All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

The Wall Street Journal:

Scottish authorities are searching for new lines of inquiry in the Lockerbie bombing case, including a search for possible accomplices, now that convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has dropped his appeal, according to Scottish officials.
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The LA Times:

As details continued to emerge about Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnapper, questions intensified Monday over how Phillip Garrido could have served only 11 years in prison after a 1976 rape and kidnapping for which he had been given a 50-year federal sentence as well as a life term in Nevada. (read the article)

Washington Post:
Report says Department of Homeland Security relied on a rushed, flawed study to justify its decision to locate a research facility for highly infectious pathogens in a tornado-prone section of Kansas.
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The Wall Street Journal:
Tom Ridge, the Department of Homeland Security’s first secretary, testified before the 9/11 Commission on a May morning in 2004. Ridge spoke before a hall packed with emotional New Yorkers, about two miles from the site of the World Trade Center. His subject, however, was Washington.
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Los Angeles Times:
Nearly 50 police officers were questioned in the disappearance of a top Mexican customs official in the port city of Veracruz, authorities said Wednesday.
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The Observer:
For a man who controls almost half of Italy's television stations, Silvio Berlusconi has become remarkably exercised by the activities of a single daily newspaper. When recently riled by another bout of questioning on his notorious visit to the birthday party of a teenage model, Noemi Letizia, the Italian prime minister jabbed his finger repeatedly at the correspondent from La Repubblica who had dared to pose it.
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Washington Post:
A private company was being paid $300 million by the federal government to clean up radioactive waste at two abandoned Cold War plants in Tennessee when an ironworker crashed through a rotted floor. That prompted a major safety review, which ended up forcing work to an abrupt halt, and the project was shut down for months. The delay and a host of other problems caused cost estimates to rise, eventually hitting $781 million.
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The New York Daily News:
A prominent New York financial adviser gave evasive answers under oath in a state investigation of feeder funds that put millions into Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, according to a source familiar with the inquiry.
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AP: Israeli police interrogated the country's new hardline foreign minister for more than seven hours on Thursday in connection with an ongoing bribery investigation.(Read the article)

International Herald Tribune:
Germany: As a portrait emerged of the troubled teenager who rampaged through his former school in a murderous spree this week, German police and officials on Friday distanced themselves on Friday from their initial assertion that the killer had signaled his intention on the Internet.
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