Legal aid scam boss convicted
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A law firm boss and some of his former staff are convicted after claiming up to an estimated Â£10m of bogus Legal aid work.
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LOS ANGELES -- A lawyer has been convicted of using a credit card scam to pay his way through law school. Christian Ehlers, 29, a 2001 graduate of Loyola Law School, was found guilty Tuesday of conspiracy, fraud
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US lawyer Lynn Stewart is convicted of supporting terrorists by smuggling messages from a client.
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A veteran civil rights lawyer was convicted Thursday of crossing the line by smuggling messages of violence from one of her jailed clients -- a radical Egyptian sheik -- to his terrorist disciples on the outside.
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A man who sold pit bull fight videos to investigators was convicted Thursday, the first person to be found guilty at trial under a 1999 federal animal cruelty law.
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A Ukrainian who exploited immigrant workers is jailed for seven years in the UK for money-laundering.
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A leading member of the LVF is found guilty of the murder of Portadown grandmother Elizabeth O'Neill.
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Three former leaders of an Islamic charity were convicted on federal tax and fraud charges in Boston yesterday for using tax exemptions to hide support for religious militants and alleged terrorists overseas.
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A businessman wins an appeal against a High Court ruling to pay back Â£2m he lost in one night.
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A UK court finds Brazilian cleaner Roselane Driza guilty of blackmailing a female judge and stealing videos.
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The soldier accused of being the ringleader in the abuse of prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail is convicted.
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A court in Palermo convicted Sicily's governor Friday of helping a Mafia boss and sentenced him to five years in prison.
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A South African mercenary was today found guilty of leading the advance party in a failed coup plot in Equatorial Guinea that was allegedly bankrolled by Sir Mark Thatcher.
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The son of the Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar is found guilty of a massive money laundering scam.
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A well known Kenyan businessman has been imprisoned in the first conviction under President Mwai Kibaki&#39;s promised anti-corruption drive.
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The state president of Sicily is found guilty of assisting the Mafia and sentenced to five years in prison.
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A former Credit Suisse banker accused of leaking confidential information about several major deals,  was convicted in Federal District Court in Manhattan.