The boy accusing Michael Jackson of molesting him has testified he slept in the US singer’s bedroom where they watched internet pornography together. Gavin Arvizo, 15, came face-to-face with the singer for the first time in court, as he took the witness stand. The boy told the court that he once considered Mr Jackson his […]
The 14-year-old boy who told a court he saw Michael Jackson sexually molesting his older brother has admitted that he once lied under oath in court. Star Arvizo made the admission – about a separate case – as Mr Jackson’s lawyers cross-examimed him on the seventh day of the trial in California. Lawyers also probed
Merrill Lynch & Co. agreed to pay $23.5 million to the New York Stock Exchange and the state of New Jersey, promising reforms to resolve allegations it failed to supervise employees who made improper mutual fund trades. New Jersey’s attorney general said Merrill Lynch will pay the state a $10 million civil penalty and separately,
DLA has sunk 53 places in The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list. DLA was one of the highest ranked law firms at 35 in 2004, but the now-merged DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary languishes at 88 in this year’s list. DLA’s decline comes from a heady height. In 2003 it was
At least he was spared the indignity of wearing an electronic belt designed to stun wearers if they try to flee. OJ was forced to wear one when he accompanied jurors on a field trip to the scene of his former wife’s murder. Michael Jackson did not need one: he never left the courtroom. His
Aon Corp. agreed to pay $190 million to settle charges by three states that it accepted hundreds of millions of dollars of improper payments in exchange for steering clients toward favored insurance companies, the Illinois attorney general said on Friday. The world’s second-largest insurance broker, based in Chicago, settled with Illinois, New York and Connecticut,
Franklin C. Brown is in. Once the top lawyer at Rite Aid Corp., Brown reported to prison last week to begin serving 10 years for the role he played in accounting fraud that forced the third-largest U.S. pharmacy chain to retroactively reduce earnings by $1.6 billion. And in the next few days, Bernard J. Ebbers
Martha Stewart strolled outdoors with her dog and fed her horses Friday morning, hours after returning from prison to the multi-million-dollar estate where she will remain under the watch of federal authorities while trying to revive her homemaking empire. Before her five-month stay in prison, Stewart lamented that she would miss her beloved pets –
Even in a nation obsessed with weight loss, there’s never been anything quite like fen-phen. It was a set of magic pills from the wizards of Big Pharma: a prescription cocktail that promised to suppress appetite and promote weight loss, easily and safely. Fen-phen’s pledge: no pain, and no gain. Even in a nation obsessed
Dozens of men and women accused of the rape and abuse of children have gone on trial in one of the biggest court cases in France’s legal history. The trial, which involves 66 defendants and is expected to last four months, is taking place in a specially built hall in the town of Angers, western
