Mike Schneider

August 12, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Mike Schneider

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March 07, 2007 | Law.com

Astronaut Bill Oefelein was aboard the space shuttle in December when he was sent a steamy e-mail from a girlfriend. Fellow astronaut Lisa Nowak apparently discovered that e-mail -- and some others -- before she set off on her bizarre, 900-mile road-trip to confront her rival for Oefelein's affections. The e-mail was among several hundred pages of documents released this week by prosecutors in the case against Nowak, who is charged with trying to kidnap the e-mail's author, Colleen Shipman.

By Mike Schneider

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May 16, 2005 | Law.com

A former NASA employee has been acquitted of charges he failed to properly inspect the labor of contractors working on the space shuttle Discovery, which is due to be the first shuttle sent into space since the Columbia accident. The judge had earlier thrown out most of the counts against Billy Thomas Thornton. Outside the courthouse, jurors said the prosecution had failed to show that Thornton neglected to do his job, and that the trial revealed holes in the way the space agency inspects contractors' work.

By Mike Schneider

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June 18, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

Two congressional leaders asked the Department of Justice on Thursday to investigate whether NASA's general counsel broke the law when he destroyed recordings of a talk between the space agency's boss and the staff of its internal watchdog office. Last month Michael Wholley told the House subcommittee that oversees NASA that he broke the CD recordings and threw them into the trash because he thought that if they were kept by the agency, they could be subject to public records laws.

By Mike Schneider

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