A leaderless Newark, New Jersey United States attorney’s office kicked off its fall season on September 6th with the trial of US Senator Robert Menendez. Menendez, 63, is charged with accepting questionable campaign donations and gifts from co-defendant Salomon Melgen in exchange for lobbying on the wealthy Florida ophthalmologist’s behalf.
Many years ago when I first held my first grandchild in my arms the emotions, can I admit, almost knocked me out. There was I with a newly born son myself, and a couple of years later a grandchild.
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On April 1, 2015, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D) of New Jersey was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Newark, NJ on 14 counts, including conspiracy to commit bribery, honest-services fraud and the making of false statements.
The situation of prisoners in Icelandic prisons has been under much discussion lately. We read stories about white-collar criminals serving their sentence in single-family houses at Kvíabryggja, hear that prisoners can surf the internet at will and even serve long sentences outside prison. Is this the reality of Icelandic prisoners? Kvíabryggja prison A great awakening as to if it is not high time to approach imprisonment as betterment rather than punishment has begun. Most of our neighbour countries…
On 2 May 1982 the Argentine cruiser ‘General Belgrano’ was sunk by a British submarine. Despite the huge loss of life, the action was applauded in Britain as a shrewd blow in the Falklands conflict; but as the facts began to emerge, disturbing doubts concerning the role of the British government in the incident were raised. For although it was claimed, at first, that the submarine commander had been acting on his own initiative in firing his torpedoes, it…