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...The proposal by Chuck Grassley, Iowa senator, and Kent Conrad, North Dakota senator, comes as deficit concerns have heightened the scrutiny of a wide variety of special tax breaks designed to benefit certain...
...“The growing patchwork of state and local immigration laws is a serious obstacle to doing business across state lines,” said Robin Conrad, a senior chamber executive....
...Another Democrat from a conservative state, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, also recently announced that he would not seek re-election....
...However, the news comes as another conservative Democratic senator and budget hawk, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, announced his intention to retire, leaving the party vulnerable in a Republican state....
...A Senate ethics panel that investigated the loans to Mr Dodd and Senator Kent Conrad last year cleared the lawmakers of wrongdoing though said both should have exercised “more vigilance”....
...The ruling provides an opening for two convicted former executives who are now in prison: Conrad Black , the former publisher of the Telegraph newspapers in London and the Chicago Sun-Times, and Jeffrey...
...Conrad Black is not quite a free man....
...The US Supreme Court is examining whether a law that helped prosecutors put white collar criminals such as Jeffrey Skilling of Enron and Hollinger’s Conrad Black behind bars is too vague to be constitutional...
...Mr Conrad, from North Dakota, said he never asked for or was aware of any special treatment....
...Conrad Black, the former media magnate who once controlled an empire stretching from Vancouver to Jerusalem, was on Monday sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the multimillion-dollar...
...The “miserably weak” report showed it was too soon to talk about a stabilisation in the housing market, which was undergoing a “very significant adjustment”, said Conrad DeQuadros, senior economist at Bear...
...US prosecutors have challenged the probation office sentencing recommendation for Conrad Black, the former newspaper executive who was convicted of fraud, because they fear it diminishes the significance...
...Mr Obama has so far enlisted the support of only two senators: Kent Conrad and Dick Durbin....
...That was the message some legal experts took from Chicago on Monday after Conrad Black was sentenced to 6½ years in prison for committing fraud and obstructing justice....
...Conrad Black, the British peer who at the height of his power controlled one of the world’s biggest media empires, was on Friday night facing up to 35 years in jail after being convicted of fraud and obstruction...
...“I don’t think there is much point in starting a Conrad Black defence fund because a lot of his friends, especially in America, have bailed,” Mr Steyn says....
...“Conrad is different than you and me. He is a rich man....
...James Thompson, a highly regarded former four-time governor of Illinois, came under fire on Wednesday by defence attorneys representing Conrad Black and other former Hollinger executives, with one suggesting...
...The judge overseeing the criminal fraud trial against Conrad Black rejected a request by jurors, who began deliberations this week, to review transcripts of testimony from a prosecution witness....
...Conrad Black and three other former Hollinger International executives “systematically stole” $60m from shareholders and then concocted an elaborate but “phoney” paper trail to cover up their crime, assistant...
...The twelve-member jury deliberating criminal fraud charges against Conrad Black and three of his former associates said they were so far unable to reach a unanimous verdict on one or more counts in the...
...Jurors in the criminal fraud trial of Conrad Black ended their first few hours of deliberations on Wednesday without reaching a verdict....
...Conrad Black once enjoyed the finer things in life: a Park Avenue apartment and trips around the world in his corporate jet....
...“It was certainly a big deal for Conrad.”...
...Mark Kipnis, the former Hollinger lawyer who has been accused of helping Conrad Black and others engineer a $60m fraud at the newspaper publisher, relied heavily on the legal and accounting advice of a top...
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