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| Hotel magnate pleads guilty to U.S. campaign contribution scheme Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 12:03 PM PDT By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A prominent hotel executive in New York pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiring to make $188,000 of illegal campaign contributions to three U.S. candidates via straw donors. Sant Singh Chatwal, chairman of Hampshire Hotels Management, pleaded guilty in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, to criminal charges of conspiring to violate the Federal Election Campaign Act and witness tampering. A straw donor is someone who illegally uses someone else's money to make campaign contributions in his or her own name. Chatwal entered his plea at a hearing before U.S. District Judge Leo Glasser, saying simply, "I plead guilty, sir." The case was unveiled two weeks after Hampshire named Eric Danizger to replace Chatwal as chief executive. Full Story | Top |
| Robber who was homesick for prison to be sentenced Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 11:58 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Walter Unbehaun has spent nearly all of his adult life behind bars, so it's not surprising that he faces sentencing Thursday for yet another crime, a bank robbery last year. His reason for robbing the bank is surprising, though: He was homesick for prison. Full Story | Top |
| 6th suspect arrested in NC kidnapping case Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 11:48 AM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — Authorities say a sixth suspect in the kidnapping of a North Carolina prosecutor's father has been arrested in Atlanta. Full Story | Top |
| Teen in 'Jihad Jane' case sentenced to five years in prison Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 11:43 AM PDT The immigrant, Mohammad Hassan Khalid, 20, who has been in custody three years for his role in the "Jihad Jane" conspiracy, will receive credit for that time and serve an additional two years in prison to finish his sentence, said the sentencing judge, Petrese Tucker, of U.S. district court in Philadelphia. "Mom, Dad, you will forgive me 1,000 times even though I don't ask for it," said Khalid, who pleaded guilty to committing related crimes when he was as young as 15 and living in his parents' apartment in suburban Maryland. He was arrested in 2011 on charges he provided material support to terrorists working with a suburban Philadelphia housewife who went by the nickname Jihad Jane. Her real name is Colleen LaRose. Full Story | Top |
| Arab Israeli journalist arrested after Lebanon visit Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 10:24 AM PDT  An Arab Israeli journalist has been arrested after making a visit to Lebanon, his mother said Thursday, on suspicion he could have joined a "hostile organisation". Majd Kayyal, 23, from the northern coastal city of Haifa, crossed into Jordan on March 23 and travelled on to Lebanon for a conference organised by As-Safir newspaper, Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency said. A Shin Bet spokeswoman stressed Lebanon is defined as "an enemy country" and Israelis are prohibited from visiting. Public radio said Kayyal was suspected of contacts with the pro-Syrian Shiite militant group Hezbollah, an archfoe of Israel. Full Story | Top |
| PAOK fan arrested for Greek Cup anchovy stunt Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 10:23 AM PDT  THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki arrested a PAOK fan accused of dumping a crate of fish on the visiting Olympiakos bench, in a stunt that delayed a tense Greek Cup semifinal for more than an hour. Full Story | Top |
| Alleged Extortion and Organized Crime in Massachusetts and New Hampshire is Exposed Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 10:19 AM PDT PLAISTOW, N.H., April 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement is being issued by State of Corruption on behalf of Michael Gill: Michael Gill has appeared several times on Speak Up NH with Kevin Avard, in a series of interviews documenting his fight within the legal system of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. The focus of this website is for citizens and journalists to better understand what Mr. Gill contends is happening in New Hampshire and New England and to give a voice to others who have gone through similar situations. Full Story | Top |
| New Hampshire lawmakers fail to pass death penalty repeal Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 09:58 AM PDT New Hampshire's Senate failed to repeal the death penalty on Thursday, in a vote that capped weeks of emotional debate while focusing attention on the state's lone death row inmate. The Senate deadlocked 12 to 12 on a bill to abolish capital punishment, meaning it did not pass. New Hampshire's House had earlier passed the bill, and first-term Governor Maggie Hassan, a Democrat, had said she would sign it. New Hampshire would have been the 19th state to scrap the death penalty under rising pressure from activists who contend that execution does not reduce crime and that innocent people are sometimes put to death. Full Story | Top |
| New Hampshire death penalty repeal fails by 1 vote Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 09:10 AM PDT CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's Senate has voted to leave intact the state's centuries-old death penalty. Full Story | Top |
| Hotel Magnate, Democratic Fundraiser Pleads Guilty Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 09:06 AM PDT Hotel executive, Democratic fundraiser pleads guilty in NY to witness tampering, conspiracy Full Story | Top |
| Openings begin in US trial of Egyptian preacher Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 08:38 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The imam of a London mosque used his influential position in the late 1990s to train and aid terrorists and used the cover of his religion to hide in plain sight, a prosecutor told jurors in his opening statement Thursday before a defense attorney promised that the defendant will explain himself during the trial. Full Story | Top |
| Saudi activist sentenced to 15 years in jail for protests: lawyer Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 08:11 AM PDT A judge on Thursday sentenced a Saudi blogger and activist to 15 years in jail for taking part in protests and defaming the kingdom by communicating with foreigners and through publishing articles on the Internet, his lawyer said. Fadhel al-Manasef, 26, is the latest activist to be convicted this week on charges which international human rights groups and activists in the kingdom say are part of a new drive to curb political, religious and social dissent. The Special Criminal Court in the capital Riyadh also fined Manasef 100,000 riyals ($26,700) and barred him from traveling abroad for 15 years after he completes his sentence, the lawyer, Waleed Sulais, told Reuters by email. Sulais said the court found Manasef guilty of charges that included incitement and participation in demonstrations, writing articles against state security and posting them online, signing an anti-government petition and contacting foreign judicial and media outlets without authorization and taking reporters to protests and giving them harmful information on the kingdom. Full Story | Top |
| Third Eye Crime Hands-On: Mobile Noire Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 06:31 AM PDT  Looking for a new mobile puzzle game in the vein of "Angry Birds" or "Cut the Rope"? Then you'll probably like "Third-Eye Crime," an upcoming iOS puzzle game from developer Moonshot Games coming out on April 24 for $2.99. Players control telepathic art thief Rothko (who seriously channels Humphrey Bogart in 1940s crime films such as "The Big Sleep" and "The Maltese Falcon"), with the goal of safely navigating him through mazelike levels viewed from a top-down perspective. Full Story | Top |
| Putin fields question from U.S. fugitive Snowden Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 05:14 AM PDT By Steve Gutterman and Alessandra Prentice MOSCOW (Reuters) - Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of U.S. intelligence eavesdropping, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin a question on Thursday during a televised call-in show. The exchange was the first known direct contact between Putin and Snowden since Russia granted the American asylum last summer after he disclosed widespread monitoring of telephone and internet data by the United States and fled the country. Snowden, who has been given refuge in Russia, was not in the studio where Putin was speaking. Snowden, wearing a jacket and open-collar shirt and speaking before a dark background, asked Putin: "Does Russia intercept, store or analyze, in any way, the communications of millions of individuals?" He also asked whether Putin believes improving the effectiveness of investigations justifies "placing societies .. under surveillance". Full Story | Top |
| Putin says Kiev's use of army against separatists a 'grave crime' Thursday, Apr 17, 2014 01:57 AM PDT Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Ukraine's decision to send armed forces into the east of the country instead of trying to establish a dialogue with the Russian-speaking population there was a "grave crime." In a televised call-in with the nation, Putin also dismissed allegations that Russian forces were present in east Ukraine and emphasized the importance of international talks on the crisis taking place in Geneva. Putin criticized the government in Kiev for what he said was a mishandling of the situation in eastern Ukraine that is "dragging the country into an abyss." "Instead of realizing that there is something wrong with the Ukrainian government and attempting dialogue, they made more threats of force ... this is another very grave crime by Kiev's current leaders," he said. Full Story | Top |
| Canadian Teen Is the First Hacker Arrested for Exploiting Heartbleed Wednesday, Apr 16, 2014 11:03 PM PDT  Last week, the world was made aware of Heartbleed, a flaw in a widely used security protocol that affected (and still affects) an absurdly large portion of web traffic. On Tuesday, Canadian police arrested a 19-year-old man in Ontario for allegedly hacking into the country's tax agency by using the exploit—the first such arrest since the flaw became public. Full Story | Top |
| Suspect found guilty in 4 Omaha shooting deaths Wednesday, Apr 16, 2014 03:41 PM PDT  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska man described by one prison psychiatrist as a "psychopath" and "one of the most dangerous people" the doctor had ever evaluated was found guilty Wednesday of four counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of four Omaha people last summer. Full Story | Top |
| Jury begins deliberating in murder trial of Iraqi-American man Wednesday, Apr 16, 2014 01:57 PM PDT  By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Jurors began deliberating on Wednesday in the trial of an Iraqi-American man charged with murdering his wife in a case first investigated as a hate crime, following closing arguments in which prosecutors urged the panel to find him guilty. A defense attorney countered during his summation that there was no evidence tying 49-year-old Kassim Alhimidi to the beating death of his wife, Shaima Alawadi, in their home in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon. The seven-man, five-woman San Diego Superior Court jury began deliberating on Wednesday morning after hearing final instructions from the judge. Alawadi was found bloodied and dying on the kitchen floor by her daughter, Fatima Alhimidi, who testified during the two-week trial that the family was in turmoil for months before the attack. Full Story | Top |
| Former Bridgestone exec to plead guilty to price fixing: U.S. Justice Dept Wednesday, Apr 16, 2014 01:19 PM PDT  A former sales manager for Bridgestone Corp has agreed to plead guilty and serve 18 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to fix the prices of rubber anti-vibration devices used in automotive suspension systems and engine mounts, the Justice Department said on Wednesday. In a separate action involving Bridgestone on Tuesday, one executive and two other former executives were indicted for conspiracy. Bridgestone itself agreed in February to plead guilty to price-fixing and agreed to pay a $425 million criminal fine. The Justice Department said Yusuke Shimasaki, a former Bridgestone sales manager, agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of fixing the prices of products sold to Toyota Motor Corp , Nissan Motor Co Ltd and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd , which makes Subaru cars. Full Story | Top |
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