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Israel’s attorney general said yesterday he plans to charge President Moshe Katsav with rape, abuse of power and other sexual offences, turning a seven-month investigation into one of several scandals to hit the government. Mr Katsav, who as president has largely ceremonial powers, will have the chance to make his case in one final hearing […]

Shares in online gaming firms tumbled on Monday following news of a fresh probe into online gambling in the United States. The U.S. Department of Justice has demanded information from some of the world’s biggest investment banks as part of the probe, banking sources said. Internet gaming was effectively banned last year after U.S. President

Christopher J. Steskal, a lead prosecutor of a federal task force investigating the backdating of stock options at Apple Inc. and other companies, is leaving his San Francisco post to join a law firm, the United State Attorney’s office in San Francisco confirmed late Friday. Mr. Steskal’s decision follows the recent resignation of his boss,

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was hammered by lawmakers on Thursday who demanded to know why the administration took more than five years to obtain court approval of its war-time domestic spying initiative. “I somewhat take issue … with (Republican) Senator Arlen Specter’s innuendo that this is something we could have pulled off the shelf

Late last week the San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Justice had requested the resignation of Lam, who won the guilty plea in 2005 of former Republican Congressman “Duke” Cunningham. Lam’s office declined to comment on the news. There’s also Kevin Ryan, whose San Francisco office is investigating numerous stock-options backdating matters. Others include Daniel Bogden

Defense Department official Charles Stimson showed ignorance and malice in deploring the pro bono representation of Guantanamo detainees by lawyers in some of the nation’s leading law firms, and in calling on their corporate clients to punish them for this work. That some of the law firms Mr. Stimson singles out represent large employers defending

Saddam Hussein’s half-brother and another former aide to the executed Iraqi president stood side by side on the scaffold today, in official film of their hanging shown to journalists by the Iraqi Government. Moments later, as the trapdoors swung open, they dropped and the rope severed the hooded head of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam’s younger

I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, will go on trial on Tuesday, nearly three years after a C.I.A. operative’s name appeared in a newspaper column, setting off a major investigation of who leaked the name and why. But neither Mr. Libby nor anyone else has been charged

The senior Pentagon official in charge of military detainees suspected of terrorism said in an interview this week that he was dismayed that lawyers at many of the nation’s top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and that the firms’ corporate clients should consider ending their business ties. The comments by Charles D.