Buffett may not testify in General Re trial-filing
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Prosecutors may not call Berkshire Hathaway Inc  Chairman Warren Buffett as a witness in a criminal trial of former officers of its General Re Corp reinsurance unit, according to a court filing.
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Communications between Berkshire Hathaway Inc Chairman Warren Buffett and former American International Group Inc Chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg won't have to be turned over to the former head of a Berkshire unit whose fraud trial begins Monday.
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Prosecutors told a judge Thursday that an alleged victim of defrocked priest Paul Shanley might refuse to testify if he is publicly identified during the upcoming sexual abuse trial. That would mean the end of the criminal case against one of the most notorious figures in the Boston Archdiocese's sex scandal, Assistant District Attorney Lynn Rooney said.
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A lawyer for Roger Clemens' accuser was told by a congressional committee staff member that his client was unlikely to be granted immunity for his deposition and testimony.
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: The lead attorney defending an accused helper of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots at his Hamburg retrial was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident, his office said today, throwing into question how the trial will proceed.
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I. Lewis Libbyâs lawyers appeared to be engaging in some gamesmanship over the possibility of not having Mr. Libby testify in his own defense.
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The judge presiding over Conrad Black's criminal fraud trial refused a request from his lawyers on Wednesday to bring back to the stand and try to further discredit the star witness against the former media baron.
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Judge Michael B. Mukasey clearly believed that the defendant did not have a case. He dismissed her assertion that the New York City Police Department fired her because she had accused a more senior officer of rape, without allowing a jury to hear the case. But a higher court disagreed and told the...
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A judge overseeing the first criminal trial involving former Enron Corp. executives told prospective jurors Monday he didn&#39;t expect them to have &quot;come out of some hole somewhere&quot; and not know of the former energy-trading giant.
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HARTFORD (Bloomberg News) Â Defense lawyers rested their case at the fraud trial of General Reinsurance executives accused of helping the American International Group mislead investors, without jurors hearing from the billionaire investor Warren E. Buffett.
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Warren Buffett said on Tuesday he has made a pitch to the three largest bond insurers to reinsure $800 billion in municipal bonds, but had been rebuffed by one of the companies, while the other two have not yet responded.
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Since George J. Mitchell, who is leading an investigation into steroid use in baseball, does not have the power to force anyone to testify, he has been stalled in pursuing some information.
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Berkshire Hathaway and its General Reinsurance unit must comply with subpoenas from the subsidiaryâs former chief executive, Ronald E. Ferguson, whose fraud trial begins Jan. 7 in federal court, a judge has ruled.
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Defense lawyers on Wednesday sought to  poke holes in a government witness's story of an angry  confrontation with a former Enron Corp. accountant charged with  fraud after the witness disclosed a secret deal with Merrill  Lynch at the heart of the first criminal trial of former  employees of the fallen energy company.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- An attorney for Barry Bonds said he won&#39;t acknowledge that Bonds used steroids and neither will Bonds. The San Francisco Giants star testified a year ago before a grand jury that has indicted
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the company  run by billionaire Warren Buffett, said its General Re Corp.  reinsurance unit on Thursday received a subpoena from New York  Attorney General Eliot Spitzer for information on insurance  products that might help companies smooth earnings.
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Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October, will again not be present when the Supreme Court reconvenes to hear oral arguments on Monday.