Italy judge suspends CIA rendition trial again pending Constitutional Court ruling
The Italian judge presiding over the trial of 26 US CIA agents and two former Italian intelligence officials in the 2003 abduction and rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [JURIST news...
Bush formally nominates Mukasey as US attorney general, resurrects Keisler as interim
US President George W. Bush Monday nominated retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to serve as the next attorney general of the United States. Mukasey, 66, retired from the US District Court...
Federal appeals court orders VA to pay veterans exposed to Agent Orange
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) must pay retroactive benefits to Vietnam War veterans afflicted by chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) , rejecting...
Italy CIA rendition trial suspended pending ruling by Constitutional Court
The judge presiding over the trial of 26 US CIA agents and two former Italian intelligence officials in the 2003 abduction and rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr ...
The trial of 26 US Central Intelligence Agency agents and two former Italian intelligence officials in the 2003 abduction and rendition of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr ...
Canada ad executive pleads guilty to fraud in sponsorship scandal
Former Canadian advertising executive Jean LaFleur plead guilty Friday to 28 counts of fraud for his alleged role in the federal sponsorship scandal . Lafleur is accused of billing the Canadian federal government for work...
Former Westar CEO gets 24 months for bank fraud at resentencing
Former Westar Energy CEO David Wittig was resentenced Monday to 24 months in prison, his third sentencing for charges stemming from a 2002 indictment on bank fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. In July 2003,...
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has announced an 18-month timetable for lifting the state of emergency that Egypt has lived under since 1981. The administration of President Hosni Mubarak will...
Former Illinois governor sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for corruption
US District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer Wednesday sentenced former Illinois Governor George Ryan to 6 1/2 years imprisonment after dropping 2 of the 18 counts against him, holding that there was not enough evidence to convict...
Sameeh Hammoudeh, a co-defendant in a Florida terrorism case with former University of South Florida computer science professor Sami Al-Arian , was deported earlier this week, according to Hammoudeh's attorney. Federal officials took Hammoudeh to his...
