MAR
30
2009

Judges Accused of Jailing Kids for Cash

Luzerne County sits in the heart of northeastern Pennsylvania; Wilkes-Barre is the county seat, a hardscrabble, blue-collar city struggling in this latest recession.

MAR
30
2009
MAR
27
2009

Some Madoff Investors Complain Their Lawyers Were to Blame

Some law firms could face liability for advising clients who lost money with Bernard Madoff, according to a Massachusetts state official.

MAR
27
2009

Absent woman sentenced to 25 years in $1.9B fraud

A federal judge in Ohio sentenced a missing executive on Friday to 25 years in prison for her role in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud.

MAR
27
2009

Allen Stanford talks with Texas criminal attorney

Allen Stanford, accused by U.S. regulators of an $8 billion Ponzi scheme, is in talks with a Houston criminal attorney who is assembling a group of lawyers to represent the billionaire Texan.

MAR
27
2009

CityCenter venture may file for bankruptcy: sources

CityCenter, an $8 billion Las Vegas project owned by MGM Mirage (MGM.N) and Dubai World DBWLD.UL, is considering filing for bankruptcy, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

MAR
27
2009

U.S. consumer spending up modestly, incomes fall

U.S. consumer spending rose for a second straight month in February, while incomes reversed the previous month´s gains, government data showed on Friday.

MAR
27
2009

U.S. shares blame for Mexico drug violence, Clinton says

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on a two-day visit to Mexico, accepts that the U.S. market for narcotics and a cross-border trade in U.S. guns contribute to Mexico´s drug violence.

MAR
27
2009
MAR
26
2009

Barack Obama to finally appoint US ambassador to Britain

Barack Obama, the US President, is to appoint Louis Susman as his American ambassador in London, Mandrake has been told.

MAR
26
2009

Chef accused of rape of drunken lawyer acquitted in 45 minutes

A jury took just 45 minutes to acquit a chef wrongly accused of raping a lawyer who claimed she was took drunk to give her consent.

MAR
26
2009

The Treasury Secretary calls for major changes that would address systemic risk and "eliminate gaps" in the U.S. regulatory structure

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled on Mar. 26 details of the Obama Administration´s proposals to strengthen regulation in the financial sector, including new oversight of hedge funds and derivative financial products such as credit default swaps.

MAR
25
2009

Livent Founders Convicted of C$500 Million Fraud

Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, founders of the collapsed theater producer Livent Inc., were convicted of a C$500 million ($407 million) fraud a decade after Canadian police began a probe into the company’s finances.

MAR
25
2009

AB InBev Loses Court Bid to Expand Budweiser Rights

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV, the world’s largest brewer, lost a European Union court ruling over a bid to extend its rights to the Budweiser name across the region in a century-old dispute with Budejovicky Budvar NP.

MAR
25
2009

Justices Review ´Hillary: The Movie´

Ted Olson sang a different tune today in the Supreme Court than the one he carried just six years ago. Back then, as the solicitor general in the Bush Administration, he was defending the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law against a sweeping attack.

MAR
25
2009

Freedom for Madoff Before Sentencing?

A week after Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty to a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, his lawyers were back in court to appeal a federal judge´s decision to jail their client before sentencing. The appeals panel told Madoff it needs more time to consider the matter and he remains in jail—exactly where he belongs, most people would probably say.

MAR
24
2009

David Cameron will replace Gordon Brown´s failed finance system

David Cameron has promised to bring "law and order" to Britain´s financial markets and replace Gordon Brown´s failed regulatory system.

MAR
24
2009

France to compensate victims of nuclear tests 50 years after first explosion

France on Tuesday offered for the first time to compensate victims of its nuclear tests almost half a century after the first explosion and following decades of pressure from victims who were exposed to radiation.

MAR
24
2009

As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes

In early December, Juliet Weybret, a high school sophomore and aspiring rock star from Lodi, Calif., recorded a video of herself playing the piano and singing "Winter Wonderland," and she posted it on YouTube.

MAR
24
2009

US STOCKS-Wall St soars 7 pct on bank plan debut

U.S. stocks surged around 7 percent on Monday after the Obama administration detailed a plan to purge toxic assets from bank balance sheets, fueling optimism about a revival in bank lending and driving double-digit gains in financial shares.

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