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...started rebuilding their lives in the U.S. before finding out that they would be deported. Sophea Heng, 28, who goes by his nickname Wicked, completed his yearlong prison sentence for assault with a deadly weapon in 2001, but was immediately transferred to an immigration detention center where he was held without a release date for two years. Wicked was only released after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a related case that Cambodian Kim Ho Ma could not be held indefinitely while awaiting deportation to a country that wouldn't accept him. For the next year and half, he kept...
...Whatever the penalty, though, if Lewis is found to have lied about facts surrounding the Merrill merger, it is likely that the board will be forced to let him go. "Judge Rakoff is saying that executives need to be held accountable for the decisions they made," says Corporate Library's Minow. "I think heads will roll for this...
...federal investigation of offshore bank accounts, said the Times’ anonymous source. In recent months, Swiss banking giant UBS agreed to turn over the names of thousands of its American clients to the Internal Revenue Service, as the federal government attempts to crack down on tax evasion. Caspersen held a bank account with LGT, a private bank in Liechtenstein. The government of Liechtenstein has also agreed to reveal names of wealthy American clients, an anonymous individual familiar with the investigation told the Times. It is unclear whether Caspersen’s name was mentioned in this list. According...
...consists of “people who care about issues that affect working families...youth issues...and seniors,” as well as residents of Cambridgeport, where she grew up, and North Cambridge, where she lives now with her husband and newborn child. Cambridge municipal elections will be held on Tuesday, November 3.—Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...
...followed the nation's worst day of military casualties since a November 2003 car-bomb attack in Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq, killed 19 Italian soldiers. That death toll was cited when Italy eventually pulled out of Iraq in 2006, but at the time of the Nasiriyah attack, Berlusconi held firm to Italy's military commitment and ironclad alliance with then U.S. President George W. Bush. (See Berlusconi's worst gaffes...