Denise Lavoie

September 11, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - A computer hacker who was once a federal informant and was a driving force behind one of the largest cases of identity theft in U.S. history pleaded guilty Friday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to prison for up to 25 years.Albert Gonzalez, 28, of Miami, admitted pulling off some of the most prominent hacking jobs of the decade - invading the computer systems of such retailers as TJX Cos.

By DENISE LAVOIE

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February 02, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By Denise Lavoie and Jay Lindsay

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January 26, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - On one side is GateHouse Media, one of the nation's largest publishers of community newspapers.On the other is The New York Times Co., the parent company of The Boston Globe and its Boston.com Web site.The two publishers will square off in federal court this week in a case that is being closely watched by journalists, bloggers and Internet users.

By DENISE LAVOIE

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May 06, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Prosecutors have agreed that one of the friends of Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be released from federal custody under strict bail conditions, including home confinement, while awaiting trial, according to a court motion filed Monday.

By Denise Lavoie

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November 06, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - A pharmacy college graduate was indicted Thursday on new charges in an alleged terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and shoot people at American shopping malls.Tarek Mehanna, of Sudbury, Mass., is accused of conspiring with two other men - Ahmad Abousamra, 28, formerly of Mansfield, Mass.

By DENISE LAVOIE

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April 17, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Federal officials are denying that a suspect is in custody in the Boston Marathon bombings.

By Denise Lavoie

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January 11, 2010 | Daily Report Online

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May 11, 2007 | Daily Report Online

U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE Patti Saris had seen cases like this before, and she was fed up.Another pharmaceutical company was in her court, waiting to be slapped with a multimillion-dollar fine for marketing its drugs for uses that had not been approved by the federal Food Drug Administration."You can't thumb your nose at the FDA," Saris said.

By Denise Lavoie

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March 23, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Denise Lavoie

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September 25, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

A well-known South African scholar and political commentator is being kept out of the United States because he has been a vocal critic of the war in Iraq and the detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

By DENISE LAVOIE

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