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10:35 AM PT -- Well, prosecutors did exactly what we reported early Tuesday morning. Since Lori did not cop a plea, the U.S. Attorney went to a Federal Grand Jury to get an indictment, adding charges of money laundering. This now increases the amount of time Lori and her husband would get as a minimum recommended sentence. Specifically, the U.S. Attorney says, Lori, her husband and 14 others will now be charged with the additional crime of "conspiring to launder the bribes and other payment in furtherance of the fraud by funneling them through [Rick] Singer's purported charity and his...

British retail billionaire Philip Green has hired chart-topping R&B group Destiny's Child to perform at his son's bar mitzvah. The stars are set to entertain guests at the three-day event on the French Riviera estimated to have cost the Bhs and Top Shop boss £4m ($7.4m). Singer Justin Timberlake could also be performing, The Times reports. Mr Green is said to have chartered a plane to fly about 200 of his family's friends to the bash this weekend. The guests are being put up at the exclusive Hotel du Cap in Cannes, with the actual bar mitzvah itself expected to...

August 11, 2004 -- The city yesterday shot down a last-ditch effort by a protest group to demonstrate in Central Park during the Republican convention after the group pulled a sudden U-turn and reneged on a deal to use the West Side Highway for a 250,000- person rally. ~snip~ United for Peace and Justice leaders have balked at using the West Side Highway, saying they've discovered a number of problems with the setting, including a lack of shade and water. "We believe that exiling a rally to a remote stretch of sunbaked highway makes a mockery of the constitutionally protected...