U.S. Wonât Seek to Restore Fraud Conviction of Ex-Westar Officials
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An appeals court said that evidence at the trial did not justify the guilty verdicts.
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WASHINGTON -- Four enforcement officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission rejected allegations by a former agency attorney of political interference in an insider-trading investigation of Wall Street executive John Mack and a major hedge fund.
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Malaysia&#39;s highest court yesterday declined to overturn a conviction for corruption against former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim.
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A former top executive at Cendant Corp. was convicted yesterday of fraud and other charges, but jurors could not reach a decision about the role of another executive in the case.
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President Bush's former counsel Harriet E. Miers yesterday rebuffed a subpoena demanding her congressional testimony, as former White House political director Sara M. Taylor told the Senate Judiciary Committee she did not speak with President Bush about the administration's plans to fire a group of...
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HOUSTON, Oct. 7 -- The government prepared Thursday to rest its fraud and conspiracy case against four former Merrill Lynch & Co. executives and two former mid-level Enron Corp. executives, following testimony from a key Enron executive that a barge sale was a sham designed to inflate profits.
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Two Britons wanted by the United States  to face terrorism charges failed in a legal challenge on  Thursday to stop their extradition because of fears they would  be mistreated.
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The European Court of Human Rights has  turned down a request from three former NatWest bankers to  delay their extradition to the United States to face fraud  charges related to energy trading group Enron Corp, a  spokeswoman for the three said on Tuesday.
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A U.S. federal judge declined on Wednesday to overturn the conviction against the former chief executive of Brocade Communications  on stock options backdating charges.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Attorneys for a US-based security company accused of setting up sham companies in a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme in Iraq are contending in court that the company cannot be sued under a key federal anticorruption law because the allegedly stolen money belonged to Iraqis, not Americans.
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The Justice Department has asked a judge to throw out the convictions of a suspected terror cell in Detroit because of prosecutorial misconduct, reversing course in a case the Bush administration once hailed as a major victory in the war on terrorism, legal sources said Tuesday.
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The accounting firm KPMG asked a federal appeals panel yesterday to rule that a district judge could not compel the firm to pay the legal fees of former executives facing criminal charges in a tax-shelter fraud investigation.
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The United States attorney in Manhattan said yesterday that he would not prosecute five former trading specialists at the New York Stock Exchange who faced criminal charges for making illegal trades, leaving just one case outstanding from the 15 men originally charged.
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An American citizen and former Iraqi electricity minister said he was abandoned by the U.S. after he was convicted on corruption charges.
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US President George Bush refuses to rule out pardoning ex-White House aide Lewis Libby, convicted of perjury.
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The federal court judge overseeing a criminal tax fraud case against 16 former executives at KPMG said he will not dismiss charges until he learns how the defendants were allegedly harmed by illegal government conduct.
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By James Daley in London and Katherine Griffiths in New York. Three former NatWest bankers who are fighting extradition to the US over their alleged involvement in a Â£4m fraud linked to the collapse of Enron