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- Craig: I should've called my lawyer
- WASHINGTON -- In his first major interview since his arrest in a sex sting in the Minneapolis airport, Sen. Larry Craig told NBC's Matt Lauer that he "made a big mistake" when he chose not to consult a lawyer or tell his family that he had pleaded guilty to the...
- Research articles 2007-10-16
- Craig: I should've called my lawyer
- WASHINGTON -- In his first major interview since his arrest in a sex sting in the Minneapolis airport, Sen. Larry Craig told NBC's Matt Lauer that he "made a big mistake" when he chose not to consult a lawyer or tell his family that he had pleaded guilty to the...
- Research articles 2007-10-16
- Troubled British pop star Doherty admits drug possession
- LONDON AFP — British pop singer Pete Doherty pleaded guilty Tuesday to possessing crack cocaine and other drugs as well as two driving offences, after arriving chaotically late at a London court. Wearing his trade mark trilby hat, black suit and open-necked black shirt, Doherty, 28, arrived more than...
- Research articles 2007-07-03
- Rights campaigner arrested by Chinese police
- BEIJING AFP — Chinese police arrested an AIDS and human rights campaigner who has been active in fighting a series of high-profile rights abuse cases, his wife told AFP. "This morning around 8:30 am (0030 GMT), they took him away without giving any explanation," Hu Jia's wife Zeng Jinyan, sounding...
- Research articles 2006-09-06
- Israeli interrogation tactics put on trial in US courtroom
- CHICAGO AFP — The interrogation tactics of Israeli security forces were put on trial in a US courtroom as part of the prosecution of an American citizen accused of funneling million of dollars to the radical Palestinian group Hamas. Lawyers for Muhammed Salah argued that any statements made to...
- Research articles 2006-03-04
- 16-year-old arrested for murder of wife of top US lawyer
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — Police near San Francisco arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of having brutally murdered the wife of a prominent lawyer, authorities said. The arrest came four days after Pamela Vitale, 52, was found murdered in a mobile home near the mansion that she and her...
- Research articles 2005-10-20
- Address Guantanamo abuses
- In December 2001, as the campaign to overthrow the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was winding down, the Pentagon announced that it would use the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold prisoners swept up in the fighting. That seemed like a good idea at the time. In...
- Research articles 2004-12-20
- Pinochet's arrest warrant suspended pending appeal
- SANTIAGO AFP — A warrant placing former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet under house arrest on charges of murder and kidnapping was suspended following an appeal by his lawyers. Court officials said the house arrest warrant issued earlier in the day by Judge Juan Guzman Tapia will now have to...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
- Lawyer claims U.S. planned Japan's arrest of ex-chess champ Fischer
- TOKYO, Oct. 18 Kyodo Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer's lawyer said Monday that Washington planned Fischer's arrest and detention by Japanese immigration authorities in advance, describing it as a plot for a ''backdoor extradition.'' Richard Vattuone also accused the U.S. State Department of ...
- Research articles 2004-10-25
- Fugitive Yukos shareholder wanted on Russian murder charge
- MOSCOW AFP ? Russia said it had issued an arrest warrant charging a core shareholder of oil giant Yukos -- now hiding in Israel -- with murder, dealing a new blow to the country's top oil producer and its jailed chief Mikhail Khodorkovksy. Leonid Nevzlin, the second largest Yukos...
- Research articles 2004-07-26
- Enemy Americans
- June 10, 2002, the day John Ashcroft announced the arrest of Jose Padilla, marked a low point in Ashcroft's career as Attorney General. The FBI had nabbed Padilla, a.k.a. Abdullah al-Muhajir, a full month earlier, at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, and Ashcroft happened to be in Moscow when the government...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Jackson will not be abused by money-grubbers, will fight back: lawyer
- LOS ANGELES AFP ? Pop icon Michael Jackson will fight back ferociously against opportunists seeking to cash in on his fortune following his arrest on child molestation charges, his lawyer said. Jackson's defence attorney Mark Geragos told a hastily-called press conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday that the beleaguered...
- Research articles 2003-11-25
- Washington, D.C.-Area Airport Net Catches Small Fry.
- By Michael Tackett, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 7--ALEXANDRIA, Va.--American Airlines mechanic John Purcell was nearing the end of his overnight shift at Reagan National Airport when a man entered a meeting room and beckoned him with the wag of...
- Research articles 2002-10-07
- Edison, N.J., Accountant Seized in Stock Scheme.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 28 -- A longtime friend and business associate of penny-stock king Robert E. Brennan is under arrest on federal money-laundering charges arising from an investigation of a defunct Long Island brokerage. Accountant Dennis M. Gaito, 56,...
- Research articles 1999-09-28
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- Judge set to order Jackson arrested, lawyer says star in hospital
- SANTA MARIA, California AFP — The judge in Michael Jackson's child sex trial said he would issue an arrest warrant for the pop icon and repeal his bail if he failed to turn up in court in within an hour. The star's lawyer Thomas Mesereau however told the judge...
- Research articles 2005-03-10
- Saddam's lawyer plans book on president's 'secrets'
- AMMAN AFP — Saddam Hussein's Iraqi lawyer said on Friday he will write a book revealing "many secrets" told to him by the executed dictator about the fall of Baghdad, his arrest and imprisonment. "The book will contain information never before revealed and many secrets about the fall of...
- Research articles 2007-02-23
- Lawyer gets 2 months for insurance fraud
- A Center City personal-injury lawyer was sentenced to two months in prison yesterday for obtaining an insurance settlement on behalf of two undercover FBI agents posing as injured patients.U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe also sentenced Jordan B. Luber, 42, of Bala Cynwyd, to one year of supervised release after...
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- Rights activists see double standard in Twitter arrest
- By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The arrest of a New Yorker for using Twitter to alert protesters to police movements at a meeting of world leaders in Pittsburgh last month would be deemed a human rights violation if it happened in Iran or China, rights activists charge. Pittsburgh...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Ebadi condemns arrest of student activists in Iran
- TEHRAN AFP — The rights group run by Iranian lawyer and Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Wednesday condemned the arrest and continued detention of student activists and called for their release. Her Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights issued a statement protesting that three students were being...
- Research articles 2008-01-16
- Police arrest two men in Craigslist sales scam
- FREMONT -- At first glance, they certainly looked like flat- screen televisions, laptop computers and Sony PlayStation3 video game consoles. But the only thing real was the scam. Two men were charged Thursday with several felonies, and could face dozens more throughout the Bay Area, after police...
- Research articles 2007-04-27
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