A delicate police and Customs operation lasting almost a decade has ended with more than 75 years jail for money launderers based in Yorkshire. The passing of final sentences has also ended a long ban on reporting details of the case for fear of prejudicing trials and putting the patient work of detectives and financial […]
The individual has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23. Cho was enrolled as an undergraduate student in his senior year as an English major at Virginia Tech. Cho, a South Korean native, was in the U.S. as a resident alien with a residence established in Centerville, Va. Cho was living on campus in Harper Residence
KC Johnson does not fit the stereotype of blogger, journalist, legal analyst or lacrosse fan. Yet in the last year he has become all four. The bow tie-wearing, Harvard- educated professor is the prolific blogger behind Durham-in-Wonderland, writing hundreds of posts about the Duke University sexual assault scandal. A tenured history professor at Brooklyn College
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ assertion that he was not involved in identifying the eight U.S. attorneys who were asked to resign last year is at odds with a recently released internal Department of Justice e-mail, ABC News has learned. That e-mail said that Gonzales supported firing one federal prosecutor six months before she was asked
This past Easter weekend, senior lawyers took a break from the endless meetings, the constant torrent of e-mails and the never-ending demands from clients in order to spend precious time with their families. But how many managed to resist peeking at their BlackBerry or firing up their laptop while they were doing so? Much has
Stern filed the federal slander lawsuit against attorney John O’Quinn, who represents Smith’s estranged mother, Virgie Arthur, accusing him of suggesting to reporters that Stern was responsible for Smith’s death. The suit alleges John O’Quinn, attorney for Virgie Arthur, defamed Stern in statements made on television after the actress’ death in February. “The lawsuit focuses
The few spectators who have found their way to the 12th floor courtroom in Chicago where Conrad Black’s fraud trial is underway have witnessed a startling sight in recent days: a lawyer from a heavyweight Canadian legal firm accused of lying. Darren Sukonick, a 37-year-old partner at Torys LLP who testified that he billed Hollinger
Paul Wolfowitz’s future as World Bank president hung in the balance yesterday after the bank’s board issued a damaging finding on his role in the Riza affair and promised to reach a decision on what steps to take next “expeditiously”. The promise of further action kept up pressure on Mr Wolfowitz to step down of
Despite an apology from the prosecutor who pursued rape charges against their clients, the lawyers for three exonerated former Duke lacrosse players were weighing a lawsuit against him, and legal experts said their case could have merit. Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong’s issued a carefully worded apology to the players on Thursday, but it
EMI Group Plc, the world’s third- largest music label, settled a royalties dispute with the Beatles’ Apple Corps Ltd., in an agreement analysts said may lead to the band’s catalogue becoming available online. “We settled last month on mutually acceptable terms,” Amanda Conroy, a spokeswoman for London-based EMI, said today in an interview. A spokeswoman
