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NY trial set Jan. 7 for bin Laden son-in-law

April 9, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

A federal judge has set a January trial date for a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden who was brought to the United States to face terrorism charges.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan announced the Jan. 7 date for Sulaiman Abu Ghaith (SOO’-lay-mahn AH‘-boo GAYTH) in a one-sentence order filed in the case on Tuesday.

Kaplan said at a hearing Monday that it was “extremely troublesome” that a trial could not be held this fall because across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as sequestration, meant public defenders would not have enough time to prepare.

Ghaith was brought to the United States last month to face charges that he conspired to kill Americans in his role as al-Qaida’s spokesman after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He has pleaded not guilty.

Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News

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U.S. judge puts AIG/NY Fed case on hold, BofA case goes on

February 26, 2013 Bartle Doo Leave a comment

A new sign is displayed over the entrance to the AIG headquarters offices in New York's financial district

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge has put American International Group Inc's dispute with a financial crisis-era bailout vehicle on hold, while another court addresses the insurer's separate $10 billion lawsuit against Bank of America Corp over defective mortgages. But in rejecting AIG's effort to litigate quickly against the Maiden Lane II vehicle created by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan said that “on the face of it” some of the New York Fed's and Maiden Lane's actions “perhaps are unattractive and, indeed, wrongful. …

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