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A U.S. citizen accused of attempting to join an al-Qaeda ally in Syria was ordered confined to his parents’ home with electronic monitoring while he awaits trial.
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A U.S. judge rejected for the second time a plea agreement between prosecutors and William Mastro, the former sports memorabilia auction house chief accused of altering a rare baseball card to boost its value.
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Former MF Global Holdings Ltd. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Jon S. Corzine helped accelerate the futures brokerage’s demise with risky business strategies and mismanagement, according to a report by bankruptcy trustee Louis Freeh.
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Rob McKenna, Washington State’s former attorney general, joined Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as a partner in Seattle and co-chairman of the firm’s public policy group.
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Conrad Black, the former Hollinger International Inc. chairman convicted in 2007 on fraud and obstruction charges, lost a bid to void that verdict on grounds he was blocked from hiring the defense lawyers he wanted.
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Bank of America Corp. , ordered to return $500 million in deposits to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and pay $90 million in interest, said it didn’t act with “maliciousness” and shouldn’t have to pay damages greater than $1.3 million of Lehman’s costs for litigating the case.
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Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, facing a June 3 corruption trial, asked a judge to throw out 19 of the 24 counts he faces, arguing they’re based on a law the U.S. Supreme Court may soon overturn.
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Conrad Black , set to be formally freed on bail, may be sent back to prison if he can’t convince an appeals court that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling requires that his fraud and other convictions be set aside.
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Conrad Black, the former Hollinger International Inc. chairman and chief executive officer, was resentenced for mail fraud and obstructing justice and must spend another year in prison.
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Rod Blagojevich , the former Illinois governor, asked U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to halt his June 3 corruption trial until the high court rules on the legality of the federal honest-services fraud law.
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