Opinion List - Crime & Justice
Joseph Raglione
March 11, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the count-down has started. In one week you will know for certain if the United States is finally on the right path to health care reform...>
Joseph --
As the President has made clear, Americans deserve a final up-or-down vote on health reform. ...
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
March 10, 2010
Women´s Rights and Human Rights are not monolithic and mono-dimensional concepts with worldwide application; human life is basically the same but culturally different from one to another part of the world. All the anthropological concepts exist everywhere, and this is reconfirmed by the fact t...
Joseph Raglione
March 10, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, after reading this article, I am happy not to be a citizen of the United States. Why? Because my income is less than $13,375 a year and I am a non-profit person doing non-profit work. As a Canadian, my old backside is covered by Federal Government Medic...
Elias Bejjani
March 10, 2010
Matthew 5/4&10:"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness´ sake, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven"
It is so sad and extremely frustrating to hear every day horrible mascaras targeting peaceful Christian civilian...
Joseph Raglione
March 10, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, honest people keep their word. Keeping your word of honor is equivalent to having an Ethical and Moral conscience. We all heard President Obama promise to close Guantanamo prison and his honoring of that promise is important for him and for the Unites S...
Joseph Raglione
March 10, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, it never ceases to amaze me how some humans could be so absolutely cold blooded and cruel! Destroying Elephants to obtain a quick profit from their Ivory Tusks is blatantly sick! Elephants are the most majestic and loving and compassionate animals on th...
Joseph Raglione
March 10, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, hard evidence is impossible to dispute. For example, it is a proven fact there exists a large pool of plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean. This pool is known as a Gyre and is composed of tiny pieces of Plastic which unhappily, are often ingested by fi...
Gary S. Bekkum
March 09, 2010
Stranger than Eric Massa's salacious claims about White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, is the bizarre fusion of spies, lies, extraterrestrial sources, and Washington politics.
Joseph Raglione
March 09, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, if Senator Edward Kennedy had not died when he did, President Barack Obama would currently have the Senate votes to pass health care reform, without resorting to reconciliation. Kennedy would spin in his grave if he knew that his death created a vote de...
Joseph Raglione
March 09, 2010
Gentle readers of this American Chronicle, I just watched Michael Moore's Movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story". It opens up Wall Street like a can of Sardines...smell included!
The Video is now available in Video stores and it is powerfully fact filled and educational. It also has added features which...
Szandor Blestman
March 09, 2010
A thirty six year old man decided to commit suicide on March 4th, 2010. His name was John Patrick Bedell. Perhaps he didn't make that decision consciously, no one can be certain what he was thinking as he acted out the last moments of his life, but regardless his death was the inevitable outcome of ...
Robert A. Hall, MEd, CAE
March 08, 2010
Candidates for Public office, even incumbents, often promise "change," without specific details that might cost them votes. This essay is intended to lay out some suggested radical changes that would, in my opinion, greatly improve our Republic, the electoral process and how our government functions...
John Cain
March 08, 2010
Keeping your family safe is the most important choice you can make. And with the crime rate constantly increasing, your planning will likely be put to use at least once in your lifetime. So, it is important to protect your home with a quality security system, and precious an emergency plan as well.
John Cain
March 08, 2010
Home security systems are vital nowadays because burglaries are on the rise. Do not compromise on quality, as it always pays to invest in a acceptable home security system. Once your alarm system is installed your will enjoy peace of mind in knowing that your family is protected, and that you found the best system to meet your needs.
Gary S. Bekkum
March 08, 2010
A 21 Jan 2010 "psychic spy" note referenced "non-essential Federal shutdown" days before a snowstorm shut down the government in Washington. The same note also referenced an "unhappy circle" in the Obama White House over an "affair."
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
March 07, 2010
The poor Human Rights record of the Abyssinian tyranny is evidently reflected on the disastrous situation under which live dozens of millions of women in the Amhara and Tigray-led tyranny. The Fidh Report (Dossier of Claims) sheds light on the troubles experienced by all the women who belong in the ...
Ayo Johnson
March 07, 2010
Women have always been at the heart of human development, but they find themselves at the margins of most societies, despite major advances and a constant promotion of women development world wide. In many countries in Africa women´s position within society has not changed much in over 50 years, cultural beliefs and taboo ensures that women´s roles remain invincible and their efforts recognised for almost little or no reward.
International women´s day started in 1911 with calls for a closing of the gender gap, for women to be paid as much as men and for all women to be offered the same privileges usually bestowed on man.
Bill Haymin
March 07, 2010
By John Whitehead
www.rutherford.org
I have seen the new face of America, and it is troubling.
According to an expansive study by the Pew Research Center, the Millennial generation is the so-called "new face of America." Comprised of 50 million young people between the ages of 18-29, the ...
Bill Haymin
March 07, 2010
By Chuck Baldwin
NewsWithViews.com
http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin573.htm
There is a classic story about how no one had been able to capture a herd of wild hogs that was rooting up crops from numerous farms. It got so bad that rewards had been posted for anyone clever enough to...
Jack s Banson
March 06, 2010
To watch criminal Minds episodes is noting less than any roller coaster ride. Before we move any further, let´s have a gaze on the reason why to watch criminal Minds episodes online is taken as a hard nut to crack. With lifetime subscription, users may watch criminal Minds episodes online, can download its episodes and avail all the above mention services for their entire lifetime, whereas with limited subscription users may have fun with these services for certain time interval.
March 06, 2010
Washington – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation´s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, this week lauded the introduction of the Military Readiness Enhancement Act of 2010 in the U.S. Senate. The bill, sponsored by U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I...
Joseph Raglione
March 06, 2010
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Joseph Raglione
March 06, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, GreenPeace has an important message for you and the news does not sound good!...>
"As president, I will ensure that the U.S. provides leadership in enforcing international wildlife protection agreements, including strengthening the international mor...
Joseph Raglione
March 06, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, I am learning more about Washington politics than I am Canadian politics. Your American politicians have more fun fighting each other! Our Canadian Prime Minister Harper simply prorogued parliament and walked away from the debate. Apparently the questio...
Joseph Raglione
March 06, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the Health Reform Bill as it stands, will improve the quality of life for millions of Americans. I personally recommend you work your butts off to help your President pass the Bill into existence, and I am an unbiased Canadian! Phone Senators and flood...
Joseph Raglione
March 06, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the American Civil Liberties Union is working over-time to protect your human and civil rights, and they have an important message for you...>
Military Commission Trials Would Be A Stunning Reversal!
- Mar 6th, 2010 at 12:00 am EST
Dear ACLU Su...
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
March 04, 2010
While anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is being spread under patronization of various quarters, known and unknown, it is very unfortunate that, the peace-loving people in the world, who are very much in majority in numbers, are either silent or very much reluctant in extending their supports towards anti-Jihadist as well Zionist activities in the world. Anti-Jihadist forces in the world deserve support from every peace-loving individual in the world forthwith!
Szandor Blestman
March 05, 2010
I have a friend and former coworker who is completely enamored and has total faith in Mr. Barack Obama and the Democrat party. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. The guy is a complete sports nut, knowing more about the stats of former and present baseball and football players than he knows about anyt...
David Swanson
March 05, 2010
David Cole of Georgetown University and formerly of the Center for Constitutional Rights has been doing some good writing, not only on our failure to enforce laws against powerful people, but also on our out-of-control epidemic of incarceration which has struck those too unimportant to gain immunity.
Joseph Raglione
March 04, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, if you want clean Air and Water for yourselves and for your children, today is the day you should pick up the phone and demand action from your United States Senators. If any Senator gives you a hard time, keep his or her name on a list because it is mo...
Joseph Raglione
March 04, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, they say Washington is broken but don't worry, the fix is in! OK, you can worry a little! Counting down, there are aproximately fifteen Democrats who are refusing to go with a "Public Option" in the health care reform bill. More than a few within this g...
Joseph Raglione
March 04, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, especially many of you working Women living in New York. You are invited to attend a seminar of working Women being held in the United Nations building. Passes will be issued to whomever is interested in attending. Sounds interesting, doesn't it? Read m...
Joseph Raglione
March 03, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the one thing I want, maybe the only thing I want, is for the United States of America to go "Green" with a clean Air and clean Water Act. And I'm not talking about Hollywood Acting! You and I and everyone else on this Planet needs clean air and water a...
Joseph Raglione
March 03, 2010
The "Public Option" has been converted to "Tax Credits". Not a bad idea if it basically does the same thing, but what if you are an un-employed American Citizen? Does no income mean you get no Tax Credits and therefore, no health insurance?
Joseph Raglione
March 03, 2010
Gentle spies within this American Chronicle, I have a confession to make. I knew you were spies and I used you to promote social change...http://www.brasschecktv.com:80/page/814.html
In my defense the articles and ideas I present are basically Ethical and since you are basically not, I had and c...
David Swanson
March 03, 2010
Tomorrow, Thursday, March 4, Congressman Dennis Kucinich plans to introduce a privileged resolution to end the Afghan War. The resolution requires that the House debate, within the next week, the continuing war in Afghanistan, now the second longest war in American history.
Soleilmavis Mavis
March 01, 2010
Proverbs
1-8 Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
1-9 They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
1-10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
1-11 If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait ...
Eve Abbott
March 01, 2010
Were you one of the 10 million Americans who were a victim of identity theft last year?
If not, you are really lucky, because it turns out that personal identity theft costs more than previously reported. U. S. Secret Service case reviews find that the median actual loss for individual victims is $31,356.00. Not to mention the average of 600 hours wasted to clear your name.
U.S. businesses and financial institutions lost at least 50 billion dollars last year to fraud and identity theft last year alone. ID Theft is the fastest growing crime worldwide.
Take these easy steps now to avoid becoming a victim of ID theft or credit fraud.
Joseph Raglione
March 02, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, I'm basically a nice guy but times are tough and there are too many people suffering under a regime of greed around the World. In North America, a Health Insurance Puppet has been exposed and is now facing punishment...>
Joseph -
No more warning...
Joseph Raglione
March 01, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, if you continue to pump the Gas pedal on your car, maybe it is because you have not heard about global warming, or maybe you are so poor you do not have an alternative means of transportation? (The Electric Car just came on the market.) Maybe, but I dou...
Joseph Raglione
March 01, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, life on this Planet is fragile enough without helping to destroy the precious Life that exists within our Oceans. I am talking about the U.S. allowing the murder of Whales!! The following is an important message from John Hocevar of GreenPeace...>
De...
Joseph Raglione
March 01, 2010
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Joseph Raglione
March 01, 2010
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Joseph Raglione
March 01, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, for years now I have been including the names and email addresses of U.S. government members. Today, I am giving you the government Urls and emails of every Canadian minister in Ottawa with the hope that you will send them a message thanking them for a ...
Linda Weaver Clarke
March 01, 2010
The mystery of the Anasazi Indians boggles the minds of many archaeologists. Who were they? What were their beliefs? How did they live? Indian art painted or engraved in rock gives us an idea who the Anasazi were, their beliefs and lifestyle. Carved into the desert varnish, the Indians left behind t...
Joseph Raglione
March 01, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, almighty God here we go again! First Haiti and now Chile has experienced an Earthquake! World Vision will need your help as again they are first responders working on the ground. Please send emergency kits containing: Water, Canned food items, Medical s...
Sharon L. Secor
February 28, 2010
The facts are there for anyone who cares to view them. By the government´s own numbers, the rate of child assault, rape, starvation, and murder is far higher among children in state "care" than it is in the general population. The exposés done by respected newspapers about the predatory and co...
Newswire Services
February 28, 2010
New York, NY -- A member of the hate group Anonymous, Mahoud Samed Almahadin, aka Matt Connor, pled guilty to Criminal Mischief in the New York City Criminal Court in connection with a January 8, 2009, attack on the Church of Scientology of New York. (People vs. Almahadin, Mahoud; Criminal Docket 20...
Merle Exit
February 27, 2010
A hotel group that includes the Ross Bridge and the Montgomery Renaissance boast about their great ratings. Is is because nobody complains?
Joseph Raglione
February 28, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, if I knew how stubborn the U.S. government Republicans would be to implement a clean air act, I would have worked night and day to dislodge them during the last election...>>
Dear Joseph,
Next week could make or break America's climate and e...
Joseph Raglione
February 28, 2010
Joseph -
At yesterday's bipartisan summit, President Obama gave Republicans one last chance to get on board healthcare reform or choose to become even more irrelevant while Democrats pass reform without them. Of course, Republicans chose to be irrelevant.
Now, Democrats will use reconciliati...
International Desk
February 28, 2010
United Kingdom -- A Muslim youth jailed for 8 years after being called "wannabe suicide bomber" was the victim of a miscarriage of justice, appeal court judges ruled on January 29. The 24-year-old student from Scotland was released on February 8. Mohammed Atif Siddique said he should not have been ...
Joseph Raglione
February 28, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle...
The following are some talking points on the recent health care summit...>
I am for the public option because it covers every citizen within the United States and does not discriminate as to: race or gender, or income level and it is not socia...
Joseph Raglione
February 27, 2010
Gentle readers within the United States government and within this American Chronicle. Here is where we separate truth from fiction. Here is where we finally find out exactly where the government of the United States and that of Canada each stand when it comes to Oil and Oil Pollution. Will our so c...
Festus Kofi
February 23, 2010
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February 23, 2010
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Gianluca D'Agostino
February 25, 2010
Indeed according to this Italian judge abusing a person with disability
it's lawful unless you show it in a video and upload it to
youtube.
Sophia Tesfamariam
February 25, 2010
Ever since the regime in Ethiopia heard about the popular campaign to denounce the ill-advised, illegal, unjust and unfair sanctions that were imposed on Eritrea on Christmas Eve, it ordered its mercenaries to quash the people´s voices, as it does to its own people in Ethiopia. Members of the ...
Paul Branson
February 25, 2010
School violence, gun violence, child violence, bullying, domestic violence, sexual abuse and divorce are on the increase in most parts of the world. We now need a cure, remedy, help to reduce or help eliminate this disturbing global trend. Perhaps if we all get back to basics of forgiveness and respect for all this can help.
Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D.
February 25, 2010
For his senseless and misandric statements before the Senate – which have harmed and negatively stereotyped all males -- Majority Leader Harry Reid owes every boy and man in America a correction and an apology.
Joseph Raglione
February 25, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, this morning, President Barack Obama attended what he believed to be a bipartisan meeting for health care reform. It did not turn out to be as bipartisan as he thought, but he did try his best to create a decent health care program. The following are th...
Joseph Raglione
February 25, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, Annie Leonard has written a book called "The Story of Stuff." If somebody would like to buy me said book, I would greatly appreciate it!! Why? Because I use my credit card to pay my Taxes! I've forgotten what Money looks like! Anyway, Annie is one of th...
Yes Virginia, there is an insanity clause...but that also is not covered by private health insurance
Joseph Raglione
February 25, 2010
Gentle readers within this United States government, and all you outside groups I am connected with...Thank You all for continuing to help push through U.S. government health reform with a Public Option! And now for a fun project!
I am having a photography contest! First prize will be a Public ...
David Swanson
February 25, 2010
We're about to witness the pretense of war lawyer hearings without the war lawyers (commonly known as torture lawyers by those willing to ignore their role in "legalizing" aggressive war). This may highlight for many observers the little-known fact that Congress no longer has the power of subpoena.
Joseph Raglione
February 24, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, I say within because a great many of my messages are blocked from ever leaving this little creative writing prison. I know it but I also know that enough messages are filtering out to make a social difference, and that motivates me to continue attemptin...
Joseph Raglione
February 24, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, I wonder what George Carlin would have to say about the Internet copy-right laws. If I did not love my privacy so much, I would declare myself to be Carlin's Clone! But I do love privacy and so I won't appear on a Comedy stage any time soon. With that s...
Jim Kouri, CPP
February 23, 2010
Najibullah Zazi, the 25-year-old Afghan, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, murder conspiracy and providing material support to a terror group, al-Qaeda.
During his allocution, Zazi confessed that he was recruited by al-Qaeda in Pakistan to carry out...
Michelle Malsbury, BSBM, MM
February 22, 2010
My newest book, The Swindler, is due out this spring. As the pre-reviews and post-reviews [post publication]come in I will be posting them here, as well as, on my personal blog, to help generate interest in sales. Please read his review in its entirety. Thank you!
Joseph Raglione
February 23, 2010
Joseph,
Quick - name something that 85% of Democrats, 81% of Independents and even 76% of Republicans agree on.
Give up? A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll revealed that people across the political spectrum overwhelmingly oppose last month's Supreme Court decision allowing corporations ...
Gary Ater
February 21, 2010
CPAC resembled an AARP Convention, not the future of a young, "up and coming party".
William Hughes
February 22, 2010
Stephen Janis builds his tale, "This Dream Called Death," in one bone-chilling scene after another, with a writing style that suits the genre. His descriptions of the city of Balaise are first rate. As the tension escalates, the character of the narrator evolves, too, into a much more sympathetic figure. Janis takes you for a ride into a history, a nightmare, which I fear, may be only one more 9/11 incident away from becoming our reality!
Joseph Raglione
February 22, 2010
Gentle people within this American Chronicle,
I suggest you fight like hell for the public option, or when it comes time to visit the Doctor, the majority of you will end up in a life or death struggle to pay the medical bills. Nobody is trying to ram a "public option" down your throats, but it ...
Joseph Raglione
February 22, 2010
Gentle people within this American Chronicle, the following Video is an update on the situation in Haiti.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/haiti_report_back_1/?cl=483064816&v=5429
Dear friends,
Together we're making a difference in Haiti. In the last month, more than 19,000 of us have donated o...
Atul Chatterjee
February 20, 2010
Terror can spread to other countries
Michael P. Ehline, P.C.
February 21, 2010
When a motorcycle crashes the rider is thrown from the bike and can be severely injured or sustain fatal injuries even at slow speeds.
Michael P. Ehline, P.C.
February 21, 2010
An autopsy will be performed by the Galveston County Medical Examiner to determine what caused the woman´s death.
David Swanson
February 21, 2010
Everything you're reading about torture lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee getting off the hook is wrong. They are not torture lawyers, they are not off the hook, there never was any hook, they may not be lawyers for long, impeachment and indictment are on the agenda, and you have a role to play.
David Swanson
February 20, 2010
The winner will be announced on an aircraft carrier with a banner!
Joseph Raglione
February 20, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, has a weekly address for you. It is honest and straight forward...but what is fun is that you can leave your own messages and use the White House computers to learn almost anything...>
Good Afternoo...
Joseph Raglione
February 20, 2010
Gentle readers within this American Chronicle, for the few left on Earth who still doubt if the Planet is warming, the following evidence for Glacier Melt is taken from the Greenland Glacier...> P.S. The consequences of a warming Planet are yet to be absolutely understood, but if you don't act quick...
Joseph Raglione
February 20, 2010
Dear not so gentle readers within this American Chronicle, today I am calling upon all U.S. Republican Senators to stand up and DESTROY ALL REFORMS IN AMERICA! Don't allow the poor within this country to have decent health care! Poor people don't deserve to survive! Poor people are undeserving and m...
Congressional Desk
February 20, 2010
Sacramento, CA — Just weeks after California Assembly Resolution 100 (Jones) was introduced to declare February, 2010 National Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, 17-year-old Rebecca Layson was brutally murdered, allegedly by her teenage boyfriend and another teen male. Last F...
California Desk
February 20, 2010
In a direct challenge to bank evictions of tenants across the state, Tenants Together, California´s statewide organization for renters´ rights, is urging renters to contest foreclosure evictions. Pointing to a new ruling from an Alameda County Superior Court judge, Tenants Together argu...
Bill Haymin
February 20, 2010
By Chuck Baldwin
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2010/cbarchive_20100217.html
Almost immediately after Adam's fall, Lucifer and his minions collaborated with evil men to usurp God's authority and sovereignty. And nowhere is God more sovereign than in the heart and conscience of man. In the ...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SUI MIN MA, a/k/a "Frank Ma," a/k/a "Ma Gor," the leader, or "dai lo," of a Chinese organized crime group, was sentenced today to life in prison for ordering the murder of two individuals in Toronto, Cana...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
BOSTON, MA—A recently retired Stoughton police officer pled guilty today to a criminal Information charging him with obstruction of justice and making false statements to the FBI in a public corruption investigation centered on the activities of various members of the Stoughton Police Departme...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
WASHINGTON—An Italian subsidiary of a U.S.-based company has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $2.29 million criminal fine for participating in a conspiracy to rig bids, fix prices and allocate market shares of marine hose sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice an...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
WASHINGTON—An allegedly high-ranking leader of one of Mexico´s largest drug cartels, whose father allegedly heads a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel and is among Mexico´s most powerful drug kingpins, was extradited today from Mexico to face federal narcotics trafficking conspiracy cha...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
WASHINGTON—Irma Azrelyant and Joshua Finkle, the former co-owners of New York and New Jersey-based Deaf and Hard of Hearing Interpreting Services Inc. (DHIS), pleaded guilty today to engaging in a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Communications Commission´s (FCC) Video Relay Service (VR...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"); and PATRICIA J. HAYNES, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office, Cr...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
BOSTON, MA—An Indictment was returned late yesterday charging a Framingham man with perpetrating a large scale investment fraud scheme with approximately 130 victim/investors and losses in the millions of dollars.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz and Warren Bamford, Special Agent in C...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
BALTIMORE, MD—Daniel E. Fink Jr., age 43, of Baltimore, who owned and operated Homemaxx Title & Escrow LLC (Homemaxx), a title company that conducted residential real estate closings with offices in Middle River and Parkville, Maryland, was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida yesterday and had his...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
HOUSTON—A 47-year-old Alabama man has been arrested and charged with interfering with a flight crew aboard a Continental Airlines flight, assault, and assaulting a federal air marshal, United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today.
Robert Wade Prince, 47, of Alabama, was taken in...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
WASHINGTON—There is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers involved in the fatal shooting of Sean Bell, the Justice Department announced today.
Officials from the department´s Civil Rights Division,...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
The Justice Department, FBI and U.S. Postal Inspection Service today announced that the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, which killed five individuals and sickened 17 others, has formally concluded.
Earlier today, representatives of the FBI and Justice Department provided a 92-page in...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
ST. LOUIS, MO—The United States Attorney´s Office announced today that Paul Steven Murphy was sentenced to 46 months in prison on charges involving a false invoice scheme which defrauded his employer, the School Sisters of Notre Dame, of more than $510,000. He also failed to report the m...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York; Rene Febles, Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in New York; John F. Pikus, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bure...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
BRANDON R. SHELL, 27, of Seattle, Washington was sentenced late yesterday to 50 months in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. SHELL was charged federally in May 2009, following a drive-by shooting in June 2008. SHELL had been in custody at the K...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
BOSTON, MA—A California man was sentenced on February 16, 2010 to six months in prison for running a business in which he sold illegally copied software via the Internet.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz and Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investiga...
Crime Blotter
February 19, 2010
BOSTON, MA—A former Brookline resident was convicted today in U.S. District Court of receiving kickbacks in a scheme to defraud Dunkin' Brands, Inc., as well as filing false tax returns.
United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau...