Word: lawyering
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...federal courtroom erupted in shrieks and loud applause as Judge Denny Chin sentenced disgraced financier Bernard Madoff to 150 years in prison on Monday. In his decision, the judge dismissed Madoff's lawyer's plea for a lighter sentence of 12 years and disputed suggestions that the victims in the fraud were seeking mob vengeance. "The fraud here was staggering" and losses from the scam "off the chart," he said, justifying a sentence that sends a message...
...Aquila, and just a few days ago there was another earthquake in the medieval city, unemployment in Europe is at an all-time high, and voter-turnout in Italy is low. Why waste ink on Berlusconi’s philandering? Let his wife’s divorce lawyer deal with that. There are plenty of policy issues that the left could use to attack Berlusconi, but let’s leave sex out of this. Seriously, Italy, don’t be such a prude—that’s America?...
Justice Department • beyond-ludicrous explanation by Jeffrey Smith, a lawyer for, that refusal of to release information on the FBI interview with Dick Cheney regarding the Valerie Plame-CIA leak is connected to concern that future government officials might refuse to cooperate with criminal investigations if they think what they say could open them up to ridicule ("I don't want a future Vice President to say, "I'm not going to cooperate with you because I don't want to be fodder for The Daily Show...
...There is no basis for the verdict to be overturned," Anna Stavitskaya, the lawyer for Politkovskaya's son and daughter, told the judges, according to Russian media. "We are more interested in the mastermind and the killer," said Sergei Sokolov, deputy editor of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper for which Politkovskaya worked, speaking to Ekho Moskvy, an independent radio station. "It's obvious that today's ruling was based on a political decision - not on a procedural one. For the authorities, the most important thing was simply to make sure someone goes to prison...
...According to statistics from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Russia is the third most dangerous country to work in for journalists, with 50 killed since 1992. Most recently, in January Anastasiya Baburova, another Novaya Gazeta journalist, was shot and killed alongside human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov in broad daylight in central Moscow. "President Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have pledged to enforce the rule of law by investigating crimes against the press. Nonetheless, attacks on journalists continue to occur with impunity," wrote CPJ director Joel Simon in a letter to President Obama ahead of his trip to Moscow...