The U.S. Justice Department has issued new guidelines that emphasize prosecuting individual executives in white-collar crime cases, and not just their corporations.
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, author of a memo outlining the rules for federal prosecutors, was to announce the guidelines in a speech on Thursday at the New York University Law School.
The memo, first obtained by the New York Times, came in response to criticism that the Obama administration had not vigorously pursued individuals in the financial meltdown and housing crisis of 2008-2009 and in various corporate scandals, the newspaper said.
“Crime is crime,” Yates planned to say in her address, according to excerpts released by the Justice Department.
An 11-year-old St. Louis-area boy fatally shot a 16-year-old who entered his home during an alleged home invasion Thursday, police said.
The shooting happened on Hallwood Drive in northern St. Louis County at around 2:20 p.m. local time (3:20 p.m. ET), police said.
Two people had approached the home twice before Thursday, and on the third attempt entered the house through the front door, police said. The 11-year-old who lives in the home shot the 16-year-old intruder in the head, St. Louis County police said in a statement.
A white supremacist charged with killing three people at Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City spent more than two hours Friday telling jurors how he planned the attacks and is sorry he didn’t kill more people.
Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., who is acting as his own attorney, called himself to the witness stand and spoke of his military history and of how he started a group in North Carolina called the White Patriot Party. Miller also told jurors the prosecutor had a “slam dunk” and he knew they would put him on death row.
If convicted, Miller could be sentenced to death.
All the three exhibits Miller tried to introduce — a video of him in military uniform leading the White Patriot Party and two news articles — Friday morning were disallowed. Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan told him any similar materials likely would be as…
An abandoned truck “full of bodies” was found on the side of a highway in eastern Austria on Thursday.
Police said the dead were thought to be refugees.
Gerald Pangl, a police spokesman in the Austrian state of Burgenland, told NBC News that the death toll was unclear.
Hans Peter Doskozil, the head of the Burgenland Police, added: “We cannot say exactly how many there are. We could imagine that maybe 20 people have died, but it could also be 40 or 50 … We think that these are refugees.”
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Truck ‘Full of of Bodies’ Highlights Europe’s Desperate Migrant Crisis
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A rambunctious black Labrador named Bear — one of only five dogs in the nation trained to sniff out electronic data devices — played a key role in the arrest of former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle on child-porn charges.
The 2-year-old rescue pooch nosed out a thumb drive that humans had failed to find during a search of Fogle’s Indiana house in July, several weeks before he agreed to plead guilty to having X-rated images of minors and paying to have sex with teenage girls.
A Louisiana state trooper who was shot in the head with a sawed-off shotgun during a weekend traffic stop died on Monday morning, police said, as authorities praised the good Samaritans who rushed to his side.
Authorities plan to charge Kevin Daigle, the accused shooter, with first-degree murder in the death of Steven Vincent, 43. Vincent had been attempting to help a motorist whose pickup truck was apparently stuck sideways in a ditch, Col. Michael Edmonson said.
Edmonson said police video shows Vincent, a 13-year veteran of the state police, offering assistance to the apparently stranded man.
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Louisiana State Official on Good Samaritan: ‘This is a Hero’
An Oklahoma politician was stabbed to death by his son outside a restaurant, police said.
Officers found Labor Commissioner Mark Costello in a vehicle with stab wounds to the head and neck on Sunday night, said Oklahoma City police spokesman Paco Balderrama. Costello died later at a hospital.
Costello’s son, Christian, 27, was arrested for first-degree murder, police said.
The father and son had arranged to meet at the restaurant, police said. They got into an argument, and the younger Costello pulled a knife and attacked his father, who tried to flee into the parking lot, police said.
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Christian Costello was arrested for first-degree murder, police said.Oklahoma City Police Department
On Monday, a Wisconsin judge ruled that the two 13-year-old girls accused of attempting to murder a classmate to impress fictional Internet character Slender Man will be tried as adults.
The teens face dramatically different treatment because of the judge’s decision. Children tried as adults face longer sentences and fewer resources while incarcerated, and they’re more likely to be assaulted in adult prisons than juvenile facilities.
If convicted in juvenile court, the 13-year-olds would have faced detention until the age of 18, followed by intense supervision and services when released back into their communities. In adult court, they face up to 65 years in prison. They may also be sentenced to a combination of prison and extended supervision under the Department of Corrections.
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ASSOCIATED PRESSWaukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren speaks at a Waukesha County court in Waukesha, Wis., Monday, Aug. 10, 2015. The judge ruled that two girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please the online horror character Slender Man will stay in adult court, where they could face decades in prison. (Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
The Arlington, Texas, police recruit who fatally shot an unarmed college football player during a break-in at a car dealership early Friday has been fired for “exercising poor judgment,” the police chief said Tuesday.
Christian Taylor, 19, was fatally shot by Arlington Police Officer Brad Miller, 49, after police were called to a break-in report at the Classic Buick GMC dealership at around 1:06 a.m., police said.
Miller, a recruit officer who was undergoing supervised field training, entered the building alone and without telling other officers, setting into motion a chain of events that led to the deadly shooting, Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson told reporters Tuesday.
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Texas Police Fire Officer Involved in Christian Taylor Shooting
Police car dashcam video released in court Wednesday shows the police shooting of former Florida A&M University football player Jonathan Ferrell.
The video from Officer Adam Neal’s cruiser shows two patrol cars approaching an already parked third unit. Ferrell is seen walking towards the cars, approaching the officers before running between and past the cars, and the view of the dashcam.
“Get on the ground” is yelled several times before multiple gun shots erupt, followed by an officer saying, “shots fired, shots fired!” and another yelling, “don’t move, don’t move!”
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Dashcam Video Shows Police Shooting of Jonathan Ferrell
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