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NEW YORK — Bernard L. Madoff pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to 11 felony counts related to a massive Ponzi scheme.
Madoff pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Denny Chin to securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, false statements, perjury, false filings with the U.S. [...]

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WASHINGTON – Beverly L. Masek, a former elected member of the Alaska House of Representatives, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bribery, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division announced.
Masek, a Republican, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline in Anchorage to one count of [...]

WASHINGTON — Miguel Tejada, a Major League Baseball (MLB) player, has pled guilty to misrepresentations to a Congressional Committee investigating the wrongful use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs in baseball, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor and Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, announced.
Tejada, 34, of the [...]

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WASHINGTON — A 64-year-old Louisiana man was arrested today after drove up to the North Barricade of the U.S. Capitol and told Capitol Police officers that he had a delivery for President Obama.
After further questioning by the officers, the man — Alfred Brock of Winnfield, La. — admitted to having a rifle in [...]

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2009 – Pentagon and NATO officials are weighing options to act against Afghanistan’s poppy-producing industry in light of evidence indicating that associated illegal drug sales help to fund terrorist operations, a senior Defense Department spokesman told reporters here yesterday.
The illegal drug business in Afghanistan “does have [...]

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WASHINGTON — A federal indictment was unsealed in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon charging Harold James Nicholson, 58, of Sheridan, Oregon, and Nathaniel James Nicholson, 24, of Eugene, Oregon, with two counts of Conspiracy, one count of Acting as Agents of a Foreign Government, and four counts of [...]

WASHINGTON – Brian Carranza, 21, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Carol B. Amon in Brooklyn, N.Y., to conspiring to assault African-American residents in Staten Island, N.Y., in retaliation for President Barack Obama winning last year’s presidential election, Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King for the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney for [...]

WASHINGTON – Hassan Saied Keshari and his corporation, Kesh Air International, pleaded guilty yesterday in the Southern District of Florida to charges of conspiring to illegally export military and commercial aircraft parts to Iran.
The guilty pleas were announced by Matt Olsen, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security; R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney for the [...]

American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2009 – President Barack Obama today called for the closing of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within one year.
In a series of executive orders concerning the treatment of detainees in American custody, Obama also ordered the creation of a group tasked with detainee disposition, governmentwide use [...]

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21, 2009 – Responding to a presidential directive, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates yesterday ordered a suspension of active military commission proceedings at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a senior Pentagon official said here today.
President Barack Obama, who had called for the Guantanamo facility’s [...]