is retiring this week amid a criminal probe involving him. The move, long anticipated and confirmed by his law firm yesterday, comes as Mr. Lerach, 61 years old, has been a target of a federal investigation surrounding his former
Following the conviction of a few low-ranking soldiers for their roles in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, Lt. Col. Steven Jordan was found guilty Tuesday by a 10-member jury of only a single charge — failing to obey an order. The case is supposed to be the last of the criminal proceedings concerning this
Members of the Russian security services were involved in a conspiracy with organised crime to assassinate Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative journalist, the country’s chief prosecutor announced yesterday. Yuri Chaika said that ten people had been arrested for the murder, five of whom were officers of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB,
