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...alleged involvement in the celebrated disappearance and resurfacing of her husband, John Darwin, a.k.a. Canoeman. As the alleged accomplice to a monumental subterfuge, she faces five counts of obtaining money by deception and one of obtaining property by deception, all of which she denies. John has already pled guilty to seven similar charges and awaits sentencing...
...Number of years former graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson will serve in prison after he pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the stabbing of a Cambridge cook...
...biggest asset, however, is the DPP's outgoing Chen. His administration has been so tarnished by corruption scandals that public confidence in the DPP has soured. Even First Lady Wu Shu-chen was indicted on charges of graft and forgery in 2006; she pled not guilty and a verdict has yet to be delivered. Fed-up voters carried the KMT to a landslide victory in legislative elections in January. (Ma was also indicted last year for misappropriating public funds but was cleared of wrongdoing by the courts. An appeal by prosecutors to the Supreme Court is now pending...
...Even typically reliable strongholds like Idaho and Alaska could potentially be vulnerable next year. In Idaho, McConnell has made it clear he'd prefer embattled Senator Larry Craig - who pled guilty to disorderly conduct after Minneapolis airport police accused him of attempting to solicit gay sex in an airport bathroom - to resign immediately. That would leave a vacancy for Idaho Governor Butch Otter, a Republican, to appoint someone to serve out the last 15 months of Craig's term and preserve the party's incumbent advantage...
...where seven-term Senator Ted Stevens is battling a federal corruption probe, could prove more challenging. Stevens is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for taking bribes from Bill Allen, the former CEO of VECO, an oil field services company. Allen and another former VECO employee have pled guilty to bribing state legislators and are cooperating with the investigation into Stevens, who has maintained his innocence...