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Saddam Hussein will be hanged within 30 days if he loses his appeal, Bassam Ridha, an adviser to Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, said yesterday. The appeal, due to start within a month, will be heard before a chamber of nine judges and could take several months to reach a conclusion. Mr Ridha said […]

For decades, few things have inspired as much fear and loathing in the executive suites of corporate America as the law firm of Milberg Weiss and the two outsized personalities who ruled the place, Mel Weiss and Bill Lerach. Through creativity and ruthlessness, they transformed the humble securities class-action lawsuit into a deadly weapon. Always,

For those seeking omens on Saddam Hussein’s day of judgment, Mother Nature obliged: Sunday dawned wet, cool and clean in Baghdad after overnight showers rinsed the city of several layers of desert sand. Late in the morning, Ahmed Hussein, a government-employed street sweeper, looked up into the overcast and still-rumbling skies and nodded approvingly. “This

Iraq’s prime minister said on Saturday he hoped Saddam Hussein gets “what he deserves” when judgement is delivered in his trial for crimes against humanity on Sunday, and called for calm amid fears of a violent backlash. If convicted, Saddam could be sentenced to hang. The army was on alert with all leave cancelled and

Coudert Brothers may be dead, but its problems only seem to be getting worse. The firm, which closed up shop in August 2005, is awash in debt, has declared bankruptcy, and was recently hit by by a pair of judgments totaling $2.8 million. Though the firm has paid off $23 million it owed to bank

The Enron scandal led former CEO Jeff Skilling to a lengthy prison sentence. But it also led to lucrative moves to law firms, promotions or academic careers for several of the federal prosecutors who dogged him and other corporate crooks. Two of the three prosecutors who headlined the trial of Skilling and former Enron Chairman

A few weeks after a judge ordered Richard Grasso to hand over an unspecified chunk of the pay he received as the head of the New York Stock Exchange, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has come up with some actual figures. Mr. Spitzer, who is suing to recover much of the $187.5 million awarded

The Swiss holders of the America’s Cup have launched legal action against an unidentified New Zealander in an attempt to regain a discarded piece of the prestigious yachting trophy. The Societe Nautique de Geneve (SNG) said on Friday at 0300GMT deadline for the individual to surrender a piece of the world’s oldest sporting trophy had

US District Judge I. Leo Glasser imposed the term and an $8 million fine yesterday in Brooklyn and ordered Kumar, 44, to report to a federal prison by Feb. 27. Kumar pleaded guilty in April to charges including conspiracy, fraud, and obstruction of justice. “His cupidity calls for a meaningful sentence,” the judge said. Glasser