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U.S. Army sergeant acquitted of negligent homicide in soldier's suicide
Mon,30 Jul 2012 08:16 PM PDT
Reuters -  WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - A military jury found a U.S. Army sergeant not guilty on Monday of negligent homicide in the death of a Chinese-American soldier who officials say killed himself in Afghanistan after enduring hazing and racial slurs. Sergeant Adam Holcomb, 30, was the first of eight soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division based in Alaska to face a court-martial in connection with Private Danny Chen's death in October 2011. ...
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Iran Has Its Own Way of Dealing with Bank Fraud: The Death Penalty
Mon,30 Jul 2012 03:31 PM PDT
The Atlantic Wire -  If toothless federal regulations is your pet cause, look to Iran for inspiration: It just sentenced four bankers involved in a billion-dollar financial scandal to death. On Monday, an Iranian court dished out sentences in the country's biggest bank-fraud scandal to date: The embezzlement of $2.6 billion. Besides the four death sentences, 39 people were tried, two people were sent to life in prison and the others received jail sentences of up to 25 years. ...
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Apple, Samsung patent trial starts with jury selection
Mon,30 Jul 2012 03:28 PM PDT
Reuters -  SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A Google employee, at least five patent owners and plenty of iPhone and iPad consumers were among the potential jurors summoned to court on Monday in a high-stakes U.S. patent battle between Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh spent several hours examining jurors about their backgrounds and biases, as the companies began the trial after more than a year of pretrial jousting, with billions of dollars in the balance. ...
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Army sergeant acquitted of negligent homicide in soldier's death
Mon,30 Jul 2012 02:36 PM PDT
Reuters - WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - A military jury found a U.S. Army sergeant not guilty on Monday of negligent homicide in the death of a Chinese-American soldier who officials say killed himself in Afghanistan after enduring hazing and racial slurs. Sergeant Adam Holcomb, 30, was the first of eight soldiers to face a court-martial in connection with Private Danny Chen's death in October 2011. ...
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Puerto Rico tries tougher sentences in crime fight
Mon,30 Jul 2012 12:06 PM PDT
Associated Press - An updated penal code signed into law Monday by the Puerto Rican governor increases prison sentences for homicide, assault and other offenses as the U.S. island territory struggles to contain crime and the widespread perception that violence is out of control. Full Story | Top |
2 SKoreans arrested for mobile customer data theft
Mon,30 Jul 2012 01:39 AM PDT
Associated Press -  South Korean police said they arrested two men who allegedly stole the personal details of about 8 million mobile phone subscribers and sold the data to marketing companies in one of the country's biggest hacking schemes.
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Prosecutors ask to meet Jung in Avon bribe probe: report
Sun,29 Jul 2012 06:24 PM PDT
Reuters -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors looking into possible bribery of foreign officials by Avon Products Inc have asked to speak to Andrea Jung, the former chief executive and current full-time chairman, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Prosecutors reached out to Jung through her lawyer, Theodore Wells Jr., a defense attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP whom she hired in recent weeks, the report said, citing people familiar with the matter. An Avon spokeswoman declined to comment. Wells Jr. ...
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German accused of pyramid scheme fraud arrested in Las Vegas
Sun,29 Jul 2012 11:11 AM PDT
Reuters - (Reuters) - A German man accused of using an Internet pyramid scheme to bilk investors of over $100 million dollars and then going on the run for five years has been arrested in Las Vegas, a U.S. official said on Sunday. Ulrich Felix Anton Engler, 51, was arrested on Wednesday for violating U.S. immigration law, said Nicole Navas, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Engler is wanted by German authorities on multiple criminal charges after allegedly defrauding several thousand German, Swiss and Austrian investors. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison. ... Full Story | Top |
ACTIVISTS ARRESTED
Sat,28 Jul 2012 11:26 PM PDT
Associated Press -  A scuffle between cycling activists and police outside the opening ceremony resulted in 182 arrests, officials said.
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Over 130 activist cyclists arrested near Olympic park
Sat,28 Jul 2012 11:05 AM PDT
Reuters -  LONDON (Reuters) - More than 130 cyclists were arrested when they ignored warnings not to ride near the Olympic Park in east London as the opening ceremony was taking place, police said on Saturday. They were part of a group called "Critical Mass" who hold a monthly cycle ride in central London that police believe had been joined by other riders planning to stage a protest. "The procession usually attracts approximately 100 cyclists, but on this occasion around 400 to 500 people gathered near Waterloo (station)," Scotland Yard said in a statement. ...
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Pennsylvania man suspected of killing three is arrested in Ohio
Sat,28 Jul 2012 10:24 AM PDT
Reuters -  (Reuters) - Police in Ohio on Saturday arrested a Pennsylvania man suspected of fatally shooting three people near his hometown and fleeing with his 4-year-old daughter, officials said. Police rescued the girl unharmed when they arrested the suspect, Kevin Cleeves, 36, of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, at about 5 a.m. EDT, said Detective Sgt. Jordan Yacovone of the Austintown, Ohio, Police Department. "The 4-year-old was with him. She's fine," he said. Cleeves was arrested in the parking lot of a shopping plaza, he said, in Austintown, just west of Youngstown, Ohio. ...
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