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...miles away in a staid federal courtroom, the temperature rises as steamy claims of other broken rules are revealed in the racketeering trial that is riveting this city with tales of prostitution, fraud, the Mafia, and the off-the-court lives of several high-profile NBA stars. At the center of the trial is Gold Club owner Steven Kaplan, who has been indicted along with 16 others, including one former and one active Atlanta police officer and two dancers named "Diva" and "Frederique." Each is charged with enriching a criminal enterprise run by Kaplan. He, in turn, according to prosecutors...
Rangel, who at one point during negotiations was asked to leave the room because the Republicans wanted to negotiate among themselves out of earshot of a Democrat, calls the bill "a fraud on the American people." He and others charge that the bill underestimates the true cost of the tax cuts by half a trillion dollars and that it is aimed squarely at the richest Americans...
...judge Richard P. Matsch to stay McVeigh's execution, which was postponed from May 16 until June 11 after the FBI admitted it had misplaced more than 4,000 pages of documents that should have been given to McVeigh's defense team. Arguing that the government had perpetrated "a fraud on the court," the lawyers requested a hearing to determine whether the feds willfully withheld the documents in order to conceal exculpatory evidence--and whether the bureau is hiding additional evidence even now. It's a long shot, but what does McVeigh have to lose? If his motion is denied...
...Many had expected Matsch to grant McVeigh?s request for the delay; the defense argued that the government had committed "a fraud upon the court" by withholding almost 4,000 documents from the trial. (The documents were uncovered by FBI staffers less than a week before McVeigh?s original execution date in May). Those documents, the defense insists, may identify new accomplices - and potentially shift some of the blame from McVeigh?s shoulders...
...Despite public outcry against their client, who has, since his conviction, confessed to the bombing, McVeigh?s lawyers continue to push their case. Thursday, Nigh insisted that the government must be held accountable for committing "a fraud upon the court" by withholding documents from the defense team...