Recent Updates
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Six charged in $140 million NY brokerage fraud
Court Alerts 07/08/2009Six employees of Wall Street retail brokerage Sky Capital Holdings Ltd surrendered to the FBI on Wednesday on charges of a $140 million investment fraud and stock manipulation in the United States and Britain, officials said.The firm's founder, Presi...
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Scientist in NYC says she's not against America
Court Alerts 07/07/2009A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist accused of helping al-Qaida has repeatedly interrupted her competency hearing to declare her innocence and insist she's not anti-American.The outbursts came during a daylong hearing in federal court in Manhattan to ...
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Scientist's mental state at issue in NYC hearing
Court Alerts 07/06/2009A U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist accused of helping al-Qaida and shooting at FBI agents in Afghanistan has been forced to appear in Manhattan court by a judge's order.Aafia Siddiqui (ah-FEE'-uh see-DEE'-kee) kept her hands folded as she entered cou...
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Mass. mom pleads not guilty to denying son meds
Court Alerts 07/06/2009A woman accused of withholding cancer treatment from her autistic son by canceling appointments and not filling prescriptions pleaded not guilty Monday to an attempted murder charge in the boy's death.Kristen LaBrie was ordered held on $15,000 cash b...
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Rowe deciding whether to seek custody
Court Alerts 07/06/2009Deborah Rowe, the ex-wife of Michael Jackson and the mother of two of his children, has not reached a final decision on whether to seek custody of the children, a lawyer said Thursday. Attorney Eric M. George made the disclosure on a telephone confer...
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Reputed mob boss pleads guilty in Mass. bribe case
Court Alerts 07/06/2009The reputed underboss of the New England mob has pleaded guilty to federal bribery charges in a plea deal that will send him to prison for six years.Carmen "The Cheeseman" DiNunzio pleaded guilty Wednesday to bribing an undercover FBI agent posing as...
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Montreal woman gets 15 years in son's Vt. drowning
Court Alerts 07/02/2009A Vermont judge has sentenced a Montreal woman to 15 years in prison for drowning her young son three years ago. Judge Michael Kupersmith issued the sentence to 51-year-old Louise Desnoyers (day-noy-AY') on Wednesday in Grand Isle County after hearin...
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Frenzy outside the court: Madoff gets 150 years
Court Alerts 06/30/2009Inside a packed Manhattan courtroom, Miriam Siegman and eight other victims of Bernard Madoff directed their anger at the 71-year-old disgraced financier. Madoff "discarded me like road kill," Siegman said.Even before the one-time financier was sente...
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Pa. man admits peeping on women for 2 decades
Court Alerts 06/29/2009A suburban Philadelphia landlord has admitted setting up spy cameras and secretly recording women tenants for nearly two decades. Thomas Daley, of Phoenixville, put cameras behind mirrors and in ceiling fans in bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms at...
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Ex-Surgeon General Novello pleads guilty in NY
Court Alerts 06/29/2009Former Surgeon General Antonia Novello pleaded guilty Friday to a felony in a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison time for forcing state employees to handle personal chores when she was New York's health commissioner. The plea deal calls for 250 ho...
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Justices Rule Lab Analysts Must Testify on Results
Court Alerts 06/26/2009Crime laboratory reports may not be used against criminal defendants at trial unless the analysts responsible for creating them give testimony and subject themselves to cross-examination, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 5-to-4 decision. The rul...
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Accused Holocaust museum shooter not in court
Court Alerts 06/26/2009Prosecutors said Tuesday that a white supremacist accused of opening fire in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum still hasn't recovered enough to appear in court but has been turned over to the District of Columbia's Corrections Department. Prosecutor...