Tom Hays

January 20, 2010 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A gunfight at an Afghan police outpost that resulted in attempted-murder charges against a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist created friction within the U.S. Army over how she got her hands on a soldier's assault rifle, according to testimony at her trial.The testimony in federal court in Manhattan also has offered a window into tensions between U.

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September 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

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May 24, 2002 | Law.com

Two FBI agents were among five people charged with securities fraud for allegedly participating in a scheme to feed confidential information to an Internet stock analyst. In exchange for money, agent Lynn Wingate and former agent Jeffrey Royer used FBI databases to provide their co-conspirators information on publicly traded companies, the indictment said.

By Tom Hays

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October 16, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - The wife of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens testified Thursday she didn't know a crooked businessman was bankrolling the couple's chalet renovations, saying she thought the checks she made out to a general contractor covered the job."I believed any work that was done on the chalet, we were billed for and we would pay for," Catherine Stevens said while testifying for her husband at his corruption trial.

By TOM HAYS and JESSE J. HOLLAND

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December 04, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - When three federal judges in Illinois upheld local handgun bans this year, blogger Hal Turner went on the offensive.Turner, a fierce gun control opponent, called the appellate judges "cunning, ruthless, deceitful scum." Then he declared that they "must die" - words that helped land him in federal court, charged with threatening to assault or kill a judge.

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July 10, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A fundraiser at an upstate university has sued two senior athletic department officials, accusing them of using her as a "plaything" and trying to make her ply big donors with her sexuality.The plaintiff, Elizabeth Williams, is represented by the lawyer who won a highly publicized sexual harassment case against former New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas two years ago.

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January 10, 2008 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - Detective Travis Rapp has seen his share of corpses, but this was new: two men wheeling a rigid, pale body down a Manhattan street in a red office chair, drawing a crowd of suspicious onlookers.Looking out the window of the restaurant where he was having lunch, Rapp initially assumed "it was a mannequin or a dummy," he said.

By TOM HAYS and CLARE TRAPASSO

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March 04, 2010 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A right-wing blogger charged with threatening federal judges told a jury Thursday that his racist Internet rants were an FBI-sanctioned ruse to "flush out" dangerous neo-Nazi and white supremacist members of his audience."I'm not a white supremacist," Hal Turner testified at a retrial in Brooklyn.

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April 14, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A small group of investors took Bernard Madoff to bankruptcy court on Monday, saying the disgraced financier bilked them out of nearly $64 million.A Manhattan judge cleared the way for the newly filed Chapter 7 petition last week by granting a request from the same investors to lift a temporary order barring bankruptcy for Madoff.

By TOM HAYS

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March 17, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - Lawyers for two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers charged with lying to investors about the collapse of the subprime mortgage market complained on Monday that the government has hampered their defense by burying them in an avalanche of documents.Petrial motions filed by both sides in federal court in Brooklyn did not detail the potential evidence against Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin.

By TOM HAYS

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