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Jared Kushner’s father, Charles B. Kushner, is a prominent property developer who has donated heavily to Democratic candidates over the years. He was sentenced to two years in prison last year after being charged with tax evasion, witness tampering and making illegal campaign contributions...
...videoblogger is enmeshed in a new digital media controversy. On Tuesday, Wolf was thrown into federal prison for refusing to testify before a U.S. grand jury and for failing to hand over unpublished video footage he shot during a raucous clash on the streets between San Francisco police officers and anti-G8 protesters last year. Wolf posted some of the video on his blog, and some clips were aired on TV newscasts that later paid Wolf for the footage. But the feds are demanding to see everything that wasn't made public. They allege that the unused portion of Wolf...
...Stay the course. Fifteen years after junk-bond pioneer Michael Milken went to prison for securities fraud, he is still slowly rebuilding his image as a philanthropist in the fields of education and medical research. Gibson may have a similarly long haul. His comments are, for many Jews, a third strike. The first strike came from comments Gibson's father made denying the Holocaust, the second from depictions of Jews in his film The Passion in what many saw as a negative light. "When you do something that plays into a preconception, you have to recognize that it will...
...nasty crew. Consider what prompted Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah to arrange for the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers on July 12, which is what led to the current crisis. Nasrallah says he wants Israel to release from prison Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese citizen who was part of a Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.) cell that in 1979 arrived by boat in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya and invaded the apartment of the Haran family. Smadar Haran hid in the attic with her daughter Yael, 2, and was so intent on stifling the girl's crying that she accidentally suffocated...
...SENTENCED. Vasana Puemlarp, 65, Prinya Nakchudtree, 65, and Virachai Naewboonnien, 65, Thai election officials; to four years in prison, for abuse of power and misconduct related to ill-fated parliamentary elections in April; by Thailand's Criminal Court; in Bangkok. The three were found guilty of mismanaging the poll?which was boycotted by the country's opposition parties and later invalidated by the Constitutional Court?and allowing unqualified candidates to run illegally, giving a boost to the ruling Thai Rak Thai party. The men, who subsequently resigned their posts, were released on bail Friday and will appeal the verdict, which...