Clemens Autograph Seekers May Have Broken Federal Law
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Some members of the House oversight committee may have violated a federal law against soliciting things of value from people with interests before the committee.
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If Andy Pettitte appears before the Congressional committee and is asked what he knows about Roger Clemens, he will be faced with telling the truth or lying. I donât think he would lie.
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Athletes are accustomed to the buzz of living dangerously, but this time, with the supreme ego that won 354 games, Roger Clemens may have overreached.
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Roger Clemens will be confronted with a new and damaging affidavit from Andy Pettitte when he appears before a House Committee on Wednesday.
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A federal prosecutor said news coverage of reports that Roger Clemens and five other baseball players used banned substances contained Âsignificant inaccuracies.Â
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Controversial plan could force file swappers to face criminal charges.
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Credit cards issuers may face penalty from the regulators as credit cards solicitation is not as reliable as they are said. Consumers sometimes are not given the whole information about the possibly imposed
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Pitching star Roger Clemens has sued his former trainer for making false and defamatory statements about his steroid use that was chronicled by Major League Baseball's Mitchell Report.
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Roger Clemens' meeting with a congressional committee investigating steroids in baseball was pushed back until Feb. 5.
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Congress may have swept aside a law against advertising on postage stamps, but not many businesses are using them to market their products.
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By Gary Mihoces  More than 1,000 people were denied entry when they arrived at ticket gates for last year's Super Bowl in Detroit with counterfeit tickets, according to Anastasia Danias, an NFL attorney.
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Roger Clemens is expected to be confronted with a new and damaging affidavit from Andy Pettitte when he appears before a House Committee on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Two U.S. representatives have introduced a law that would give the U.S. Federal Trade Commission the authority to investigate and prosecute imposters who gain access to other people's private telephone records. The bill, introduced Wednesday by Representatives Jay Inslee, a Washington Democrat, and Marsha Blackburn, a Tennessee Republican, comes in addition to a bill signed into law by President George Bush in January criminalizing the phone records scheme known as pretexting. The new pretexting bill is important because the FTC has more expertise and interest in prosecuting identity theft cases than many local prosecutors, a spokeswoman for Inslee said. Ken Springer, the founder and president of Corporate Resolutions, a private investigations firm, applauded the pretexting legislation. State prosecutors have been targeting similar tactics to get personal bank records for about 10 years, and reputable private investigations firms haven't used pretexting for many years, he said. "You've got to play by the rules," said Springer, a former special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "It's not a grey area. You can't use it." Although corporate customers may demand that private investigators use all means necessary, Springer tells clients they should consider that the details of their investigations could wind up in the media. "The risk-reward [balance] is something they should consider," he said. After a pretexting scandal at Hewlett-Packard in late 2006, "corporate America got the message," he said. Still, the new pretexting bill can give customers faith that their records are protected, he said. Inslee and Blackburn introduced a similar bill in January 2006, but it didn't come up for a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. Their Consumer Telephone Records Protection Act would make it illegal for anyone to knowingly obtain confidential phone records by making false or fraudulent statements to a telephone company or to knowingly sell or receive confidential phone records knowing such information was obtained fraudulently. The bill would also require telephone companies to notify customers when their phone records fall into the wrong hands. In January, Bush signed a law making pretexting illegal, punishable with up to 10 years in prison and fines. Fines and prison sentences would increase if the violations involve more than 50 telephone customers. Congress began investigating pretexting in early 2006 after media reports and a complaint from privacy advocacy group the Electronic Privacy Information Center showed that several companies were selling private phone records online for less than $100. Then in September, HP revealed that investigators it hired had used pretexting to try to discover the source of board leaks.Â California prosecutors charged former HP board Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, former HP legal counsel Kevin Hunsaker, and three investigators with feloniesÂ late last year.
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There are angry exchanges as US baseball star Roger Clemens is grilled by Congress over doping claims.
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The House committee investigating performance-enhancing drugs in baseball sent formal letters of invitation to five people, including Roger Clemens and his former trainer, Brian McNamee.
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A grand jury would allow federal authorities to delve deeper into Roger Clemensâs suspected use of performance-enhancing drugs and to question him more directly.
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