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His smile is still bright, even if he’s faced with six counts of grand jury indictments. The U.S. Marshals Service released the mug shot of former U.S. Senator John Edwards on Wednesday. He pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and violating campaign…

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John Edwards’ Mug Shot Released

Two men from Manchester arrested near the Devon home of Brit Award-winning singer Joss Stone are questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and rob.

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Stone ‘murder conspiracy’ pair arrested

A former Prince George’s County police sergeant admitted Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt that he took part in a scheme to smuggle untaxed cigarettes and alcohol from Virginia to Maryland. The guilty plea by Richard J. Delabrer, 47, is part of a sweeping, ongoing federal corruption probe targeting the activities of current and former county elected officials, appointed officials, police officers, developers and other business people. Delabrer, who worked for the police department for nearly 23 years, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion and to a federal firearms violation. Read full article > >

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Ex-Pr. George’s officer admits guilt in cigarette, alcohol smuggling scheme

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday pardoned eight people convicted of crimes ranging from conspiring to import marijuana to selling alligator hides. The action marked the second set of pardons Obama has granted since becoming president. The first pardons, last December, went to nine people whose crimes included possessing drugs, counterfeiting and mutilating coins. Like the earlier pardons, the latest did not involve anyone well-known. The cases date back as far as 1975, when Randy Eugene Dyer of Burien, Wash., was sentenced to serve five years in prison in the conspiracy to import marijuana and two related crimes. Read full article > >

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Obama pardons 8 convicted of crimes ranging from importing marijuana to selling gator hides

What made Raj Rajaratnam, who was convicted of fraud and conspiracy Wednesday, stand out in the hedge fund world was his deep set of contacts inside executive suites and on trading floors.

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DealBook: Galleon Chief’s Web of Friends Proved Crucial to Scheme

It took weeks of deliberation, but a jury has convicted billionaire hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam of fraud and conspiracy, finding him guilty of all 14 counts on Wednesday. The former Galleon Group chief could face 25 years in prison, although he’s…

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Rajaratnam Guilty in Insider Trading Case

Politico reports on something that should already be common knowledge to readers of this blog — that the phantom menace of sharia law has become a “consensus issue” among Republican presidential contenders: The idea that American Muslims will somehow replace the Constitution with Taliban-style sharia law is a ludicrous conspiracy theory, which is why it’s so bizarre that it’s even become a political issue. State legislatures across the country have proposed or passed sharia law bans , which are patently unconstitutional given the First Amendment’s protections against government interference with religious worship. The only context in which sharia comes into play in the American legal system is in matters of civil arbitration and contracts — and there’s a longstanding American precedent for allowing the faithful to address such matters through religious arbitration if they so choose, but such agreements aren’t allowed to preempt civil law. Indeed, there’s growing alarm among Orthodox Jewish communities that anti-sharia legislation could ultimately interfere with their freedom to resolve matters through religious arbitration. Read full article > >

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Creeping sharia law becomes an issue in 2012 GOP primary

With Robert Redford’s movie about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln opening in theaters yesterday, there’s renewed interest in the history of the killing and the stories of the men behind it. Here below, 146 years later, are photos of the assassin himself, John Wilkes Booth; the violent Confederate spy who helped him; and others involved in the conspiracy. Please use a JavaScript-enabled device to view this slideshow See more photos of the Civil War’s brutal battlefields , women , strangest personalities , its African-American fighters , the portraits of photographer Mathew Brady , and at LIFE.com .

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The Conspirators: The Assassins of Abraham Lincoln (LIFE Photos)

A US appeals court denies ex-Enron chief executive Jeff Skilling a new trial, upholding his conviction on 19 counts of conspiracy, fraud and other crimes.

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Enron’s Skilling denied new trial

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell doesn’t think much of what Donald Trump is doing with all this birther stuff and his fake run for the 2012 Republican nomination for president. And neither do I. We said as much on O’Donnell’s show “The Last Word” on Friday night. In fact, I went a step further and did something I’d done once before when talking about the persistent and long-debunked conspiracy theory that President Obama is not a U.S. citizen: I showed his birth certificate on live television.

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Donald Trump (Birther-N.Y.) needs to get serious

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A 22-year-old U.S. soldier pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murders of three unarmed Afghan civilians, telling a military judge “the plan was to kill people” in his coordinated conspiracy with four fellow soldiers.

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US soldier pleads guilty to murders of 3 Afghan civilians, faces up to 24 years in prison

One of 12 U.S. soldiers charged in relation to the murder of three Afghan citizens will plead guilty, says The Wall Street Journal. Army Spc. Jeremy Morlock will admit to three counts of murder and one count of conspiracy in the hopes of receiving a…

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U.S. Soldier to Plead Guilty to Murder

Watch this snippet from The View — well, just watch the very beginning (I don’t want to punish you) — and listen to Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and friend of Charlie Sheen, talks about the “takedown of building 7 in New York” (he mentions the “takedown” by way of exonerating Charlie Sheen of serious crimes). 9/11 conspiracy-mongers believe that World Trade Center building 7 was brought down by the American government (or by the Mossad, or Martians, or by Larry Silverstein, or possibly Homer Simpson). It is somewhat amazing that this view has now made it onto The View , and wasn’t even noticed, or challenged:

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The Mainsteaming of 9/11 Truthism

In his congressional testimony , he illustrates the difference between regulating activity and inactivity: Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine that I tell you 100 things that you may not do tomorrow. For example, you cannot run on a treadmill, eat broccoli, buy a car, and 97 other things. While your liberty would be restricted, there would still be an infinite number of things you may still do. Now suppose I tell you 100 things that you must do tomorrow. You must run on a treadmill, eat broccoli, buy a car, and 97 other things. These 100 mandates could potentially occupy all your time and consume all your financial resources. And also, of course, the difference between negative and positive rights.

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Randy Barnett on the Mandate