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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RALEIGH, N.C., June 12 -- Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, under fire by the North Carolina State Bar for his handling of the sexual assault case against three Duke University lacrosse players, mounted his defense Tuesday, contending it was his duty as a prosecutor to pursue a case...
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Defendants in the first Enron Corp. criminal trial launched their defense on Monday, according to a Reuters report. The trial of two former mid-level Enron employees and four former Merrill Lynch bankers for
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Prosecutors in a federal case against former KPMG employees have asked the judge to determine whether two defense lawyers had conflicts of interest and should be removed.
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For someone whose company is facing a federal criminal investigation, hundreds of lawsuits that could cost billions, and outrage in the medical world, Ray Gilmartin is putting on a brave face.
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 15 -- Testifying in defense of his conduct in the sexual assault case against three Duke University lacrosse players, Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong cried and conceded that he made mistakes, apologized to the accused and their families for the "pain" the...
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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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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 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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MOSCOW : Russian prosecutors searched the offices of a Yukos lawyer defending a top shareholder who is accused of siphoning off money from the company&#39;s accounts, a spokesman said.
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Two U.S. contractors implicated in  the Abu Ghraib prison scandal defended their work in Iraq on  Thursday, with one saying its employees were not involved in  "horrendous" abuses listed in a new report.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The defense in Richard Scrushy's corporate fraud trial sought to poke holes yesterday in the claims of a key witness who contends the fired HealthSouth chief executive was behind a scheme to overstate earnings.
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Prosecutors have essentially dared a judge to dismiss charges against former KPMG employees so that they can appeal the ruling and get the case moving again.
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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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Two U.S. contractors implicated in  the Abu Ghraib prison scandal defended their work in Iraq  Thursday, with one saying its employees were not involved in  "horrendous" abuses listed in a new report.
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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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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.