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TEL AVIV, Israel, September 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, Tel Aviv Magistrates Court charged two private investigators, Rafael Pridan and Maxim Gurevich, with the illegal wiretapping of Businessman Michael Cherney. The two had been hired by an aide to Russian aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, Cherney's ex-partner.
According to the indictment, in April 2007 Alexei Drobashenko (Director of the "Eurasian Group", one of Deripaska's companies) turned to a previously convicted Israeli radical activist Avigdor Eskin, with an offer to conduct a smear campaign to discredit Michael Cherney. Eskin has introduced Drobashenko to PIs Aviv Mor and Rafael Pridan who had been earlier stripped of his Private investigator license. From May to October 2007 Eskin, Mor, and Pridan met several times in Mo...
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David Allen:
WELL, LAST week's news about the Colonies Crossroads case was certainly splashy, what with four figures in the corruption investigation tossed in the clink and bail set at ax-murderer levels.
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Last week's indictment of Manhattan class-action behemoth Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman once again brought the infamous Thompson memorandum back to the forefront of white-collar prosecution.
In 2002, a deputy U.S. attorney general named Larry Thompson issued a series of guidelines spelling out what the Justice Department would deem cooperation from companies under investigation. This was the era of Enron and WorldCom, and the government was really feeling its oats when it came to corporate crime enforcement. The Thompson memo is unambiguous about the power of the government to be a force for positive change of corporate culture, alter corporate behavior, and prevent, discover and punish white collar crime.
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Anti-tax advocate Douglas Bruce was indicted earlier this month on four counts of tax-related crimes, but two tax-crime lawyers say the indictment doesn't necessarily mean the state has a strong case against him.
It's a pretty bare-bones indictment," said Denver attorney Cliff Stricklin of the firm Holme Roberts and Owen, who read the indictment. Stricklin, who also is an adjunct law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, was the lead prosecutor in the case of former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio. Nacchio was convicted in 2007 of insider trading and sentenced to six years in prison.
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UPLAND - A reference to the city's Planning Commission in the indictment of former Mayor John "JP" Pomierski and contractor John Hennes implies that commission votes were dictated by Pomierski.
But the commissioners say otherwise.
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A defense attorney said Thursday that San Bernardino County prosecutors may be seeking to dismiss criminal charges against former Assistant Assessor Jim Erwin in a corruption probe and pushing for a Grand Jury indictment instead.
Investigators from the District Attorney's Office on Thursday served subpoenas to county supervisors Josie Gonzales, Neil Derry, Gary Ovitt and Brad Mitzelfelt, requesting that they appear before a criminal Grand Jury this month to testify. Steve Hauer, Derry's deputy chief of staff, also received a subpoena.
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This article was originally published on 25th February 2011.
On Wednesday January 26, 2011, federal prosecutors in Newark, New Jersey indicted Mr. V...
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Five illegal immigrants armed with at least two AK-47 semi- automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole known as Mesquite Seep just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and one U.S. agent was killed, records show.
A now-sealed federal grand jury indictment in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry says the Mexican nationals were "patrolling" the rugged desert area of Peck Canyon at about 11:15 p.m. on Dec. 14 with the intent to "intentionally and forcibly assault" Border Patrol agents.