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GlaxoSmithKline settles healthcare fraud case for $3 billion
Mon,2 Jul 2012 09:10 PM PDT
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline Plc agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal charges and pay $3 billion to settle what government officials on Monday described as the largest case of healthcare fraud in U.S. history. The agreement, which still needs court approval, would resolve allegations that the British drugmaker broke U.S. laws in the marketing and development of pharmaceuticals. ...
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Bucs cornerback Wright arrested in Los Angeles
Mon,2 Jul 2012 03:01 PM PDT
Associated Press - Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Eric Wright has been arrested in Los Angeles for investigation of driving under the influence after police say he was involved in a crash near Staples Center. Full Story | Top |
Sorry, Your Tweets Can Still Be Subpoenaed
Mon,2 Jul 2012 11:09 AM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  If you tweet something, you can't consider it private speech even if you later delete it, a New York judge ruled on Monday, denying for the second time a motion to quash a subpoena against an Occupy Wall Street protester arrested last October. Twitter itself had filed the motion in response to a subpoena delivered first in January and then again on May 30, asking for the content and user information of the twitter account belonging to Malcolm Harris. Harris was one of the 732 arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge, and faces up to 15 days in jail for disorderly conduct.
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GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 billion for health fraud
Mon,2 Jul 2012 10:48 AM PDT
Associated Press -  GlaxoSmithKline LLC will pay $3 billion and plead guilty to promoting two popular drugs for unapproved uses and to failing to disclose important safety information on a third in the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history, the Justice Department said Monday.
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Marcus Jordan, son of NBA legend, arrested in Omaha
Mon,2 Jul 2012 08:27 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - Marcus Jordan, a college basketball player and son of retired NBA legend Michael Jordan, was arrested early Sunday after what police described as a drunken altercation outside a hotel in Omaha, Nebraska. Jordan, 21, was "very animated, intoxicated and uncooperative" with police outside the Embassy Suites, Omaha police said in a statement. Officers were called to the scene at 2:11 a.m. after an off-duty officer asked for help subduing Jordan during an argument with two women in the hotel driveway, police said. ... Full Story | Top |
Accused Fort Hood gunman denied delay in trial
Fri,29 Jun 2012 03:02 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A military judge on Friday rejected a request by accused Fort Hood gunman Major Nidal Hasan to delay his court martial a third time and ordered him to stand trial August 20 for the 2009 shooting that left 13 people dead and 31 wounded. Hasan faces the death penalty if convicted. The Army psychiatrist is accused of opening fire on a group of soldiers at the Central Texas Army post who were preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. He was shot four times by Fort Hood civilian guards and now uses a wheelchair. His defense attorney, Lt. Col. ...
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U2 bassist's aide found guilty of stealing from him
Fri,29 Jun 2012 12:27 PM PDT
Reuters -  DUBLIN (Reuters) - A former personal assistant to U2 bassist Adam Clayton was found guilty on Friday of stealing 2.8 million euros ($3.5 million) from the musician to fund a lavish lifestyle. Carol Hawkins, 48, from Dublin, was convicted in a unanimous jury verdict after an 18-day trial at Circuit Criminal Court in the Irish capital. Prosecutors said she stole from two of Clayton's bank accounts between 2004 and 2008. ...
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NY stage set for a second Madoff to face prison
Fri,29 Jun 2012 12:03 AM PDT
Associated Press -  The younger brother of a man who became an icon for financial crime after the economy collapsed in 2008 is poised to plead guilty to criminal charges, taking his place in history alongside Bernard Madoff, the sibling he shared an office with for decades.
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Parents of Rutgers hate crime victim say being gay no sin
Thu,28 Jun 2012 03:20 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The parents of a Rutgers University student who committed suicide after learning his roommate spied on his gay tryst said his death has caused them to rethink their views on homosexuality, which they no longer believe is a sin. Tyler Clementi's parents, in an interview to be aired on NBC on Thursday, spoke publicly for the first time since the roommate, Dharun Ravi, was sentenced for using a webcam to observe Clementi kiss another man and for encouraging others to watch too. ... Full Story | Top |
Prison term of lawyer in terrorism case upheld
Thu,28 Jun 2012 01:11 PM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Outspoken New York criminal defense attorney Lynne Stewart, now disbarred and incarcerated, lost a bid to reverse her 10-year prison sentence for helping a terrorism suspect smuggle messages to his followers from prison. In a written opinion on Thursday, three judges at the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York expressed little sympathy for 72-year-old Stewart, who has struggled with breast cancer and whose supporters had argued the prison term amounted to a death sentence. ... Full Story | Top |
Iraq parliament bomb planners sentenced to death
Thu,28 Jun 2012 08:02 AM PDT
Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three men were sentenced to death in Iraq on Thursday for masterminding a suicide bomb attack on the parliament building last November, Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council said. The suicide bomber managed to drive into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on November 28 and blew himself up in the car park of parliament, killing one person and wounding six. The attack was claimed by al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq. ... Full Story | Top |
US: Madoff brother to plead guilty in NY in fraud
Thu,28 Jun 2012 05:58 AM PDT
Associated Press -  Plans for the brother of jailed financier Bernard Madoff to plead guilty and serve 10 years in prison raise fresh questions about the status of the investigation into the epic multibillion dollar fraud and whether other family members remain under criminal investigation.
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Karadzic acquitted of one count of genocide
Thu,28 Jun 2012 04:57 AM PDT
Reuters -  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Judges in The Hague acquitted Radovan Karadzic of one count of genocide on Thursday, but left 10 other war crimes and genocide charges standing against the former Bosnian Serb leader. Judges ruled that there was not enough evidence to show that killings carried out by Bosnian Serb forces in the municipalities of Bosnia in 1992 were committed with genocidal intent. But they rejected defense motions to dismiss 10 other charges that included the 1995 killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, Europe's worst massacre since World War II. ...
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Bernard Madoff's brother to plead guilty, U.S. says
Thu,28 Jun 2012 03:34 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Peter Madoff, the brother of imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges on Friday, the first family member to do so since the Ponzi schemer's fraud was uncovered in December 2008. In a letter filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Peter Madoff is expected to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and other crimes, as well as falsifying records. He agreed not to seek a sentence other than 10 years in prison. Madoff, who had been chief compliance officer at Bernard L. ...
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Serb nationalist sentenced to 2 years for contempt
Thu,28 Jun 2012 01:49 AM PDT
Associated Press - The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal sentenced Serb ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj to two years imprisonment Thursday for refusing to remove information from his website that revealed the identities of witnesses who had been granted anonymity by the court. Full Story | Top |
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