Tom Hays

February 12, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - An ex-girlfriend of Roberto Alomar filed an explosive lawsuit alleging the former baseball star insisted on unprotected sex for four years despite having AIDS.The lawsuit, filed Jan. 30 and transferred to U.S. District Court on Wednesday, contains accusations that could not be corroborated but portray Alomar as someone who demanded sex without a condom despite showing obvious signs of HIV.

By TOM HAYS

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January 14, 2011 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - A historic $7.2 billion deal was approved Thursday to settle a lawsuit brought against the estate of one of the oldest and wealthiest clients of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff.U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland signed off on the deal at the urging of a court-appointed trustee seeking to recover funds for thousands of investors burned by Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme.

By Tom Hays

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September 26, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - Employees of an oil services firm testified Friday that they spent hundreds of hours remodeling the Alaska cabin of Sen. Ted Stevens - labor that prosecutors say wasn't paid for or reported by the veteran lawmaker."We were working 10 hours a day, six days a week," said Roy Dettmer, a VECO Corp.

By MATT APUZZO and TOM HAYS

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January 08, 2010 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - Two men were arrested Friday in the investigation of a bomb plot targeting New York City that previously led to charges against a Colorado airport driver.The arrests in New York of Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay were part of "an ongoing investigation" by the Joint Terrorism Task Force, according to Special Agent Richard Kolko, who declined to comment further.

By TOM HAYS

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October 06, 2008 | Daily Report Online

WASHINGTON AP - Sen. Ted Stevens told wealthy businessman Bill Allen they needed to stick together and "really lay low" to beat an FBI investigation into their cozy relationship, according to audiotapes played Monday at the senator's corruption trial."Screw them, if they prove we did something wrong," the senator says in one of a series of secretly recorded telephone calls in the fall of 2006.

By TOM HAYS and JESSE J. HOLLAND

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September 26, 2006 | National Law Journal

A federal judge on Monday granted class action status to tens of millions of "light cigarette" smokers for a potential $200 billion lawsuit against tobacco companies.

By Tom Hays

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December 19, 2007 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - Newsday and the Spanish-language publication Hoy have agreed to pay a $15 million fine to resolve a criminal investigation of a scheme to boost circulation figures, prosecutors said Tuesday.In a statement, the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn said it decided to drop the prosecution in light of the newspapers' "acceptance of responsibility for the fraudulent conduct.

By TOM HAYS

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January 25, 2012 | Daily Report Online

By Tom Hays

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February 04, 2011 | Daily Report Online

By Tom Hays

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November 20, 2009 | Daily Report Online

NEW YORK AP - Jurors at the racketeering trial of John "Junior" Gotti raised the specter of a fourth mistrial in the case, telling a judge Thursday that they were deadlocked on murder and other charges against the son of the infamous mob boss."We are unable to reach a verdict," the jurors wrote in a note to U.

By TOM HAYS

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