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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Ex-Archives official admits theft

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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Chevy Chase scientist Stewart Nozette pleads guilty to attempted espionage

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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Citizens United Gets Amped Up

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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NOLA officers guilty in beating death

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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First the “Fake Rockefeller,” now these guys? Two grifters who posed as members of the Guggenheim family are facing 20 years in prison, and a third is still at large. The two men facing charges in Manhattan federal court identified themselves in phone…

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Guggenheim Grifters Face 20 Years 

A woman suspected of snatching an infant from a New York hospital in 1987 is expected to appear in federal court Monday to face kidnapping charges, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.

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Court: Confession in ’87 kidnapping

A federal court ruling against the Obama health care law highlighted both the novelty of the constitutional issues and the difficulty of forging consensus among judges.

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Legal Memo: Years of Wrangling Lie Ahead for Health Law

A Russian man accused of operating an e-mail spam business that at times accounted for one third of global spam has pleaded not guilty in a federal court in the US state of Wisconsin.

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Russian denies global spam scheme

The Somali-born teen arrested after allegedly trying detonate what he thought was a car bomb in Portland, Oregon, pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday. Mohamed Osman Mohamud’s defense attorney argued that the FBI entrapped him and then timed his…

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Bomb Plot Teen Pleads Not Guilty

A 19-year-old Somali-American, accused of planning to detonate what he believed was a vehicle bomb, is expected to make an initial appearance in a Portland, Oregon, federal court Monday.

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