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NEWS ABOUT: criminal prosecution

criminal prosecution stories: 15 news summaries
OPINION

 Oh, Poor Polanski, Child Rapist 

He pleaded guilty and fled. How can anyone rationalize that?

Sep 28, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kate Harding would like to remind everyone crowing about the injustice of arresting a 76-year-old man who’s put in 31 years of exile that Roman Polanski is a fugitive and, coincidentally, a child rapist. The director “gave a 13-year-old girl a Quaalude and champagne,” according to her... More »

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California • fugitive • guilty plea • extradition • film director • Roman Polanski • movies • Huffington Post • child rape • Samantha Geimer • criminal prosecution

(Newser) - Pfizer will shell out $2.3 billion—a record for a health care fraud settlement—over deceptive marketing of its drugs, the Los Angeles Times reports. Pfizer and one of its subsidiaries marketed four drugs based on off-label uses specifically prohibited by the FDA. The settlement with the Justice... More »

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Department of Justice • fraud • Health and Human Services • marketing • drug companies • Pfizer • civil lawsuits • Lyrica • fines • criminal prosecution • Bextra

(Newser) - Former New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress was indicted on gun charges today in New York, where he accidentally shot himself in the leg with an unlicensed handgun in November, the Post reports. Burress is charged with two felony counts of criminal possession and one count of reckless endangerment, a... More »

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NFL • football • New York Giants • indictment • Plaxico Burress • criminal trial • gun laws • criminal prosecution • Robert Morgenthau



 US Won't 
 Charge 
 Ruth 
 Madoff 

Not enough evidence to nab Bernie's wife in Ponzi scheme

Jul 1, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ruth Madoff won’t be prosecuted in her husband’s giant Ponzi scheme, insiders tell the New York Post, because the feds didn't find enough evidence against her after a 6-month probe. She had “no criminal exposure,” one source says. But if something new turns up, authorities... More »

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fraud • prison • Ponzi scheme • federal prosecution • criminal prosecution • Bernard Madoff • Ruth Madoff

 Court: Defendants  
 Can Question  
 Crime Lab 

Scientists must be brought to court

Jun 26, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 5-4 Supreme Court ruling yesterday gives defendants the chance to face authors of crime lab reports in their cases. Prosecutors who want to use lab testing undertaken for a given case will be required to bring its authors to court, where the defense can confront them. The ruling shows... More »

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Antonin Scalia • Anthony Kennedy • US Supreme Court • defense • criminal prosecution • crime lab • defendant

 FBI to Expand 
 Role Battling 
 Terrorism 

Marks effort toward investigation, criminal prosecution of accused terrorists

May 28, 09 9:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI will take a bigger role in the fight against terrorism, the Los Angeles Times reports, moving into investigation and criminal prosecution of accused terrorists. The shift marks a change from the secretive CIA operations favored by the Bush administration, and ties in with President Obama’s assertion that... More »

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national security • CIA • FBI • Robert Mueller • counterterrorism • investigations • criminal prosecution

(Newser) - Craigslist is due an apology from South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, the site’s CEO writes on his company blog, after threatening “unwarranted and unconstitutional charges against us that are clearly barred by federal law.” What’s more, Jim Buckmaster charges, Craigslist isn’t the only outlet... More »

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Internet • South Carolina • Craigslist • apology • prostitute • Jim Buckmaster • attorney general • criminal prosecution • Henry McMaster • sex ads • erotic services

OPINION

Obama Must Oppose Spain's Bush Lawyer Probe: Bolton

Only our Constitution should judge policy decisions

May 6, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s "John Ehrlichman approach" to Spain’s investigation of Bush officials may be “smart politics,” but it’s dangerous for the country, writes John Bolton in the Washington Post. If the administration doesn’t speak out against the probe, it allows an “unaccountable... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Spain • John Bolton • lawyer • harsh interrogation • criminal prosecution • President Obama • prosecutions • Baltasar Garzon

Judge Holds Madoff Assets for Feds

Holdings may go to government through criminal forfeiture

Apr 20, 09 6:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A federal judge stopped Bernard Madoff's assets from moving into bankruptcy today, saying the government may claim them through criminal forfeiture because of Madoff's Ponzi scheme, Bloomberg reports. US District Judge Denny Chin blocked more than $100 million from being moved, a setback to investors who had won the right... More »

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crime • Ponzi scheme • federal judges • criminal prosecution • U.S. Bankruptcy Court • Bernard Madoff • assets • trustee

(Newser) - The recent—or recently discovered—“sexting” epidemic has produced a reasoned response from educators, and a wild overreaction from police,” Dahlia Lithwick writes on Slate. “Schools are enacting what amounts to a don't-ask-don't-tell policy” on teenagers sending out naked pictures of themselves, and others, she writes. But... More »

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high school • text message • child pornography • teenager • criminal charges • criminal prosecution • mobile phones • sexting

Prosecution in 'Baby Grace' Trial to Call Final Witness

Mother faces life in prison for toddler's murder

Feb 2, 09 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Prosecutors will call their final witness today in the case against Kimberly Dawn Trenor, the Texas mother accused of beating her 2-year-old daughter to death, the AP reports. The Galveston County medical examiner will testify today as the prosecution finishes presenting evidence that Trenor, 20, with her husband, killed Riley... More »

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Texas • homicide • discipline • toddler • Baby Grace • Royce Clyde Zeigler II • Kimberly Dawn Trenor • Riley Ann Sawyers • beatings • criminal prosecution

analysis

 What Crime 
 Did He 
 Actually 
 Commit? 

Despite phone taps, evidence against Blago may not secure conviction

Dec 16, 08 6:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Rod Blagojevich's foul-mouthed conversations about Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat may have been "appalling," as Patrick Fitzgerald said last week. But were they actually illegal? With no appointment made and no evidence that the governor received anything, prosecutors may have a difficult case if and when Blagojevich... More »

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Patrick Fitzgerald • corruption • Illinois • governor • Rod Blagojevich • corruption charges • criminal prosecution

 Was Wal-Mart 
 Trampling a Crime? 

Experts mixed on whether death can be prosecuted

Dec 2, 08 9:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Trampling a Long Island Wal-Mart worker in a frenzied rush for flat-screen TVs may be a prosecutable crime, reports Newsday, but experts are split. “In order to prosecute a homicide, you have to establish that someone caused a death," said a lawyer. "If I stepped on his... More »

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crime • death • accidental death • holiday shopping • Black Friday • Wal-Mart • criminal prosecution • civil trial

Hooker Bookers Fume After Spitzer Let Off

Club VIP managers
face sentencing as ex-governor walks

Nov 8, 08 5:43 PM CST
(Newser) - The prostitution agency that once served Eliot Spitzer is hardly happy that the disgraced former governor is getting off, at their expense, Salon reports. Spitzer evaded federal charges for patronizing a prostitution ring, prompting an attorney for one of the agency’s bookers—who is facing 6-16 months in jail—... More »

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prison • New York • Eliot Spitzer • governor • attorney • prostitution ring • criminal charges • criminal prosecution

 US, Iraq Close to 
 2011 Pullout Pact 

Deal would also allow Iraq prosecutions of US soldiers who commit rape, murder

Oct 13, 08 1:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US and Iraq are close to clinching a new security agreement which would include a targeted 2011 date for troop withdrawal—and a provision to allow US troops to be prosecuted in Iraqi courts. The US military has enjoyed blanket immunity from criminal prosecution, but under the new agreement... More »

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Iraq • United Nations • Nouri al-Maliki • immunity • security agreement • criminal prosecution • Mohammed al-Haj Humood • Ali al-Sistani

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