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...broadly ambitious work yet. Not satisfied with condemning the housing and banking crises of the past year, he expands the story of the financial collapse into an epic of malfeasance--capital crimes on an international scale. The movie also has the requisite Moore grandstanding scenes: attempting a citizen's arrest of AIG executives, parking a Brink's truck in front of banking establishments to retrieve the bailout billions they received, wrapping the New York Stock Exchange building in yellow tape that reads CRIME SCENE. The Underdog telling off the overlord: it's a fixture of earnest Hollywood drama...
Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, denied that Polanski's arrest had anything to do with his recent court filings, but rather was part of an ongoing effort to apprehend him. "We've been doing this involving this particular fugitive since one day after the bench warrant was issued in 1978," Gibbons told TIME, "and we've been continuing to do it throughout that time period. There have been other efforts to arrest him, [but] they were unsuccessful. This particular effort was successful. I can't say anything more than that." Los Angeles prosecutors...
Unsurprisingly, Polanski, a French citizen, is contesting extradition in what is sure to be a lengthy appeals process. One tactic Polanski's legal team may take is to challenge the lawfulness of the arrest warrant on the basis of misconduct during the original legal proceedings. "His lawyers could argue that this is an invalid conviction because it's based on a fraud. Then you could have a Swiss court decide whether or not the proceedings here in Los Angeles were so corrupt that they invalidate the conviction," says Harland Braun, a criminal defense attorney and former deputy district attorney...
...Polanski's attempts to appeal his arrest and extradition to the United States fail and he is forced back to Los Angeles, he could face up to four years in state prison for the initial crime he pleaded guilty to before fleeing the United States. He could also face a maximum of three additional years served consecutively if the courts decide to charge him under California state penal code 3059 for leaving the state without permission. "I think it would be very unlikely that he would get that, but that's probably what's possible," says Levenson...
...staffers who know him said they were baffled by his arrest on Thursday on a charge of attempted grand larceny after he allegedly tried to get Letterman to pay him $2 million for a "screenplay" he was writing about the late-night host's sexual affairs. Halderman has pleaded not guilty to the charge, which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. (See the top 10 disastrous David Letterman interviews...