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Ex-US attorney general endorses Tiahrt for Senate
Overland Park :: KS :: USA | about 14 hours ago
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Attorney General John Ashcroft, who on Friday endorsed fellow Republican Todd Tiahrt's U.S. Senate campaign, condemned the Obama administration for moving the trial of Sept. 11 terrorism suspects to civilian rather than military court. Ashcroft, who served...
Tags: Todd Tiahrt, attorney general, Republican Senate, Overland Park, Presidency of Barack Obama, United States Senate election in Kansas, War Conflict, Eric Holder, John Ashcroft, Politics
Fiji military seizes TV, radio licences
Perth :: Australia | about 15 hours ago
Credibility Mr Smith said on Saturday that Fiji's interim Attorney-General and Communications Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum had been given new powers, which he had used to strip the licences of broadcasters "at whim". The action was carried out by decree, which does...
Tags: Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Fiji TV, military regime, Mr Smith, fiji military, Australia, Perth, Attorney general, Frank Bainimarama, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Fiji, Attorney-General, Politics
Rating outfits accused of bias
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 19 hours ago
Credibility The three major credit-rating agencies benefited from giving better-than-warranted grades to risky mortgage-backed securities, a practice that cost five Ohio retirement funds at least $457 million, state officials said yesterday. Attorney General Richard...
Tags: attorney general, New York City, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Richard Cordray, Subprime lending, Credit rating agency, Law Crime, Standard & Poor's, Business Finance, Credit rating agencies, Fitch Group, Moody's
New Hampshire AG seeks bankruptcy for mortgage co.
Seattle :: WA :: USA | about 21 hours ago
Credibility The New Hampshire attorney general's office wants to force a mortgage company that closed suddenly into bankruptcy. N.H. — The New Hampshire attorney general's office wants to force a mortgage company that closed suddenly into bankruptcy. Financial Resources...
Tags: attorney general, New Hampshire AG, Seattle, Bankruptcy in the United States, Business Finance, Bankruptcy, Insolvency law, New Hampshire Attorney General
Former sex crimes prosecutor, accused of rape, caught in conflict
Alameda :: CA :: USA | about 22 hours ago
Credibility Even the alternate public defender's office — which handles cases when the public defender can't — has a conflict with Gressett, it was revealed Friday. A grand jury handed up an indictment last month accusing the 23-year prosecutor and former District...
Tags: Michael Gressett, public defender, sex crimes, crimes prosecutor, Alameda, Rape, Indictment, Grand jury, Attorney general, Prosecution, Criminal law, Prosecutor, Law Crime
Terror trials differ in civilian, military courts
New York City :: NY :: USA | about 22 hours ago
Credibility But the Obama administration has so far offered no clear-cut rationale for how it chooses which system will try a detainee. The federal courts and military tribunals that will prosecute suspected terrorists vary sharply in their independence, public stature...
Tags: New York, attorney general, New York City, Human rights, Constitutional law, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, Presidency of Barack Obama, Military tribunal, Politics, Law Crime, Al-Qaeda, USS Cole bombing mastermind, Jamal Mohammad Ahmad Al Badawi, Politics of Yemen, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, USS Cole bombing, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Charles Krauthammer, September 11 attacks, Propaganda, AlterNet, Islamic terrorism, Interrogations, Baloch people, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism
New V.I. Justice official target of ethics complaint -- At issue is Wilson Campbell's relationship with female bailiff while he was a N.J. judge
Newark :: NJ :: USA | about 23 hours ago
Credibility From 2004 to 2006 he was a major crimes prosecutor dealing with white collar and public corruption cases. The ethics complaint stems from his conduct while working as a part-time judge in the New Jersey Municipal Court system. At issue is an intimate...
Tags: Wilson Campbell, New Jersey Municipal Court, New Jersey Supreme Court, ethics complaint, V.I. Justice Department, advisory committee, attorney general, judicial conduct, female bailiff, Vincent Frazer, Newark, Supreme Court of the United States, Law Crime
Netanyahu: Government to choose one of four AG candidates
Tel Aviv :: Israel | about 24 hours ago
Credibility Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided on Friday that the government will choose the next Attorney General from the four candidates suggested by a public search committee. Netanyahu is set to announce during Sunday's cabinet meeting that a new committee...
Tags: attorney general, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Tel Aviv, Menachem Mazuz, Ya'akov Ne'eman, David Levy, Politics, Israeli Jews, Ashkenazi Jews, Prime Ministers of Israel
Jail killing case govt's next priority
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 1 day ago
Credibility It will also fight to defend the HC verdict on August 29, 2005, that declared the fifth amendment to the constitution illegal and unconstitutional for endorsing power takeover by late president Ziaur Rahman and all the activities since August 15, 1975.
Tags: jail killing, killing case, hc verdict, Supreme Court, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, attorney general, Bazlul Huda, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Jail Killing Day, Court system of Pakistan, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Acquittal, Law Crime
A-G search panel gives up
Jerusalem :: Israel | 1 day ago
Credibility The public search committee established to recommend candidates for the post of attorney-general failed on Thursday to make any nominations and informed the prime minister and the minister of justice that it was returning its mandate and ceasing to function.
Tags: Yehuda Weinstein, Israel, Jerusalem, Attorney general, Politics, Moshe Nissim, Ya'akov Ne'eman, Justice ministry
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