Rabbi Menachem Youlus, who told stories of traveling to Europe and beyond to search for Torahs that were lost during the Holocaust, said in Federal Court that he had made up those tales.

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Is John W. Hinckley Jr., the gunman who in 1981 nearly killed President Reagan and wounded three other men, ready for more freedom from the psychiatric hospital where he has been held for three decades? A series of hearings starting Wednesday in the District’s federal court will determine just that. Since being found not guilty in the shooting by reason of insanity in 1982, Hinckley has spent most of his time confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital. In recent years, however, he has been granted more privileges and liberty, especially when it comes to visits to his mother’s luxury community in Williamsburg. Read full article > >

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A federal court judge ruled that officials at a California high school had a legal right to send home students wearing shirts showing the American flag on Cinco de Mayo because there was a reasonable fear that the images could lead to violence. Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware of San Francisco ruled last week that it was not a violation of the freedom of speech for students at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill to be ordered to turn their shirts with the American flag inside out or go home on May 5, 2010, the San Francisco Chronicle reported .Two students were sent home. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — A notorious Russian arms dealer accused of evading authorities for years while fueling violence in war zones around the globe was convicted Wednesday in swift fashion in a U.S. courtroom on charges he conspired to sell weaponry to South American terrorists. Viktor Bout, known as the Merchant of Death, looked straight ahead and showed no emotion as a jury forewoman read guilty verdicts on each of four conspiracy counts — a conviction that could result in a life sentence. Jurors had deliberated only six hours over two days in federal court in Manhattan. Read full article > >

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NY jury convicts Russian arms dealer of trying to sell heavy weapons to Colombian terror group

Several high-ranking Maryland government officials have testified in federal court in recent weeks that they had no idea that Sen. Ulysses Currie was being paid by a grocery chain that stood to benefit from his high-level intervention. Yet, some of the same witnesses suggested that the efforts of the once-powerful Prince George’s Democrat had little, if any, influence on the outcome of proposed development deals, traffic light requests and other projects supported by Shoppers Food Warehouse. Read full article > >

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A guilty plea by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab took a federal court in Detroit by surprise as he admitted he tried to blow up an airliner with a bomb in his underwear for Al Qaeda.

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A former National Archives employee on Tuesday admitted in federal court that he stole nearly 1,000 audio recordings and sold some on eBay. Leslie C. Waffen, 66, who was chief of the Archives’ audiovisual holdings, pleaded guilty to embezzlement of government property. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 5 in federal court in Greenbelt. Read full article > >

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A Norfolk, Va. teenager was sentenced to nearly one century in prison after he was convicted in connection with robberies in Virginia Beach and in North Carolina. Raymond Lewis Perry, 19, received the 97-year sentence Monday in federal court, the Associated Press reported. Read full article > >

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Stewart D. Nozette of Chevy Chase was a gifted scientist privy to America’s top secrets. On Wednesday, he admitted trying to sell those secrets to a foreign government. With his guilty plea to attempted espionage, the astrophysicist was rebranded a would-be traitor. Nozette, 54, stood in an orange prison jumpsuit in the District’s federal court as he conceded that he had accepted $11,000 in cash in 2009 in exchange for passing classified materials about U.S. satellite defense systems to what he believed was an Israeli intelligence officer. Read full article > >

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Federal prosecutors urged a federal judge on Friday to allow them to retry Roger Clemens on perjury and related charges , arguing that a high-profile blunder on their part should not block them from getting another shot at the legendary pitcher . In a 36-page filing in the District’s federal court, prosecutors provided their first official explanation for why they presented barred evidence to jurors on the second day of testimony in July, forcing a federal judge to declare a mistrial. “The government’s error was a mistake, not misconduct,” they wrote in court papers. Read full article > >

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Let us put Roger Clemens on trial again, prosecutors urge judge

The provision of President Obama’s health care law that requires Americans to buy health insurance was deemed unconstitutional by a federal court in Georgia.

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Health Law Mandate Is Rejected by Court

TO SOME PEOPLE, Thomas A. Drake is a villain, a man who broke his pledge to protect national security secrets. To others, he is a whistleblower and a hero. Most, however, would not confuse him for a spy. Yet Mr. Drake will go on trial in a Maryland federal court this month on multiple counts of violating the Espionage Act, a broad and vague World War I-era law meant to punish those who turn over national security information to the enemy. He could face decades behind bars. Read full article > >

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A case that could be overkill against a whistleblower

A federal court struck down a federal ban on corporate campaign contributions, arguing that companies ought to be able to give directly to political campaigns. The decision goes further than last year’s Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court,…

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Two New Orleans Police officers were convicted Wednesday in federal court in a 2005 beating death and cover-up after initially telling investigators the victim was suffering from a drug overdose.

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Corporate lawyer Matthew Kluger is alleged to have been at the heart of one of the largest and longest-running insider-trading schemes ever prosecuted, but when he appeared in a federal court in Alexandria on Wednesday, he said he could not afford an attorney, according to a Justice Department spokesman.

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