Democrats are bracing for a close vote in the Senate today on releasing the second $350 billion of the financial bailout program.
Police in Washington state are searching for a Iraq war veteran accused of kidnapping and torturing two women and raping one of them.
A former Justice Department official discriminated against liberal job applicants at the department and then made false statements to Congress on the matter, according to a Justice Department report released Tuesday.
A cellphone video of the fatal shooting of apparently unresisting African-American man by a white transit police office in Oakland, Calif., has put the local DA on the hot seat.
Bernard Madoff will attend a hearing in Manhattan federal court where the government plans to challenge a U.S. magistrate’s decision allowing the investment adviser to remain free on bail, a defense lawyer said.
Memory-chip manufacturers argued in court documents that Rambus Inc., a designer of high-speed memory chips, can’t enforce its patents in a California court case based on a judge’s ruling in Delaware.
The Indiana investment adviser suspected of faking his death by jumping out of his plane two days ago was caught this evening at a campground in Quincy, Fla., law enforcement officials said.
A federal judge in Texas who was indicted last year for allegedly sexually abusing his former case manager pleaded not guilty today to additional charges that he sexually abused a second court employee.
The criminal investigation into the destruction of CIA videotapes of detainee interrogations is heating up, with interviews to be conducted in the next several weeks, according to documents recently filed by the Justice Department.
Almost a month after Bernard Madoff was arrested for securities fraud, investigators are still struggling to learn how the investment adviser directed an alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme and how widespread it may have been, a person familiar with the probe said.
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Bernard Madoff, charged with masterminding a $50 billion fraud at his New York investment- advisory firm, agreed yesterday to extend temporary court orders freezing assets and appointing a receiver, U.S. regulators said.
Illinois lawmakers could be forced to build their impeachment case against Gov. Rod Blagojevich on a raft of relatively small grievances, rather than the blockbuster Senate-seat-for-sale allegations, for fear of undermining federal prosecutors´ criminal investigation.
Leaders of the oil producers´ cartel Opec are gathering in Algeria where they are under pressure from Saudi Arabia to make a record cut in output. Saudi Arabia, the world´s largest oil producer, predicts the cartel will reduce production by two million barrels a day at the meeting.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox said the agency failed to act for almost a decade on “credible and specific allegations” of wrongdoing by Bernard Madoff, who authorities say bilked investors of as much as $50 billion.
Federal prosecutors have described Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich´s alleged scheme to sell Barack Obama´s former U.S. senate seat to the highest bidder as abject, blatant corruption.
Corporate giant Siemens AG has admitted to orchestrating a massive pay-to-play bribery conspiracy involving government officials from Bangladesh and Iraq to Venezuela, and will pay the U.S. government $800 million to settle the charges.
The scheme, as laid out in court documents, worked very simply: The German company and its subsidiaries, which produce light bulbs, wind turbines. trains and more, made more than 4,000 payments, totaling $1.4 billion, to government officials around the globe.
Concerning the accusation by federal prosecutors that Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich, in effect, tried to sell President-elect Barack Obama´s vacant U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, it isn´t difficult to see the legal issue that is posed by such alleged conduct.
Court records from the investigation into Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich are filled with recorded conversations of the governor allegedly offering to sell an appointment to President-elect Barack Obama´s former U.S. Senate seat. How did the government find out what he was saying?
A $14bn (£9.4bn) bail-out deal for the US car industry has failed to get Senate support, raising fears of job cuts and a possible industry collapse.
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