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...Deborah Walters, 33, the Michigan couple who donated their baby's heart to Jesse, admitted they had been moved to do so by televised reports on Jesse and his parents. ''Our baby could not live,'' said Walters, whose son was brain-dead at birth. ''We'd seen their plea on TV, and we figured that if our baby could help them, then it would not be a total loss.'' But what television had failed to reveal was that an infant in Louisville had been waiting even longer for a heart. The parents of Baby Calvin had elected to work quietly...
...that as Belushi's companion in his final days, she had acted at the 33- year-old comedian's urging. In Los Angeles last week, Smith's legal battle ended in a compromise. Prosecutors dropped a second-degree murder charge against the Canadian-born defendant in exchange for her plea of no contest to a count of involuntary manslaughter and three counts of administering and furnishing narcotics to Belushi. Instead of a possible 25 years to life, she faces a maximum of eight years and eight months. Deputy District Attorney Elden Fox conceded that the accused ''honestly believes from...
...Rudy Giuliani's now-famous cell-phone call from his wife during a high-profile speech, Pelosi explained that she had a letter from a friend, an expert on the issue. Placing her phone to the microphone, Vice President Al Gore's voice began to narrate a climate-change plea for action. And then, as his voice continued to pour out of the phone, Gore appeared on stage. The audience exploded into a minute-long standing ovation...
Liechtenstein also figures in the UBS case. In addition to Birkenfeld, the Department of Justice has charged Mario Staggl, a banker in Liechtenstein, who remains in that country and at work. In his guilty plea, Birkenfeld said he, Staggl and others helped create sham entities in tax havens like Switzerland, Panama, the British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong and Liechtenstein to conceal the fact that U.S. citizens owned accounts. According to an agreement UBS and other banks signed with the U.S. government in 2001, UBS should have insisted its clients file ownership forms with the IRS but in many cases...
...face up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine on counts of wire fraud. Meanwhile, Rivera and Louisma face separate foreclosure proceedings that may see them losing not only their own personal property but, in Rivera's case, her business. Neither Rivera nor Louisma have entered pleas. But Louisma's lawyer Harold Long told TIME, "This was a pretty extravagant and elaborate scheme. It's really uncertain if [Louisma] knew the parameters of this thing. I think he is prepared to assume responsibility for what he did at some point in time." Acosta has filed...