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PLEADED GUILTY. STEVE MADDEN, 44, shoe designer and proponent of the platform sneaker; to stock fraud and money laundering; in U.S. District Court. Madden, whose fans include Sarah Michelle Gellar and MTV's Ananda Lewis, agreed to pay some $8.2 million in fines and to relinquish the directorship of his company. He will probably face 41 to 51 months in prison...
SENTENCED. SAAD EDDIN IBRAHIM, 62, sociology professor at the American University in Cairo and Egypt's best-known democracy advocate; to seven years in prison for defaming that country; in Cairo. The government claimed that Ibrahim, also a U.S. citizen, smeared the country by alleging election fraud and discrimination against Christians. The harsh verdict appalled democracy supporters, and the U.S. State Department said it was "deeply troubled...
...Last September, six weeks before the prefecture's gubernatorial election, the newspaper diarist and award-winning novelist announced he was taking on the hand-picked successor of the Liberal Democratic Party stalwart who had held the office captive for two decades. He ran a campaign of outrage against waste, fraud, the status quo, and the ldp's fruitless effort to end Japan's 10-year-long economic slump. The message was just right, and if nothing else, serial playboy Tanaka wasn't a bore. He won easily...
...CHAINSAW" AL DUNLAP Sunbeam's ex-CEO charged with fraud. Seems its appliances could cook books
...Sudanese co-defendants, stem from work carried out by Ibn Khaldun, a research center founded by Ibrahim in 1988 and supported by a board that reads like an Egyptian Who's Who. Prosecutors say its projects were illegally funded by foreign sources, and that by alleging election fraud and discrimination against minority Coptic Christians, they undermined Egypt's standing. A press campaign smeared Ibrahim as a crooked traitor with ties to Israel who deserves stoning as punishment...