Law & Crime

Bernard Madoff beaten by fellow inmate; Prison officials deny incident

03/19/2010

Bernard Madoff, who is currently serving a 150-year jail sentence in North Carolina for running a fraudulent investment operation, known as Ponzi scheme, which cost investors billions of dollars, was beaten up by another inmate in December, three felons familiar with the case said.

Wachovia Bank admits laundering Mexican drug money, pays $160 million in settlement 03/19/2010	"Serial urinator" targeting women arrested in New Jersey 03/19/2010
Wachovia Bank reached a $160 million settlement with the Justice Department over allegations that a failure in bank controls enabled drug traffickers to launder money by transferring money from Mexican currency-exchange houses to the bank.	A man who is said to have been urinating on women at a bus stop in Journal Square, Jersey City, was arrested on Wednesday.
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Father tries to sell 4-year-old son for $5000 on Craigslist 03/19/2010	Ohio man arrested for tattooing a 1-year-old 03/16/2010
Washington's Spokane County Sheriff's Office is investigating a Craigslist ad on Feb. 28 that offered a four-year-old boy for sale.	An Ohio man could face a minimum of 5 years in jail for allegedly tattoing a one-year-old girl, FOX8 News reported.
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Detroit city employees banned from wearing scented products 03/15/2010	Student stabbed 16 times with steak knife at New York City high school 03/12/2010
Detroit city is planning to ban its employees from wearing scented products as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by a city planner in 2008 and settled last month.	A 15-year-old student was stabbed 16 times with a steak knife at the George Washington High School campus in Washington Heights, Manhattan on Friday, authorities said.
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Fugees video director accused of raping 5 daughters, fathering 6 with them to save bloodline 03/12/2010	Cellphone user stabs complaining moviegoer in the neck with a meat thermometer 03/10/2010
Award-winning video director Aswad Ayinde, aka Charles McGill, said to believe that only he and his offspring would survive the end of the world is charged with raping 5 of his daughters and fathering six children them.	A man, who complained about someone sitting near him talking on a cellphone during a movie screening at a Lancaster movie theater, was stabbed in the neck with a meat thermometer.
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