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Were you surprised by the ruling? Slightly. The government had brought to the attention of the judge direct disobeyance of a court order, albeit in a related civil case, and that to me is convincing evidence that the defendant poses a serious risk of flight. If I was the judge, I think I would have detained...
...already imposed on Madoff are quite stringent. He is on a 24-hour house arrest with an electronic bracelet and round-the-clock monitoring of his building by a security firm. That's as strict as you can get without detention. Also, the terms of the bail in the civil case, not the criminal case, prohibited Madoff from moving assets. Monday's bail hearing pertained to the criminal case...
...that he is a risk for flight. So that really raised the radar of the judge. What's more, Kilpatrick got the order not to travel out of the Detroit area in his criminal case. In this case, the order that Madoff was accused of violating was in his civil case, not his criminal case, and what he did was ship assets, which is not as threatening an act when it comes to flight risk...
Founded on Jan. 12, 1959, Motown quickly became another Detroit factory; where the Big Three produced automobiles, Motown assembled the soul and pop classics that changed America. There's no hyperbole in that statement. Arriving at the height of the civil rights movement, Motown was a black-owned, black-centered business that gave white America something they just could not get enough of - joyous, sad, romantic, mad, groovin', movin' music. (See an audio slideshow of five of Motown's best tunes...
...this ends up becoming a purely federal program, I want to know a whole lot more. If it’s purely local decisions, by local players, I feel more comfortable.” Local political pundit Robert R. Winters, a Harvard Extension School instructor, dismissed the suggestion that civil liberties were threatened by surveillance cameras. “I see this as completely benign, completely a non issue,” Winters said, noting that surveillance cameras commonly operate around ATM machines and bus stops. “The two words that...