United States
Entertainment
Jackson's
mother to get custody - 31 July
Lawyers for Michael Jackson's mother Katherine and his ex-wife Debbie
Rowe have reached an agreement over custody of the late singer's
children. Mrs Jackson will be awarded custody of Prince Michael, 12, and
Paris, 11, the two children he had with Ms Rowe. She will also be the
guardian of seven-year-old Prince Michael II, also known as Blanket,
whose biological mother has never been revealed. A court hearing to
formalise custody is scheduled for Monday in Los Angeles. Under the
agreement, Rowe will have visitation rights with the two oldest children
and will continue to receive spousal support payments. - BBC
News website
Investigation
into records on Jackson is widening - 30 July
In a warrant executed this week in Las Vegas in the investigation
into Michael Jackson’s death, law enforcement officials sought
correspondence between his physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, and the
Anschutz Entertainment Group, which operates the Staples Center in Los
Angeles and was organizing the London concert series the pop singer was
preparing for before his death. - New
York Times website
Finance
Victims'
lawyer : 'candid' Madoff explained fraud - 29 July
A lawyer for victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme says the
financier told him during a 4 1/2-hour prison interview plenty of
details about the fraud, including how it took place and how
securities regulators missed catching him. The San Francisco lawyer,
Joseph Cotchett, said he planned to use what he learned Tuesday to add
defendants to a lawsuit to be filed in Manhattan this week on behalf
of investors harmed by the multibillion-dollar scam. - AP on Google
website
Enron
boss seeks early release in court appeal - 30 July
The former chief executive of Enron may see his 24-year sentence for
fraud cut by ten years today after his case was re-examined by an
appeal court. Jeffrey Skilling, convicted three years ago when he was
found guilty of deceiving investors and employees about Enron's fiscal
health, will find out later today whether his sentence will be
reduced. - Times Online
website
Human
Rights
Guantanamo
inmate to be released - 30 July
The Obama administration says it will release Mohammed Jawad, who has
been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp since 2002. Earlier this
month officials admitted that there was no military case for Mr
Jawad's continued detention. But government lawyers had said they
wished to keep him in detention pending a possible criminal
prosecution. The decision could set a precedent leading to the release
of other Guantanamo inmates. - BBC
News website
US
proposes releasing Guantanamo detainee abroad - 30 July
The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed sending one of the
youngest prisoners held at the controversial
US
prison at Guantanamo
Bay back to
Afghanistan
where his lawyer said he would likely go free. Afghanistan has requested that Mohammed Jawad - accused of throwing a
grenade that wounded two American soldiers and their Afghan
interpreter in Kabul in late 2002 - be returned to his country and even offered to
send a plane for him. In the latest effort to close the controversial
detention facility, US government lawyers filed a plan with a US
court that would release Jawad from
Guantanamo
Bay in Cuba to the custody of a foreign government in about three weeks. - Eye
Witness News website
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