September 29, 2010
Corporations Are People Too?
Supreme Court Takes On Corporate Privacy Case With AT&T WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is getting involved in an unusual freedom of information dispute over whether corporations may assert personal privacy interests to prevent the government from releasing documents about them.
The court on Tuesday agreed to a request from the Obama administration to take up a case involving clai
September 21, 2010
Supreme Court backs U.S. extradition of 7 Israelis suspected of scamming pensioners The Jerusalem District Court last October ruled that the suspects could be arrested, leading the seven to take their case to the higher court; the suspects face up to 20 years in U.S. prison.
By Yaniv Kubovich and Haaretz Service
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that seven Israelis suspected of conning dozens of American pensioners
September 19, 2010
Bomb-Plot Witness Says FBI Sent Him to Terrorist Camp
Bomb-Plot Witness Says FBI Sent Him to Terrorist Camp 16 Sep 2010 The confidential informant at the center of the case against four men accused of plotting to bomb New York City synagogues testified that the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent him to Pakistan in 2008 to attend a terrorist training camp. The informant, Shahed Hussain, told a jury in New York tod
September 19, 2010
U.S. contractor accused of fraud still winning big Afghan projects
By Marisa Taylor and Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspaper WASHINGTON — On July 31, 2006, an employee of the Louis Berger Group, a contractor handling some of the most important U.S. rebuilding projects in Afghanistan, handed federal investigators explosive evidence that the company was intentionally and systematically overbilling American taxp
September 17, 2010
JPMorgan Brings Foreclosure Case In Mortgage In Which It Was Just A Servicer, Court Finds Bank Committed Fraud
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/16/2010
An interesting development out of Jean Johnson, Circuit Judge in Duval Country, Florida, where in a case filed by JPMorgan/WaMu, as Plaintiff, and law firm of Shapiro and Fishman, attempted to evict defendants Hank and Marilyn Pocopanni. As basis for the legal case,
