Toni Locy, a former reporter for USA Today, has told a federal court that she will not reveal her confidential sources for a story on the 2001 anthrax attacks. The trial judge ordered Locy to pay daily sanctions of up to $5,000 out of her own pocket, despite the fact that she is still appealing [...]
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Alex Friedmann spent six years in a Tennessee prison run by the world’s largest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America. During his sentence Friedmann sued CCA, alleging the company retaliated against him for critical comments made to the press. Now an editor at Prison Legal News, Friedmann has found that Gus Puryear, general counsel [...]
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IN THE NEWS….Jose Padilla trained with al-Qaeda and was convicted of conspiring to commit murder. His headline case drew national attention to the controversial treatment by the Bush administration of military prisoners and “enemy combatants.” Padilla’s single mother, Estela Ortega-Lebron, spoke last year about the toll taken by the three years her son was held [...]
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IN THE NEWS….Kenneth Cashwell and William Ellsworth “Max” Grumiaux got just three years’ probation and $1,000 for various and unclear actions with stolen Blackwater weapons. Both Cashwell and Grumiaux submitted plea bargains and are cooperating in ongoing Blackwater investigations, although only the judge heard more of those stories….( New Bern Sun Journal, [...]
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