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The US Army announces that it will open an investigation to determine whether Pat Tillman's death in a 2004 friendly fire incident in Afghanistan was actually the result of negligent homicide. Tillman gave up a $3.6 million NFL contract with the Arizona Cardinals to become an Army Ranger after the ... |
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Former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a Navy flying ace of the Vietnam conflict, is sentenced to eight years and four months in federal prison for selling his office and accepting bribes totalling $2.4 million from defense contractors Virgil Goode of MZM Inc. and Brent Wilkes of ADCS Inc. |
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Former Gov. John G. Rowland (R, CT) pleads guilty to corruption charges that he traded his office for more than $100,000 in flights to Las Vegas, Vermont vacations and repairs to his vacation cottage. It is expected that the 47 year old will receive 15 to 21 months in federal prison. |
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The jury in Scott Peterson's double murder trial recommends that he be put to death for killing his wife Laci, and their unborn son, Connor. The judge will formally sentence Peterson on February 25th. If the judge chooses to change Peterson's punishment to life in prison, he can do so. |
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The truth is revealed that George Bush's choice for Homeland Security Director was much worse than revealed in Bernard Kerik's statement of withdrawal. New reports show simultaneous extra-marital affairs and unreported gifts of thousands of dollars in cash and other items from associates at a New J ... |
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For the second time in two days, Judge Alfred A. Delucchi removes a juror from the jury of Scott Peterson's murder trial. A day earlier, Judge Delucchi removed after reportedly doing her own research, which is a violation of court rules. Today, the Judge removed the foreman of the jury to mark the ... |
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Police announce that the remains found in a landfill in Utah belong to Lori Hacking, who was killed by her husband. |
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Armed robbers steal the iconic Edvard Munch painting, The Scream and another painting, Madonna from the Munch Museum in Norway in broad daylight before stunned visitors. |
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John Forney becomes the third Enron official to plead guilty to allegations they manipulated electricity prices from Enron's now-defunct trading office in Portland, Oregon. |
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The SEC announces that drug goliath Bristol-Myers Squibb agrees to pay $150 million to settle SEC charges that it manipulated its inventory to inflate earnings and meet Wall Street targets. |
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics releases a report which shows that a record 6.9 million adults were incarcerated or on probation or parole last year, nearly 131,000 more than in 2002 |
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Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in jail, as well as five months of house arrest and two years probation for lying to investigators about her 2001 sale of ImClone Systems stock. She must also pay a $30,000 fine. |
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Lea Fastow, the convicted wife of former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow, reports to a federal prison in Houston, TX to begin serving her year sentence. The 41 year-old mother of two helped her husband hide money for various financial schemes that led to Enron's December 2001 demise. |
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U.S. District Judge Richard Berman announces that Morgan Stanley will pay $54 Million to settle sex bias charges filed on behalf of hundreds of women who complained they were denied raises and promotions and subjected to lewd behavior. |
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Philip Morris (NYSE: MO) announces that it will pay $1.25 billion to settle a dispute with the European Union over accusations it colluded with smugglers, thus evading European taxes and customs duties.
The firm has denied the accusations, but will pay the money over 12 years. |
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Paul Khlebnikov, the editor for the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, is assassinated in north-eastern Moscow. In May of 2004, the periodical issued a list of Russia's oil magnates and metals tycoons. The list revealed Moscow to be the city with the world's most billionaires. |
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Former Enron CEO turns himself into FBI in Houston following his indictment by grand jury. He is led to the federal courthouse in Houston with his hands cuffed behind his back. He pleads not guilty to 11 criminal charges of fraud and deception. |
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John Rigas and his son Timothy are convicted of conspiracy, bank fraud and securities fraud for looting the cable company Adelphia. |
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Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum refuses to grant Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic a new trial in the ImClone insider trading scandal. |
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Ken Lay, the ex-Chairman of the failed Enron Corporation, is indicted. Lay will surrender to the FBI on July 8th and then make his initial appearance before a federal magistrate judge. U.S. President George Bush, who oftened referred to his friend as "Kenny Boy," refuses to respond to related ques ... |
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's Web site announces that AT&T will pay $400,000 in penalties and costs and issue refunds to 311,000 New York residents who were billed for long-distance telephone service they neither requested nor used. When customers had tried to bring the underlying error ... |
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The National Association of Securities Dealers ordered eight securities firms to pay $310,000 in fines and $300,000 in restitution to customers for unfairly pricing bonds. The largest penalty went to UBS Financial Services Inc., which was fined $100,000 and ordered to pay $100,666 in restitution. O ... |
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sues Brown & Williamson, the maker of Kool cigarettes, for an advertising campaign that he said targets children. |
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Federal jury indicts Larry F. Stewart, an ink expert, who prosecutors say lied on the witness stand at Martha Stewart's trial. |
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Released audio tapes demonstrate in the simplest and crudest possible language the mindset of traders at Enron during their manipulation of California's electricity shortage in 2001. |
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Jury selection begins to start the first criminal trial in the Enron debacle. The chosen jury must decide if four former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives and two former Enron executives engaged in a sham sale of barges to manipulate the company's books in December of 1999. |
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Rwanda's first post-genocide president, Pasteur Bizimungu, is sentenced to 15 years in jail for embezzlement, inciting violence and associating with criminals. |
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Fog Cutter Capital gives Andrew Wiederhorn a $2 million "leave of absence" payment and keeps him on the payroll. |
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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed suit against GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) who withheld information regarding the effects of its antidepressant drug Paxil in children. |
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At least 34 people are reported killed in a rebellion by drug gang members at a prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 62-hour revolt began when inmates seized weapons attempted to stage a mass jailbreak on Saturday morning. |
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