Curt Anderson

July 16, 2012 | Daily Report Online

A jury on Monday convicted a teenager of attempted murder in a vicious kicking and stomping attack on a girl outside a middle school in 2010, rejecting his claims of insanity.

By Curt Anderson

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November 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP Former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder for leaking information to Boston mobsters that led to the 1982 shooting death of a gambling executive who also had ties to gangsters.Jurors deliberated less than three days before delivering the verdict following a two-month trial. The jury acquitted Connolly of conspiracy, but he still faces life in prison when sentenced Dec.

By CURT ANDERSON

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December 17, 2007 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - The man who brought a suitcase stuffed with cash to Argentina for the victorious presidential campaign was offered $2 million by Venezuelan agents to keep quiet and help cover up the source of the money, a U.S. prosecutor said Monday.Two of the four men charged with being illegal Venezuelan agents made the offer to Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, a dual U.

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February 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - A once high-flying concert promoter of acts such as Aerosmith, Elton John and Shania Twain could face contempt charges for failing to show up in Miami for a Securities and Exchange Commission fraud case that has spawned a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Paris Hilton.The promoter, John Utsick, 66, now lives in Brazil and refuses to return to the U.

By CURT ANDERSON

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August 13, 2007 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - Jose Padilla was a "star recruit" for a terrorism support cell that provided Muslim extremist soldiers to fight around the globe with al-Qaida to create fundamentalist Islamic regimes, prosecutors said Monday in closing arguments.The arguments mark the end of a three-month federal trial in which prosecutors have tried to prove that Padilla, 36, and two others provided support to terrorists.

By Curt Anderson

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May 29, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By Curt Anderson

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December 19, 2007 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - A jury didn't think Lyglenson Lemorin was involved in a terrorism conspiracy to topple Chicago's Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices, but he didn't walk out of court a free man.Instead, federal agents whisked the legal U.S. resident off to Georgia, where he remained Wednesday facing possible deportation to his native Haiti, his attorneys said.

By CURT ANDERSON

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April 16, 2007 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - Five years after his arrest at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, Jose Padilla heads to court - but with no mention of the "dirty bomb" allegations that first made headlines.Padilla and two co-defendants are accused of being part of a support cell that funneled fighters, money and supplies to Islamic extremists in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, Tajikistan and elsewhere around the world.

By Curt Anderson

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June 23, 2010 | Daily Report Online

NEW ORLEANS AP - The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry, according to financial disclosure reports. He's also a new member of a secret national security court.U.

By CURT ANDERSON and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN

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February 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. AP - Along with lifetime tenure and broad legal authority, federal judges decide for themselves whether they should step down from a case because of biases that might influence the outcome. Some in the legal community and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are now examining whether to take that power away.

By CURT ANDERSON

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