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...fortunes, testimony that his ex-wife confirmed, somewhat unconvincingly, in court. (The jury tittered when she said she "didn't pay much attention" to her ex.) "They directly impeached him on insider trading. His story's just not credible," says Houston attorney David Berg, author of The Trial Lawyer: What It Takes to Win. "The fact that he's been impeached on something so essential to the case tells the jury that he's not to be trusted on other testimony...
...Kremlin may have hoped that by jailing Mikhail Khodorkovsky on tax evasion charges, they would eliminate any political challenge represented by the oil tycoon. Instead, the prison experience may be honing Khodorkovsky's credentials as a future challenger to President Putin - and, say his lawyer and a former KGB man who worked for his oil company, prompting the authorities to resort to some old Soviet tricks to stop...
...twice been locked in solitary confinement, once for being in possession of a copy of camp regulations published in a newspaper, and once for having a cup of tea with Alexander Kuchma, 22, occupant of the neighboring bed in his 100-person barrack. These charges, says Khodorkovsky lawyer Yuri Schmidt, enable the authorities to deny the prisoner a more lenient regime and eventual parole. (Indeed, state prosecutors still threaten to press money laundering charges that could add another decade to Khodorkovsky's prison term.) But on Wednesday, a Krasnokamensk court ruled his first lockdown unlawful, and his lawyers are appealing...
...offer, their plans will then come under review by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, which will have to approve a zoning change and their plans before they can be built.When asked if she anticipated trouble sealing Boston’s go-ahead on the deal, Felicia Jacques, a lawyer for The Community Builders, a non-profit organization devoted to public housing with offices around the country, says the city has been supportive of the relocation. “The city has invested an enormous amount of time and resources in thinking about this and how it dovetails with Harvard?...
...Democrat. Second, his career trajectory never took him anywhere near the state of Texas. He worked on Capitol Hill for former Sen. Mark Hatfield, the Oregon Republican, and for Lawton Chiles, the former Democratic governor of Florida. He also had the distinction of being the late Mother Teresa's lawyer, and serving in her Calcutta mission. On Monday, seated under a picture of President Bush at prayer, Towey told a handful of reporters that he was leaving the White House to become president of St. Vincent College, a small Benedictine college in Latrobe, Pa., which, Towey noted, boasts the world...