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  • Corpus Christi man pleads guilty in plot to kill Saudi ambassador

    10/17/2012 3:16:36 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 3 replies
    Caller-Times ^ | October 17, 2012 | Staff
    NEW YORK — A Corpus Christi man pleaded guilty Wednesday to plotting to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, agreeing to hire what he thought was a drug dealer in Mexico last year for $1.5 million to carry out the attack with explosives at a Washington restaurant. Manssor Arbabsiar, 58, entered the plea to two conspiracy charges and a murder-for-hire count in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where Judge John F. Keenan repeatedly asked Arbabsiar whether he intended to kill the ambassador. Arbabsiar, a U.S. citizen who holds an Iranian passport, said he did. Sentencing was set for...
  • Schwarzenegger orders state car sale

    07/17/2009 7:01:05 PM PDT · by SmithL · 22 replies · 1,080+ views
    Sacramento Bee ^ | 7/17/9 | Peter Hecht
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today ordered that 15 percent of California's motor vehicle fleet be sold in a massive "garage sale," declaring he wants to clean up potential "abuse of taxpayer dollars" including allowing certain employees to take state vehicles home. The governor said order resulted from disclosures to a newly created "Waste Watchers Website." The complaints detailed allegations that some workers were storing state vehicles at home without apparent justification. "Today I am taking action to get rid of waste and abuse in the state's vehicle fleet...eliminate all wasteful home storage permits, and sell surplus cars at our state garage...