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...mutual grudge since his re-election in 2000: Aristide blames Haiti's misery on the fact that Washington has withheld $500 million in desperately needed aid. But the White House points to Aristide's despotic bent, including his failure to hold new parliamentary elections after several Lavalas members won fraud-tainted races...
...Waksal is already serving a seven-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to securities fraud over his family's sale of their own ImClone stock. Sentencing experts reportedly suspect Stewart will be sentenced to jail time, although probably a minimal term. But the conviction could deal a heavy blow to the future business prospects of an empire branded on the good name and reputation of its eponymous icon...
...This case is going to be decided by 12 decent people sitting in a courtroom in a court of law with real witnesses, with real evidence ... and not with scapegoats." DANIEL PETROCELLI, lawyer for former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who pleaded not guilty to 35 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, wire fraud and insider trading...
...country's second city, Cap Haitien, and vowed to press on to the capital in order to unseat President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide, who was restored to power by U.S. military intervention in 1994 following a coup remains the country's elected president, but opposition groups point to electoral fraud in the 2000 parliamentary election to argue that he has no legitimacy nor any intent to submit to the will of the electorate. Haiti's tiny police force is no match for the rebels, some of are veterans of the old army disbanded by Aristide...
...Padgett: There are two main political opposition groups. The Democratic Convergence is composed mostly of former allies of President Aristide who have become disgusted by what they call his authoritarian, incompetent, even mystical style of governing. This group was particularly outraged at the electoral fraud perpetrated during the parliamentary elections of 2000 - a problem Aristide has been dragging his feet over addressing. The second grouping, which calls itself the Group of 184, represents more of Haiti's business community who are also fed up with the situation under Aristide. Both groups say they're not aligned with the armed rebels...