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The prosecution said the five men were religious extremists
who had been misled by “Satan” into thinking their attack was
in line with the teaching of the Koran, and that they chanted
religious slogans after killing Granville and Rahama.
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Pellicano was convicted of illegal wiretapping and racketeering in a separate case earlier this year. He was remanded to jail after the latest verdicts were announced and is to be sentenced in both cases Sept. 24.
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Wisan told the court that $6.4 million in trust property had been conveyed for less than full value. He also said $2.2 million worth of property had been wrongfully taken from the trust. He sought roughly $1.7 million in legal and accounting fees and a $1.56 million credit as a portion of proceeds from a [...]

Prosecutors said the three former bankers used their posts at a Bank of China branch to approve phony loans and money transfers. They said the bankers tried to launder more than $3 million by making deposits at several Las Vegas casinos, whihc can operate like banks. The casinos were not accused of wrongdoing.
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Kilpatrick’s lawyers filed a lawsuit Thursday, claiming the mayor can’t get a fair hearing from the governor. A key argument: Granholm held a private meeting in May to try to settle Kilpatrick’s criminal perjury case and get him to resign.
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But Reiser led authorities to his wife’s body after his conviction in exchange for the possibility of a lighter sentence.
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Mastromarino made millions of dollars off the scam, which also involved funeral homes in New York and New Jersey, prosecutors said. His attorney, A. Charles Peruto Jr., described the scheme as driven by greed — one that was hard to stop because it was so lucrative.
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The government charged Bourke and two other men with a
scheme to bribe senior government officials in the former
Soviet republic of Azerbaijan in an attempt to ensure the
privatization of the state oil company and to guarantee that
Bourke profited from the privatization.
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Kerkorian’s former attorney, Terry Christensen, was found
guilty of aiding and abetting the wiretap. The jury found both
men guilty of conspiracy to commit wiretapping.
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“It’s a very reasoned response from those jurors because they apparently recognized this was not something they were well-suited to determine,” said Gary Solis, a former Marine Corps prosecutor and judge who teaches law of war at Georgetown University Law Center.
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