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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
... the scheme, to the consultant they retain to carry it out.”In his plea before U.S. District Judge Sim Lake, Novak admitted that from late 2003 to March 2005, he conspired with others to pay bribes totaling more than $6 million to various Nigerian government officials and officials from a Nigerian political party.The officials promised to help Willbros get construction and repair contracts...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
... was completed the week before the jury trial was set to begin before the Honorable Judge Sim Lake in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Houston.
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... from endorsing or inhibiting a religionIn the Harris County Bible case, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake ruled that the display violated the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Lake ruled the display promoted Christianity, and the Bible was taken out.The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declared the case moot after the county moved the monument. The county appealed to the U.S....
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lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... Magazine also were there, and their dispatch was gleeful:Guilty! ... Guilty! ... Guilty! Judge Sim Lake's reading of the jury's findings had a staccato rhythm to it. Lay, who was standing not with his lawyers but in the front row of spectators close by his wife, Linda, clutching her hand, turned red, his face strained. Skilling responded with a peculiar smirk. The prosecutors remained impassive,...
