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Trial lawyer defends Bear manager; U.S. cites lies

A lawyer for former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager Ralph Cioffi on Wednesday vigorously defended him against prosecution allegations he repeatedly lied to investors early in the financial crisis, describing as ridiculous one charge of insider trading.

Director Polanski feels depressed in jail: lawyer

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Director Roman Polanski is feeling depressed two weeks after his arrest in Switzerland to face U.S. extradition for a 1977 case involving the rape of a 13-year-old girl, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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Berlusconi's lawyer denies archaeological scandal

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's lawyer denied the premier hid archaeological ruins at his Sardinian villa and said tapes purporting to show him boasting to a call girl were fake, newspapers said on Saturday.
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SEC lawyer raised alarm about Madoff: report

A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer warned about irregularities at Bernard Madoff's financial management firm as far back as 2004, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing agency documents and sources familiar with the investigation.
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Suu Kyi says junta's charges are political: lawyer

Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi believes her trial is an attempt by the country's ruling generals to prevent her from running in multi-party elections next year, her lawyer said.
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Greens plan to stop Chevron's California project: lawyer

Opponents of a new hydrogen plant under construction at Chevron Corp's San Francisco Bay-area refinery in Richmond, California, plan to ask a California judge to stop the project because of a flawed environmental impact report, an attorney said Tuesday.
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U.S. accuses Texas professor, lawyer of fraud

Two Texas men defrauded investors of some $19.5 million by faking bank records to show that their business, PrivateFX Global One, achieved annual returns of more than 23 percent in foreign exchange trading, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday.
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SEC accuses Texas professor, lawyer of fraud

Two Texas men defrauded investors of some $19.5 million by faking bank records to show that their business, Global One, achieved annual returns of more than 23 percent in foreign exchange trading, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday.
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Intruder had vision Suu Kyi in danger: lawyer

The American man at the center of the trial against Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi swam to her house after having a vision that her life was in danger, Suu Kyi's lawyers said on Thursday.
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NY lawyer Dreier pleads guilty to $400 million fraud

High-profile New York lawyer Marc Dreier pleaded guilty on Monday to criminal charges of running a $400 million investment fraud involving fake promissory notes, and a judge released him into house arrest until sentencing.
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Once-prominent NY lawyer pleads guilty to fraud

High-profile New York lawyer Marc Dreier pleaded guilty on Monday to criminal charges of running an investment fraud in the hundreds of millions of dollars involving fake promissory notes.
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Ex-soldier bragged about Iraqi rape, deaths: lawyer

A former U.S. soldier on trial in the gang rape of an Iraqi girl and the murder of her and her family in the war zone in 2006 was caught in a perfect storm of insanity, his lawyer told a jury on Monday.
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Pirate Bay lawyer files for retrial, cites bias

Four men jailed for breaching copyright in connection with Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest free file-sharing websites, should be given a new trial because the judge was biased, a court heard Monday.
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New California fuel rule may violate NAFTA: lawyer

California's new low-carbon fuel rules may be a violation of NAFTA and World Trade Organization provisions because they would unfairly limit exports of crude from Canada's oil sands to the state, a prominent Canadian trade lawyer said Friday.
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Top defense lawyer fears misguided prosecutions

U.S. authorities, as well as defense attorneys, need to ramp up their understanding of complex financial instruments as populist anger puts pressure on the government to bring more business fraud cases, a top U.S. defense lawyer said on Friday.
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Pirate Bay defence lawyer demands retrial

A defense lawyer for one of the four men sentenced to jail in the Pirate Bay case demanded a retrial on Thursday, saying the judge's membership in several copyright protection groups meant he might have been biased.

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