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Alleged fraudster Kyril Burrows insisted Government got the goods and services it paid for, as he opened the case for his defence yesterday.
Mr Burrows, who with his wife Delcina Bean-Burrows is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of taxpayers’...
DATE: May 05, 2012
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Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner yesterday complained about media reports which sparked controversy over his decision not to fine or jail a Harvard professor for importing cannabis.
Mr Warner also criticised lawyer and politician Mark Pettingill fo...
DATE: May 04, 2012
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Tim Smith
Three young men went on a spending spree with a stolen credit card, Magistrates’ Court heard.
Eugene Bassett and Dejuan Simons, both 23, and Denzil Chase, 18, admitted charges relating to the crime, which took place on December 12 last year.
The cour...
DATE: Apr 27, 2012
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Tim Smith
Two cruise ship passengers were fined after being caught with illegal drugs in their cabins.
Jose Angel Concepcíon, 62, of Hauppauge, New York, pleaded guilty to possession of 1.5 grams of cannabis and 0.71 grams of cocaine while aboard Explorer of t...
DATE: Apr 27, 2012
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Tim Smith
A former Government employee and his ex-girlfriend were jailed yesterday for laundering cash said to be from drug trafficking.
Omari Franklin, 34, was sentenced to five years after admitting laundering more than $63,000 between May 2007 and May 2010....
DATE: Mar 27, 2012
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Tim Smith
The jury in a fraud trial was yesterday shown cheque stubs revealing another construction firm was paid irregularly for work done at Works and Engineering boss Kyril Burrows’ private home.
Allan Foote told Supreme Court his firm AD&T Excavating was h...
DATE: Mar 27, 2012
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Tim Smith
A construction boss told Supreme Court his firm was paid about $60,000 in cash for carrying out work at the home of alleged fraudster Kyril Burrows.
Thornton Robinson said his company of five men spent around six weeks at the private home at Turkey H...
DATE: Mar 26, 2012
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Tim Smith
Butterfield, 27, who admitted possessing a loaded pistol, had appealed for leniency after a psychological report revealed he was traumatised by seeing two friends gunned down in the past.
However, Mrs Justice Simmons told Supreme Court yesterday noth...
DATE: Mar 24, 2012
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Court
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Tim Smith
Money launderer Roger Cox lost his bid to cut his sentence after failing to convince the Appeal Court his ill-gotten gains all came from gambling dens.
Cox’s lawyer Charles Richardson had argued his jail term should be reduced from five years to thre...
DATE: Mar 23, 2012
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Court
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Tim Smith
A front company belonging to Ponzi scheme operator Daniel Two Feathers had accounts at the Bank of Bermuda, according to Montana District Court documents.
Two Feathers faces up to 20 years in prison after admitting running a scam conning $2 million o...
DATE: Mar 19, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
