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...Monday, a judge declined a request by prosecutors to jail Bernard Madoff, saying the former investment adviser who is accused of bilking $50 billion from clients did not pose a flight risk. Prosecutors made the request last week after it was discovered that Madoff had sent over a million dollars in jewelry to relatives in the past few weeks. Investigators also revealed that Madoff had $173 million in signed checks sitting in his office drawer at the time of his arrest. Prosecutors say they will appeal the ruling...
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...
...Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, to jail for violating his bail. How was that case different from Madoff's? In that case, Kilpatrick traveled to Canada. International travel is about the most threatening thing a defendant can do to raise a judge's inference 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...
...change will become official when a Jan. 13 flight from London Heathrow to Rome Fiumicino takes off. The plane making the trip will have the familiar red and green stripes on its tail, and the crew will sport their old uniform pins. But this will be the "new" Alitalia, under private ownership, merged with upstart competitor Air One, and now partly owned by its French-Dutch rival. No more Futurist paintings to be sure, but perhaps Alitalia once again has a future...
...Once you’re on the plane, the humiliation doesn’t stop. On that same AirTran flight out of Logan, I ran to the gate, fearing I had made myself late with the luggage argument. I arrived sweating and parched. Just after the woman scanned my ticket, I noticed a water fountain no more than ten feet away. I asked the gate person if she would watch my bags while I stopped for a drink. Her dry response: “Sir, we are trying to board the plane on time. I can’t allow...