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U.S. prosecutors unsealed Tuesday an indictment against four people affiliated with the Panama City law firm Mossack Fonseca, the first such American charges related to the 2016 Panama Papers leak. The charges, filed in the Southern District of New York, include defrauding the United States, wire fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, and making false statements to investigators. An accountant, an investment advisor, and a former client of Mossack Fonseca’s are under arrest while a Mossack Fonseca partner, Ramses Owens, remains on the lam, the Wall Street Journal reports. The American law enforcement action follows a Panama Papers-related raid on Deutsche...

Do you remember when the Left convicted prominent conservatives, myself included, in the death of the Kentucky census worker in September? I do. Here’s a reminder. Andrew Sullivan pointed his finger at “Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts” in a post titled “No Suicide,” which decried the “Kentucky lynching.” When I called him and other nutroots opportunists out for exploiting the case and when I reiterated that authorities had NOT ruled out suicide, he smugly nominated me for his “Malkin Award” and wrote: “Many of the details she pooh-poohs have now...

Thai police are investigating the twin theories that the death was either suicide or a sex game gone wrong. Carradine, 72, was found hanging in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and other parts of his body. The actor was in Thailand to shoot a film and checked into the luxury Nai Lert Park Hotel, situated next to the British Embassy, on May 31. He failed to join crew members for dinner on Wednesday night but they did not raise the alarm, believing him to be resting in his suite. A maid discovered his body at 11.30am on...

WASHINGTON (AP) - WASHINGTON (AP)—David Kellermann, the acting chief financial officer of money-losing mortgage giant Freddie Mac, was found dead at his home early Wednesday in what police said was an apparent suicide. The Fairfax County police responded to a 911-call at 4:48 a.m. at the suburban Virginia home Kellermann shared with his wife Donna and five-year-old daughter Grace. The police would not release the exact cause of death, but spokesman Eddy Azcarate said Kellermann's body was found in the basement.

29 Jul 2005 17:26:08 GMT Source: Reuters JOHANNESBURG, July 29 (Reuters) - A man was eaten by lions after running past guards into the Kruger National Park at dusk just as the gates were closing, park officials said on Friday. Park spokesman Raymond Travers said guards and rangers searched for the unidentified man in the dark after he ran into the park on Thursday, but failed to find him. He was found after dawn on Friday as the lions feasted on his corpse. "We have no idea why he ran in," Travers said. "We suspect the man was mentally deranged....

Man Has Fatal Accident In Haunted House Victim Was President Of Catacombs KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The man who died working on a haunted house in the West Bottoms was part of the family that founded the Halloween attraction. Police said Dennis E. Kingsolver, 38, of Kansas City North, died Monday night in an accident involving the elevator of an old structure in a warehouse at 1100 Santa Fe St. Investigators said the elevator's counter weights broke and hit Kingsolver, killing him. Another person inside the building called for help. A police spokesman said the man's death was ruled an...

Peruvian state Web site posts ad seeking cadaver Thu Jul 21, 7:01 PM ET LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Wanted by Friday: Female corpse, price $640. A Peruvian state university has posted an advertisement on a government Web site offering 2,070 soles (363 pounds) for a corpse for its medical students to practice on, despite the fact that buying and selling cadavers is illegal. The macabre want ad was posted on the site of the Center for the Promotion of Small and Micro Businesses (www.prompyme.gob.pe), where state institutions are required to publish tenders for supplies to ensure transparency. The National University...

Amjad Farooqi's body was withheld for DNA tests Hundreds of people have gathered at a village in Pakistan's Punjab province for the funeral of key al-Qaeda suspect Amjad Farooqi. Farooqi was killed by security forces in a gun battle in Nawabshah, Sindh province, on 26 September. His family expects to receive his body later on Wednesday now that DNA tests have proven his identity. There is a heavy police presence in the village in Toba Tek Singh district amid fears of violence. President Pervez Musharraf said the killing of Farooqi had removed a "serious terrorist threat". The BBC's Adnan Adil...

No indication of how dead man ended up in police car The Associated Press - WARNER ROBINS, Ga. Autopsy results on the decomposing body of a man found in an unmarked police car didn't reveal how he died. The Thursday autopsy found no physical marks on 30-year-old Joseph Wendell Lowe's body indicating any physical trauma, said Warner Robins Police Chief Brett Evans. A toxicology report is pending. "We still don't know why the man was in the car or how he died," Evans said. Lowe was discovered Wednesday in a fenced-in parking lot across the street from the city's police...