Huntsman guilty of monitor attack
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A Devon huntsman is found guilty of attacking a campaigner who was filming a hunting event.
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A Zimbabwean court found Briton Simon Mann guilty of attempting to illegally buy arms for an alleged coup plot in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea but absolved 66 other suspected mercenaries.
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A radical Muslim demonstrator was found guilty on Wednesday of two counts of inciting murder at protests in London last year against cartoons in a Danish newspaper which offended many Muslims.
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(InfoWorld) - The sellers of the Spyware Slayer antispyware program have agreed to pay US$300,000 in fines to settle charges that they violated Washington State spyware and consumer protection laws. Both the charges and the settlement were filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court in Seattle, said Washington State Assistant Attorney General Katherine Tassi. Two companies, both controlled by the same owners, were named in the settlement, she said: High Falls Media LLC, of Hilton, New York, and Roc Telecommunications LLC, of Rochester, New York. Company associates Thomas Tortora, Mark Libutti and Brian Einhaus, all of New York, were also named as defendants. They could not be reached immediately for comment, and the freepcscan.com Web site used to market Spyware Slayer was no longer active on Wednesday. High Falls promoted Spyware Slayer with false pop-up ads warning victims that their computer was infected with spyware, Tassi said. If the victim tried to leave the site, another pop-up cautioned, "if you leave now, damage could be done by harmful worms, viruses, adware, spyware, malware or hacker code." These ads "were essentially startling consumers into believing that they had spyware on their computer," Tassi said. "They had a pop-up that said 'we have detected a 99 percent chance that you have spyware on your computer,' and this was just an advertisement. They had not done anything to detect anything." This type of inducement is illegal under Washington's Computer Spyware Act, but has become an "all too common mode of marketing security software," Tassi said. "We do see this as an increasing trend: the exploiting of consumer fears over spyware and adware as a way of marketing software products." Las week, Washington's attorney general announced a similar settlement with a New York man who used pop-up ads designed to look like Internet Explorer alerts. He was marketing a program called QuikShield Security, she said. Roc Telecommunications ran a number of music download sites, including 24/7 Downloads, Free Download Club, and MP3s Unlimited, which also engaged in deceptive marketing practices, Tassi said. The defendants have not admitted any wrongdoing under the agreement and will have the bulk of their $300,000 fine suspended, provided that they comply with the terms of the agreement and no longer misrepresent what they are selling. "They pay $25,000 of that and then the remaining portion hangs over their head as an incentive to comply with the injunctive provisions," Tassi said. The defendants must also pay $30,000 in legal fees and provide refunds to Washington state residents who purchased their products.
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The former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney was found guilty on Tuesday of lying and obstructing a probe related to the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war and could face years in prison.
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A U.S. jury on Friday found Conrad Black guilty of criminal fraud and obstruction of justice in a grim Friday the 13th verdict that could send the former media baron to jail for up to 35 years.
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Media tycoon Conrad Black, known for his lavish parties and flamboyant personality, was found guilty Friday of fraud and obstruction of justice after being accused of raiding his company&#39;s coffers.
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A former key White House official, Lewis Libby, is found guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury.
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FORT HOOD, Texas  - A military jury found U.S.  soldier Charles Graner guilty on Friday of abusing Iraqi  prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in a scandal that badly damaged  America's worldwide reputation following the invasion of Iraq.
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A former FBI agent and an internet stock picker are guilty of using confidential US government information to manipulate stock prices.
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Yevgeny Adamov, the former atomic energy minister who Washington accused of stealing millions in U.S. government funds, was found guilty Tuesday of fraud and abuse of office.
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A German manufacturer of technology commonly used in personal computers has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $160 million fine for engaging in an international price-fixing conspiracy that drove up computer prices, the Justice
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HARARE : A court in Zimbabwe found Briton Simon Mann guilty of attempting to illegally buy arms to stage a putsch in oil-rich Equatorial Guinea but acquitted 66 other defendants of involvement in the alleged coup.
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A U.S. jury found Hafiz Naseem, a former Credit Suisse investment banker,  guilty of insider trading related to a string of corporate takeovers including the $32 billion buyout of TXU Corp.
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The accused include a Morgan Stanley compliance official, a UBS research executive and traders for hedge funds and brokerage firms.
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A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc  analyst was sentenced to nearly five years in prison on Thursday for leading an insider-trading ring that netted more than $6 million in illegal profits.
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U.S. chemical company Huntsman Corp , which has agreed to a $5.6 billion takeover, said on Wednesday it had received an approach at $27.25 per share from an affiliate of U.S. private equity firm Apollo Management.