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...identity Police say Zabeen was given a new name and biography and, together with a purported sibling, adopted to an Australian couple through the Queensland Department of Families, Youth and Community Care. The sibling is also listed as stolen, from a different family. Queensland's Child Safety Minister Margaret Keech says the allegations are "very concerning," and promises that Adoption Services Queensland "will work very closely with federal and state agencies to investigate these claims." MSS documents sighted by TIME reveal that Zabeen was one of 13 children sent to Australia by the agency; it may also have passed stolen...
Largely on the strength of Cole's admission, Lawyer Williams turned to Federal Judge Raymond B. Keech to argue for dismissal. That night the judge worked until long after midnight on his decision. Next morning the courtroom was tense as he began to read it off. Principal point: Chairman Cole's subcommittee had exceeded its legitimate functions in questioning Icardi, "since neither affording an individual a forum in which to protest his innocence nor extracting testimony with a view to a perjury prosecution is a valid legislative purpose." Furthermore, the Icardi hearing amounted to a "legislative trial...
After reading for 30 minutes, Judge Keech came to his final words: "I shall ask the marshal to call in the jury, and I shall direct a verdict of acquittal." Icardi broke into tears. Justice Department attorneys gaped in disbelief. Whether Aldo Icardi was guilty or innocent under terms of American justice would never be known, for Judge Keech's decision appeared to have ended, once and for all, an eleven-year, $300,000 attempt to make a case against him. But, in doing so, the judge had laid down a sharp restriction on uninhibited congressional investigation that Congress...
...test case, Washington's U.S. District Judge Richmond Keech, a Democrat, ruled that the Department of Justice had a right to dismiss Attorney Leo A. Roth from his $10,800-a-year job. Roth, who was fired last June, insisted that he had unassailable civil-service status. Judge Keech held that the President has unlimited power to decide which jobs "shall be excluded or excepted from the classified civil service...
Q.E.D. In Washington, D.C., Judge Richmond B. Keech ruled that William Tendrich was entitled to a divorce because his wife allegedly sprinkled Paris green over the dinner table: "The defendant has shown . . . that she has no affection or respect for the plaintiff...