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Former IBM executive pleads guilty to insider trading in Galleon probe

Former IBM executive pleads guilty to insider trading in Galleon probe

Michael Kraemer

March 29, 2010 03:20:00 pm

Former International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) senior vice president Robert Moffat pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy and securities fraud charges stemming from his involvement in the largest hedge fund insider trading case in US...

US transfers 2 Uighur Guantanamo detainees to Switzerland

US transfers 2 Uighur Guantanamo detainees to Switzerland

Michael Kraemer

March 24, 2010 01:13:00 pm

Two Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay were transferred to Switzerland on Wednesday. Switzerland granted humanitarian type B residence permits allowing the two to live in the canton of Jura. Both have agreed to respect...

Supreme Court declines to reconsider Noriega extradition appeal

Supreme Court declines to reconsider Noriega extradition appeal

Michael Kraemer

March 22, 2010 02:18:00 pm

] The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to reconsider a petition filed by former Panamanian military leader General Manuel Noriega to stop his extradition to France...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

French novelist defended Dreyfus in open letter

On January 13, 1898, the French journalist and novelist Emile Zola published an open letter entitled J'accuse in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer in the French army who had been dubiously convicted of spying. Learn more about the Dreyfus Affair. Sentenced to prison for libel, Zola fled to England; he was granted amnesty and returned to France, but died of carbon monoxide poisoning before Dreyfus was exonerated.

Douglas Wilder takes office as first elected black governor

On January 13, 1990, Lawrence Douglas Wilder was sworn in as the governor of Virginia by former US Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. Wilder was the first African-American to be elected governor of a U.S. state. He would also serve as Mayor of Richmond, the state's capital city, from 2005 through 2009. Learn more about the life and career of Douglas Wilder.