U.S. citizen gets 25 years in Taliban weapons sting
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oded Orbach, one of two U.S. citizens among a group of men accused in 2011 of trying to sell weapons to people they thought were Taliban...
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Bin Laden son-in-law’s U.S. lawyer indicted on tax charges
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday indicted a lawyer for Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, for failing to report more than $3 million in...
Federal judge criticized by Supreme Court Justice fires back
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge this week defended his custom of urging lead law firms in class actions to staff the lawsuits with women and minority lawyers, two...
Imelda Marcos’ former secretary convicted in art scheme
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Imelda Marcos' former secretary was convicted on Monday of conspiring to sell art that the former Philippine first lady acquired during her husband's presidency, including a...
Madoff employees lived high on corporate money, prosecutors say
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Members of Bernard Madoff's inner circle indulged in expensive wine, cruises and jaunts to Las Vegas and St. Barts, all paid for by his investment firm,...
Who has time to judge Madoff’s associates?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It is hard enough to seat an impartial jury in a case stemming from the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. But lawyers on both sides of...
Wanted: impartial jurors for trial of Madoff employees
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge wrestled on Tuesday to pick impartial jurors in the trial of five former employees of Bernard Madoff who are accused of helping him...
Judge: no jury for Ecuadoreans, lawyer in Chevron fraud trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ecuadorean villagers and a U.S. lawyer who represents them are not entitled to a jury in an upcoming trial over whether they used fraud to win...
Madoff accountant charged with aiding Ponzi scheme
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former accountant for Bernard Madoff has been indicted on charges he helped the convicted swindler defraud thousands of customers in the Ponzi scheme masterminded by...
U.S. judge boosts Google ‘fair use’ defense of digital books
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday appeared to favor Google Inc's legal defense of its digital books project, which could imperil efforts by authors seeking to block...