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2011年4月22日星期五

Father of Calgary recognized guilty of killing children

Calgary man was found guilty of killing her two young children and tries to kill his wife almost two years.

On the night of November 27, 2009, James Bing Jun Louie, 44, has used a rope to strangle his son Jason, 13 and a pillow to smother his daughter, Jane, 9.

Louie then attempted to strangle his wife Ying Tang, as she arrived at the former couple remains in the Northwest of the city.

The bodies of Ying Louie's two children, aged 13 and nine, were found inside their northwest home in November 2009. Their father James Bing Jun Louie was convicted Thursday of killing them. The bodies of two children of Ying Louie, aged 13 to nine, were found inside their house in November 2009 Northwest. Their father James Bing Jun Louie was sentenced Thursday to kill. CBC

Court of Justice bench of the Queen Earl Wilson found Louie guilty Thursday of the second degree murder of his two children and convicted of attempted murder Tang.

Louie was extremely depressed about her separation from Tang and pending divorce of the couple and his actions were triggered by Zopiclone, a sleeping pill he makes, the Court said.

But counsel for the Crown Beverley Bauer maintained that provided Louie and was fully aware of his actions.

In a statement released to the press on Thursday before the verdict was read, Tang said she is grateful for the generous support that I received about me"since the tragedy.

Tang, said that she was evil with pain, sadness and fear since his children were killed.

It has also praised the work done by all members of the Calgary Police Service and the Office of the counsel for the Crown and the 911 dispatcher who was able to trace his cell phone call and send frantic help in time to save his life on the night of the attack.

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2011年4月20日星期三

Ex-Taylor Bean recognized President guilty of conspiracy, fraud

April 20, 2011, 12: 04 am EDT by Tom Schoenberg

April 20 (Bloomberg)--Lee Farkas, former President of Taylor, bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., was found guilty on 14 counts of conspiracy and wire fraud, Bank and securities in what prosecutors said was a plan of $ 3 billion involving a fake active mortgage.

A jury in Alexandria Virginia, yesterday delivered the verdict after a day of deliberations. Farkas, who was free during the trial, was placed in detention. He faces a maximum sentence of 30 years on charges of conspiracy and bank fraud and 20 years or the counts of wire fraud and securities fraud when he is sentenced on July 1. prosecutors said Farkas, 58, orchestrated one of the largest and longest banking fraud in United States who fooled some of the largest financial institutions of the country. target for the Federal Bank rescue program and has contributed to the failures of Taylor Bean and based in Montgomery, Alabama Colonial Bank.Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer, head of the criminal division of the Department of Justice, fraud of Farkas said "poured fuel on the fire" of the financial crisis. "The financial crisis has many faces and now face of Lee Farkas is one of them,"Breuer, who attended part of the trial, said after the verdict to a conference call with journalists. "Current ' said InvestigationBreuer investigation of the Government in the fraud scheme is"in progress ". He refused to say if more people could be charged.Prosecutors spent eight days establishing the allegations of the jurors. The Government called 23 witnesses, including Freddie Mac, Bank of America Corp. and Deutsche Bank AG. Six of those who testified were former colleagues or associates of Farkas, who had pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy.Farkas used Taylor Bean as his own "personal piggy" and stole more than 30 million of the company, he built to purchase houses, cars, planes, restaurants and other businesses aside, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Connolly closing arguments.Farkas, who denied any wrongdoing, testified in his own name and called the two former employees of Taylor Bean and a forensic in its defence.William Cummings, one of the counsel of Farkas, said that the defence team was disappointed with the verdict. "We fought hard,"said Cummings, a former U.S. Attorney in Virginia." "Getting six former colleagues to plead guilty and to testify is difficult to overcome obstacle."Cummings said he was surprised U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ordered Farkas to be imprisoned, adding that the judge has said that it would hear arguments week in whether to be released while he awaits sentencing next.Rolls RoyceProsecutors seek to seize properties Farkas has in Florida and the Georgia, and nine vehicles, including a model of Ford A 1929 and 1963 Rolls Royce.Taylor Bean, based in Ocala, Florida, has been serving over 500,000 mortgage loans with Freddie Mac loans $ 51 billion when it collapsed in August 2009, according to court records of.Prosecutors allege fraud began in 2002 when Farkas had blurred meeting expenses of operation, such as the list of payroll and loan mortgage maintenance payments to the Government - sponsored assistance Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae.With of servants to the Colonial Bankboth among the 50 of the country more grandFarkas hidden gaps of about 15 million dollars a day by moving money to another account of Taylor Bean master account of the company, and then returning the money later in the dayAccording to a related prosecution by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Overdrawn AccountBy December 2003Bean Taylor has been overexploitation his account about 150 million dollars a day, the SEC said.Farkas, about four hours of testimony, denied ordering anyone to move money between accounts Taylor Bean and said that he and Taylor Bean employees have the power to do so.The Government claims that Farkas and other conspirators, in a system, they called "Plan B," began to send data from mortgage to Colonial Bank to loans that did not exist, or that Taylor Bean had already committed or sold to other investors.False LoansBy the end of 2007, the regime was composed of approximately 500 million in false residential mortgages and about 900 million in non-tradable residential mortgages and securities, said Patrick Stokes, Deputy Chief of the fraud of the Ministry of Justice of United States section., closing arguments.Farkas and his accomplices hijacking cash Ocala Funding LLC, a vehicle for funding used and controlled by Taylor Bean, to cover its losses, said prosecutors.Ocala funding issued commercial paper backed by assets of financial institutions, including the Deutsche Bank, the biggest German bank based in Paris, BNP Paribas, according to court documents. In August 2009, Ocala deficit had risen to $ 1.5 billion, according to prosecutors.As Colonial Bank is struggling to stay afloat, Farkas attempted to collect $ 300 million from private investors to ensure an infusion of cash of $ 550 million of the Federal Troubled Asset Relief Program, according to Paul Allen, former Director General company who pleaded guilty to conspiracy. Farkas was found guilty of falsely representing that he had commitments from investors for money.Colonial has never cover, said United States .taylor Bean funds accounted for approximately 2% of the mortgages for individual houses by volume purchased by Freddie Mac in 2009, according to a company filing. The firm said it filed a claim in bankruptcy Taylor Bean of $ 1.8 billion, with $ 440 million relating to the funds deposited with Bank.Alabama regulators seized Colonial Colonial Bank in 2009 and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver. Colonial BancGroup and Taylor Bean filed bankruptcy in 2009.the is U.S. v. Farkas, is 10-cr-00200, U.S. District Court, District of Virginia (Alexandria).

-Editors: Fred Strasser, Peter Blumberg

To contact the reporter on this story: Tom Schoenberg in Washington to tschoenberg@bloomberg.net

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2011年4月14日星期四

Bond guilty of obstruction of justice

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Barry Bonds, seen outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, was found guilty on one of four charges Wednesday, obstruction of justice.Barry Bonds, seen outside the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, was found guilty on one of four charges Wednesday, obstruction of justice. (David Paul Morris/Getty Images)

A federal jury convicted Barry Bonds of a single charge of obstruction of justice Wednesday but failed to reach a verdict on the three counts at the heart of allegations that he knowingly used steroids and human growth hormone and lied to a grand jury about it.

Following a 12-day trial and almost four full days of deliberation, a jury could not reach a unanimous vote on three of four counts, a messy end to a case that put the slugger in the spotlight for more than three years.

Bonds sat stone-faced through the verdict, displaying no emotion. His legal team immediately asked that the guilty verdict be thrown out and Illston did not rule on the request. She set May 20 for a hearing in the case.

The case also represented the culmination of the federal investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroids ring. Federal prosecutors and the Justice Department will have to decide whether to retry Bonds on the unresolved counts.

The counts that the jury could not resolve accused of Bonds of lying to the grand jury investigating BALCO in 2003 when he said he never knowingly took steroids or HGH, and when he said he was never injected by anyone except his doctors.

A juror who would only give her first name, Amber, said the final votes on the deadlocked charges were 8-4 to acquit Bonds of lying about steroids and 9-3 to acquit him on lying about HGH use. The panel voted 11-1 to convict him of getting an injection from someone other than his doctor, with one woman holding out, the juror said.

The maximum sentence for the obstruction of justice count is 10 years in prison, but federal guidelines called for 15-21 months. For similar offences in the BALCO case, Illston sentenced cyclist Tammy Thomas to six months of home confinement and track coach Trevor Graham to one year of home confinement.

Bonds walked out of the courthouse with his lawyers, who instructed him not to comment because they said the case isn't over.

Impeccably dressed in suit and tie, Bonds flashed a victory sign to a few fans.

"Are you celebrating tonight?" one asked.

"There's nothing to celebrate," he replied.

Lead defence attorney Allen Ruby said the prosecution failed to prove the heart of its case.

The obstruction of justice count was a complicated charge that asked jurors to decide if Bonds was being evasive when making any one of seven statements to the grand jury. He was convicted on a single statement about his childhood as the son of major leaguer Bobby Bonds and his relationship with personal trainer Greg Anderson — it did not address performance-enhancing drugs.

The government "has determined it's unlawful for Barry Bonds to tell the grand jury he's a celebrity child and to talk about his friendship with Greg Anderson," Ruby said.

The foreman of the jury, who would only give his first name, Fred, said if prosecutors want to "pursue this case, they're going to have to do more homework than they did."

The needle count, the only one the jury was leaning toward convicting on, accused Bonds of lying when he said no one other than his doctors injected him with anything. His personal shopper, Kathy Hoskins, testified that she saw Anderson inject Bonds in the navel before a road trip in 2002, although Hoskins was not sure what substance was being injected.

Amber, the juror, noted that Bonds's former mistress, Kimberly Bell, testified that he complained of soreness from injections. "That's what kind of stuck out for me," Amber said.

The jury foreman said the woman who held out on the needle count did so because Hoskins was the only eyewitness.

Another juror, named Steve, said that "Barry carries himself with an air of arrogance" but his legal team overcame it.

"They didn't put up a big defence," he said. "They tried to discredit the witnesses. They tried to make the prosecutors look like bad guys. Were they successful in doing that? Yes."

U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag said prosecutors were gratified by the guilty count and had not decided whether to seek a retrial on the remaining charges.

"This case is about upholding one of the most fundamental principles in our system of justice — the obligation of every witness to provide truthful and direct testimony in judicial proceedings," Haag said in a statement. "In the United States, taking an oath and promising to testify truthfully is a serious matter. We cannot ignore those who choose instead to obstruct justice."

Now 46, Bonds set baseball's record for home runs in a career with 762 while playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants from 1986-2007. The jury met less than three kilometres from the ballpark where the seven-time National League MVP set record after record.

Bonds was indicted on Nov. 15, 2007, exactly 50 days after taking his final big league swing and 100 after topping Hank Aaron's career home run mark of 755. He also set the season record with 73 home runs in 2001 with the Giants.

Illston would not let prosecutors present evidence of three alleged positive drug tests by Bonds because his personal trainer and childhood friend, Greg Anderson, refused to testify and there was no one to confirm the samples came from Bonds.

Bonds acknowledged that he did take steroids but said Anderson misled him into believing they were flaxseed oil and arthritis cream.

Anderson was sentenced by Illston in 2005 to three months in prison and three months in home confinement after pleading guilty to one count of money laundering and one count of steroid distribution. The trainer was jailed on March 22 for the duration of the trial after again refusing to testify against Bonds. He was released last Friday.

Jeff Novitzky, the federal agent who started the BALCO probe, had been hoping the Bonds case would be part of a wider investigation of doping in baseball. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Novitzky and his team of investigators illegally seized urine samples and records from 104 players in 2004.

Separately, Novitzky has helped develop the case against former star pitcher Roger Clemens, who is scheduled to stand trial in July for lying to Congress by denying he used performance-enhancing drugs.

Novitzky also is a key player in the federal doping investigation of pro cyclists, including seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Rep. Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican, recently suggested that the federal agent is motivated by a desire to bring down a celebrity.

Barry Bonds was convicted Wednesday on a single count of obstruction of justice. Here is what that means.

The federal jury was told in its instructions to find the slugger guilty of obstruction if any one of seven specific statements he made in 2003 to a grand jury investigating sports doping was "evasive, false, or misleading" and if Bonds knowingly made the statement to keep the grand jury from accomplishing its task. In other words, the jury was asked to figure out if Bonds lied in an attempt to obstruct the grand jury.

In the end, the jury deadlocked on whether Bonds was obstructing justice on six of the statements.

The statement that triggered Bonds' conviction came from an exchange with prosecutors that started with a question about performance-enhancing drugs, needles and Bonds' relationship with his childhood friend and personal trainer, Greg Anderson.

This is the statement jurors were given:

"Q: Did Greg ever give you anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with?

Bonds: I've only had one doctor touch me. And that's my only personal doctor. Greg, like I said, we don't get into each others' personal lives. We're friends, but I don't — we don't sit around and talk baseball, because he knows I don't want -- don't come to my house talking baseball. If you want to come to my house and talk about fishing, some other stuff, we'll be good friends, you come around talking about baseball, you go on. I don't talk about his business. You know what I mean? …

Q: Right.

A: That's what keeps our friendship. You know, I am sorry, but that — you know, that — I was a celebrity child, not just in baseball by my own instincts. I became a celebrity child with a famous father. I just don't get into other people's business because of my father's situation, you see …"

Jurors were only supposed to make their decision based on the second answer, the one beginning "That's what keep …" However, it seemed after the verdict on Wednesday that they looked at the whole exchange. The foreman of the jury, who said his first name was Fred, repeatedly used an expletive to describe Bonds' answer to the question from the prosecutors.

"When you're in front of a grand jury you have to answer, and he gave a b------- answer. It was a b------- answer," Fred said. "He gave a story rather than a yes or no answer."

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2011年4月12日星期二

Twitchell recognized guilty of first degree murder

Aspiring filmmaker Mark Twitchell was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment for assommé of stabbing and dismember an alien.

A jury returned the guilty verdict Tuesday afternoon, about five hours after be sequestered deliberations.

Twitchell, 31, used a dating website online to attract Altinger, 38, a garage leased to South Edmonton, October 10, 2008 before death.

Twitchell then dismembered the body and dumped the remains in a sewer of Edmonton North.

Johnny Altinger is shown in an undated photo. Altinger was bludgeoned and stabbed to death in a south Edmonton garage on Oct. 10, 2008.Johnny Altinger shows an undated photo. Altinger was beaten and stabbed to death in a South garage in Edmonton, October 10, 2008. CBC he showed no reaction as the verdict was read, although gasp was heard in the courtroom.

Mother of Altinger, Elfriede, began to cry.

It said in its impact of the victim that she cannot allow itself to think about the pain and horror that his son must have endured.

She wrote that she wished that the sentence of death on Twitchell, but she wants him to reflect on what he had done and "die a slow death every day of his life."

Justice Terry Clackson thanked the jury and offers counselling services to those who thought that they needed.

"This has been a very difficult matter, even for some of us who are in this business for a long time," said Clackson. "You have been sto?cien."

Through the trial, the jury heard 18 days of testimony and seen 111 exhibitions.

"I have always had one side dark, that I had to beautify the world."

-A profile of a psychopath.

But the jury has not shown a single document discovered on a laptop of Twitchell. The trial of seven pages, called a profile of a psychopath, had been deleted. The document was never admitted to the trial as "psychopath" is a medical term and Twitchell is not a doctor.

In it, the author believes that the investigators to be Twitchell, analyzes his own personality and behaviour. The author then admitted that he is not perfectly fit the description of a psychopath, he is a pathological liar.

"I've lied usually all my life," he wrote. "Despite my family life incredibly well adjusted and in good health and education, it never stopped."

I always apologized, but never meant it and never corrected behaviour. ?

The author also stated that he never felt empathy.

"As long as I remember that I have always had a lack of empathy, I have always had a dark side I had to beautify the world.".

Mark Twitchell shown during an interview with the CBC in 2007.Mark Twitchell demonstrated in an interview with the CBC in 2007. CBC he was to write, "on my journey to discover my disorder, I discovered my killer instinct."

"I've often fantasized to kill people who have made the wrong to me or threatened to do harm to me or my family in the future, but that is where it ends."

Carry out a murder, he said, is not defined.

"I don't feel that someone of another life is worth the loss of my freedom or the amount of time, energy or a expenditure need put in, to conduct such acts.".

The other major consideration is his work, he said.

"I can direct my dark energies in my film work.".

"As a producer I can take advantage of the sale and distribution of my work.". "But as a serial killer that nothing would get more than a quick rush of adrenaline and a prison sentence to follow".

But in other ways the author does not match the profile of a serial killer, he said.

"I do con step or prey on my friends or family members.". I never ill animals as a child. ?

But he admitted to regularly cheat on his wife, he describes as "an excellent mother to our children and the largest partner than any who could never ask".

"I always cheat, but only for the thrill," he said.

Once, he tried to be completely honest with his wife, he said.

"I had a conversation with my wife a night where we explored my lack of empathy," he said. "She asked me a variety of questions." Each response I, although the truth was this time, were deeply disappointing for him. "Not after when it sought Yes after Yes."

For the television series Dexter Twitchell fondness was well documented in the trial, and he had a Facebook profile under the name of protagonist Dexter Morgan, a vigilante serial killer.

Twitchell had claimed, attracted to Altinger in the garage to create buzz for a short film about a killer from Dexter-like online, that it has produced two weeks earlier in the garage, and called a House of cards.

He testified when Altinger became angry hand is an idiot and assaulted, he beat and stabbed in self-defence.

Twitchell was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility to apply for parole for 25 years.

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