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...files of Amerasians he says have been unfairly rejected by the U.S. immigration program. Watts says that almost all the rejected applicants on his list-poor, illiterate and desperate-have later been approached by traffickers. There have been suggestions that some Amerasians took money for their part in the scheme, but most say they were tricked. "The Amerasians are preyed upon," says one U.S. official familiar with Phuong's trafficking ring. "They were clearly victims...
...might send from prison through intermediaries. If Moussaoui is allowed to be his own lawyer, he could send signals, coded or not, with journalists present. "They have to worry about what comes out of his mouth," said a close observer. "And the whole rationale for [the government's] security scheme"--which requires extensive vetting of anyone who visits him in prison--"comes unglued...
...starting forward for the Memphis Grizzlies is the first European to win the award. SENTENCED. A. ALFRED TAUBMAN, 78, colorful principal owner and former chairman of Sotheby's, to one year and a day in prison and fined $7.5 million, for heading a six-year price-fixing scheme in collaboration with the other major international auction house Christie's; in New York City. Christie's provided the authorities with key documents in exchange for conditional amnesty. RESIGNED. KAREN HUGHES, 45, senior White House advisor; in Washington, D.C. Hughes had been a top aide to President George W. Bush since...
...Monday sentencing of philanthropist A. Alfred Taubman for his role in orchestrating a price-fixing scheme between the nation’s top two auction houses will not affect the Kennedy School of Government’s Taubman Center for State and Local Government, said officials at the school yesterday...
...great scheme of things, [Taubman] has led a very ethical life,” Altshuler said. “His conviction does not mean that his life has not been ethical, or one that Harvard doesn’t want to associate with...