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 6 Oct 2008 at 5:24pm AFP - The US Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by EchoStar Communications Corp. against a judgment ordering it to pay nearly 74 million dollars to TiVo Inc. for patent infringement. 6 Oct 2008 at 5:09pm Reuters - A former employee of a Wellcare Health Care Plans Inc subsidiary pleaded guilty to defrauding the Florida Medicaid program out of more than $20 million, prosecutors said on Monday.  6 Oct 2008 at 5:07pm AP - The woman credited with helping bring about the surrender of accused courthouse gunman Brian Nichols recounted at his murder trial Monday how she appealed to his religious beliefs during hours in captivity before persuading him to set her free.  6 Oct 2008 at 3:07pm AFP - Lawyers for the biggest US tobacco maker went before the Supreme Court on Monday to argue that Washington is to blame if anyone felt tricked into thinking that light cigarettes are less dangerous than regular smokes. 6 Oct 2008 at 2:30pm AP - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from an Alabama man who was sentenced to five years in prison when a judge wrongly thought the law required him to serve time.  6 Oct 2008 at 1:51pm AP - Evangelist Tony Alamo left Arizona for Arkansas under the watch of federal marshals Monday, preparing to answer to charges that he took children across state lines to engage in sexual activity. 6 Oct 2008 at 11:16am AP - The president of Davenport University has pleaded guilty to a first-time drunken-driving charge and refusing to take a breath test during his arrest.  6 Oct 2008 at 7:51pm AP - Federal prosecutors moved Monday to delay indefinitely the sentencing of convicted fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko, sending their strongest hint yet that he is ready to spill his political secrets. 6 Oct 2008 at 5:41pm AP - A former hospital executive was convicted Monday of buying the influence of a Rhode Island lawmaker, while his former colleague was found not guilty of similar charges.  6 Oct 2008 at 5:24pm Reuters - U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens told an oil-executive friend, in recordings played on Monday at the Alaska Republican's corruption trial, they both risked going to jail -- but he didn't think it would come to that. 6 Oct 2008 at 10:44am AP - The Supreme Court refused Monday to disturb a $74 million judgment against Dish Network Corp. for violating a patent held by TiVo Inc. involving digital video recorders.  6 Oct 2008 at 6:47am AP - Jurors who found O.J. Simpson guilty in his armed robbery trial say secret audio tapes and surveillance video swayed them more than witness accounts.  5 Oct 2008 at 3:33pm Reuters - O.J. Simpson, who more than a decade ago stunned much of America by beating murder charges, found himself in a Las Vegas jail on Saturday, facing the possibility of life in prison after a jury found him guilty of kidnapping and robbery in a dramatic late-night verdict.  4 Oct 2008 at 10:18pm AP - The jurors in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery and kidnapping trial claimed a mixture of opinions about his acquittal on murder charges more than a decade ago, but all told attorneys they could set aside their feelings.  4 Oct 2008 at 7:17pm AP - A disbarred attorney who lived three doors down from Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton in suburban New York was convicted Saturday of murdering his wife in what prosecutors said was an attempt to collect life insurance money. |
by By BRUCE WEBER For more than three decades, Mr. Spero served the Bonanno family in a variety of roles, rising to consigliere and taking over as acting family boss when his superiors were in prison. by By BRUCE WEBER Mr. Spero served the Bonnano family, one of the five Mafia clans in New York City, for more than three decades in a variety of roles. by By THE NEW YORK TIMES Agents began digging on Wednesday for several bodies they think might be buried on Long Island, including that of a former Colombo family underboss. by By REUTERS The Italian police issued more than 100 arrest warrants on Tuesday in an action against suspected mafiosi in Naples, detaining dozens. by By BENJAMIN WEISER  A federal appeals court reinstated the racketeering convictions of two retired New York City detectives who helped to kill at least eight men in their role as mob assassins.by By REUTERS The killings were probably related to a settling of accounts between drug traffickers, officials said. by By TRYMAINE LEE Robert Simels, who has represented some of New York’s most notorious gangsters and rappers, was charged with a plot to “neutralize” witnesses willing to testify against his clients. by By JOHN ELIGON A federal appeals court has tossed out the racketeering convictions of three men accused of having ties to organized crime and has ordered that they be given new trials. by By CHRISTINE HAUSER The seven face charges including racketeering and illegal gambling. by By JOHN ELIGON Two men with reputed ties to organized crime pleaded guilty to participating in an illegal gambling ring run out of a wholesale produce market at Hunts Point. by By JOHN ELIGON; MITCHELL L. BLUMENTHAL, COLIN MOYNIHAN and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM CONTRIBUTED REPORTING.  John A. Gotti was arrested at his Long Island home on federal conspiracy charges, tying him to three murders in the 1980s and ’90s.by By TERRENCE RAFFERTY  The upcoming “French Crime Wave” series at Film Forum shows that France’s New Wave criminals may have a silly side, but they remain fatalistic.by By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ A Mafia-like caste forged in the Soviet gulag, the Vory v Zakone maintain a hallowed place in Russia’s criminal lore. by By ALAN FEUER A New Jersey paralegal believes that the case file on a murderous Brooklyn Mafia informant may shed light on the possible involvement of a crime boss in the J.F.K. assassination. by By MICK SUSSMAN  New nonfiction books reviewed. |
30 Sep 2008 at 11:40am Army Sgt. Dwayne Cole was on his second tour of duty in Iraq and counting the days — 37 — until could return home. But everything changed that night when a bullet hit him in the neck: not by enemy fire, but at point-blank range by a member of his own unit. An accident? No, an army investigator said: A cover-up. 29 Sep 2008 at 11:49am The shooting of a soldier in Iraq by a member of his own unit raises disturbing questions. (Dateline NBC) 24 Sep 2008 at 12:50pm 18 Sep 2008 at 4:39pm Tom Wales, a federal prosecutor for 18 years, was murdered one month after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks while in his home. The murder looked so much like a hit that investigators wondered, was the killer was someone Wales had put behind bars? If so, it would be the first time in U.S. history that a federal prosecutor was killed in connection with his work. 19 Sep 2008 at 7:04pm A Deadly Triangle: A student teacher is caught in an affair with one of her former students. And soon, the scandal becomes deadly: The student is shot- by the teacher's husband. Was it murder, or was it an accident? Read the transcript. 19 Sep 2008 at 7:44pm Billy Wolfe, an Arkansas high school sophomore, dreaded going to school each day. A regular punching bag for his classmates, all Billy wanted was someone on his side. But when even a videotape of kids bullying him doesn't convince his school he's a victim, Billy's family decides to sue. 16 Sep 2008 at 2:04pm In one of the most significant terrorism cases since 9/11, a British jury last week convicted three British citizens, accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, on a charge of conspiracy to murder. The plot, which disrupted air travel at the time, led authorities to impose permanent restrictions on liquids and gels on airplanes. 12 Sep 2008 at 7:56pm Transcript: Who is Clark Rockefeller? Turns out he's not who anyone thought — including his wife. Read the story of Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German man who made a fake identity for himself using the famed American surname. 12 Sep 2008 at 7:55pm How did the phony French 'Rockefeller' con Americans? And what does he have to say about his crimes? Mike Taibbi follows Christopher Rocancourt's trail, which includes Rocancourt's first TV interview. 8 Sep 2008 at 8:42pm How often is someone shot with a cross-bow? And not just once, but twice? When a woman is found dead with an arrow through her back, her husband insists it was an accident... But the prosecutor calls it murder. Read the transcript. 5 Sep 2008 at 6:51pm A wealthy hedge fund manager whom the rich and powerful trusted with their fortunes suddenly disappears – and the money was gone too. Turns out, all along he'd been playing a dangerous game with very high stakes. Dennis Murphy reports. 29 Aug 2008 at 5:48pm Transcript: The image of two teenage boys playing serenely is a picture of peace uncommon in eastern Congo — and deceptive. Because it masks some of the worst horrors of a vicious ethnic war for land and resources: a war often fought with children. 29 Aug 2008 at 8:18pm A generation ago, mentally disabled people were often quietly sent away to bleak government institutions, left to live out their days on the isolated fringes of society. Halfway across the world in Serbia, the conditions haven't improved. 29 Aug 2008 at 5:54pm Nearly 40 years ago, Charles Manson and his cult following brutally murdered 35 people — leaving California's Death Valley paralyzed with fear. Could the desert yield more Manson family murders? Scientists are looking. 3 Aug 2008 at 8:01pm Every day, Customs and Border Protection agents at the U.S. border look for the truth about people entering this country. |
6 Oct 2008 at 3:34pm MONTREAL The first-degree murder trial of a top-flight member of the Hells Angels has begun in Montreal more than 11 years after the brazen slaying of a prison guard. 6 Oct 2008 at 11:14am Authorities in South Florida say three people were wounded during a shooting at a Hallandale Beach banquet hall. 6 Oct 2008 at 6:42am The crime was a shock even to a community that had seen its share of slayings: a little girl's headless body found in the woods.Seven years later, testimony was to begin against the man accused of killing a 3-year-old who became known to locals as 'Precious Doe.'Jackson County prosecutors say Harrell Johnson, 29, was high on drugs when he knocked his girlfriend's daughter, Erica Green, to the floor after she refused to go to bed. Johnson, along with the girls' mother, did not seek medical help as the girl lay dying for nearly 10 hours. 6 Oct 2008 at 2:20am Police have arrested a man initially identified as a Springfield firefighter on suspicion that he raped a teenage boy at knifepoint. 5 Oct 2008 at 9:45pm A federal judge's decision that put wolves back on the endangered species list in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan upsets some people. 5 Oct 2008 at 5:15pm Prosecutors say they have charged a 21-year-old Independence man in the shooting death of his mother's fianc at his home. 5 Oct 2008 at 12:51pm A man sought in Alabama for a slaying during an argument over a video game has been captured in Kentucky. 5 Oct 2008 at 8:32am Police say a man has been charged with murder after the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend and another woman at a home. 5 Oct 2008 at 4:00am A mental evaluation has been ordered for a Washington woman accused of killing her four daughters and then living with their bodies for months. 4 Oct 2008 at 11:35pm Authorities in Rogers say a 75-year-old woman is charged with capital murder for the slaying of her usband. 4 Oct 2008 at 7:13pm A disbarred attorney who lived three doors down from Bill and Hillary Clinton has been convicted of murdering his wife.A Westchester County jury deliberated for parts of Friday and Saturday before convicting Carlos Perez-Olivo of second-degree murder. He could get life in prison.Prosecutors said the troubled lawyer shot his schoolteacher wife, Peggy, in the back of the head as she dozed in their car during a drive to their home in Chappaqua on Nov. 18, 2006.The 59-year-old then gave himself a superficial gunshot wound, tossed the weapon into a lake, then called 911 claiming that he and his wife had been attacked by a carjacker. 4 Oct 2008 at 2:43pm A Memphis teenager is facing first degree murder charges in three separate incidents. 4 Oct 2008 at 10:10am Defense lawyers of the man convicted are seeking a new trial in the "Joe Cool" boat killings case. 4 Oct 2008 at 5:48am O.J. SIMPSON was found guilty of robbery and kidnapping here on Friday, 13 years to the day after the American football legend was acquitted of brutally murdering his ex-wife and her friend. 4 Oct 2008 at 1:18am LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Rape charges have been refiled against a former Purdue University student who already faces 14 years in prison for receiving child pornography. |