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 Olmert Charged With Corruption 

Ex-Israeli PM convinced in court he'll 'be able to prove his innocence once and for all'

Aug 30, 09 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel’s attorney general has officially indicted former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on corruption charges, the BBC reports. The 61-page charge, filed in court today, accuses Olmert of "fraud, breach of trust, registering false corporate documents, and concealing fraudulent earnings.” Olmert denies all the charges, which relate to... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • corruption • Kadima • indictment • political scandal • corruption charges

Jackie O's Half Brother Busted for Child Porn

Former personal assistant: I warned
him for 'years'

Aug 26, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis’ half-brother has been indicted on charges of possession, duplication, and distribution of child porn, the AP reports. Allegations by Jamie Auchincloss’ former personal assistant sparked the investigations; a police search of his home computer revealed a large number of graphic images of young boys. Locals in Auchincloss’... More »

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 LaGuardia Suspect Faces 
 7 Years Over Fake Bomb 

Scott McGann charged with placing a fake bomb, making terrorist threats

Aug 6, 09 5:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - The man who entered LaGuardia airport with what could barely be described as a fake bomb has been charged with making a terrorist threat and placing a phony bomb, the New York Post reports. Scott McGann, 32, faces about 7 years in jail if convicted for the stunt that caused... More »

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terrorism • bomb • indictment • LaGuardia Airport • bomb scare • Scott McGann

(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

Spain to Indict Gonzales, 'Bush Six' Over Gitmo Torture

Prosecutors seek charges in US officials' Gitmo role

Apr 14, 09 8:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Spanish prosecutors will seek charges against Alberto Gonzales and five other Bush-administration officials over their role in torture at Guantanamo, the Daily Beast reports. The prosecutors plan to announce the probe into the so-called Bush Six today at Spain’s central criminal court. “The evidence provided was more than... More »

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Bush administration • torture • Alberto Gonzales • investigation • Spain • Guantanamo Bay • indictment

China Firm Sold Illegal Nuke Materials to Iran: Prosecutors

Company said to have sent tons of supplies, breaching UN rules

Apr 7, 09 12:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York officials today charged a Chinese businessman with illegally selling tons of materials to Iran that could be used to make rockets and nuclear weapons, the New York Times reports. Sales in 2006-08 of tungsten and other metals, often through shell firms, break UN rules, prosecutors say. Li Fang... More »

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China • Iran • United Nations • nuclear weapons • nuclear • sales • indictment • rockets

Feds Set to Indict Blago
—and He's at Disney World

Former governor on vacation in Florida

Apr 2, 09 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - A federal grand-jury indictment against former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich could come today, but if it is, he’ll have to wait to see it. That’s because Blago took his family to Disney World, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. A coincidence? Probably not. But there’s no reason he needs... More »

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Florida • Disney World • corruption • Illinois • indictment • governor • Rod Blagojevich

Madoff Delays Could Point
to Plea Bargain

Wording in court order suggests negotiations
in $50B fraud case

Jan 13, 09 9:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Signs emerged yesterday that disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is trying to cut a deal that could end his $50 billion fraud case without trial, the New York Times reports. A federal magistrate refused to revoke Madoff’s bail and delayed a hearing on Madoff’s case for 30 days so... More »

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bankruptcy • indictment • plea bargain • Ponzi scheme • defrauding investors • Bernard Madoff

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Baltimore Mayor Indicted on Corruption Charges

3-year probe yields
12 state counts

Jan 9, 09 1:55 PM CST
(Newser) - The mayor of Baltimore was indicted today on 12 charges related to alleged corruption and  influence peddling in her current job and during her tenure as city council president, the Sun reports. Sheila Dixon, the first woman to hold the job, faces charges of perjury, theft, fraudulent misappropriation, and misconduct... More »

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Maryland • corruption • mayor • Baltimore • indictment • Sheila Dixon • corruption charges • public corruption • Ronald Lipscomb • wowOwow

(AP) - A federal judge in Chicago today granted prosecutors an additional 3 months to present evidence and obtain an indictment in the corruption case against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Chief Judge James Holderman said the case against Blagojevich is too complex to expect prosecutors to obtain an indictment by a... More »

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federal courts • corruption • Illinois • indictment • governor • Rod Blagojevich • political scandal • federal prosecution • extension

Guard: Blackwater Baghdad
Massacre Was Unprovoked

Chilling details emerge in indictments of five guards in deaths of 17 Iraqis

Dec 9, 08 3:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Five guards working for the Blackwater security company in Baghdad opened fire without provocation and massacred Iraqi civilians on a busy Baghdad intersection in 2007, according to chilling indictments filed against the men. The guards, protecting a convoy, used automatic weapons and grenade launchers to fire on cars, houses, a... More »

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Iraq • FBI • State Department • Blackwater • massacre • Department of Defense • indictment • Nisour Square • shooting • Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act • Paul A. Slough • Nicholas A. Slatten • Evan S. Liberty • Dustin L. Heard • Donald W. Ball • Jeremy Ridgeway

Indicted La. Rep Jefferson Loses to GOP Newbie

Victor becomes first Vietnamese-American in Congress

Dec 7, 08 1:37 PM CST
(Newser) - An election delay caused by Hurricane Gustav likely helped tip the vote away from scandal-plagued Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson, whose nine-term Congressional career came to an unexpected end yesterday, the Times-Picayune reports. Republican newbie Anh "Joseph" Cao unseated the 2nd district’s incumbent African-American Democrat in an election marked... More »

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Congress • New Orleans • William Jefferson • Louisiana • bribery • corruption • indictment • Election 2008 • election

Facing Charges, 5 Blackwater Guards to Surrender

Sixth working on plea in '07 Baghdad massacre

Dec 7, 08 8:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Five ex-Blackwater security guards will surrender to the FBI tomorrow after indictments in a 2007 shooting that killed 17 Iraqis, CNN reports. A sixth is negotiating a plea. Blackwater says its former workers were responding to an attack, but an Iraqi probe called the incident “premeditated murder.” The... More »

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Blackwater • indictment • surrender • security guards • security contractors

Cop Charged in Boy's Death at Mass. Gun Show

8-year-old accidentally shot himself with Uzi
as father looked on

Dec 5, 08 6:36 AM CST
(Newser) - A Massachusetts police chief was indicted after an 8-year-old accidentally killed himself at a gun show the officer helped sponsor, Reuters reports. The boy mistakenly shot himself in the head with an Uzi as his father looked on with a camera. The policeman was indicted for involuntary manslaughter and furnishing... More »

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Massachusetts • indictment • police chiefs • accidental death • guns • child • gun show

 Judge Tosses Cheney, 
 Gonzales Indictments 

Case alleged responsibility for federal prison abuse

Dec 2, 08 10:09 AM CST
(AP) - A judge has dismissed indictments against Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzales, telling the Texas prosecutor who brought the case to exercise caution as his term in office ends. Juan Angel Guerra had accused the political heads of responsibility for abuse in privately-held federal prisons—in which the Vanguard Group that... More »

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Dick Cheney • Alberto Gonzales • Texas • abuse • indictment • federal prison • Vanguard Group

Texas Grand Jury Indicts Cheney, Gonzales

Indictment, overseen by controversial DA, zaps pair over prison abuse

Nov 19, 08 4:26 AM CST
(Newser) - A grand jury in a small southern Texas county has handed down indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for "organized criminal activity" connected to abuse in federal prisons, Reuters reports. The indictments, overseen by controversial local District Attorney Juan Guerra, accuse Cheney of... More »

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Dick Cheney • Alberto Gonzales • Texas • indictment • grand jury • district attorney

 Stevens Jury Finds Typo;
 Defense Urges Acquittal 

On indictment, feds charged senator checked 'no' box when he checked 'yes'

Oct 27, 08 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - The jury in Ted Stevens’ corruption trial has uncovered an error in one indictment, and the defense is springing at the chance, the Hill reports. Jurors sent the judge a note today questioning a discrepancy in the prosecution’s allegations regarding the senator’s 2001 financial disclosure. Where the indictment... More »

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corruption • Ted Stevens • trial • jury • indictment • gift • financial disclosure • typographical error

Blackwater Guards May
Be Charged in Iraq Shooting

Prosecutors target 6
in Sept. incident

Aug 17, 08 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal prosecutors are close to seeing indictments against some of the Blackwater security guards linked to the shooting in Baghdad last September that left 17 civilians dead, the Washington Post reports. Target letters have gone out to six Blackwater contractors, sources tell the Post, indicating a high likelihood that the... More »

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Iraq • Blackwater • indictment • security guards • Iraq contractors • Iraq war

Anthrax Suspect Was Eccentric, Respected

Colleagues say scientist was innocent; others recall dark side

Aug 1, 08 4:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bruce Ivins, the government scientist who committed suicide this week as FBI investigators working the case of the 2001 anthrax attacks were closing in, was known as a quiet, introverted researcher, the Washington Post reports. One ex-colleague described him as "a well-respected scientist” although he “always seemed on... More »

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suicide • FBI • indictment • infectious diseases • scientist • anthrax • domestic terrorism • Bruce Ivins

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In Alaska, GOP Algebra Is Now Calculus

Stevens indictment throws primary
picture into chaos

Jul 29, 08 4:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Stevens’ indictment radically changes the landscape in Alaska’s US Senate race, Chris Cillizza writes in the Washington Post. The octogenarian is one of six candidates in the Aug. 26 GOP primary, and it's too late to remove him from the running. The party's best-case scenario would be for... More »

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Alaska • Senate • Ted Stevens • indictment • Senate committees

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