Kroll Defends Arrested Employees
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Marsh & McLennan Cos.' Kroll Inc. took out ads in Brazil's largest newspapers Thursday to defend five employees arrested amid allegations the international security consultant illegally spied in its probe of a bitter corporate dispute.
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The Blackwater founder defends himself-and his company.
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The defendants include former and current employees at major Wall Street firms such as Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer.
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Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took the witness stand Wednesday and defended his decision to remove the head of the police internal affairs unit, testifying in a whistleblower lawsuit that he had to act in the face of increased federal scrutiny of the police force.
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A prosecutor launched an investigation Friday into allegations that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lied under oath about an affair with his top aide. Some political observers are questioning whether the popular yet polarizing figure should stay on the job.
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Government prosecutors rested their terrorism case against a civil rights attorney and two others by invoking references to Osama bin Laden, anti-American hatred and Sept. 11, drawing immediate protests from the defense.
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Lawyers for Charles A. Graner, Jr., accused of being the ringleader of a prison abuse scandal, began presenting their defense today.
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A former undercover agent who sent dozens of blacks to prison on bogus drug charges refused to admit he stole gas while working as a sheriff's deputy, despite records to the contrary and an eyewitness to the theft, a county attorney testified Tuesday.
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John Mark Karr, the one-time suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey case, plans to fight 5-year-old misdemeanor child pornography charges he faces in California, his defense lawyer said Thursday.
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A U.S. judge dismissed criminal charges on Monday against 13 of 16 former employees of accounting firm KPMG in a tax-shelter case, saying prosecutors inappropriately interfered with their defense.
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Lawyers for ex-Tyco bosses Dennis Kozlowski and Mark Swartz told an appeals court on Thursday that a key prosecution witness prejudiced the jury that found them guilty of using the conglomerate as their own piggy bank and stealing more than $150 million.
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An employee of Fimat, a futures brokerage affiliated with SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale, was taken into custody for questioning in the Kerviel case, the Paris prosecutorâs office said.
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Government officials defended their hard-nosed approach to policing corporate crime yesterday at a reception to mark the fifth anniversary of a task force that targets misconduct in the nation's executive suites.
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A Milwaukee alderman accused of shaking down business owners in his district must remain behind bars until his trial, a federal judge ruled.
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A security guard who worked at a development where a series of fires burned several homes has been arrested and charged in the case, a source close to the investigation said Thursday.
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UNION CITY, Ga. -- A McDonald's employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer's burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.
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By St. Charles County Business Record Staff  Eric Disney as joined Holtkamp, Liese, Schultz & Hilliker PC as an associate and will handle the defense of workers' compensation matters in Missouri and Illinois.  (c) 2007 St. Charles County Business Record.