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| China decor magnate arrested for suspected bribery Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 09:17 PM PST A billionaire who Chinese media say is linked to the downfall of the former mayor of Nanjing has been arrested on suspicion of corruption, the company he founded, Suzhou Gold Mantis Construction Decoration Co Ltd, said. The family of Zhu Xingliang, who ranked no.55 on the 2013 Forbes China Rich List with a fortune worth $2.04 billion, informed Gold Mantis of his arrest, the firm said in a statement to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange posted on Tuesday. "The company received notification from family on January 27 that Director and the person in actual control (of the firm) Mr. Zhu Xingliang was arrested on suspicion of bribery with the approval of the prosecutor," the company filing said. The arrest comes as China's President Xi Jinping makes the fight against endemic corruption a central theme of his administration. Full Story | Top |
| Death penalty possibility in post office killings Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 03:59 PM PST MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former prison guard charged with killing two Tennessee postal workers during a robbery that netted $63 is eligible to face the death penalty at trial, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Full Story | Top |
| Supermarket executive sentenced in $3M fraud Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 01:53 PM PST A former Northern California supermarket chain executive has been sentenced to three years and 11 months in prison in connection with a kickback scheme that cost the supermarket chain more than $3 million. ... Full Story | Top |
| El Paso, Texas Business Owner Sentenced in Scheme to Defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 01:43 PM PST WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced that the owner of an exporting company in El Paso, Texas was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Ex-Im Bank of approximately $13.6 million.Leopoldo Parra, 51, was sentenced by Judge Kathleen Cardone in U.S. District Court in El Paso, TX. In addition to his term of 7. ... Full Story | Top |
| CORRECTS: Feds: Russian man who created bank hacking software pleads guilty to conspiracy Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 11:36 AM PST CORRECTS: Feds: Russian man who created bank hacking software pleads guilty to conspiracy. (Corrects APNewsAlert to show that the man pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy. ) Full Story | Top |
| Feds: Russian man who created bank hacking software pleads guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 11:27 AM PST Feds: Russian man who created bank hacking software pleads guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud. Full Story | Top |
| Farmers to be sentenced in fatal listeria outbreak Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 09:42 AM PST DENVER (AP) — Two Colorado cantaloupe farmers who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a deadly listeria outbreak in 2011 are set to be sentenced. Full Story | Top |
| North Dakota Cow Thief Is First American Arrested, Jailed With Drone’s Help Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 08:36 AM PST The ominously named Predator drone. Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane — it's a Predator drone finding you because you wouldn't give your neighbor his cows back after they wandered onto your property. Rodney Brossart, the farmer from North Dakota, was arrested after being located by Predator drone, Forbes reports. It ended only after the family of perps was located by a Predator drone borrowed from Customs and Border Patrol. Full Story | Top |
| Greece to use cash seized from crime to help poor Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 08:15 AM PST ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece will use money seized from criminal activity to invest in health and education. Full Story | Top |
| Crime records go online in Sweden amid protests Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 04:14 AM PST A website that lets Swedes check each other's criminal records has sparked a debate about the privacy of ex-convicts and their right to move on with their lives. Such databases are available in the United ... Full Story | Top |
| Reporter admits hacking at NOTW and Sunday Mirror Tuesday, Jan 28, 2014 12:22 AM PST  A former journalist has admitted illegally accessing celebrities' voicemail messages while working at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid and its rival, the Sunday Mirror, Britain's phone-hacking trial heard. Dan Evans, 38, is the fourth News of the World journalist to plead guilty to phone hacking while working at the disgraced tabloid, but the first reporter to admit that he used the illegal practice at the rival Sunday Mirror. His guilty plea was revealed at London's Old Bailey court as he appeared on Monday as a prosecution witness at the high-profile trial of former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson and several other former Murdoch executives. Asked by a prosecutor what his job at the Sunday Mirror was, Evans said: "I was a news reporter. Full Story | Top |
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