Dec
1
2010
Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg News The federal government’s crackdown against what it considers illegal insider trading advanced on Tuesday with one arrest and a lawsuit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission against a husband and wife formerly employed by the consulting firm Deloitte Tax. In the lawsuit, the commission accused the couple, Arnold and Annabel McClellan [...]
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Oct
11
2010
NEW YORK – Nine men calling themselves the Latin King Goonies stand accused of sodomizing, burning and whipping three gay men in a house in the Bronx. Seven suspects have been arrested and detained but two were still being sought.The charges included abduction, unlawful imprisonment and sodomy, all hate crimes, the New York Times reported [...]
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Oct
4
2010
It smells like a “Law and Order” plot. And perhaps, one day soon, the story of Chris Armstrong and Andrew Shirvell will make it onto the small screen. Let’s just hope the it contains a safe and peaceful ending. Armstrong is a 21-year-old University of Michigan student and the openly gay president of the university’s [...]
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Oct
3
2010
A candidate for a House seat in northeastern Ohio has been sued by a Cleveland woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her after she volunteered for his campaign. The 39-year-old woman, whose name was not released, filed the suit against Tom Ganley Thursday after months of attorney negotiations and a five-hour mediation session failed to [...]
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Aug
22
2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Sunday that he had “strongly” intervened to secure the release of a top aide who had been arrested in late July for corruption, but he said he had done so because of the way they arrest was carried out and insisted that the case against the aide will continue to [...]
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Aug
21
2010
The founder of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website that posted thousands of secret Afghan war documents on the Internet, has been accused of rape and molestation by Swedish authorities who issued a warrant for his arrest on Saturday. Julian Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, is already the subject of a worldwide controversy after his website posted some [...]
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