Curt Anderson

January 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - The son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced Friday to 97 years in prison for torture overseas in the first U.S. case of its kind.U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga imposed the sentence on Charles McArthur Emmanuel, 31, who headed an elite paramilitary unit in the West African country that routinely tortured and killed people viewed as rebels or opponents during his father's presidency.

By CURT ANDERSON

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September 07, 2010 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - More than 80 years ago, Germany sold tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine that would ravage Europe during World War II.Now, a half-dozen U.

By CURT ANDERSON

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August 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - The widow of a tabloid photo editor who died in the 2001 anthrax attacks insisted in a $50 million federal lawsuit filed years ago that the U.S. government was ultimately responsible for his death.Now that the FBI is pinning the blame on government scientist Bruce Ivins, the lawsuit brought by Maureen Stevens looks positively clairvoyant.

By CURT ANDERSON

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November 18, 2011 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - Thousands of aging Holocaust survivors in the U.S. want Congress to clear a path for them to sue European insurance companies they contend illegally confiscated Jewish life insurance policies during the Nazi era and have refused to pay an estimated $20 billion still owed.A hearing is scheduled Wednesday in the House Foreign Affairs Committee on a bill that would provide the survivors with access to U.

By Curt Anderson

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November 12, 2008 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - A senior executive with Swiss banking giant UBS AG was charged in a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday with conspiring to hide $20 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service using secret overseas accounts for thousands of wealthy customers.Raoul Weil, chief executive officer of a UBS division handling cross-border business and private banking, is charged with one count of conspiring to defraud the U.

By CURT ANDERSON

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July 01, 2009 | Daily Report Online

MIAMI AP - Swiss bank UBS AG "systematically and deliberately" violated U.S. law by dispatching private bankers to recruit wealthy Americans interested in evading taxes and must be forced to reveal the identities of 52,000 of those clients, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday.The filing, which comes amid several published reports that the case may be near settlement, urges U.

By CURT ANDERSON

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May 23, 2012 | Law.com

Jean Rene Duperval, a former senior executive at Haiti's state-run telecommunications company, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for money-laundering offenses tied to nearly $500,000 in bribes he accepted from U.S. businesses.

By Curt Anderson

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June 09, 2010 | Daily Report Online

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. AP - Disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein, whose seemingly unlimited wealth bought palatial homes, exotic cars and mega-yachts, was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison for operating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme using faked legal settlements.The sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge James I.

By CURT ANDERSON

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May 29, 2009 | Daily Report Online

DAVIE, Fla. AP - When the sharp pain shooting through Lisa Strong's back got worse, she thought it was another kidney stone and expected the discomfort to pass. This time was different.Through a series of mistakes, miscommunications and misdiagnoses, she wound up having her arms and legs amputated. She sued the doctors, who essentially blamed one another for what everyone involved agrees were profound errors.

By CURT ANDERSON

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March 28, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By Curt Anderson

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