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Former Citigroup VP pleads not guilty to $19 million embezzlement allegation

  • On June 29, 2011
A 35-year-old former vice president of banking giant Citigroup Inc. returned from a trip to Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday to learn that there was a warrant out for his arrest. He is accused of one of the largest embezzlement schemes one CPA fraud examiner has ever heard of — involving $19.2 million in bank funds […]
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Misuse of narcotic painkillers widespread in Atlanta, nationwide

  • On June 28, 2011
Atlanta residents who have fallen into trouble with narcotic painkillers will likely read a news story from the Associated Press with interest. The news organization surveyed crimes across the United States and found that people are increasingly driven to commit desperate acts like robbing pharmacies to obtain the drugs they so badly need. That people […]
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Atlanta municipal sentences of more than 6 months were illegal, city concedes

  • On June 24, 2011
The City of Atlanta’s Municipal Courts only have jurisdiction over misdemeanor offenses and infractions, and it does not have the authority to hand down sentences of longer than six months. Nevertheless, ever since the court was established in 1996, judges have routinely handed down punishments that exceeded that authority, the city’s Solicitor’s Office admitted today. […]
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‘Honest services’ at issue in former state senator’s federal appeal

  • On June 22, 2011
When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the “theft of honest services” portion of the federal mail and wire fraud statute was unconstitutionally vague, many people who had been convicted under that statute won the right to have their convictions vacated via federal appeals. Many of those are public figures, as the “theft […]
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Dispute over sunken fishing boat leads to federal insurance fraud charges

  • On June 16, 2011
In August 2009, a commercial fishing boat called the Alexander II set out from Cape May, New Jersey, and was reportedly making good progress. The ship’s log showed that the fishermen had caught more than 50 fish with a total weight of 3,000 pounds. About 86 miles from the coast, the boat began taking on […]
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Prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers worry about excessive sentences

  • On June 13, 2011
A Fulton County judge recently sentenced a man to 360 years in prison on a rape conviction. In DeKalb County, a man convicted of a double murder got two life sentences plus 65 years. In a Fulton County multiple-homicide case, the defendant was sentenced to 485 years in prison, which is the longest sentence currently […]
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Norcross office manager accused of embezzling nearly $39,000

  • On June 8, 2011
Small discrepancies on time sheets over the course of six years have led Gwinnett County police to charge a 60-year-old Buford woman with theft by deception, a form of embezzlement. The woman, who was an office manager at a Norcross telecommunications company, allegedly added unauthorized hours to her time sheets between 2004 and 2010 — […]
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Another global policy commission urges end to costly, failed war on drugs

  • On June 3, 2011
Just as a coalition of international drug policy experts did last year with the Vienna Declaration, another international group has issued a report urging all governments to end the global war on drugs. Calling the “war on drugs” approach a costly failure, the Global Commission on Drug Policy recommended this week that the United States […]
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Man fully exonerated of murder to be deported for drug possession

  • On June 1, 2011
In February, Antonio C., a 27-year-old professional mover and father of two who is married to a U.S. citizen, was arrested for the murder of two children. He had been framed, as Gwinnett County police acknowledged while dropping all criminal charges a mere two days after his arrest. Despite being exonerated of the double homicide, […]
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