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Skinner is the author of A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery (Free Press, 2008), which was awarded the 2009 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction. This investigation was supported by a grant from Humanity United...
Problem is, a lawyer earning less than $200,000 a year can't afford all that unless he's, say, running a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. And that's exactly the crime that Rothstein, 47, has told a judge he'll plead guilty to later this month. Federal prosecutors have charged Rothstein with swindling investors out of $1.2 billion over the past decade, a scam in which he got them to plow money into lucrative, securitized lawsuit settlements that usually turned out to be nonexistent. The alleged crime wasn't as massive as New York City financier Bernard Madoff...
...couch compared with what Chan suffers at the clumsy directorial hands of Brian Levant (Beethoven, The Flintstones) and arrant typing fingers of the screenwriters, two of whom are responsible for the all-time-awful Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector. It's as if Jackie had committed some terrible crime, and this was the sentence. (See 10 Questions for Jackie Chan...
...Freeman and Marsilli have not been charged with a crime yet and are officially being held "to respond to the requests from Vietnam's legal authorities in a timely manner." But Vietnam has strict laws on the books against losing state resources through economic mismanagement, potentially criminalizing the consequences of standard business risks...