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...Cambridge, cases of meter burglary are not uncommon. In 2006, a New Hampshire couple was charged with stealing over $3,000 worth of parking meters, and this year, five people were charged in New York City with collectively stealing over $250,000 worth of meters. Gannon’s lawyer, Paul Mishkin, could not be reached for comment. Gannon is currently in custody and being held on a $5,000 bail...
...blue. He said his part of the story, and then he got a letter saying he was fired,” O’Brien said. Union representative Geoff Carens said Toomey was unfairly treated because of a permanent medical condition. The union declined to make Toomey or a lawyer available for comment. “They have been harassing him for 10 years or more with tons and tons of petty complaints,” Carens said. The dispute is in mediation, according to the University and union representatives, and University spokesman Joe Wrinn said that the process...
...overwhelming majority, the UC voted not to repeal the party fund reauthorization from two weeks ago for money that had been granted during the two-week UC election period. UC representatives also decided to set aside $2,000 to hire a lawyer, should the Council determine it to be a necessary step...
...Clayton Lamar (Lanny) Young Jr., a lobbyist and landfill developer described by acquaintances as a hard-drinking "good ole boy," was in an expansive mood. In the downtown offices of the U.S. Attorney in Montgomery, Ala., Young settled into his chair, personal lawyer at his side, and proceeded to tell a group of seasoned prosecutors and investigators that he had paid tens of thousands of dollars in apparently illegal campaign contributions to some of the biggest names in Alabama Republican politics. According to Young, among the recipients of his largesse were the state's former attorney general Jeff Sessions...
...will probably add fuel to charges that the Bush Administration pursued selective justice in Alabama. Leura Canary, the U.S. Attorney whose office drove Siegelman's prosecution, is married to Bill Canary, Alabama's most prominent political operative and a longtime friend of Karl Rove's. In May an Alabama lawyer and Republican activist named Dana Jill Simpson gave a notarized statement that she heard Canary say Rove "had spoken with the Department of Justice" about "pursuing" Siegelman, with help from two of Alabama's U.S. Attorneys. Bill Canary called her charge "outrageous," and other alleged participants in the phone conversation...