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A government researcher pleaded guilty Friday to violating federal conflict-of-interest laws by accepting $285,000 in consulting fees from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. for work that overlapped his official duties.
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The former chief of human resources at America Online pleaded guilty to fraud Thursday for a scheme in which he allowed himself to profit from a sham consulting contract.
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A former Abu Ghraib guard pleaded guilty Tuesday to battery and two other charges in the Iraqi prison abuse scandal as part of a deal with prosecutors on the eve of his trial.
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A Republican congressman agreed to   plead guilty to illegally accepting tens of thousands of   dollars in trips, meals, drinks and tickets, becoming the first   U.S. lawmaker convicted in the Jack Abramoff political   corruption scandal, U.S. officials said on Friday.
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An Iraqi-American businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he received payments from Iraq to illegally act as its agent in the United States, including getting millions of dollars worth of oil from the United Nations' oil-for-food program.
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A retired postal worker pleaded guilty Thursday to taking payoffs in what prosecutors called a "brazen bribery scheme."
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A coin dealer and prominent GOP fundraiser at the center of an Ohio political scandal pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges he illegally funneled donations to President Bush&#039;s re-election campaign.
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Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $160 million fine for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the DRAM market, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said today.
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A former eye doctor who set off a seven-year federal investigation into class action law firm Milberg Weiss has agreed to plead guilty to taking $6.4 million in secret kickbacks from the firm, lawyers in the case said on Wednesday.
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An Iraqi-American pleads guilty to four charges connected to the UN oil-for-food scandal.
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he former chief executive officer of Enterasys Networks Inc., pleaded guilty to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit securities, mail and wire fraud in US District Court yesterday.
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A Canadian man who helped create Neteller, a company to process Internet gambling transactions, pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal conspiracy charge, about two weeks after another founder of the company entered a guilty plea.
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A former Microsoft Corp.  employee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to selling the world's largest software maker's products for more than &#36;7 million for personal profit, federal prosecutors said.
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A senior vice president at US insurance firm Marsh & McLellan pleads guilty to criminal charges in connection with a probe into fraud in the industry.
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A Republican activist pleaded guilty on Friday to obstructing Congress and evading taxes in a deal with prosecutors probing the influence-peddling scandal involving former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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A founder of payment processor NETeller Plc pleaded guilty on Friday to a conspiracy charge over the handling of billions of dollars in illegal gambling proceeds.
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BRENTWOOD, N.H. - The former Citizen of the Year in Derry pleaded guilty Friday to stealing more than $250,000 from the nonprofit agency she led. Police accused former Derry Economic Development Corporation chief Cheryl Crawford, 58, of taking the money and gambling it away on the Internet.