Word: mukasey
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...terms in a Manhattan courtroom today following their October convictions for conspiring to blow up several New York landmarks, including the United Nations and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. "This case is nothing but an extension of the American war against Islam," Abdel-Rahman told U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey through an interpreter. The 57-year-old Egyptian faces a mandatory life sentence for a separate conviction for plotting to kill Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. TIME's William Dowell reports: "Because the case was tried here, it implicates the U.S. in what has up to now been an Egyptian domestic...
THEY ASKED ME TO CONTINUE CONcealing the losses." With head bowed, the jailed banker in a gray, pinstriped suit read those words to U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey. But Toshihide Iguchi's words last week reverberated far beyond the New York City courtroom. Not only was he pleading guilty to covering up the $1.1 billion in losses he had incurred for Daiwa Bank's New York operations (and personally profiting by more than $500,000). He was also implicating unnamed senior executives at the bank--the world's 13th largest--in a conspiracy with him to keep the catastrophe secret...