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...airport to say he had been detained by customs, he told him that the officials had tried to solicit first a $10,000 and then a $5,000 bribe from him. David said he had urged Andrew not to give them any money or sign any documents without counsel...
...anything, have we served the church? So we asked our bishops to meet with us pretty late Sunday night - about 20 bishops came. We set up a laptop, logged on, got right in. They were astonished. They were flabbergasted. They were speechless. We said we need your counsel. What do we do? No decision was being made. I went back to the hotel and went to bed. They decided to take the information to the chancellor of the church David Booth Beers. Lay it before him and say, what do we do. They gave a DVD to him Monday morning...
...This is turning into a subpoena mill," says Sarah Deutsch, associate general counsel for Verizon, after receiving more than 200 requests for identities. "We're not just going to roll over and allow this kind of process." Not every ISP feels the same. Comcast, the cable-TV company that sells high-speed Internet access on the side, has announced its intention to cooperate with RIAA. So has Chicago's Loyola University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University, by contrast, have gone to court to protect students' identities...
...general counsel Ray McKenna said he did not know if the White House had called anyone at the agency about the MCI (formerly known as WorldCom) matter. But agency officials only referred the matter to its division that handles suspension decisions in early June, after lawmakers, particularly Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, stepped up pressure on GSA to do something. McKenna said employees in that division are walled off from outside pressure. The decision Thursday to suspend MCI relied on earlier reports from individuals hired by the company to do internal inquiries, as well as KPMG, MCI?s outside...
...under increasing pressure to do so. It received a harsh letter from Verizon general counsel and former U.S. Attorney General William Barr this week saying, among other things, that "The United States is now on notice that it is effectively serving as a 'fence' for stolen property." Verizon claims that MCI was able to outbid its rivals for government contracts in part because it had robbed other carriers through the rerouting scheme...