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...help comparing Martha Stewart's declarations of innocence to charges of obstruction of justice and securities fraud [BUSINESS, June 16] with the reports that she might have been willing to accept a plea bargain if she could be guaranteed no jail time. What was she going to plead guilty to if not a crime? This is not just public relations. Stocks rise and fall on Stewart's public utterances. Would her plea of guilty in return for no jail time have been a lie? TONY ACCETTA New York City...
Faris is just one of many individuals within the U.S. whom the government is targeting. Ashcroft recently told members of Congress that the Justice Department has 15 or more plea deals with alleged terrorists who are singing to the feds. The FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating a group of at least a dozen mostly Muslim men in the Washington area who studied under a local Islamic scholar. Investigators are also focusing on some Maryland-based associates of Faris acquaintance Majid Khan, a onetime resident of Baltimore who U.S. officials say was tapped by al-Qaeda to lead an operation...
...justice and securities fraud by the U.S. Attorney's office in New York City. Settlement talks had failed, and her lawyers' efforts to win an audience with Justice Department officials in Washington had gone nowhere. In the end, the Financial Times reported, Stewart, 61, would not agree to any plea that required jail time. She walked into the downtown Manhattan courtroom to be charged, as her daughter Alexis, 37, waited quietly on a bench in the back. The nine-count indictment alleges that Stewart altered evidence that she traded on inside information about the biotech company ImClone Systems, conspired with...
...wholeheartedly threw his support behind the Aceh campaign only days after the Peusangan massacre, bordering on cold hearted. The U.S. is too anxious to maintain good relations with its war-on-terror allies to do anything but urge the T.N.I. to make its soldiers' actions more transparent, a plea the T.N.I. notes and then ignores-as the U.S. allows it to do. If anything does disrupt U.S.-Indonesia relations, it will not be Acehnese blood but that of two American teachers murdered in Papua last August, possibly by the military...
...news. Von Trier disappointed his fans by getting shut out at award time. But another Danish auteur did have reason to be there and be pleased: Christoffer Boe, director of Reconstruction, which won the Camera d'Or for best first feature. As he accepted his prize, Boe made this plea into the ether: "Vincent Gallo, don't give up! We need to fight conventional filmmaking." Someone needs to make, and fight for, better films. Maybe next year: Cannes 2004 has already been dubbed the Atonement Festival. But if there's a lesson from Cannes 2003, it's that bad films...