Three telecommunications companies have declined to provide information to Congress about the role they played in the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program , citing White House objections to their disclosures, national security and pending litigation. Responding by letter to a request made by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to disclose their involvement in [...]
Former Alaska state Representative Tom Anderson was sentenced to five years in prison Monday for his conviction on seven counts of bribery and corruption by an Anchorage federal jury in July. Anderson, a Republican, was accused of accepting nearly $26,000 he believed to be from private correctional facilities firm Cornell Industries in exchange for Anderson's [...]
Mercury Interactive on Monday settled derivative lawsuits filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California regarding allegations of stock options backdating. The software company, acquired by Hewlett Packard (HP) in November 2006, will pay $117.5 million as part of the largest stock option backdating settlement, which resulted from mediation and is [...]
Montenegrin Prime Minister Zeljko Sturanovic signed the EU-Montenegro Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) Monday, a preliminary step in Montenegro's possible accession to the European Union (EU). The SAA is expected to prepare Montenegro for a projected EU membership in 2015 by creating concrete trade deals and easing access to visas. Montenegro is the newest European [...]
US military judge Col. Peter Brownback on Monday said that military commission proceedings against Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr would resume November 8. Brownback's ruling comes despite Khadr's appeal challenging the earlier decision to send the case back to a military tribunal last week. In an e-mail order to both parties, Brownback conceded his [...]
The court-martial of former US military police commander Lt Col William H Steele began in Baghdad Monday on charges of aiding the enemy by providing a cellular phone to detainees, giving special privileges, failing to obey an order, and for conduct unbecoming an officer by having an inappropriate relationship with an interpreter. Steele is the [...]
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed suit on Monday against Nortel for fraudulent accounting practices and also reached settlement with the telecommunications giant. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleged that Nortel engaged in two illegal accounting schemes from 2000 to 2003 designed to [...]
Milberg Weiss partner and co-founder Melvyn Weiss pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of conspiracy, racketeering, obstruction of justice and making false statements. Weiss was indicted last month and said at that time that he would remain of counsel to the firm while defending himself against the charges, but that he had relinquished his [...]
Carla Del Ponte , the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) , on Monday chided Serbian authorities for failing to bring to justice four accused war criminals who are believed to be hiding in that country, saying that Serbia's cooperation with the tribunal is "still too slow and not [...]
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto will not be arrested upon her return to Pakistan, Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said Monday. Bhutto has lived in self-exile in London and Dubai since she left the country in 1999 under a cloud of corruption allegations, and the announcement paves the way for to return to [...]
