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...Madoff has 10 days to appeal the sentence. Ira Sorkin, Madoff's attorney, says a decision on an appeal has not yet been made...
...Federal prosecutors balked at Sorkin's suggestion and demanded a 150-year sentence. "He engaged in wholesale fraud for more than a generation," said Marc Litt, an assistant U.S. Attorney, in a note to the judge. "The sheer scale of the Madoff fraud calls for severe punishment...
...hold an informal, nonbinding plebiscite on Sunday to gauge whether Hondurans want to change their national charter and allow, among other things, more than one term for Presidents. But the Supreme Court last week ruled the Sunday vote illegal; the Congress, where Zelaya loyalists are a minority, and the attorney general rejected it as well. (See pictures of the Honduras coup on LIFE.com...
Brian Oxman, a former attorney for the family, believes that Jackson's use of medications was "extensive" and that the people who surrounded him were "enabling him," encouraging his reported drug dependence. A family member told the celebrity gossip website TMZ.com that Jackson had been receiving daily injections of Demerol, a narcotic painkiller...
...statement released by the Middlesex District Attorney's office said that the investigation into the circumstances of the shootings, as well as into those involved in or knowledgeable about the incident, continues. It also noted that the charges pressed on Copney are allegations and that he is presumed innocent until proven guilty...