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15 Sep 2008, 9:07 pm
Not in federal court....Here's Vanessa Blum and Curt Anderson on openings and Luisa Yanez on jury selection.Jeffrey Tsai opened for the government.Tony Natale for defendant Guillermo Zarabozo.Co-defendant Kirby Archer, who pleaded guilty to life in prison, is not expected to testify for the government. [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 1:31 pm
Here's Vanessa Blum's Sun-Sentinel article. [read post]
9 Sep 2008, 1:31 pm
Here's Vanessa Blum's Sun-Sentinel article. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 6:43 am
Anchorage Daily News, Opinion, Palin's Stall: Governor is stonewalling the Troopergate investigation Vanessa Blum, Florida Sun Sentinel, Defense attorney group criticizes charges against S. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 10:23 pm
Vanessa Blum covers it here:The strange legal odyssey that led an Iranian woman to surrender last year to face charges she tried to supply Iran with U.S. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 10:23 pm
Vanessa Blum covers it here:The strange legal odyssey that led an Iranian woman to surrender last year to face charges she tried to supply Iran with U.S. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 9:53 pm
While the other defendants from the case are out on bond, Lemorin has been in an immigration cell waiting to yet again prove his innocence.Here's Vanessa Blum's article on the case. [read post]
29 Jul 2008, 9:36 am
Vanessa Blum is all over the federal courts. 6. [read post]
20 Jul 2008, 9:20 pm
Vanessa Blum has the story here:As a former federal prosecutor with a top national security clearance, Marcos Jimenez would seem an unlikely terror suspect.Yet when he travels, the former U.S. attorney for South Florida endures delays, searches and other inconveniences, because someone with his name appears on the government watch list airlines use to identify possible terrorists.It happened most recently Thursday, as security personnel at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International… [read post]
11 Jul 2008, 8:58 pm
Vanessa Blum covers the case here:The case of an over-enthusiastic courtroom handshake that escalated into an assault charge against a local attorney was dropped Thursday by federal prosecutors who deemed it the "prudent" thing to do. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 4:33 pm
From Vanessa Blum's article last week:There's a new salmonella threat in South Florida and this time it's tiny turtles, not tomatoes.Federal prosecutor Thomas Watts-Fitzgerald filed misdemeanor charges last week against a Hollywood-based reptile business. [read post]
24 May 2008, 1:36 pm
"Sport fishing 'shtick' nets probation term for charter boat operator" via Vanessa Blum. [read post]
21 May 2008, 6:01 am
From the intro of Vanessa Blum's article:A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a South Florida woman to seven years and three months in prison for keeping a teenage girl from Haiti in servitude for six years.Maude Paulin, 52, a former Miami-Dade County middle school teacher, was convicted in March along with her mother, Evelyn Theodore, of conspiring to enslave the girl, forcing her to work and harboring an illegal immigrant.Before being sentenced, Paulin apologized to U.S. [read post]
16 May 2008, 2:21 pm
That's the question posed by Vanessa Blum in this Sun-Sentinel article:"A once in a lifetime opportunity. [read post]
7 May 2008, 2:39 am
Here is the intro from Vanessa Blum's article:Shahrazad Mir Gholikhan, an Iranian woman accused of trying to export night vision goggles, thought her guilty plea last month would be her ticket back to her family.The federal prosecutor had recommended a term of time served for the 30-year-old mother's role in the illegal plot to trade with Iran, a U.S. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 9:17 am
That's the headline from Vanessa Blum's article discussing the government's filing today. [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 7:38 am
Trial expected to start sometime in the fall.UPDATE -- from Vanessa Blum's article:"We've worked very hard this past week reviewing everything in this case and considering it very, very seriously," said prosecutor Richard Gregorie. [read post]
20 Apr 2008, 4:42 am
Vanessa Blum examines why the government is having so much trouble in this case -- perhaps it was because they arrested too early:The failure of federal prosecutors to convict any members of an alleged South Florida terror cell after two trials highlights the obstacles in a legal strategy of arresting terror suspects before they strike.That approach, known as preemption, has been the Justice Department's mandate since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, drove home the potentially… [read post]
21 Feb 2008, 2:11 am
Vanessa Blum reports here:In a last minute deal with prosecutors, the owner of a South Florida charter fishing business pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to violating environmental laws by not reporting sailfish reeled in by customers and by killing undersized fish.Prosecutors accused Stanley Saffan, 57, and four employees of coercing anglers to have the illegally caught sailfish mounted by a Broward taxidermy firm in exchange for commissions.The group used high-pressure… [read post]
20 Feb 2008, 2:57 am
Vanessa Blum has an article about the $4.5 million bond in Dr. [read post]