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While last night’s victory over Colgate held important implications in the Harvard women’s hockey team’s quest to capture the ECAC title, the contest’s historical significance may be even more noteworthy...
...game against the defending Ivy champions was Harvard’s first on the conference slate, and the sharp increase in pressure combined with the tenacity of the Big Green’s play may have gotten into the Crimson’s heads—and fingers...
...could bring down Florida politicians as well as investors - because Rothstein funneled millions of his allegedly ill-gotten dollars to pols and parties, especially the state's GOP, often in ways that may have violated campaign-finance laws. (Prosecutors allege, for example, that he laundered political contributions through large bonuses that he paid to members of his law firm, which has since collapsed.) Florida political analyst Sean Foreman of Barry University in Miami doesn't think the scandal will cause much fallout for those, like Crist, who have returned the money in a timely fashion. (Since Rothstein's indictment last...
...fraud, racketeering and money laundering leveled against him - would plead guilty if he hadn't struck a beneficial deal with the feds. They in turn almost certainly expect Rothstein "to name names," says Zelden, not only of those who might have aided the Ponzi scheme, "but of politicians who may have been playing any kind of quid pro quo shenanigans with him." (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...last year as the governor welcomed federal stimulus money into Florida. But they probably won't be so eager to exploit the support Crist received from Rothstein (who, by the way, helped Crist blow out the candles on that $52,000 birthday cake), because some of those conservative boosters may well be shown to have received Rothstein's dirty largesse themselves. They could include GOP legislators in Tallahassee, where federal agents last month came calling to question politicians from both parties about their possible connections to controversial campaign contributors like Alan Mendelsohn, a South Florida eye doctor who faces federal...