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...shots than the Mafia. They add that none of the hundreds of complaints alleging staged shoot-outs or executions filed by victims' relatives or human-rights groups?or even a handful of official inquiries?has ever led to a conviction for extrajudicial killing. "The allegations of fake encounters are baseless," says Pradeep Sawant, Bombay's deputy police commissioner. "It's not that we always go to kill. Our idea is to arrest the gangsters. We only retaliate if we're fired upon...
...nothing to do with winning investment-banking fees for Salomon, helping his boss Sanford Weill survive a power struggle or getting the Grubman twins into an exclusive nursery school. A string of emails in which he raised all these issues--and which were obtained by reporters last week--are "baseless," invented by him "to inflate my professional importance," Grubman asserted in a written statement...
What's driving the 9/11 families to expand the case, sources say, is new information coming from Europe, documenting a money trail from Saudi Arabia to the Hamburg, Germany, terrorist cell led by 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta. A royal family member told TIME the case is "baseless, offering false hope to victims' families by smearing honest Saudis...
...filed in New York by the Khulumani Support Group which advocates for people scarred by apartheid, comes four months after a similar claim on behalf of four South African families. Thandi Shezi, a Khulumani project officer, says compensation should run into billions of dollars. The companies call the suits "baseless" and will fight to dismiss them. "You can't hold international investors responsible for the actions of governments," says Monika Dunant, a spokeswoman for Zurich-based bank UBS Group, named in both suits. But South African activists point to successful cases against Swiss banks that held onto money deposited...
...years ago, Wrinn called the suit “baseless...