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Frank DiPascali, the former financial chief for disgraced billionaire financier Bernie Madoff, told a federal court judge on Tuesday that he and others knew as far back as the early 1990s that no sales were taking place in Madoff's investment scam. He made the comments while pleading guilty to...
Bernfeld notes that DiPascali appeared in response to a criminal-information hearing rather than to a grand-jury indictment. This usually means the person has taken a plea and is cooperating with prosecutors to get leniency in sentencing, he says. "Is he going to take down the remaining house of...
6 | New Jersey TAKE THAT, TONY SOPRANO In a state long tainted by graft, New Jersey's latest scandal may top them all. After a 10-year probe reaching from Hoboken to Israel, federal agents slapped 44 people with criminal charges. The allegations read like a movie script: assemblymen and...
While some say the laws' broad definition leaves them open to abuse, Tom Nolan, a former officer and Boston University criminal-justice professor, begs to differ. "Police pride themselves on resolving issues, and 99% of the time it occurs without arrests," he says. Disorderly conduct charges are made when "there...
The crisis in Indian policing is not restricted to the country's border states, and runs much deeper than the police's proclivity for "encounters." In an 118-page report, Broken System: Dysfunction, Abuse and Impunity in the Indian Police, released last week, Human Rights Watch has highlighted a range...