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...Andrea is being held without bail at a Houston jail. At a Friday morning court appearance, she told a District Court judge she could not afford to hire an attorney; the state will assign a public defender. Yates is expected to face at least one charge of capital murder. If convicted, she could be sentenced to death...
Robertson, 67, was a cop back in 1969. Last week, two days before he was arrested, he had just won a heated Democratic mayoral primary against a black challenger. He presented himself to police on Thursday (and is now out on $50,000 bail), yet he has refused to step down. He may once have been a racist, he says, but he is innocent of murder...
...lost Jeffords? It will be a source of endless debate whether a tone-deaf Bush White House failed to hear Jeffords and his concerns, or whether Jeffords was looking for an excuse to bail out of a party he could no longer stand behind, and whether he?ll use his newfound fame to gain national prominence as a politician. (His new role is expected to include the chairmanship of the Committee on the Environment and Public Works...
...Officials, meanwhile, are said to be attacking the absent Finance Minister freely, particularly his recent decisions to bail out?with public funds?businessmen regarded as protEgEs. Just how far Mahathir will go to distance himself from his old friend is unclear. Political analysts in Kuala Lumpur say they are watching closely to see whether Daim's business associates come under intensified official scrutiny. But the Prime Minister might decline to escalate the rift to the public sphere. Conspiracy theorists say he wouldn't dare. "Daim just knows too much, all the political and financial secrets of the past 20 years...
...leading a desultory, undistinguished existence, punctuated by his disastrous forays into real estate speculation. He formed an investment company, Plant, in 1988, relatively late in the bubble cycle. When the economy collapsed, nearly taking Obara's assets with it, his mother, who still controlled the lucrative pachinko operations, helped bail her son out, at one point paying off a creditor nearly $33 million in cash. Following these business failings, Obara's company reportedly became a front for the Sumiyoshi yakuza - branded Japan's second-largest organized crime syndicate by the national police - who kept him afloat by employing...