Request for $45 million Punitive Award in Train/Car Crash

The verdict of $21.6 million to the families of four young adults killed in a 2003 train-car accident was among the largest wrongful-death awards ever in Minnesota. But the case is bigger than that, the families'...

DaProcess Of A Federal Investigation

Feburary 23, 2009WASHINGTON – U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent pleaded guilty today to obstruction of justice in federal court in Houston, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin and Andrew R. Bland III, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Houston office...

Gagnon's Texas landlord had unwitting role in Bennett case

"Gagnon's Texas landlord had unwitting role in Bennett case July 5, 2008 By KATHY McCORMACK The Associated Press ...

Bennett timeline update

"Details in police's case reveal chilling, devious planning by victim's uncle July 5, 2008 By Daniel Barlow Vermont Press Bureau ...

Barry Bonds Faces 15-Count Indictment

The league-leading legacy of Barry Bonds baseball career continues to be eroded by the legal battle surrounding accusations that he lied under oath while testifying to a grand jury examining steroid use among...

Conrad Black 'Serene' as He Makes Federal Jail Home

Defiant to the last, former media mogul Conrad Black started his 6 and a half year sentence today at the Coleman-Low Federal Correction Complex in Florida. Black still insists he is innocent of all charges and...

Winehouse reportedly arrested in Britain

She's in trouble again..."LONDON - Amy Winehouse was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attempting to interfere with a court case involving her husband, according to several British media reports. Authorities said a 24-year-old was arrested during an appointment at a police...

Conrad Black Sentenced to 6.5 Years in Prison

UPDATE: 2:00pm ET: Conrad Black has been sentenced to 6.5 years in prison and a $125,000 fine. The sentence was handed down for only $6.1 million defrauded. Judge Amy St. Eve said that the sentence could not be...

Barry Bonds Indicted

Where's that home run ball now? I wonder what information prosecutors have now that they didn't before? I'll be curious to see what kind of circus they can conjure around this one. This should lend itself to be quite a show. There is a writer's strike after all - so all the...

Animal Rights Extremists Charged With RICO and Conspiracy

"Feld Entertainment, Inc., which produces Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey(R), today filed a lawsuit against the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and a number of other animal...

"Update"British Columbia, Uptopia for Career Criminals

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorI guess the powers to be at the Vancouver Sun read my articles as they contacted me and intend to cover my comments in their August 4th, Vancouver Sun Saturday Edition,...

Conrad Black found guilty of 4 charges

After 12 days of deliberation the jury has finally reached a verdict in the Conrad Black trial. "Conrad Black has been found guilty on 4 charges and not guilty on 9 chargesLord Black was charged with 13 counts of...

How Scooter Skated

" July 6, 2007 How Scooter Skated by Patrick J. Buchanan Why did Bush do it? Why did he suddenly barge into the legal process and erase the entire 30-month sentence of Scooter Libby? For, from his own statement, Bush found the act deeply distasteful. In that statement, Bush...

Bush and Cheney walk, too

"Bush and Cheney walk, too Even as the president confesses that Scooter Libby engaged in a cover-up -- after all, that was the verdict -- he completes the ultimate obstruction of justice in the Plame affair. By Sidney Blumenthal"

Statement by the President

"The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected Lewis Libby's request to remain free on bail while pursuing his appeals for the serious convictions of perjury and obstruction of justice. As a result, Mr. Libby will be required to turn himself over to...

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