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...case is probably one of “insufficient honesty” rather than “dishonesty and fraud,” according to Patrick Drinan, former president of the Center for Academic Integrity and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego...
CHARGED. MIKHAIL KHODORKOVSKY, 40, chief of the Russian oil giant Yukos and the wealthiest of the country's "oligarchs," who made quick fortunes after the Soviet Union's collapse by acquiring cheap state property; with fraud and tax evasion; by prosecutors in Moscow, after special forces surrounded his plane at an airport in Siberia. The dramatic move, part of an ongoing probe into Yukos, was seen by skeptics as a Kremlin-led effort to keep the tycoon, who has funded opposition parties, out of politics...
...children at the school or who meet at the mosque," a senior investigator involved with the King Fahd Academy case told TIME. In May, police arrested an Arab man who moved from southern Germany to Bonn to send his children to the school. He was suspected of credit-card fraud, but while searching his apartment police found bomb-making instructions, household materials that could be used to make explosives, and a handwritten will. But Alfred Stoffel, the prosecutor handling the case, declined to press charges. "What we found wasn't sufficient to take to court," he says. The senior investigator...
...wouldn't be scared? Of course I'm scared. The last place I would ever want to go is prison." MARTHA STEWART, homemaking maven, who faces trial in January on charges of securities fraud and obstruction of justice, to ABC's Barbara Walters in an interview that will air in November...
Putin could also suffer from U.S. support of another Russian titan, not of oil, but of the media: Vladimir Gusinsky, former owner of the TV station NTV. Guilty of loan fraud, Gusinsky fled Russia to escape charges but was recently arrested in Greece. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has received favorable media coverage from Gusinsky, has defended him, as have some U.S. business leaders and members of Congress. Even if the media magnate isn’t a national security threat as Putin claims, he is a political threat—unafraid to voice his opposition to current Russian...