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| NY rabbi arrested on 3rd impersonation charge Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 12:48 PM PDT  MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) — In the space of about 19 hours ending Thursday, a rabbi from the New York suburbs was arrested or arraigned on three separate charges of impersonating a police officer. Full Story | Top |
| Panasonic, Sanyo, LG Chem in price-fixing plea deals: U.S. Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 12:43 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Panasonic Corp , its subsidiary Sanyo Electric Co Ltd and LG Chem Ltd agreed to plead guilty to separate price-fixing allegations involving automotive parts and notebook computer battery cells, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday. Panasonic agreed to pay about a $45.8 million criminal fine, Sanyo agreed to pay $10.7 million and LG Chem $1.1 million, the department said in a statement. ... Full Story | Top |
| Russian opposition leader sentenced to 5 years Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 12:20 PM PDT  KIROV, Russia (AP) — Alexei Navalny, the most charismatic and creative of Russian opposition leaders who challenged the Kremlin with exposures of high-level corruption and biting satire, was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday in a verdict that fueled street protests near Red Square and drew condemnation from the West. Full Story | Top |
| Panasonic to enter plea in price-fixing conspiracy Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 12:07 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says Panasonic Corp. and a subsidiary, SANYO Electric Co. Ltd., have agreed to plead guilty in a price-fixing conspiracy involving auto parts and battery cells and to pay $56.5 million in criminal fines. Full Story | Top |
| Ex-CIA Agent Convicted of Kidnapping Terror Suspects Is Arrested in Panama Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 11:53 AM PDT  The highest-ranking American official to be tried and convicted for abducting terror suspects overseas has been arrested in Panama, opening the possibility that he could be sent to prison for an "extraordinary rendition." In 2009, an Italian court convicted Robert Lady, the former CIA station chief in Milan, and 22 other American operatives for kidnapping a Muslim cleric six years earlier. Full Story | Top |
| CAIR Seeks Hate Crime Charges for Threats to S. Calif. Mosque Worshippers Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 09:40 AM PDT SAN DIEGO, July 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-San Diego) today urged prosecutors to bring hate crime charges against a man who allegedly walked into a local mosque during early-morning prayers, called worshippers "terrorist rats" and shouted, "I'm going to kill all of you."Larry Michael Rodgers, 52, was arrested on suspicion of making terrorist threats after allegedly threatening the congregation of the Islamic Center of San Diego in Clairemont Monday morning. Rodgers remained in jail Wednesday night on $50,000 ... Full Story | Top |
| NY rabbi pleads not guilty to impersonation charge Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 09:10 AM PDT  MAMARONECK, N.Y. (AP) — A rabbi who's been accused of angrily flashing a badge at several other motorists numerous times addressed one of the complaints Thursday, pleading not guilty to impersonating a police officer. Full Story | Top |
| El Paso Shipping Company Owner Sentenced For Scheme to Defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 08:42 AM PDT WASHINGTON, July 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced that Octavio Maese-Cordero, owner of a trucking and shipping company in El Paso, TX , was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Ex-Im Bank of approximately $2,371,860.Judge David Briones, of the U.S. District Court in El Paso, TX, also sentenced Maese to 36 months supervised release and ordered Maese to pay $1,742,891.25 in restitution, $2,371,859 in forfeiture and a $200 special assessment fee. ... Full Story | Top |
| Seventeen arrested at California Trayvon Martin rally: report Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 03:29 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Seventeen people were arrested in California late on Wednesday after a protest against the acquittal of a neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin turned rowdy, according to news reports. Officers arrested the protesters at a rally in Victorville, 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Eight of those arrested were juveniles, and most of the arrests were made on charges of unlawful assembly, the newspaper reported. ... Full Story | Top |
| Russian protest leader Navalny sentenced to five years in jail Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 01:37 AM PDT  KIROV, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian judge sentenced protest leader Alexei Navalny to five years in prison on Thursday after convicting him of large-scale theft in a trial Navalny said was politically motivated. Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin's biggest critics, was led away from court by law enforcement officers after the judge pronounced the sentence in the industrial city of Kirov. Prosecutors had asked for a six-year sentence. (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; Writing by Steve Gutterman, Editing by Timothy Heritage) Full Story | Top |
| Russian opposition leader Navalny found guilty Thursday, Jul 18, 2013 12:00 AM PDT  KIROV, Russia (AP) — A Russian judge on Thursday found opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty of theft, a ruling that could send the charismatic anti-corruption blogger and Moscow mayoral candidate to prison for up to six years. Full Story | Top |
| $33,000 spent on sequestered jurors Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 09:52 PM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — About $33,000 was spent to sequester the six female jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman of any crime for fatally shooting Trayvon Martin, according to details released Wednesday by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office. Full Story | Top |
| Zimmerman jurors passed time with manicures, movies and bowling Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 05:49 PM PDT  By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Sequestered jurors locked away from the rest of the world during George Zimmerman's three-week murder trial in Florida fended off cabin fever with manicures, movies and mall shopping. Under the round-the-clock watch of the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, the sequestered jury of six women who listened to long days of testimony in the highly charged case blew off steam with an occasional side trip. The jury found Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in a case that captivated the U.S. ... Full Story | Top |
| Doctor accused of Nebraska revenge killings to be extradited Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 05:09 PM PDT  By Katie Schubert OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - A doctor described by police as fitting a serial killer's profile said on Wednesday he would not fight extradition to Nebraska from Illinois to face charges of murdering four people, including one of doctors who fired him in 2001 for erratic behavior. Dr. Anthony J. Garcia, 40, has been held without bond in a county jail in southern Illinois since his arrest on Monday. Garcia was fired as a pathology resident at Creighton University in Omaha in 2001 by Dr. Roger Brumback and Dr. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ford sues Japanese parts maker on claims of price-fixing Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 04:40 PM PDT  By Andrew Longstreth (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co has sued Japanese auto-parts supplier Fujikura Ltd , claiming a conspiracy to fix the prices of electrical systems used in vehicles, the latest civil lawsuit filed in the wake of a related criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department. The government's probe has resulted in guilty pleas or agreements to plead guilty by 10 companies, including Fujikura. ... Full Story | Top |
| TO AVOID LOOKING LIKE A CRIMINAL, DON'T COMMIT A CRIMEBlack liberals keep bemoaning the danger to their own teenage sons after the "not guilty" verdict in George Zimmerman's murder trial. To avoid what happened to Trayvon Martin, their boys need only follow this advice: Don't walk up to a stranger and punch him, ground-and-pound him, MMA-style, and repeatedly smash his head against the pavement. Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 03:31 PM PDT The Justice-for-Trayvon crowd keeps pretending there hasn't been a trial where the evidence overwhelmingly showed that Trayvon committed the first (and only) crime that night by assaulting Zimmerman. Instead, the race agitators are sticking with the original story peddled by the media, back when we had zero facts. To wit, that Zimmerman had stalked a young black child and shot him dead just for being black and wearing a hoodie.Dozens of these hair-on-fire racism stories are retold in my book, "Mugged: Racial Demagoguery From the Seventies to Obama. ... Full Story | Top |
| Not guilty plea in Cleveland kidnap case as lawyers seek deal Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 02:15 PM PDT  By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - A former Cleveland school bus driver accused of kidnapping and holding three women captive for years pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to hundreds of criminal charges, but his lawyers said they are seeking a plea agreement to avert a trial. A grand jury on Friday added 648 charges to a previous indictment against Ariel Castro, bringing the total number of charges against him to 977. ... Full Story | Top |
| Ohio kidnapping, rape suspect pleads not guilty Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 01:53 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — A man accused of holding three women captive for a decade was scolded repeatedly by a judge to raise his head and open his eyes in a brief court appearance where he pleaded not guilty Wednesday to nearly 1,000 counts of kidnap, rape and other crimes. Full Story | Top |
| Brother of Randy Travis arrested on meth charge Wednesday, Jul 17, 2013 01:23 PM PDT MARSHVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina say a brother of country singer Randy Travis was arrested after sheriff's deputies found a methamphetamine lab inside his home. Full Story | Top |
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