Prosecutors want to raise the level of a charge they are making against a former Rutgers student who is accused of spying on his roommate’s gay sexual encounter and relaying it over the Internet. The roommate later committed suicide. The Star-Ledger reported Feb.
The government won some rare relief on Saturday when a Delhi court threw out the corruption case against Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram ahead of crucial elections in Uttar Pradesh next week. The court dismissed a petition accusing Chidambaram of signing off on the sale of 2G telecoms licences at below-market prices that may have cost the government up to $36 billion in lost revenues.
Pakistan's Supreme Court on Thursday prepared to charge the prime minister with contempt of court for his failure to re-open corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, breaking an uneasy calm of political tension with the judiciary. "After the preliminary hearing, we are satisfied ... there is enough (of a) case" to proceed further, the seven-member bench ordered. "The case is adjourned until February 13 for the framing of charges.
Potential jurors in the trial of Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers student accused of using a webcam to record his roommate's sex encounter with another man, will learn the name of that man, who has so far been identified only by his initials. According to news reports, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman told attorneys at a pretrial conference Jan.
Rajat Gupta, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) director charged with insider trading as part of the Galleon Group LLC probe, filed a demand for a jury trial in the civil case brought against him by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC claims Gupta, 63, gave Raj Rajaratnam, the convicted Galleon co-founder, information about Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A)’s $5 billion investment in Goldman Sachs.
A Pennsylvania businessman, who is in jail in connection with a murder-for-hire plot, is urging a state court to reduce his $25 million bail after the plea was denied by a lower court. Paul R. Vangore, of Abington, Pa., is accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill a man he suspected was his wife's lover and two of the man's friends, The Times Herald reported.
Ravi Shankar, an associate professor of English at the Central Connecticut State University, was back in court Jan. 12 for a hearing in his larceny case. The 36-year-old, who was suspended Aug. 30 from his more-than-$70,000-a-year job, is accused of attempted first-degree larceny, second-degree false statement and making a criminal attempt to tamper with physical evidence.
