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NEW YORK - Five years ago, New Jersey resident Biurny Peguero said she was visciously gang-raped by three men in a van after a night of drinking in upper Manhattan. Her testimony sent William McCaffery to jail despite a lack of DNA evidence linking him to the crime.

Now, on the advice of her priest, Peguero has admitted it was all a hoax. On Monday in a Manhattan court, she pled guilty to perjury charges and could face seven years in jail. As a result of her new testimony McCaffery, the man convicted of raping her in 2005, was released from prison and is now awaiting final dismissal of the charges.

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NEW YORK - Two former Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers have been acquitted of lying to investors.

The case centered on the implosion of the subprime mortgage market, and is a government defeat in the first attempt to hold Wall Street criminally accountable for the housing market meltdown.

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NEW YORK - While heckling the President of the United States is distasteful, there is little doubt that South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's actions were legal when he shouted "You lie" during President Barack Obama's health care speech Wednesday night.

But other assemblies around the world (and right here in America!) are frequently far less civil. In fact, some are downright violent. Here’s our top 10 list of politicians behaving badly:

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