Fraud case for "Sarah" author heads to NY jury
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A best-selling author who pretended to be a 19-year-old male prostitute covered up her identity to profit from her novel and gain a movie deal, a lawyer for the film company suing her said in closing arguments on Thursday.
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The Chicago court judge presiding over the fraud trial of Conrad Black hands the case to the jury.
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More than half a year after beginning its work, a federal jury on Wednesday started deliberating the fate of a Manhattan lawyer accused of assisting terrorists and lying to the government.
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To writer Laura Albert, her alter ego was a psychological necessity, but to jurors, the fictitious male prostitute JT LeRoy was a fraud. A Manhattan jury decided Friday that Albert had defrauded a production company that bought the movie rights to an autobiographical novel marketed as being based on LeRoy's life.
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The lawyer for Judith Regan, whose plan to publish a book by O.J. Simpson called "If I Did It" ignited a firestorm of criticism, plans to sue HarperCollins for dismissing the publisher in breach of her contract, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Tuesday.
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The trial of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times who is accused of fraud and leaking state secrets ended Friday after one day, his lawyer said.
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SEATTLE -- A federal grand jury in Seattle is investigating allegations by a Washington state woman who said she was raped, assaulted and threatened by magician David Copperfield at his private island in the Bahamas in July, at least three federal law enforcement officials have confirmed.
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(CBS/AP) The tale of an aging actor and the starstruck con artist he married will take center stage Monday as jurors hear opening arguments in the murder case against Robert Blake for the 2001 death of his wife.
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A best-selling novelist who pretended she was a 19-year-old male prostitute sought to defend herself in court on Wednesday against claims she defrauded a film company that bought the rights to her book.
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More than a year after shocking allegations emerged about Duke University's lacrosse team, prosecutor Mike Nifong is heading to trial &#151; as a defendant.
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Zhao Yan, who worked in The New York TimesÂs Beijing bureau, will appeal his conviction for fraud, one of his lawyers said.
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A Chinese researcher for the New York  Times who was sentenced to three years jail for fraud will  contest the conviction after having beat a separate charge of  illegally leaking state secrets, his lawyer said on Monday.
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A day before Martha Stewart was to  start serving a prison sentence, the lifestyle trendsetter on  Thursday accused prosecutors of withholding evidence she hopes  will help overturn her conviction for lying about a stock  trade.
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ISTANBUL, Sept. 9 -- Elif Shafak, one of Turkey's leading authors, is about to have a baby -- and go on trial.
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Jurors began deliberations Saturday in the trial of a Long Island electrician accused of brutally killing his lover's estranged, millionaire husband.
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A jury is sent out to consider its verdict in the trial of a woman accused in connection with a fatal attack on her granddaughter by a dog.
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The playwright of a Tony-nominated play about a serial killer and his psychiatrist has been accused of plagiarizing passages from the work of a criminal psychiatrist and a writer for The New Yorker magazine.