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...This week, the Spanish bank Banco Santandar agreed to hand over $235 million; it had been liable to pay up to $275 million, the total amount its Optimal funds subsidiary had withdrawn in the 90 days leading up to the December 11, 2008, collapse of Madoff's decades-long crime. Santander, the most exposed of the European banks involved with Madoff, with $3 billion lost, is still facing a class-action lawsuit...
...rungs of America's legal system. Sotomayor, 54, was raised by Puerto Rican parents in a South Bronx housing project a few miles from the old Yankee Stadium. Her father, a tool-and-die maker who died when Sotomayor was 9, had a third-grade education and spoke only Spanish; her mother worked as a nurse at a methadone clinic and bought the neighborhood's only set of encyclopedias. A fiercely devoted student, Sotomayor attended Catholic schools and then Princeton University on a scholarship, graduating summa cum laude. She later attended Yale Law School and worked for the Manhattan district...
...Bedardo Sola, a staffer who was laid off and then rehired by Harvard subcontractor ABM OneSource, spoke to the crowd in Spanish. Daniel Brasil Becker, a representative for the Service Employees International Union Local 1615, interpreted Sola’s remarks...
...hanged. Military commissions' first documented use came during the Mexican-American War in 1847, when the U.S. Army occupied large areas of Mexico that lacked a working court system. Since then they've been used to prosecute thousands in the U.S. and abroad during the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Spanish-American War and World War II. Defendants have included a former Ohio Congressman accused of sympathizing with the Confederacy during the Civil War (ordered confined for the rest of the war), eight accused conspirators in President Lincoln's assassination (four sentenced to hang, four given prison sentences), and eight Germans...
From Beach to Isle. Spanish airline Air Europa will begin flying weekly from Miami to Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, on June 20. The Saturday flight to the volcanic isles, just off the northwestern coast of Africa, leaves Miami at 5 p.m., arriving in Tenerife 7:35 a.m., and costs about $700 round-trip...