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Arjun Mishra
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Irwin Lipkin, a former controller of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, (BLMIS) pleaded guilty in a Manhattan federal court Thursday to falsifying records. The full range of charges to which Lipkin has pleaded guilty...

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ACLU challenges California’s Proposition 35 increasing penalties for sex offenders
Arjun Mishra
November 8, 2012 12:59:19 pm

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday temporarily blocked several provisions of a human trafficking law approved by voters Tuesday. The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern...

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