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...became a scapegoat in the aftermath of the terror attacks. On Oct. 12, 2001, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly announced that parent company "Argenbright Holdings continues to violate laws that protect the safety of Americans who travel by commercial airlines." Ashcroft based his comments on a 1999 guilty plea and agreement Argenbright had made with the federal government when a screener at a Pennsylvania airport was busted for drug possession, which led to evidence that other screeners had faulty immigration paperwork, lax training and even faked test scores. The manager of that region was fired and later jailed...
...meeting was intended to give libraries the chance to determine which library each stolen map was taken from. The New York Public Library, Yale University, the Boston Public Library, and the British Library all claim to be missing maps that Harvard says it is missing.Smiley’s plea agreement lists what maps he stole and from which institutions. But questions of ownership arose after multiple libraries discovered that they had the same maps missing.“Some of the institutions will come up with a longer list of missing items after this meeting,” Brainard...
...guilty to manslaughter and assault, and are now serving a three-year prison term. "The minute the prosecutors had the speed from the 'black box,' they upped the charges to murder," says Richard Slade, whose son Blake was driving the Mercedes. "They had what they needed to force a plea down our throats...
...Musical director Kim Kirkman, 33, whose long hair and goatee fit his role as gondolier Marco, gets his share of giggles, singing female parts in falsetto and doing an improvised dance routine to demonstrate rhythm and emphasis. "We leave you with feelings of plea-sure," he sings, with a sideways jerk of the hips. "Rehearsals are always fun," says accountant Jeanette Oberg, 47, who has a small solo part as Giulia, a peasant girl. "The choir members are always on the alert for anything that can be turned into a joke...
PLEADED GUILTY. Claude Allen, 45, former Bush White House domestic-policy adviser, in a plea agreement, to one misdemeanor count of theft for defrauding Target stores by stealing items and then attempting to get refunds for them; in Rockville, Md. Allen last week ascribed his behavior to job stress and sleep deprivation in dealing with the fallout from Hurricane Katrina...