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...have no reason to believe," says Kevin Downing, a senior Justice Department tax trial lawyer, "that we would have had any other means to have disclosed what was going on but for an insider in that scheme providing detailed information, which Mr. Birkenfeld did." (Read "Calling All Whistle-Blowers! The SEC Wants...
Unknowingly falls for Chuck's ego-boosting scheme...
...blackmailing scheme, it was almost comically bad: the alleged extortionist threatened to write a screenplay about Letterman's affairs. "He's going to take all of the terrible stuff he knows about my life - and there seems to be quite a lot of terrible stuff he knows about - and he's going to put it in a movie," explained Letterman on the show. Still, the host was clearly unnerved. "I want to reiterate how terrifying this is," he said. "I am a seething mass of Lutheran Midwestern guilt." (See the top 10 late night jokes...
...Middle America - tells us that post-9/11 security measures, many of them highly controversial, are working. But there is bad news too. Zazi's alleged project, from the training camp in Pakistan to his bomb recipe and backpack delivery system, bears the marks not of some fluky local scheme of the kind that the feds have sniffed out in the past but of a plausible al-Qaeda operation. Nor does Zazi appear to be a lone sympathizer or a copycat egged on by an FBI informant. He apparently had marching orders, accomplices and a quiet determination to deliver...
...fossils were drawn in distinctive hues such as saturated blue, orange and yellow, and drew the attention of many passers-by. While the depictions of these fossils are inaccurate as far as the color scheme is concerned, they nevertheless add a colorful flourish to what some may find stodgy subject matter...