Barcelona's five-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi went on trial on Tuesday along with his father on accusations of defrauding the Spanish state of millions of euros.
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The high court is asked to restore lost pension and health benefits. 
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Podcast: Six years ago, the two-state agency pledged to reduce emissions from trucks and accepted $35 million in federal dollars to do it. Today, it has little to show for the money it spent. Writer Max Rivlin-Nadler takes ProPublica’s Joaquin Sapien inside his Village Voice investigation.
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In July of 2015 the Atlantic Lottery Corporation, which operates casinos, lotteries and other gambling activities in the Atlantic provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland/Labrador and Prince Edward Island, found itself at the heart of the newest lottery con. Scammers were using ALC as a backdrop for a scam. The incident, which was widely reported in the press in July of 2015, serves as an example of what can happen when individuals accept the word of an official-looking letter and send money without investigating the circumstances...
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San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr has stepped down at the request of the city’s mayor after a fatal officer-involved shooting Thursday and a series of scandals that have rocked the department over the last year.
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AN independent European ethics rating agency has dealt a blow to Royal Bank of Scotland Group by assigning it an E- rating, its second lowest.
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This is either the ultimate form of self-awareness, or the ultimate form of self-delusion.
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Providence grant practices under scrutiny after City Council leader's arrest - ProvidenceJournal.co
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A top Justice Department official described Tuesday how some individual wrongdoers in white-collar criminal cases might have escaped punishment.
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Israel invites Twitter users to #AskNetanyahu, and immediately regrets it (TWEETS), from The Canary on 10th May 2016
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We've got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain... Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world," Mr Cameron said.
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Massachusetts state chemist involved in testing evidence for drug prosecutions was high on illicit substances, including crack, cocaine, meth, and acid.
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The head of development for Porsche has left the automaker seven months after he was suspended for possible involvement in Volkswagen’s emissions cheating scandal, Porsche said Tuesday.
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"In grabbing that money with both fists, you took it out of the pockets of small business owners in New York who were truly hurting," Rep. Jerrold Nadler wrote in an open letter to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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Experts say that the effect of this move was to skirt vast tax liabilities, and court papers seen by the Telegraph allege that the deal amounted to fraud.
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“Donald Trump is a cheap fraud,” said Iraq veteran and VoteVets chairman Jon Soltz in a scathing press release. “In a classic fraud move, made himself look good to the public, by lying to the American people, and veterans, about how much he raised for veterans’ groups, when he hid behind them to get out of the GOP debate.”
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The Long Read: In the bleak flatlands of East Anglia, migrant workers are controlled by criminal gangs, and some are forced to commit crimes to pay off their debts.
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Mr. Trump, accepting the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, said Hillary Clinton’s desire for stricter gun controls would put law-abiding citizens at risk.
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In advance of the Anti-Corruption Summit, Daniel Kaufmann and Alexandra Gillies distinguish between legal corruption, like the Panama Papers, and illegal corruption, like the Unaoil scandal, and urge governments to take decisive action against both.
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May 15, 2016 11:23 AM
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A prostitute who allegedly manipulated a homeless man into killing her fiance (pictured) out of 'pure greed' tried to pressure her partner into changing his will before he died, a court has heard.
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The apparent GOP presidential nominee denies he called reporters purporting to be a publicist for himself.
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In the case of former Virginia governor Robert McDonnell, the Supreme Court will decide whether it is constitutional to prosecute a public official for conduct on that continuum, conduct never before determined to be at the illegal end.
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Donald Trump expressed no remorse Wednesday for saying last summer that Sen. John McCain was "not a war hero," despite being captured in Vietnam and tortured as a prisoner of war.
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You should feel free to question what Donald Trump stands for, because if he doesn't respect Senator McCain's service then he'll never respect yours.
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Trump remarked that he did not think the Republican Party would have to be unified in order to win in the fall.
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Police have released the phone call after the gang, who stole almost £1million from vulnerable pensioners to support ISIS terrorists in Syria, were jailed
