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Allen Stanford's Defense Team Says It Got Stiffed Out Of $1.9 Million

Nick R. Martin | February 27, 2012, 6:04AM

Disgraced financier Allen Stanford's alleged $7 billion Ponzi scheme is said to have ruined the livelihoods of thousands of victims. Now it could result in a seven-figure loss for one more party: his own defense team.

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Topics: Allen Stanford, Edith Jones, Federal Court, Financial Fraud, Ponzi Scheme, Stanford Financial Group, Supreme Court, Texas

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Feds Built Their Own Underwear Bomb For Abdulmutallab Case

Ryan J. Reilly | September 12, 2011, 2:10PM

The underwear bomb allegedly worn by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

An expert witness for the federal government in the case against alleged "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has constructed a version of the bomb the Nigerian 24-year-old allegedly tried to set off on a plane en route to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.

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Topics: Counterterrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Federal Court, Islamic Terrorism, Justice Department, Miranda rights, Terror Plot, Terrorism, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

Eric Holder

Holder: Ghailani Life Sentence Shows Strength Of Justice System

Ryan J. Reilly | January 25, 2011, 1:55PM

Attorney General Eric Holder said the life sentence given to the first former Guantanamo inmate tried in a civilian courtroom today shows the ability of the American legal system to deal with terrorism cases.

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Topics: Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Federal Court, Islamic Terrorism, Terrorism

Kwame Kilpatrick

Feds Indict Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

Rachel Slajda | December 15, 2010, 3:52PM

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

According to local news reports, former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been indicted on federal corruption charges.

Kilpatrick was charged along with his father, Bernard Kilpatrick, and several other former city officials: city contractor Bobby Ferguson, former top Kilpatrick aide Derrick Miller and former water department chief Victor Mercado, according to the Free Press.

According to the Detroit News, the men are being charged under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, a law usually used to prosecute mobsters and other perpetrators of organized crime.