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The theme song of the Anna Nicole Smith saga should be a tweak on Warren Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns and Money.” Substitute drugs for guns. FOX news reported about Anna Nicole’s shrink and best friend sending a fax to a Los Angeles doctor asking for at least five different kinds of major painkillers in high doses. […]

As more Republicans called last week on Alberto R. Gonzales to resign, President Bush’s aides began to look beyond the attorney general and focus on preventing the controversy over the firing of federal prosecutors from spreading — and endangering Karl Rove, the president’s top political advisor. “This is not going to go away,” warned Joseph

Valerie Plame, the CIA officer whose leaked identity triggered a federal investigation that reached into the White House, today publicly refuted claims that she was not a covert employee and accused the White House and State Department of “carelessly and recklessly” destroying her cover for political purposes. In sworn testimony before the House Committee on

One of Japan’s most controversial businessmen, Takafumi Horie, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail after being found guilty of securities fraud. The 34-year-old was found guilty of falsifying profit figures at the internet company Livedoor, where he used to be chief executive. Mr Horie shook up Japan’s staid business culture by launching Japan’s

Conrad Black’s lawyers barred a string of potential jurors who showed distaste for super-high executive salaries as a Chicago court selected the jury that will try the former Daily Telegraph proprietor for an alleged $84m (£43m) fraud. The fallen media baron emerged from court last night expressing confidence in the jury of 12 ­ and

A California judge today dismissed charges against Patricia C. Dunn, the former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard, in a corporate spying case that grabbed national headlines and prompted Congressional hearings on protection of personal phone records. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Ray Cunningham also agreed to dismiss a reduced misdemeanor charge against three other defendants in

The hearings were held as the US military determined whether 14 of the prison’s highest profile inmates should be prosecuted. A transcript released by the Pentagon of the hearing showed that reported mastermind of the attacks Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, confessed not only to the 9/11 attacks but to others as well. The hearings are to

Every week or so, somebody asks Ginger K. Renner to verify that a painting is an original by C.M. Russell, an artist known for his early 20th-century depictions of cowboys and Indians. More often than not, Mrs. Renner declares the artwork a fake, and most people accept that as the last word since she is

Ahead of them lies four months arguing what is one of the most anticipated white-collar trial for years. When the jury returns its verdict, the man who once ran one of the most influential media empires in the world will either face decades of jail time or walk away a free man. For Lord Black,