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Rod Blagojevich's brother wants separate trial
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 20 days ago
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Federal Courts Reporter Rod Blagojevich�s brother doesn�t want to be tried with the ex-governor, his lawyer said today. Michael Ettinger said Monday he will file a formal motion asking that his client, Rob Blagojevich, have a separate trial. Ettinger...
Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Rob Blagojevich, William Cellini, power broker, separate trial, blago trial, corruption charges, Illinois, Michael Ettinger, broker dropped, Los Angeles, John F. Harris, William F. Cellini, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, Rod Blagojevich controversies, Video game censorship, James Zagel, Law Crime, Tony Rezko, Governor of Illinois, Blagojeviￄﾇ, Rod Blagojevich corruption charges, Benvenuto Cellini
Italy: PM vows his government will continue
Rome :: Italy | 2 months ago
Credibility Italy's embattled prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday vowed his government would remain in office despite a ruling by the country's top court that has stripped him of immunity from prosecution while in office. Berlusconi said he would continue...
Tags: Silvio Berlusconi, Mr. Berlusconi, Berlusconi Vows, Mr Berlusconi, Italy, prime minister, minister silvio, highest court, law granting, corruption charges
Corruption Trials Shake Israeli Politics
Jerusalem :: Israel | 2 months ago
Credibility Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared in a Jerusalem courtroom Friday for the opening of his trial on corruption charges. The first hearing was brief, but the session marked a historic precedent: the criminal prosecution of a man who was Israel's...
Tags: Ehud Olmert, Israeli, Mr Olmert, prime minister, Jerusalem District Court, minister ehud, corruption charges, innocence man, jerusalem court, jerusalem courtroom, Israel, Jerusalem
Trial for ex-congressman's brother opens
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility During opening statements, defense attorney Michael Fawer told jurors that Jefferson "will take that stand and will tell you the facts as they really occurred." Prosecutors claim Mose Jefferson paid former New Orleans school board president Ellenese Brooks-Simms...
Tags: Mose Jefferson, William J. Jefferson, Louisiana, louisiana congressman, congressman william, corruption charges
MPs assured of pay, benefit hike
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 5 months ago
Credibility The parliament secretariat yesterday handed over offices to 92 MPs in the first phase of allocating offices to lawmakers at the old MPs' hostel on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises. The offices for the rest will be allocated gradually as the parliament...
Tags: Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui, parliament secretariat, Jamiruddin Sircar, parliamentary probing, Akhter Hamid Siddiqui, Khondoker Delwar Hossain, Khandker Delwar Hossain, corruption charges, Abdul Hamid
Boston Globe: Questions from an indictment
Boston :: MA :: USA | 5 months ago
Credibility DiMasi and three associates pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges this week. According to the indictment, DiMasi was paid $57,000 while he was speaker to steer two state contracts to Cognos ULC, a Canadian software company. Three DiMasi friends...
Tags: Salvatore DiMasi, Sal DiMasi, Massachusetts State Retirement Board, corruption charges, federal corruption, Massachusetts House, Boston Globe
DiMasi pleads 'not guilty' on all counts
Boston :: MA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Former House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi pleaded not guilty Monday to all eight federal charges against him in a case alleging he pocketed $57,000 in exchange for steering state software contracts worth nearly $20 million. The three associates arraigned...
Tags: Salvatore DiMasi, dimasi pleads, corruption charges, speaker salvatore, house speaker, federal corruption
Feds indict Ald. Carothers on corruption charges
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Isaac Carothers (29th), a staunch ally of Mayor Richard Daley, was indicted today on charges he accepted about $40,000 in improvements to his residence as well as meals and tickets to sporting events in exchange for backing a major project by a developer.
Tags: Isaac Carothers, William Carothers, Chicago City Council, Chicago Ald, bribery charges, chicago alderman, corruption charges, federal fraud, real estate, estate developers
High Court Declines to Hear Jefferson Appeal
Jefferson :: VA :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility Jefferson seeking dismissal of corruption charges against him, but it agreed to take two other cases: Canadian-born media magnate Conrad M. Black's appeal of a fraud conviction and a challenge to the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a major...
Tags: William J. Jefferson, The Supreme Court, corruption charges
South Africa drops Zuma graft case
Pretoria :: South Africa | 8 months ago
Credibility South African prosecutors have dropped corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, the leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). The decision on Monday ends eight years of legal battles for Zuma, who is the ANC's presidential candidate in general...
Tags: Jacob Zuma, Mr Zuma, corruption charges, ANC, african prosecutors, National Prosecuting Authority, national prosecution, drops corruption, Mokotedi Mpshe, prosecutors drops
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