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  • July 2008

    • Canoe Con Man, Wife Get 6 Years for Fake Death

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jul 23, 08 11:30 AM CDT

      Canoe Con Man, Wife Get 6 Years for Fake Death

      (Newser) - John Darwin didn’t force his wife to help fake his death, a jury ruled today, convicting Anne Darwin on 15 counts of deception and money laundering before the two were each sentenced to 6 years in prison for their $500,000 insurance scheme. Anne’s “marital coercion” defense, which posited that the “canoe man” had been a domineering bully, fell apart when the prosecution showed the couple’s loving and flirtatious emails. More »

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      fraud  • conviction  • John Darwin  • Anne Darwin

    • Requests for Pardons Flood White House

      New York Times  |  Jul 19, 08 11:33 AM CDT

      Requests for Pardons Flood White House

      (Newser) - President Bush is nearing the end of his term, and felons are coming out of the woodwork in historic numbers to ask for pardons and reduced sentences, the New York Times reports. It is not unusual for there to be a spike in pardons granted by a president in his final months in office: Half of Bill Clinton’s 459 pardons happened in his last three months. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bill Clinton  • conviction  • Marion Jones  • felony  • Martha Stewart  • presidential pardon  • commutation  • clemency

  • June 2008

    • Court Tosses Conviction in Abramoff Affair

      Associated Press  |  Jun 18, 08 4:12 PM CDT

      Court Tosses Conviction in Abramoff Affair

      (Newser) - A key conviction in the Jack Abramoff scandal was reversed today, as a federal appeals court ruled that the Justice Department overreached in its prosecution of David Safavian. The onetime chief of staff at GSA provided inside information on government-owned properties to Abramoff; he was convicted of lying to multiple inquisitors about his relationship with the disgraced lobbyist, the AP reports. More »

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      conviction  • Jack Abramoff

  • May 2008

    • Boy-Band Brain Gets 25 Years for Fraud

      Associated Press  |  May 22, 08 11:21 AM CDT

      Boy-Band Brain Gets 25 Years for Fraud

      (Newser) - Lou Pearlman, the honcho behind the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced yesterday to the maximum of 25 years in federal prison for masterminding a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of some $300 million, the AP reports. "The sympathy factor just doesn't run very high with the court," the judge said. More »

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      fraud  • conviction  • boy bands  • N'Sync  • Lou Pearlman  • Backstreet Boys

    • Fritzl Triggers Change in Austria Sex Law

      BBC  |  May 8, 08 7:41 AM CDT

      Fritzl Triggers Change in Austria Sex Law

      (Newser) - The Josef Fritzl case has spurred Austrian legislators to initiate changes in sex crime laws to prevent child abuse, the BBC reports. As Fritzl kept his daughter imprisoned as a sex slave, he was granted custody for three of the children he fathered with her— despite a rape conviction. His conviction was wiped off the books after 15 years. Austria now wants to keep sex crime records for at least 30 years. More »

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      rape  • Josef Fritzl  • sexual abuse  • Austria  • incest  • Elisabeth Fritzl  • conviction  • sex offenders

    • Mother Found 'DC Madam' Hanging, Fla. Police Say

      Associated Press  |  May 1, 08 3:29 PM CDT

      Mother Found 'DC Madam' Hanging, Fla. Police Say

      (Newser) - The so-called “DC Madam” hanged herself in Florida, police said today, committing suicide two weeks after her conviction for money laundering and racketeering. Officials say her mother found Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, hanging in a storage shed this morning, along with suicide notes whose details they did not divulge. Police said Blanche Palfrey had no indication her daughter was contemplating suicide. More »

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      suicide  • conviction  • DC Madam  • Deborah Jeane Palfrey

  • February 2008

    • Rove Sought Pics to Soil Ala. Gov: Report

      Associated Press  |  Feb 22, 08 5:30 PM CST

      Rove Sought Pics to Soil Ala. Gov: Report

      (Newser) - Karl Rove wanted photos taken of the Democratic governor of Alabama having an affair, but the campaign worker appointed to snap the pics found no evidence he was cheating, she tells CBS. Jill Simpson has testified that Rove was involved in the Justice Department's successful corruption case against Don Siegelman, but the allegation scheduled to air on "60 Minutes" Sunday is new, the AP reports. More »

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      Karl Rove  • corruption  • affair  • conviction  • Don Siegelman

  • December 2007

    • Vegas Tree Chopper Sought Better View of Strip

      Los Angeles Times  |  Dec 5, 07 10:44 PM CST

      Vegas Tree Chopper Sought Better View of Strip

      (Newser) - A retiree convicted of killing 500 trees in a Las Vegas suburb was trying to better his view of the famous Strip, the Los Angeles Times reports. Douglas Hoffman, 60, was found guilty last month of felling $250,000 worth of mesquite and other trees over the course of a year, and he could face 35 years in prison. More »

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      Las Vegas  • conviction  • trees  • landscaping

  • October 2007

    • Jury Convicts Chessboard Killer

      BBC  |  Oct 24, 07 1:42 PM CDT

      Jury Convicts Chessboard Killer

      (Newser) - A Russian jury today convicted the so-called Chessboard Killer, who terrorized a Moscow park for 14 years, on 48 counts of murder. Alexander Pichushkin claims to have killed 61, placing a coin on a chessboard square for each victim. But although many would like to see the country's most infamous serial killer put to death, the BBC reports, Russia has suspended capital punishment. More »

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      Russia  • capital punishment  • conviction  • Alexander Pichushkin

  • September 2007
  • August 2007

    • Lay Judges to Join Bench in Japan

      Bloomberg  |  Aug 25, 07 8:38 AM CDT

      Lay Judges to Join Bench in Japan

      (Newser) - Japan will give citizens the gavel in an effort to counteract its judicial system’s prejudice for presuming guilt. Six citizens and three trained jurists will sit on criminal cases, and the majority will rule, Bloomberg reports. The new system follows a clamor of criticism about forced confessions, inhumane treatment of death row inmates and Japan’s 99.9% conviction rate. More »

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      United Nations  • Japan  • human rights  • judge  • execution  • death row  • conviction  • confession  • Council of Europe

    • Lohan Escapes Drug-Possession Charges

      Associated Press  |  Aug 23, 07 6:04 PM CDT

      Lohan Escapes Drug-Possession Charges

      (Newser) - Lindsay Lohan scored a lucky break today when LA County authorities decided not to bring felony drug-possession charges against the actress in two DUI arrests. She faces seven misdemeanors—including being under the influence of cocaine—but police decided the amounts of coke found at the crime scenes either were negligible or couldn't be linked to her. More »

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      celebrity  • cocaine  • Lindsay Lohan  • drunk driving  • jail  • rehab  • DUI  • drug use  • conviction  • drug possession  • misdemeanor

    • Padilla Guilty of Aiding Terrorism

      Associated Press  |  Aug 16, 07 1:36 PM CDT

      Padilla Guilty of Aiding Terrorism

      (Newser) - A US District Court convicted Jose Padilla, a US citizen once suspected in a dirty-bomb plot, of conspiring to commit terrorism abroad by providing aid to Islamic extremists. Padilla, a former Guantanamo detainee who became symbolic of the Bush administration's aggressive legal arguments for detaining suspected terrorists, was not charged with the sensational nuclear plot. More »

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      al-Qaeda  • terrorism  •