Ann Woolner

February 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

A Somali convicted of attempted murder wants the verdict tossed out, claiming his prosecutor wrote unkindly about his nationality on her Facebook page during the trial. A high school honors student gets suspended for calling a teacher the "worst ever" on Facebook. The Somali's effort is probably doomed, and the high schooler from Florida, now in college, went to court to wipe clean her disciplinary record.

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May 05, 2005 | Daily Report Online

There are some things the Federal Bureau of Investigation won't tell you, of course. The surprising thing is what some of those things are. The FBI blanked out certain names when it released documents to a group seeking information about the family of Osama bin Laden. Consider this excerpt from one such document: "There is some confusion as to the total number of BLANK siblings.

By Ann Woolner

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October 10, 2005 | Daily Report Online

by Ann WoolnerScott Rice traveled 2,000 miles to hear a case argued at the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Once there, he had a hard time sitting still. "I wanted to stand up and scream," he said. Specifically, he wanted to yell at the justices for getting it all wrong. Rice is no lawyer, but he knows about Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, which the court is deciding whether to let live.

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February 16, 2010 | Daily Report Online

No one could blame David Brown for being piqued at Hugh Hefner. Brown bought a chunk of Playboy Enterprises Inc., believing in the way the company made money, which is mostly by feeding male sexual fantasies. That formula hasn't worked so well for shareholders since the birth of X-rated Web sites. The shares, higher than $30 in 1999, dropped below $10 two years ago and have gone nowhere since.

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March 29, 2004 | Daily Report Online

Ann WoolnerDennis Kozlowski's lawyer pleaded with a New York jury this month not to confuse his client with all those other corporate scoundrels. "We are not WorldCom,'' attorney Stephen Kaufman said, speaking for the former Tyco International Ltd. CEO. "We're not Adelphia. We're not Enron.'' Why, then, does all this conduct sound so familiar The Tyco Two, Kozlowski and ex-finance chief Mark H.

By Ann Woolner

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March 09, 2010 | Daily Report Online

In the rash of white-collar prosecutions that followed the rash of accounting scandals in 2001 and 2002, no conviction was as welcome as those of Enron Corp.'s top two executives. Before Bernard Madoff jumped to the top of America's most-hated fraudster list, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling shared the spot. The two were accused of lying about Enron's financial health while growing rich from inflated share prices.

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October 14, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Jason Grodensky paid cash for a South Florida home last December. With no mortgage and full ownership, he had no fear of foreclosure. And yet, Bank of America foreclosed on the house seven months later, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. The court-ordered foreclosure took place July 15. Grodensky tried for months to get answers from the lawyers and lenders involved.

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September 17, 2010 | Daily Report Online

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April 02, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By Ann Woolner

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January 12, 2010 | Daily Report Online

One of the perks of wearing the robe of a federal judge is that you don't have to explain yourself. But when a judge sends to prison for three years-plus the man who pointed U.S. tax collectors to billions of dollars of untaxed American wealth, who tore open the veil of secrecy surrounding Swiss banking, he ought to say why.

By Ann Woolner

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