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| 1 | Ex-Vivendi CEO: I made mistakes but never misled | Business |
| Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier told a jury Friday he made mistakes in his troubled bid to turn the French water company into a global media giant, but he never misled shareholders about the risks. | ||
| 11/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Wrongfully convicted NYC man freed after 17 years | Nation and World |
| A prison system official says a New York City man is free after spending nearly two decades behind bars for murder before a judge declared him innocent. Fernando Bermudez was released from the Sing Sing prison in Ossining at about 2:10 p.m. Friday. | ||
| 11/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Release ordered for wrongfully convicted NYC man | Nation and World |
| A New York City man imprisoned for nearly 20 years for a now-overturned murder conviction is set to be freed within days after a judge Thursday ordered him released while authorities determine whether he must serve an unrelated drug sentence. A federal judge in suburban White Plains, N.Y. | ||
| 11/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | NYC co. faces trial over questioned concrete tests | Nation and World |
| The charges shook the foundation of the city's construction industry: Prosecutors said concrete strength tests had been faked for ground zero's centerpiece tower, the new Yankee Stadium and dozens of other projects. Testwell Laboratories Inc. | ||
| 11/18/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | AP source: NYC newspapers' delivery offices raided | Business |
| Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long faced accusations of ties to organized crime, a law enforcement official said. | ||
| 11/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | NYC man's 1992 murder conviction tossed out | Nation and World |
| A judge Thursday threw out a murder case against a man imprisoned for nearly two decades and declared he was innocent, saying a key witness lied and others influenced one other into identifying him as the shooter. | ||
| 11/12/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Lawyer: Letterman suspect just shopping screenplay | Nation and World |
| David Letterman was on the receiving end of a sales pitch, not a shakedown, a defense lawyer said Tuesday as he argued that a TV producer accused of extorting the comic was simply peddling a screenplay. Robert J. | ||
| 11/11/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Lawyer: Letterman suspect just shopping screenplay | Nation and World |
| David Letterman was on the receiving end of a sales pitch, not a shakedown, a defense lawyer said Tuesday as he argued that a TV producer accused of extorting the comic was simply peddling a screenplay. Robert J. | ||
| 11/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Letterman scheme suspect to ask court to drop case | Entertainment |
| A lawyer for the TV news producer accused of blackmailing David Letterman plans to ask a judge to dismiss an extortion case that prompted the late-night comic to acknowledge affairs with staffers. Robert J. "Joe" Halderman is due in a Manhattan court Tuesday. | ||
| 11/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | NY case spotlights Dead Sea Scrolls, fake e-mails | Nation and World |
| Students and university officials started getting e-mails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism. The messages, it turned out, were a hoax. | ||
| 11/7/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | NYC man pursues insanity defense in doctor slaying | Nation and World |
| He was diagnosed as schizophrenic and hospitalized more than a dozen times before hacking a Manhattan psychologist to death with a meat cleaver. He has called himself the Messiah and was known to wander his apartment building half-clothed asking neighbors for money. | ||
| 11/1/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Lil Wayne, Birdman hit with copyright suit in NYC | Entertainment |
| Thomas Marasciullo filed a copyright infringement lawsuit Friday in a Manhattan federal court against the rappers, their record label and various music distribution outlets. | ||
| 10/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Company: Campbell's cut of perfume deal stinks | Entertainment |
| Naomi Campbell's new perfume deal doesn't pass the smell test, a cosmetics-marketing company said in a lawsuit accusing the supermodel of cutting longtime associates out of their share of profits from her lucrative fragrance lines. | ||
| 10/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | DA: 'Outrageous' conduct in deadly NYC wreck | Nation and World |
| A mother accused of drunkenly causing a high-speed wreck managed to pull her own 11-year-old daughter from the mangled, overturned car as another girl lay dying on the roadside, prosecutors said Friday. | ||
| 10/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Lil Wayne pleads to attempted gun possession | Entertainment |
| In the midst of a career surge that has made him one of rap's biggest stars, Lil Wayne is bracing for a year behind bars after pleading guilty Thursday in a two-year-old gun case. | ||
| 10/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Validity of DNA test argued in Lil Wayne gun case | Entertainment |
| As the Grammy-winning rapper sat in a Manhattan court on Wednesday, a hearing began on a debated, highly sensitive DNA profiling technique used to tie him to a gun found on his tour bus in 2007. | ||
| 10/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Lawsuit provides snapshot of Madoff's bottom-bunk prison life | Business |
| Fallen financier Bernard Madoff has plunged from his Manhattan penthouse to the lower bunk of a cell he shares with a drug offender at a federal prison, where he eats pizza cooked by a child molester and hangs around with a mob boss and a convicted spy, according to legal papers filed Tuesday. | ||
| 10/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Lawsuit details Madoff's bottom-bunk prison life | Nation and World |
| Fallen financier Bernard Madoff has plunged from his Manhattan penthouse to the lower bunk of a cell he shares with a drug offender at a federal prison, where he eats pizza cooked by a child molester and hangs around with a mob boss and a convicted spy, according to legal papers filed Tuesday. | ||
| 10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Advocates: NYC Astor case a win on financial abuse | Nation and World |
| They kept close tabs as the late philanthropist's son and a lawyer were tried on charges of exploiting her mental decline to raid her nearly $200 million fortune. The AARP called it "the most infamous case of financial elder abuse in recent memory." | ||
| 10/17/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | NYC DA: Bogus Ga. lawyer left immigrants worse off | Nation and World |
| A convicted bigamist posing as a veteran immigration lawyer scammed thousands of dollars from Guyanese immigrants and gave them advice so bad they now face deportation, prosecutors said Thursday. | ||
| 10/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||