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CHARGED. ROBERT DOWNEY JR., 35, actor; with two felony counts of drug possession and a misdemeanor connected to his arrest last month; in Los Angeles. If convicted, Downey, who will plead innocent, faces up to seven years in prison...
...took on Vladimir Potanin, at the time Russia's top banker. Potanin had offered a closed bond issue for Sidanko, a major oil company that was one of his pet properties, to insiders of his own choosing. Browder cried foul and adroitly used the Western press to plead his case that the new shares arising from the bond issue would dilute minority shareholders' stakes. In the end, Russia's Federal Securities Commission canceled the issue...
...when asked about those numbers, the Gore who Monday night thanked the American people "for taking the time to listen" didn't sound like he had anything to plead for anymore...
...star witness, self-confessed corrupt cop Rafael Perez--whose tales of his experiences as a member of the Rampart CRASH unit broke open the scandal a year ago--because of concerns about his credibility. A former girlfriend accused him of three murders, about which he indicated he would plead the Fifth Amendment on the stand. She later recanted, but the prosecution had to fall back on calling known gang members to testify. Yet the jury chose to believe the testimony of these men, some with long criminal records, over the evidence given by police colleagues of the accused officers. Jury...
...grand, if Martin Feldstein tells you so? Now do you set realistic goals? Can bell curves save your mortal soul? And can you teach me not to write real slow? Well I know that they'll be grading hard, 'cause I saw my TF in the Yard. I tried plead mercy, but he refused to agree. I'm a procrastinator run amuck, with a broken laptop and coursebooks that suck, and I knew that I was out of luck the day midterms arrived...