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- Australian colonial premier dug up for paternity test
- SYDNEY AFP — The exhumation of a lecherous Australian colonial leader for a paternity test has angered his acknowledged relatives who Tuesday described the process as "appalling." The remains of South Australian premier Charles Cameron Kingston, who died a century ago, were dug up in March at the request...
- Research articles 2008-05-26
- American-Jewish businessman admits funding Olmert
- JERUSALEM AFP — Millionaire US businessman Morris Talanski admitted on Sunday that he gave financial contributions to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert but insisted he had believed they were intended for legitimate purposes. "I never thought in any way that the money I gave was illegal or wrong," the...
- Research articles 2008-05-11
- Marilyn Monroe sex reel sells for 1.5 million dollars: report
- NEW YORK AFP — A 15-minute film clip of late movie legend Marilyn Monroe giving oral sex to an unidentified man was sold Monday to a businessman, who chose to remain anonymous, for 1.5 million dollars, The New York Post said. The film is a copy of a 1950s...
- Research articles 2008-04-14
- Australian PM quizzed on trips donated by China businessman
- SYDNEY AFP — Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd came under fire Thursday for accepting free overseas trips while in opposition from a Chinese businessman with links to Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho. Rudd said there was nothing untoward in allowing businessman Ian Tang's company, Beijing AustChina Technology, to pay...
- Research articles 2008-03-19
- US troops detain Iranian businessman in Iraq
- SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq AFP — US forces arrested an Iranian businessman on Thursday at a hotel in Sulaimaniyah, a majority Kurdish city in northern Iraq, a regional government official told AFP. The businessman, identified only as Farhadi, was detained at around 4.00 am midnight GMT after US troops raided the...
- Research articles 2007-09-20
- Two Sentenced in $1.4 Million Virgin Islands Bribery Scandal
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2008 WASHINGTON, May 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A former U.S. Virgin Islands fireman and an Atlanta businessman were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for the District of the Virgin Islands for their role in an elaborate bribery and kickback scheme to defraud the...
- Research articles 2007-05-16
- A.C. probe may end this week
- ATLANTIC CITY - It was a case built around secretly recorded conversations that in all probability will never be made public.It was an inside look at the pay-to-play philosophy that seems to drive government here and across New Jersey, but few will get to see it.It was a bizarre and...
- Research articles 2007-03-25
- Mariano associate gets three years for bribery
- Philip Chartock, the Philadelphia businessman convicted of bribing former city Councilman Rick Mariano, was sentenced yesterday to three years and four months in prison.Chartock paid $23,000 worth of Mariano's credit-card bills in return for help with his business, Erie Steel. Those favors included Mariano's voting for tax breaks and intervening...
- Research articles 2007-03-21
- Former Congressional Chief of Staff Pleads Guilty to Corruption Crimes
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2008 WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- William J. Heaton, 28, former chief of staff for Congressman Robert W. Ney, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle for the District of Columbia to a one-count information charging him with conspiracy to...
- Research articles 2007-02-26
- Former Congressman Robert W. Ney Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison For Corruption Crimes
- To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Congressman Robert W. Ney has been sentenced to 30 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release and fined $6,000, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher...
- Research articles 2007-01-19
- UPDATED: Former Congressman Robert W. Ney Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison For Corruption Crimes
- To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORSContact: U.S. Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs, +1- 202-514-2008 WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Congressman Robert W. Ney has been sentenced to 30 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release and fined $6,000, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher...
- Research articles 2007-01-19
- FEDS BUST FLASHY CRIME-FIGHTER
- JOE MAMMANA is the kind of larger-than-life figure Philadelphians love - the kid who overcomes a crime-ridden youth to spend a fortune fighting crime; the ex-Marine who bluntly calls his rewards for missing thugs "bounties"; the Italian-American businessman who cares enough to pay for young victims' funerals. And he does...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- Wuhan showcases China's struggle to build a harmonious society
- WUHAN, China AFP — In this booming industrial city of 10 million people, evidence of the problems China's rulers are trying to address in creating a more "harmonious society" are everywhere. "Everyone has his own problems; myself, I have succeeded so I can pay for my bottle of cognac. This...
- Research articles 2006-10-24
- America for sale: as our government careens toward bankruptcy, Americans are being dispossessed by the outsourcing of industrial jobs and the buyout of our infrastructure by foreign interests
- We begin with a parable: Driven to the streets after a run of relentless misfortune, a man took up station on a street corner holding a hand-lettered sign stating: "Will work for food." Most pedestrians and motorists passed the desperate man without so much as a second's worth of...
- Research articles 2006-09-04
- Suicide blast in crowded Afghanistan bazaar kills 17
- KANDAHAR, Afghanistan AFP — A suicide blast tore through a crowded bazaar in a southern Afghanistan town, killing 17 people and wounding nearly 50, a provincial government spokesman has said. Witnesses of the blast in the Helmand province capital of Lashkar Gah told AFP Monday that a man with bombs...
- Research articles 2006-08-28
- Extortion accusations a set-up, writer says
- NEW YORK AP -- A New York Post gossip writer accused of trying to extort money from a billionaire businessman for positive press coverage said Sunday he was set up. The Post has suspended Jared Paul Stern, a freelancer for the newspaper's Page Six gossip column, amid a...
- Research articles 2006-04-10
- 2,000 protestors demand return to law and order in Kyrgyzstan
- BISHKEK AFP — About 2,000 people have marched to the centre of Kyrgyzstan's capital, demanding constitutional reforms and a "return" to law and order after the supreme court allowed a controversial businessman to stand at a by-election. The protest organised under the title "For Law and Order" was organised...
- Research articles 2006-04-08
- Questions raised over funds to former Canadian PM Brian Mulroney
- OTTAWA AFP — Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney received 300,000 dollars (262,000 USD) from a businessman in the early 1990s linked to a dubious Airbus contract for new commercial aircraft, according to CBC television. The public broadcaster traced the funds to a Swiss bank account used to funnel...
- Research articles 2006-02-09
- Federal prosecutor explains how businesses become targets
- A businessman commits fraud. Does the federal government prosecute the businessman, the company or both?The depends, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas C. Albus as he spoke Friday morning at a breakfast meeting of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce.Albus, filling in for U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway, described the nine factors that...
- Research articles 2006-01-10
- Newly elected Afghan MP killed in row between armed groups
- JALALABAD, Afghanistan AFP — A newly elected Afghan parliamentarian has been killed when a row about a fire in a woodyard erupted into an armed clash that left four men dead, government officials said. Esmatullah Muhabat, who won a seat in the lower house in parliament for eastern Laghman...
- Research articles 2005-12-04
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