U.S. District Judge Sim Lake granted the request by Lay’s estate to wipe out the convictions against the late Enron chairman, an outcome that was widely anticipated, given legal precedent. Lake also dismissed the indictment that was filed against him in 2004. In his ruling, Lake cited a decision in the 5th Circuit Court of […]
Signing the Bill, Mr Bush described it as a “vital tool” in the fight against terrorism, but civil liberty campaigners said that it would allow prisoners to be held indefinitely and sentenced to death on evidence beaten out of them. Officially the Military Commissions Act protects detainees from blatant abuses during questioning such as rape,
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been claiming plenty of credit lately for championing his state’s teachers and forcing insurer ING to pay $30 million for foisting costly annuities on them under false pretenses. But the settlement is likely to do a lot more for Spitzer’s gubernatorial ambitions as he gears up for
Stewart, 67, was charged with aiding a U.S.-designated terror organization, the Islamic Group, wage a broad murder and kidnapping conspiracy. Federal prosecutors said she and two men convicted with her helped her former client, the blind sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman, transmit messages to the group’s leaders in defiance of prison restrictions. The government had asked
Today, 20 months after she was convicted on terror charges, Ms. Stewart and two co-defendants who were convicted of conspiring with her will be sentenced in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Prosecutors, arguing that Ms. Stewart repeatedly flouted the law to aid the violent designs of an imprisoned terrorist client, have asked Judge John G.
The bank was sued in January by 15 families including the victims of a bus bombing in Jerusalem on August 19, 2003 that killed 20 people — an attack for which Hamas claimed responsiblity. The families claimed that Natwest, now part of RBS, enabled Interpal, a charity that provides aid to poor and needy Palestinians,
One wonders what kind of party Irina Abramovich had been planning to throw for her husband Roman to mark his reaching 40 years of age a week tomorrow. A soiree in the private room at Cipriani, the Mayfair restaurant which is the favourite of so many haute coutured wives of the expat Russian super-rich? Perhaps
President Moshe Katsav earned a dubious distinction Sunday evening as he became the first president to serve under a police recommendation for indictment. Pundits’ doomsday scenarios proved accurate as police said Sunday that they had gathered sufficient evidence to recommend indicting the president on charges of rape, as well as indecent acts using force, indecent
The passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act as an adjunct to the Safe Port Act sparked a stream of announcements by London-listed operators confirming the sale or closure of their US- facing operations, while World Gaming collapsed into administration. Sportingbet and Leisure & Gaming both announced the sale of their US-facing operations for
Time Warner Chairman and Chief Executive Dick Parsons served notice he’d play hardball with Google and YouTube by telling Britain’s Guardian newspaper that his group would pursue its copyright complaints against the video sharing site by kicking it upstairs to Google’s level. Time Warner, which owns Warner Brothers movie studio, Time magazines and the HBO
