The Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) is ready to split with its US’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) because of frustration over what it calls heavy-handed pressure and its anger over what it believes is a covert US operation involving hundreds of contract spies, according to an internal document obtained by a US news agency, an influential Washington based paper reported.
According to a statement drafted by the ISI for the media but never released, an already-fragile relationship between the two agencies collapsed following the …

Vivendi SA won a big court victory when a federal judge slashed potential damages in a $9.3 billion lawsuit accusing the French media company of misleading shareholders about its finances in connection with a giant merger a decade ago.
U.S. District Judge Richard Holwell threw out claims by purchasers of Vivendi’s ordinary shares, citing a June decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that limited the ability of investors to use federal courts to raise fraud claims over the purchase of foreign securities.
Holwell’s February …

Filed on behalf of three Muslim plaintiffs, the suit accuses the FBI and seven of its employees, including Director Robert Mueller, of paying Irvine resident Craig Monteilh to go undercover, infiltrate mosques and record conversations in order to root out potential terrorists.
The lawsuit comes a year after Monteilh filed suit personally against the FBI, accusing his law enforcement handlers of endangering his life and violating his civil rights.
His claims of working for the FBI in some capacity were confirmed in 2009 when a West Covina judge unsealed court records that …

The Pima County Attorney’s Office said Tuesday the Tucson jury returned the death penalty verdict against 43-year-old Shawna Forde.
Forde, 43, founder of Minutemen American Defense, showed no emotion when the verdict was read, but her attorney, Eric Larsen, said he did not expect the jury to come back with a death sentence.
Twenty-nine-year-old Raul Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia, were killed in the robbery.
“They have no evidence against her—no fingerprints, no DNA.  My client was not on the scene.”
Forde’s Defense Attorney
The jury deliberated only a few hours before coming to the …

Two Florida girls are facing cyberstalking charges for allegedly creating a fake Facebook profile in the name of a fellow high school student and placing obscene photos on the page, including one showing their classmate’s head atop the body of a “nude prepubescent girl’s body,” according to investigators.
Hitchcock says they need help in areas of east Fort Myers, Bonita Springs, and Estero – where the two girls accused of Facebook stalking live.
When deputies with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office last month interviewed one …

The victim states she was taken into the bedroom of the residence and told to disrobe by Timothy Ellis.
The victim states that Timothy told her he would have some girls “beat her up” or she would not be taken back to her residence if she did not comply.
The victim states that while at the location she engaged in sex.
The defendants were identified as Jared Len Cruse, 18; Timothy Daray Ellis, 19; Rayford Ellis, Jr., 19; and Isaiah Rashad Ross, 21.
Ross is the son of Cleveland School board member Billy …

Doctor Melvin Levine was once a renowned doctor at Boston Hospital and co-founder of a research clinic at UNC – even appearing on Oprah.
But Levine’s accomplishments were overshadowed when sexual abuse allegations surfaced – claims he’d performed unnecessary genital exams on dozens of patients.
Last week, many of them filed suit in Massachusetts. The very next day, Levine was found dead in his Rougemont home.
“For many of those people, he may have also helped them,” attorney Elizabeth Kuniholm said. “But, what he did to them has …

The American, Raymond Davis, provided security to U.S. personnel in Pakistan, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is pending.
Davis is being held in a jail in the Lahore area with about 4,000 inmates, the official said.
Pakistani authorities said they learned of Raymond Davis’ links to the CIA after his arrest on charges that he murdered two Pakistani men he said were trying to rob him at gunpoint, according to a senior Pakistani intelligence official who spoke …

The Bombay High Court said Kasab was directly responsible for seven deaths during 26/11.
Among them were three senior policemen who died in the line of duty.  Hemant Karkare who was the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief was shot outside Cama Hospital along with Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP) Ashok Kamte and encounter specialist Vijay Salaska.
The court held Kasab directly responsible for killing three of Maharashtra’s senior-most policemen as they tried to protect Mumbai during the first few hours of the war unleashed by Kasab and …

Jaime L. Laskis is an associate in the Corporate and Securities Practice Group of Pepper Hamilton LLP, resident in the New York office.
She also is a member of the firm’s Canadian Practice Group.
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She is the member of Canadian Bar Association.
Jaime Laskis is  also member of New York State Bar Association.
Ms. Laskis concentrates her practice primarily on U.S. and international mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities law.
Ms. Laskis also has experience advising clients in connection with debt and equity offerings, including initial public …