Turkish gold trader becomes U.S. witness in Iran sanctions case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Turkish-Iranian gold trader has pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran and will testify against a Turkish bank official who is charged with arranging illegal transactions involving American banks, a U.S…
U.S. Air Force failed to report dozens of cases to gun database
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Air Force said on Tuesday there were at least several dozen cases of serious crimes involving its personnel which it failed to report to a federal database used by licensed gun dealers to conduct background checks on fir…
Fraternity members plead guilty, get probation in hazing death
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (Reuters) – More than a dozen former members of a New York fraternity chapter pleaded guilty on Tuesday to reduced charges and were sentenced to probation in the 2013 hazing death of a Baruch College freshman during an initiation ritua…
Jury acquits accused Benghazi attack organizer of most serious charges: media
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A jury on Tuesday acquitted Ahmed Abu Khatallah on the most serious charges in connection with a 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in which U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans…
Supreme Court wary about widening whistleblower protections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative and liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared reluctant to broaden protections for corporate insiders who blow the whistle on securities law violations or fraud by their companies.
Connecticut cardiologist is convicted of insider trading
(Reuters) – A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a Connecticut cardiologist of insider trading based on confidential information he learned about a clinical drug trial, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
N.Y. murder conviction tossed because juror applied for prosecutor job
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York state appeals court on Tuesday threw out the April 2014 conviction of a man in Manhattan’s East Harlem section for killing his girlfriend, because a juror failed to disclose she had applied for a prosecutor’s job in the …
Man charged in New York truck attack pleads not guilty
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Uzbek immigrant accused of killing eight people by speeding a rental truck down a New York City bike path in October pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to murder and other criminal charges.
U.S. top court wary about widening whistleblower protections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Conservative and liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared reluctant to broaden protections for corporate insiders who blow the whistle on securities law violations or fraud by their companies.
Turkish gold trader becomes star witness in U.S. case over Iran sanctions
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Turkish gold trader has pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran and will testify against a Turkish bank official who is charged with arranging illegal transactions involving American banks, a U.S. prosec…
