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Coliseum sues ex-auditor, alleging failure to detect corruption - Los Angeles Times

Corruption News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 19:11

Coliseum sues ex-auditor, alleging failure to detect corruption
Los Angeles Times
The financially troubled Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission is suing its former auditor for more than $11 million, alleging that it failed to detect errors in financial statements between 2007 and 2011, a time when alleged corruption ensnared the ...

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Body confirmed as Dorner's

CNN Crime News - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 19:04
Medical examiners have positively identified the body of the renegade former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, the man authorities say killed four people and wounded three others in a vendetta against his old comrades.
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Fifth-grade boys' alleged plot to kill a classmate thwarted

CNN Crime News - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 18:58
Two fifth-grade boys armed with a stolen semi-automatic gun, ammunition clip and knife plotted to kill a classmate in Washington state but were thwarted when another student informed a school employee, authorities said Thursday.
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Strategies to Reduce Crime - New York Times

Crime News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 18:44

Strategies to Reduce Crime
New York Times
It's no coincidence that New York's incarceration rate is at a 20-year low and crime has simultaneously been drastically reduced. The state has the country's largest network of alternative to incarceration and re-entry programs. New York recognizes the ...

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Records show officers involved in corruption case filed for bankruptcy - WSB Atlanta

Corruption News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 18:43

Records show officers involved in corruption case filed for bankruptcy
WSB Atlanta
Channel 2 Action News is learning that several of the officers charged in the federal police corruption investigation experienced major money troubles. Ten former and current police officers are facing federal charges for taking cash bribes in exchange ...

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Rhino Horn Buyer Sentenced In NYC

Huffington Post Crime News - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 18:28
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City antiques dealer who admitted he illegally bought rhinoceros horns has been sentenced to six months in prison.... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jessica-leader/
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South African Paralympian Pistorius faces murder charges in shooting of girlfriend - Washington Post

Murder News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 18:18

Washington Post

South African Paralympian Pistorius faces murder charges in shooting of girlfriend
Washington Post
Four-time Olympic medalist Ato Boldon said Pistorius's name would have been the last to come to mind if someone had told him that a track athlete had been charged with murder. “Not the second-to-last, not the third-to-last,” the retired sprinter told ...

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Oakland Hires Consulting Firm to Help Reduce Crime - KQED

Crime News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 18:17

Oakland Hires Consulting Firm to Help Reduce Crime
KQED
Oakland city leaders are working with a Massachusetts-based consulting firm, Strategic Policy Partnership, to come up with a plan to reduce crime. But not everyone can decide what that plan should be. City leaders want better data, residents would like ...

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Russia Needs an Anti-Corruption Drive with a New Focus! - OpEdNews

Corruption News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 18:10

Russia Needs an Anti-Corruption Drive with a New Focus!
OpEdNews
Four years ago then-president Dmitry Medvedev put forth a National Anti-Corruption Plan. It was a bold step and one that is needed. Unfortunately, time has shown that it is only a half-way measure. The focus is on the transgressions of individuals. But ...

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CAQ proposes enhanced anti-corruption watchdog for Quebec - Globe and Mail

Corruption News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 18:03

Globe and Mail

CAQ proposes enhanced anti-corruption watchdog for Quebec
Globe and Mail
“People have asked whether the anti-corruption unit has total independence or whether the Liberal party [government] at the time didn't dictate the unit's agenda. These questions are being asked. … [The allegations] would be difficult to prove, but we ...
CAQ puts forward new strategy to fight corruption in QuebecMontreal Gazette

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Data Will Show Crime-Solving Rates - Wall Street Journal

Crime News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 18:02

Data Will Show Crime-Solving Rates
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Browne said the NYPD couldn't provide the rates because its Uniform Crime Reporting computer, which had been in operation since the 1970s, was incompatible with a new crime-management system that the NYPD adopted in 2003 called OmniForm.

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Valentine's Day murder: Death of Richard Schoeck - Atlanta Journal Constitution

Murder News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 17:56

Valentine's Day murder: Death of Richard Schoeck
Atlanta Journal Constitution
“It was such a heinous murder done to someone that did not deserve it at all,” Richard Schoeck's sister, Carol Fillingim, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “She was such a cowardly woman that couldn't keep herself in control and had never had ...

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To protect evidence of a crime, police can seize your cellphone - KATU

Crime News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 17:44

KATU

To protect evidence of a crime, police can seize your cellphone
KATU
"The actual arrest itself was a crime of resist arrest," said Gresham Police Department spokesman Lt. Claudio Grandjean. "She's videotaping, the officer didn't know how much she got of the actual resist arrest, but there's potentially evidence of that ...

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'The Wire' Actor Puts New York's Stop-And-Frisk On Trial

Huffington Post Crime News - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 17:35
NEW YORK -- Gbenga Akinnagbe went on trial Thursday. The actor who played Chris Partlow on HBO's "The Wire" wasn't in a Brooklyn courtroom for... Matt Sledge http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matt-sledge/
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Murder plot allegation against fifth-graders stuns Washington town - Los Angeles Times

Murder News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 17:30

Murder plot allegation against fifth-graders stuns Washington town
Los Angeles Times
Rasmussen said he would argue that the 10-year-old and his 11-year-old codefendant be held criminally responsible on charges of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and witness tampering — a charge filed after authorities said the boys promised to ...

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Chris Dorner Inspires Songs, Computer Games

Huffington Post Crime News - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 17:03
LOS ANGELES -- The death of ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner in a fiery standoff with authorities has done little to quell online chatter... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-almendrala/
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Corruption Charges Fly Back and Forth in City Mayor's Race - KMOX.com

Corruption News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 16:49

KMOX.com

Corruption Charges Fly Back and Forth in City Mayor's Race
KMOX.com
ST. LOUIS–(KMOX)–The gloves are off in the mayor's race, as challenger Lewis Reed accuses Mayor Slay of “pay-to-play” politics in awarding $32 million in “no bid” contracts to firms from which Slay received campaign money. Aldermanic President Reed ...

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Oscar Pistorius to face murder charge over girlfriend's shooting - The Guardian

Murder News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 16:44

The Guardian

Oscar Pistorius to face murder charge over girlfriend's shooting
The Guardian
Yet as the 26-year-old prepared to answer a murder charge and apply for bail at Pretoria magistrates court on Friday morning, a picture emerged of a man with a playboy lifestyle, an intense interest in guns and a taste for living dangerously ...

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Column: Finally, a punishment that fits the crime - Yahoo! Sports

Crime News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 16:39

Column: Finally, a punishment that fits the crime
Yahoo! Sports
Ejecting players on the spot for using their helmets to target opponents in college football is such a sensible idea that it's hard to believe the NCAA proposed it first. The organization, after all, has never been a factory of innovation. It ...

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Column: Finally, a punishment that fits the crime - U.S. News & World Report

Crime News from Google - Thu, 02/14/2013 - 16:36

Column: Finally, a punishment that fits the crime
U.S. News & World Report
Column: Finally, a punishment that fits the crime. February 14, 2013 RSS Feed Print. By JIM LITKE, Associated Press. Ejecting players on the spot for using their helmets to target opponents in college football is such a sensible idea that it's hard to ...

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