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Two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is likely to face an indictment for using campaign donations to conceal an extra-marital affair and love child, ABC News reported on late Tuesday.

A report says if the deal with T-Mobile fails, AT&T will owe Deutsche Telekom $6 billion.

Lakeland-based Francois Piedrahas been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for distribution and possession of child pornography, followed by a life term of supervised release.

Two owners of a fraudulent Detroit-area medical clinic, Martin and Joaquin Tasis, and a man who helped them launder the proceeds of the fraud, Leoncio Alayon, were convicted on Friday by a federal jury in Detroit for their roles in a $9.1 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) said.

David Bart Goldstein, a Baltimore lawyer, has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography.

The Justice Department has announced that Johnny Mathis, 47, of Lecompte, La., pleaded guilty to two federal crimes for shooting at the home of three Hispanic men living across the street from him because of the victims' race and national origin.

Alchico Grant and Melinda Clayton were indicted by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama on a variety of charges stemming from an identity theft and tax fraud scheme, the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney Leura G. Canary and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have announced.

A former U.S. probation officer, Mark John Walker, 52, of Eugene, Ore., has pleaded guilty to charges related to his engaging in sexual contact or aggravated sexual abuse with female offenders who were under his direct supervision as a federal probation officer from 2006 to 2009. Sentencing is scheduled for July 18, 2011 before Chief U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Beistline, who is a visiting judge from Alaska.

U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter have sentenced Jeremy Matthew Moro, 33, and Joshua James Moro, 23 pursuant to their January 2011 guilty pleas to conspiring to violate the civil rights of an interracial couple by burning a cross near their home in Athens, La., in October 2008.

The top after-market NYSE gainers on Thursday are: Horizon Lines, Eastman Chemical, Netsuite, MEMC Electronic Materials, Leggett & Platt, Suntech Power Holdings, Yingli Green Energy Holding, Renesola, LDK Solar Co and Curtiss-Wright Corp.

Three men running technology vendor businesses were indicted last week for selling millions of dollars worth of laptops to Iran.

U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada - facing the possibility of public hearings and legal proceedings stemming from an affair made public in 2009 and ramifications leading to alleged conflict-of-interest violations by a former aide - said late Thursday he would resign, effective May 3.

CVS Pharmacy Inc., the retail pharmacy division of CVS Caremark Corporation that operates more than 7,000 retail pharmacies in 41 states and the District of Columbia, has agreed to pay the United States and 10 states $17.5 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations, the Justice Department said.

The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, charging the Puerto Rico Department of Justice (PRDOJ) with employment discrimination for failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

A computer programmer who once volunteered for the organization behind To Catch a Predator was sentenced to two years in prison for launching DDoS attacks against web sites that embarrassed him.

A few weeks following the Rustock take down, the FBI rids the world of the Coreflood botnet.

The U.S. Justice Department approved Google's planned acquisition of online travel software firm ITA, but it made the technology giant agree to several conditions and concessions. Even as the Justice Department concluded its months-long review of Google's purchase of Massachusetts-based ITA, the focus now has turned to the possibility of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) initiating an expansive antitrust investigation into Google to see if the company is stifling competition and getting i...

The U.S. Department of Justice and Google have proposed an agreement to allow the Internet's biggest search engine to buy ITA Software, the travel data company, for $700 million.

Google and the U.S. Department of Justice may soon reach an agreement that would allow the Internet's biggest search engine to buy ITA Software, the travel data company, for $700 million.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Conns, Expedia, Curis, Seagate Technology, and NXP Semiconductors. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Hercules Offshore, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Sangamo Biosciences, Qiao Xing Universal Resources, and Costco Wholesale.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Expedia, Seagate Technology, Cutera, ShoreTel, and Select Comfort. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Hercules Offshore, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Sangamo Biosciences, PostRock Energy, and China-Biotics.

Shares of Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. (CBST) touched a new 52-week high of $30.02 on Wednesday morning. Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OPTR) said it has entered an exclusive two-year co-promotion agreement with Cubist to market Dificid in the U.S.

Police authorities in the small Californian town of Arroyo Grande have said an incident of cross burning is being investigated as a theft, arson and hate crime.

Oral arguments for the Myriad Genetics, Inc. appeals case is set to begin April 4 with a possible written decision in June 2011, RBC Capital Markets said.

The merger of T-Mobile USA with AT&T would be one of the biggest wireless mergers of the last several years, will probably go through despite increased scrutiny from regulators.

In an 8 minute video news report, former U.S. Prosecutor Richard Fine outlines his strategy to return integrity to the California Court system and the reasons why State Superior Court Judges cannot sit on cases where they have received money from parties who appear before them.

Foreign banks have not gotten the message when it comes to helping American clients avoid paying taxes, a top U.S. tax prosecutor said on Thursday.

An Apple executive accused of taking kickbacks to help suppliers secure favorable contracts has pled guilty to wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering.

U.S. regulators' efforts to settle with banks over improper mortgage foreclosures are being hampered by infighting among the groups involved in the talks, and a settlement may take a while, according to sources familiar with the matter.