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PAUL HACKETT, Iraq veteran and Democrat who lost a House seat by only 3,573 votes in a heavily Republican district in Ohio, in a special election viewed by both parties as a prelude to the 2006 midterm elections...
Gloucester District Court Judge Richard Mori dismissed charges of trespassing, larceny, and malicious destruction of property against Monrad Professor of Economics Martin L. Weitzman on Monday in relation to an April incident in which Weitzman was accused of trying to steal a truckload of manure from a Rockport, Mass., horse farm...
...prosecutor in the case, Essex Assistant District Attorney Stephen Patten, was unhappy with the deal Weitzman cut, according to The Boston Globe. The Globe reported Tuesday that Patten believed Weitzman, as a professor at “one of the finest institutions in our nation,” should have admitted to taking the manure without permission...
...settlement came more than a year after a judge in U.S. District Court found Shleifer and Hay liable for fraud, after they made personal investments in Russia while advising the program for the now-defunct Harvard Institute for International Development. Conflict-of-interest provisions in their contracts with the government strictly prohibited such investments, which totaled several hundred thousand dollars...
...defendants in the case had argued, to various degrees, that they were not bound by the conflict-of-interest provisions in their contracts. But in a summary judgment in June 2004, U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock disagreed, finding Shleifer and Hay liable under the False Claims Act, a federal law that prescribed heavy damages for violating a contract with the government...