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...sentenced to nine to 10 years in prison for improperly touching a 10-year-old boy, and Paul Shanley, who publicly advocated the idea of sex between men and boys. It did not help Law's standing last week when Shanley, who is awaiting trial, was released on bail...
...kidnapped in 1990 and declared dead in 1999, named her sole beneficiary in a will dated a month before he disappeared. But the court rejected that claim and awarded Teddy Wang's estimated $128 million estate to his 90-year-old father. Wang is out on $640,000 bail. Forgery in Hong Kong carries a maximum jail term of 14 years...
BRITAIN Let Off ... for Now A London court granted bail to Chechen activist Akhmed Zakayev at the start of extradition proceedings demanded by Russia. His case has become a cause célèbre: the actress Vanessa Redgrave guaranteed his €78,000 bail. Zakayev, 43, is an envoy of Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov; Moscow calls him a terrorist. He was briefly detained by British authorities upon his arrival from Denmark, where he spent more than a month in custody. Copenhagen let him go, saying there wasn't enough evidence to support Russia's accusations against...
...state where a fund is chartered determine what a vote outcome must be for a merger to take place.) "You may decide you don't want someone else picking your fund for you," says Russ Kinnel, research director at the fund-tracking firm Morningstar. But don't bail out of a fund before considering the following...
...copies of one of the world's most popular business programs - worth $2 million on the retail market, according to Microsoft - into custody. Murray-Cowan, a British businessman and would-be politician who ran for local office in Suffolk in 1999, was already wanted there for jumping bail on 12 charges of infringing the trademark on Microsoft Windows. Police are weighing fresh charges in Germany against a request for extradition to the U.K. (though Murray-Cowan has not been convicted of anything). In an unrelated case, Italy's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, announced last week it had conducted...