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PLEADED GUILTY. TONY RUDY, 39, former deputy chief of staff to Representative Tom DeLay; to conspiring with Jack Abramoff in a lobbying-fraud scheme while Rudy worked for DeLay and after he left to become a lobbyist; as part of a deal in which he agreed to cooperate with a federal investigation...
SENTENCED. JACK ABRAMOFF, 47, Washington lobbyist who pleaded guilty to offering bribes to members of Congress; to five years and 10 months in jail, in a separate fraud case; for using a fake $23 million wire transfer--intended to prove a down payment had been made--to qualify for a loan to buy a fleet of gambling ships; in Miami. Abramoff was allowed to remain free to assist the investigation into the congressional lobbying scandal...
Smith isn't the only person to have been burned in an Internet auction--not by far. According to the list of top consumer complaints to the Federal Trade Commission for 2005, released in January, Internet-related scams accounted for 46%, or 316,000, of all fraud gripes last year. And the percentage of Internet frauds with "wire transfer" as the reported payment method more than tripled from...
...dozen aliens applied for asylum before committing terrorist acts. Among them: Ahmad Ajaj and Ramzi Yousef, who entered the country in 1991 and 1992, respectively, seeking asylum. According to the OIG, Ajaj left the U.S. and returned in 1992 with a phony passport. He was convicted of passport fraud. Yousef completed the required paperwork and was given a date for his asylum hearing. In the meantime, in 1993, the two men helped commit the first World Trade Center attack, for which they were convicted and imprisoned. At the time, Yousef's application for asylum was still pending...
...When the government rested its case on Tuesday, prosecutors dropped three of the 31 charges against Skilling and one of the securities fraud charges against Lay. While the defense trumpeted the dismissals, Wynne, a former prosecutor, notes that charges are often dropped to speed up jury deliberation and help jurors to focus on the crucial charges at the heart of the case. Overall, the government's case crushed the defense, Berg believes. "It was deeper and wider than anyone in that courtroom expected," he says...