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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Indicted for Attempted Bombing of Flight 253 on Christmas Day (Popularity:  )
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The Justice Department announced that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian national, was charged today in a six-count criminal indictment returned in the Eastern District of Michigan for his alleged role in the attempted Christmas day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Detroit.Count one of the indictment charges Abdulmutallab with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a penalty of up to ...
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Criminal Record Inc. Announces Fastest and Most In-Depth Criminal Records System Available (Popularity: )
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Today Criminal Record has announced the deployment of powerful new programming, databases and hardware that make conducting a criminal records search anywhere in the United States a much more accurate and painless process.For years conducting background checks has been problematic in the sense that not every record was covered and quality of data varied greatly in quality plus scope from company to company.The new system announced by Criminal Record today ...
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Chicagoan Charged With Conspiracy in 2008 Mumbai Attacks in Addition to Foreign Terror Plot in Denmark (Popularity: )
New federal charges filed today allege that a Chicago man, who was arrested in October for planning terrorist attacks against a Danish newspaper and two of its employees, also conducted extensive surveillance of targets in Mumbai for more than two years preceding the November 2008 terrorist attack on India's largest city that killed approximately 170 people, including six Americans, and injured hundreds more.The defendant, David Coleman Headley, a U.S. citizen, ...
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Justice Department & IRS Announce Results of UBS Settlement & Unprecedented Response in Voluntary Tax Disclosure Program (Popularity: )
Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden released the following statement regarding the announcement today by the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the results arising from previous settlements of civil and criminal cases against Swiss banking giant UBS AG. The Justice Department and IRS announced that over 14,700 taxpayers have come forward to report previously-undisclosed foreign bank accounts under the voluntary disclosure program the IRS implemented ...
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Open Book Alliance Issues Statement Reacting to Revised Google Book Settlement Proposal (Popularity: )
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On Friday, Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers released their revised book settlement proposal in an attempt to fix the deeply flawed legal agreement.Open Book Alliance co-chair Peter Brantley said, "Our initial review of the new proposal tells us that Google and its partners are performing a sleight of hand; fundamentally, this settlement remains a set-piece designed to serve the private commercial interests of Google and ...
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Massachusetts Man Charged With Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists (Popularity: )
A Sudbury, Mass., man was charged today in federal court with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.Acting U.S. Attorney Michael K. Loucks and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI - Boston Field Division, announced today that Tarek Mehanna, 27, of 6 Fairhaven Circle, Sudbury, Mass., was charged in a complaint with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.The complaint alleges that, beginning in or about ...
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Attorney General Announces Formal Medical Marijuana Guidelines (Popularity: )
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Attorney General Eric Holder today announced formal guidelines for federal prosecutors in states that have enacted laws authorizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The guidelines make clear that the focus of federal resources should not be on individuals whose actions are in compliance with existing state laws, while underscoring that the Department will continue to prosecute people whose claims of compliance with state and local law conceal operations ...
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Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges Hedge Fund Managers, Fortune 500 Executives, and Management Consulting Director in $20 Million Insider Trading Case (Popularity: )
Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Joseph Demarest, Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the FBI, today announced charges against six individuals arising out of their alleged involvement in the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history. The defendants include: Raj Rajaratnam, the Managing Member of Galleon Management, LLC (Galleon), and a portfolio manager for Galleon Technology Offshore, Ltd.; ...
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Law Enforcement Officer Fatalities Fall Sharply during Third Quarter of 2009 (Popularity: )
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After jumping 20 percent in the first six months of 2009, the number of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty fell sharply during the third quarter of this year and is on pace to reach a five-decade low this year, according to preliminary data from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.Nationwide, 26 officers died in the line of duty during the months of July, August and ...
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Georgia Dui Lawyer Ben Sessions Annonces The Gaduidefenselawfirm.Com (Popularity: )
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Georgia DUI Defense Attorney Ben Sessions announces the launch of his firm's website. The newly launched website focuses on Georgia's complex DUI laws and provides information for those faced with a Georgia DUI charge. Concentrating exclusively on Georgia DUI law, Ben Sessions specializes in DUI defense and is available 24 hours a day for free consultation. Georgia DUI lawyers Ben Sessions delivers results in the defense of Georgia DUI cases ...
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